Prejudice and racism are the results of imposing determinations against others, and upon the people in a society. A determination prevents consideration, and prejudice is the refusal to consider.
Canada's MSM and gov't have conducted an aggressive mass disinformation campaign about Russia, Putin, Syria, Assad and whatever else for years. And now are they really surprised that Canada is filling up with prejudice and ignorance? That was their intended goal all along. Their endlessly-asserted hostile determinations falsify people's considering and polarize their consideration - and that is what prejudice is. But nobody controls prejudice once it is created. It is an impulsive canvass of negative consideration which will be filled up by whatever comes easiest to a person.
A society cannot fill itself with propaganda, as Canada has, and somehow be not prejudice or racist. A society cannot fear-monger and demonize others and somehow be not prejudice or racist.