As a Canadian, and not ready even here to expose my political leanings, I will say that I have American cousins and friends that have split our family and friendships apart over the past number of years because some of them cannot have a sensible and respectable conversation about their politics.  They have a viewpoint and that is the only viewpoint acceptable.   Not that there are not Canadians that will fight their viewpoint to the death, but we as Canadians have not become so polari