This "American" has to state that he thinks part of the difference is that we had a revolution to "form a more perfect union".  Canada's Confederation was trying for "good government", "order" and remaining close to the "Mother Country".  Here in Sarasota, FL, the winter home of thousands of Canadians, my congregation turned up the volume when a prayer was requested for those in political power this morning.

I am old enough to remember the reaction to being an "Anglo" in Montreal.  When the Francophones saw an American license plate or figured out I wasn't speaking "Ango Canadian" English, the attitude changed.  Canada has been through a lot and has survived.  I hope the U.S. does as well.  Yes, we are in a rough time especially those of us who heard the P.M.'s speech in Ottawa yesterday.  I could hear Barack Obama making much the same speech here, but Trump?  Not in a million years.  "Give us your tired, your poor etc."  Not in 2017 "Trumplandia".