Worthwhile Canadian Initiative?

"While it will celebrate historical icons such as Isaac Brock and Laura Secord, the government is preparing to play up the relative lack of conflict with the United States since. In more than one news release on remembering the war, the Tories also mention 'two centuries of peaceful co-existence with the United States' that followed.
"Canadian military historian Jack Granatstein predicts anti-American sentiment will nevertheless be stirred up–through no fault of the Harper government.
'I think this is going to turn into an anti-American festival, no matter what the government does.'

Steven Chase in The Globe and Mail reports on the Canadian government's upcoming efforts to mark the War of 1812's two-hundredth anniversary.