America is a continent, not a country

> As an aside, I find it rather sad that a Canada-based project uses the word "American" to mean "USA citizen". America is obviously a continent (which includes
> Canada, by the way), not a country.

As a Canadian, I can assure you that we universally refer to people from the USA as Americans, and never use "America" to refer to the continent.
Referring to the continent might be "North America", "South America", "Central America" (which is of course a fairly ambiguous term).

However the insistence of Europeans that the term "American" should refer to all people from "North America" or perhaps both "North and South America" is humourous :)