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Canada has long feared the chaos of US politics

  • Written by Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, Associate Teaching Professor of American Studies, Miami University
Canada has long feared the chaos of US politicsAnti-Catholic riots, like this one in Philadelphia in 1844, worried Canadians.H. Bucholzer via Library of Congress

When the nation of Canada was founded in 1867, its people deliberately chose a form of government meant to avoid the mistakes and problems they saw in the U.S. government next door.

That helps explain why Canadian police used emergency...

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