Canadians’ psychological defense against living next to the giant United States is sanctimony: “at least we are nicer than they are!”
I know Toronto very well. The older parts of the city are OK, but most of the area is a faceless, cheap, urban sprawl. Certainly in Toronto area, people are not at all “nice,” it being a large city, very expensive, hugely flooded with immigrants - and thus has no overriding character at all, except post-modernism and domineering globalist/leftist sloganeering. Canadians are heavily taxed, which makes many of them poorer than they should be, and personally, I don’t think their vaunted health-care system is that great - at least not according to my friends’ whose parents are waiting for hip replacements or heart stents.
I certainly love parts of Canada, its overall an advanced country, and have many friends there, but I’m tired of the lies and self-righteousness one gets from people like this author.