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Originally Posted by Griff
Lower population numbers and density, slightly more homogenous politically, actual respect for political / lifestyle differences, decent education system, can't leave house due to snow drifts...?
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Access to handguns is more difficult. I had no trouble getting a firearms acquisition certificate twenty years ago but there was a five-day wait. Of course, there were no online databases; I don't know what the regs are now. But there have been mass shootings in Canada - especially the Montreal shooting. One-tenth the populations, one-tenth the number of shootings ... I suspect Canada isn't so very different. And believe me, respect for political differences doesn't exist. Elementary and high school education in Ontario, at least, sucks. University and professional schools are very good to excellent. That will change the longer the lower levels continue to fall below mediocrity.