The vaunted Canadian politeness is just a façade. A thin veneer for the reality of Canadian smugness, self-righteousness and self-indulgence. Canadians will only be nice to you for as long as they are secure in the knowledge that they're better than you. The whole country could degenerate into Chicago-tier violence tomorrow, and every self-satisfied Laurentian elite in politics and the media would be sitting there saying, "Well, at least the victims don't have to pay for their own health care like they do in the Unired States."