Regional slurs aren't welcome here, including internecine ones like this. Please don't post like this to HN again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Don't forget Toronto's crack-smoking mayor Rob Ford. Stephen Harper's government was extremely "conservative" (corrupt and anti-science).

I have lived in both Alberta and Quebec. The casual, open, and brutal racism against Native Americans in both provinces is disgusting and makes any anti-immigrant sentiments seem tame in comparison.

Thanks for posting this. It seems to me that everyone is looking for a way out of a difficult circumstance and see Canada as some sort of a paradise. I grew up in the Middle East, the labor laws there are much worse than the US; so I'm personally not worried. If I have to leave, I will.

Lifelong Albertan here, sans a 5 year stint in Ontario for uni.

Stop shitting on a place that you clearly haven't spent any time in.