HTML5 Canvas image compositing problem

Consider the following code (includes jQuery):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Insert title here</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src = "js/jquery-1.4.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

jQuery(window).bind("load", function() {
    var elem = $("<canvas>", {width:300, height:300});

    var canvele = elem[0];


    var imm = new Image();

    imm.src = "card1/mask-x-6.png";
    imm.onload = function(){
        var ctx = canvele.getContext('2d');
        ctx.drawImage(imm, 0,0);
        $('body').append(elem);
    }
});


</script>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

This will result in the Image STRETCHED, not in it original aspect ratio. Both on firefox and Chrome. Why this happens? Workarounds?

Update

My apologies this thing doesn't happen if I don't use jQuery to generate the canvas Element. I'll post this to jQuery forums too.

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