I was raised in Alaska and had traveled in Canada a few times, to gain a sense that it was a pretty well run and free place. That ended in the late 1980s when I moved to Texas, and it seems that since then there has been a complete reconstruction of the Canadian society.

I find the present social mindset there unfathomable, considering the similarities between Alaska and Canada in their history, development, and peoples. Particularly exemplified by firearms regulations, the ethnosocialist neoliberal cast of the cultural jib is scary. When I drove through Canada in my youth I was never searched, or asked about firearms, which were pretty much guaranteed to be in the possession of Alaskans.

I doubt very much that would be the case today.

The bizarre denuclearization of the family, with parents required to use the preferred pronouns of their spawn or face actual jail, has obviously been inculcated decades ago via public education.

Given the natural environment in Canada, that challenges human survival particularly in the North, I am nonplussed how people might be pushed to accept such survival weakening memes. While changes occurred in Alaska as well, there is a vast gulf between the changes the two have experienced during my lifetime, and the neoliberal/neocon agenda is far less advanced in Alaska.

Thanks for pointing out one of the vectors for the strange direction Canadian society has been pushed along of late. Let's hope that as technology empowers people to better control the influences impacting them, reason and greater autonomy rise again to eminence in the culture there.