As Tom Cerber reported here, anti-American bigotry is alive and well in Toronto.

Sadly, this kind of thing in Central Canada is nothing new.

One of the excuses that anti-Americans will give you is that they don’t hate the American people — they just hate their government and its policies.

Well, remember this story? Like the Toronto Star story that Tom brought to our attention, this story proves that anti-Americanism is directed not at the U.S. government but at ordinary American people — in this case, against American children visiting Canada:

Canadians hurl abuse at U.S. hockey peewees

By INGRID PERITZ
Globe & Mail
Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - Page A1

During a four-day visit, boys travelling with their Massachusetts hockey team witnessed the burning of the Stars and Stripes and the booing of the U.S. national anthem. When travelling in their bus emblazoned with a red-white-and-blue “Coach USA” logo, they saw people on the street who extended their middle fingers or made other angry gestures.

On the ice, the Canadian players told their visiting counterparts that “the U.S. sucks” and dispensed other anti-American insults, the Americans said….

“They told us we sucked, gave us the finger and said ‘Down with the U.S.A.’ or ‘The U.S.A. sucks,” Mr. Nadeau said. At one point, a Canadian player made a disparaging remark about the United States “and the referee turned around and said, ‘I agree with you.’ “What stunned us was that the referee, who is supposed to be unbiased, is agreeing with the boys on the ice.”