But are these preferences and trends biologically or socially determined? Canadians defined themselves as distinct from the Americans, who wanted independence and freedom; we wanted ‘something else,’ which was allegiance to the British empire, then eventually distorted to mean some kind of big government socialist utopia via decades of brainwashing and propaganda. I don’t think you can fully judge the quality of a people until it is severely tested by necessity. We’ve had it too easy to know for sure.