[jacquesm]

No, they're right. And it's not just first nations people. Being a person-of-color in Canada is definitely no picnic as soon as you get out of the larger towns. I've seen quite a bit of this first hand and up close while living there.

Consider that your viewport is small enough that the rougher parts of Canadian life for minorities are invisible to you.

[tachyonbeam]

I believe you, and I would rather live in a larger town myself. However, I think that on this front, Canada compares very well to the US, France, the UK, Brazil, China, and Japan (known for its xenophobic culture), to name a few places. No place is perfect, but we have it better here than a lot of other places, on many fronts.

[catgary]

I just want to remind you that a family of four muslims was run over by a bigot in London, Ontario in the last week. And that in 2015, Harper and the CPC traded in a dog whistle for a bullhorn when he talked about “old-stock Canadians” and proposed a “barbaric cultural practices hotline” - and that party has just spent 10+ years leading the country!

Canada has some major problems with racism, and a lot of news media (particularly in the PostMedia family) is fanning those flames.

[refurb]

Trudeau used the term old stock too. Was that a dog whistle as well? Do we have a racist PM right now?

[jacquesm]

But that's now how you improve, by comparing yourself to the worst the world has to offer. You make it seem like Canada is doing well, it isn't.