Canada is a very strange country. It is full of what I would call tolerant bigots -- people who are deeply prejudiced against other people, but shrug their shoulders about interfering in other people's lives. It is the positive side of the introverted nature of the place. But the tolerance is very shallow -- I am afraid I put it down to things like respect for the laws, civil society, lack of guns, conformity, not a real embracing of other cultures or mores.

yours, Peter T.