Something Americans aren't taught in Civics 101

[DonCoquixote]

20. Canadians do distrust extremism

The closest they get to it is that awful "it's Zed, not Zee!" beer commercial which shows on the Jumbo Tron when I go watch my Tampa Bay Lightning play a Canadian team. However, I also chalk the difference up to the fact they had to deal with Acadia. Simplt put, extremism would have ensured Montreal and Ottawa might as well have been different planets. It's no accident that the person who did the most damage was harper, who hails from Alberta, aka Northern texas, aka the people who have some Trumpers.

However, you are right about national character not being a substitute for laws; hell, if anything America's big problem is that it tries to use national character in place of laws, while ignoring the fact that the billionaires do not care if the country is ruined in the process. Trump won because he knew that the cowboys and self styled "heartland" was chafing at the bit to replace laws with "character" which means a heap helping of Religion and a lot of racism.

PS: I do think many Canadians and the leftish Americans will be together as we deal with a common enemy: The Russian/Dixie alliance, which in effect might as well be called an empire now. It will be scary to see rex Tillerson sell our portion of the artic for oil, and to allows Russia to muscle Canada out of it's part. I would love to be wrong, but don;t tellme you cannot see Putin and his buddy Rex try that. Put so many pipelines you will be able to see them from Michigan.