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As you never commented on same specifically, I'm wondering if this point really sunk in:
".... which likely skews your perceptions as to Canada is that, with under 1/10 of America's overall population, local matters/reactions become national ones much more easily & frequently up here." ~ GMMAC

Ergo, there's likely a considerable amount of outrageous gay - as well as all sorts of other leftist - activism as well as shocking & appalling incidents occurring Stateside but not receiving 'national' coverage.

As an example of the latter, here's a recent story which you may well not have heard about - unless you happened to live in upper New York State - but which doubtless would have made 'national' headlines had it happened in Canada:
Missing nun found dead
Buffalo nun who worked with ex-convicts found murdered

Note: this isn't to imply right or wrong or even differing biases when it comes to our respective msm's but only to demonstrate that, with over ten times our population & that much more 'news', logically many more 'local' items are going to be effectively buried 'nationally' Stateside.

No, no, no, no you are saying the exact opposite to my point. And, I guess I must assume responsibility for having failed miserably in being able to make it more clearly. I did not hear the story about the murdered nun. So, I agree an order of magnitude by a factor of 10 does distort perception. So, in a large country murder is a local story in smaller cities. Murder becomes a neighborhood story in large cities.
I never meant to imply that Canada is more gay than the US. But, Canadians have a cleaner, softer, more tolerant image of their nature. Being a tolerant people may be an admirable quality but, do you really want that image at this point in your history? I used to think that Canadians reputations for niceness and tolerance (except for fanfan of course) was a fake. But, just think about the diversity of opinion on this thread and even on the mother of this thread. Not one Canadian person has attacked a person's right to be gay. Indeed, several people including yourself have stepped forward to make it clear it is unacceptable to attack the gay person as a person. So, even on a conservative web site you have these deeply entrenched liberal values.