Gary T, when I read your question, "What else got you?" it sounded as if it was directed to the Americans. My apology for the misunderstanding. ( an aside: collective nouns: a parliament of owls, an apology of Canadians, a disdain of Frenchmen, a brag of Americans etc.)

Canadians are cynics born and bred, too bad.

Americans, on the other hand, have a wonderful naiveté about their ontological position in the world and seem to lack self doubt about their values and what they can accomplish with them. From my limited Canaian perspective, this was best exemplified, a number of years ago by Bruce Durn, in the movie "Silent Running". The world would be in a far sorrier state, if Americans ever lost these endearing qualities, IMHO. We may get frustrated by it on occasion, but by God, it is needed.