"Temporarily embarassed" doesn't even begin to describe what's happening down there.

We have an American neighbour actively funding and amplifying a formerly extremely fringe separatist movement in Alberta -- shades of the Donbas, North American edition --and a US "ambassador" who has the behaviour of a 4chan troll.

The bridge has been blown up. Americans might think they are a midterm election away from salvation, but we're on the whole not so naive.