No Canadian I know of thinks this way. It’s a sad story. Perhaps it wasn’t a drug deal, but a robbery, as is reported.
FWIW, we have our fair share of street thugs - there are many areas in the cities where you don’t dare venture.
Ditto that. I live at the border between Ontario and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Never any rhubarbs regarding the differences. So dern nice to drive over the International Bridge and know people like you, if you act decently. I will concede that the CBC and sometimes the CTV make these politely guarded put downs of the USA. I wince when I hear and see the smugness of it all.
I remember when following a kidnapping of a person in the USA, some of the main Canadian media took a stance that "it could not happen here". Seems like ages ago when poor Laporte was kidnapped and murdered in Quebec. Then we had the FLQ terrorists. We are all vulnerable as human beings to thugs. Thugs who know no borders.(Excuse the sermon).