(FORTUNE Magazine) – As the famous South Park tune went, "Everything's gone wrong since Canada came along!" Not long ago France was the country that Americans loved to hate. But these days our enmity seems to have shifted north. How do the two nations stack up? --Nicholas Stein and Jason Tanz

FRANCE CANADA Number of troops contributed to war with Iraq None None

Thing we blame them for, but that is actually our fault Jerry Lewis The blackout of 2003

Shunned foodstuff Potentially delicious Potentially mad-cow- raw-milk cheese infected beef

Celebrity defender Robert Altman Michael Moore

Prominent acronym TGV, a fast- SARS, a fast- phenomenon moving train moving illness

National language French Okay, English. But also French!