" Soon as they get cash for their crop".
Umm wonder what crop that could be? Some of that fine Manitoba red wheat? Me thinks not.
Quebecoirs are indeed very aggressive drivers. Must be the French in them. " Out of my ways you dirty Yankee swine, the road is mine. We care not for your traffic lights and speed limits?" Puh such things are for les enfants"
LOL! You've got the patois nailed, for a tete-carre[square-head trans: english].
I learned in Montreal back in the '60s that pedestrians are considered lower than rats, a suitable target for any driver, any at all. Luckily, I learned this while in a taxi. ;^)
And the police! Wild drivers, every one! Of course, I exaggerate.