CBC: America and Canada are friends. Thats the main message Americans got from phase one of the federal government's multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to promote Canadian oil in Washington and drum up support for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Thats no surprise to some Washington-based Canada-U.S. relations experts who say the first leg of the campaign was too polite and, well, too Canadian to have any real effect.
All-Canadian conflict over new oil pipeline
The ads were part of a $24 million,...