Us Canadians have a international reputation (read stereotype) of being nice, well-mannered, clean, cheerful people.

This is not exactly true, but as far as reputations go, it is better than most of them out there - Americans, French, German, and any middle eastern county all seem to have a negative reputation.

Being Canadian myself, I'd like to think that we are generally good people and rightfully deserve the rep we have acquired during our national history.

But every once in awhile, something completely random and completely anti-Canadian happens. Like the beheading of a passenger on a Greyhound bus. WTF was that all about? I think we've all had those thoughts to do something really crazy like that when we are mad (or not), but our internal good/bad switch usually keeps us from commiting any such act. I guess his switch didn't get flipped.

Almost as interesting as the actual event, was the calm demeanor of the RCMP stating it simply as a "major incident". No embellishment of the incident, no week long news media frezny about it. We'd simply like to deal with it and move on to being friendly and neighborly to the entire world.

By the way, they never mentioned if the assailant was Canadian, but it is highly unlikely...

Payce.