07-01-2016, 10:50 AM
(07-01-2016, 10:41 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: The most important difference between Canada and the US is the path by which Canada attained independence. As a result, Canada remains a Realm and has a Parliamentary system in place. Of course, ultimately, from a structural perspective, Canada is not immune from what has happened in the UK. That said, somehow I think the innate psyche of Canada is just healthier than either the US, the UK or countries in Continental Europe.
Another is that Canada never had the pervasive institution of chattel slavery. For an escaped slave in America, entering Canada was entering the Free World. The British empire formally abolished slavery peacefully about thirty years before slavery came to an end in the USA in one of the costliest wars ever.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.