We share the world's longest peaceful border. We share a common language (even though Canadians spell the word "labor" with a "u" and say "aboot" instead of "about.") We trade freely with each other and compete in the same baseball, basketball and hockey leagues. Heck, we even share SafetyXChange.

But there are also some big differences between Americans and Canadians. One of these differences is in the area of perceptions about business and business values. This is the finding of a cross-border survey of roughly 2,000 Americans and Canadians. Other findings:

• Canadians rate the U.S. as the country with the closest business values to Canada. Americans listed Canada as third, after the U.K. and Japan; and
• Both sides strongly agreed about the need to cooperate on national security, border security and terrorism;

Question: Which national group was more likely to be suspicious of the goods and people from the other country that cross their border?

Answer: If I were a betting man, I would have bet that Americans would be the more suspicious group. And I would have lost. In fact, the Canadian respondents were more suspicious of American goods and people than Americans were of Canadian imports.

Source: SES Research, www.sesresearch.com

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