It's not a strange comparison, it's simply applying the parent comment's standards: > The relationship and interdependence of the two is very complicated. [The

It's not a strange comparison, it's simply applying the parent comment's standards: > The relationship and interdependence of the two is very complicated. [The US] is one of the largest market to which [Canada] exports their goods (and in large part, the culture) and [the USA] has used this to pressure [Canada] in the past.