His testimonial is followed by two dozen more Canadians warmly praising the United States for things like its diversity, its space program and for being the birthplace of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur.

“You guys are great,” one woman on the video says. A second woman, sitting besides her, agrees: “You really are great.”

To a jaded American eye, it may all look like the most Canadian thing ever.

“I guess we are living up to the stereotype aren’t we?” Ms. Walczak said, laughing. “We have managed to personify the whole country with this one initiative!”

Ms. Walczak said she and her co-workers started the campaign as a labor of love — they are not using it to sell anything, she said — because they wanted to make a positive contribution to an election season that, has been downright depressing.