Editing Canada–United States relations (section)

==== Stephen Harper and Barack Obama (January 2009 – November 2015) ====
[[File:Barack Obama meets Stephen Harper.jpg|thumb|Barack Obama meeting with Stephen Harper in Ottawa, February 2009]]
President [[Barack Obama]]'s first international trip was to Canada on February 19, 2009, thereby sending a strong message of peace and cooperation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/obama-to-visit-canada-feb-19-pmo-confirms-1.364714 |title=Obama to visit Canada Feb. 19, PMO confirms – CTV News |publisher=Ctv.ca |date=January 28, 2009 |access-date=February 26, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090606040521/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090128/canada_obama_090128/20090128?hub=Politics |archive-date=June 6, 2009  }}</ref> Except Canadian lobbying against "Buy American" provisions in the U.S. [[2009 stimulus bill|stimulus package]], relations between the two administrations were smooth.

They also held friendly bets on hockey games during the Winter Olympic season. In the [[2010 Winter Olympics]] hosted by Canada in [[Vancouver]], Canada defeated the U.S. in both gold medal matches, entitling Stephen Harper to receive a case of [[Molson Canadian]] beer from Barack Obama; in reverse, if Canada had lost, Harper would have provided a case of [[Yuengling]] beer to Obama.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/obama-loses-boozy-bet-with-harper/article4188210/|title=Obama loses boozy bet with Harper|work=The Globe and Mail|access-date=April 27, 2016}}</ref> During the 2014 Winter Olympics, alongside [[United States Secretary of State|U.S. Secretary of State]] [[John Kerry]] & [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] [[John Baird (Canadian politician)|John Baird]], Stephen Harper was given a case of [[Samuel Adams (beer)|Samuel Adams beer]] by Obama for the Canadian gold medal victory over the U.S. in women's hockey, and the semi-final victory over the U.S. in men's hockey.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/2014/02/23/21489991.html|title=Barack Obama follows through on Olympic beer bet|work=canoe.ca|access-date=April 27, 2016|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140225215255/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/2014/02/23/21489991.html|archive-date=25 February 2014}}</ref>