Yes, Canada's just like the U.S. I've been up there a few times. The Native Americans are treated badly. You see them walking the streets in a very unkempt manner.
A waiter took a double tip from us in a restaurant, one year. Our youth organization chaperoned 12-15 kids up to Winnipeg. I had the kids ante-up 15% each to teach them about tipping. The young waiter's hands were trembling as I gave him the cash from them, plus our card for the rest.
After settling up, I realized the error--the gratuity was already included in the bill. I had everyone return to the van and asked to see the manager. The place was very crowded, and it seemed like I had waited half an hour--I was also the van driver and was very tired, as our entire group was. I had driven from the Twin Cities about 450 miles. I considered calling the police and making a scene, but decided the $30 or $40 dollars wasn't worth the additional 30 minutes to an hour, we'd have to wait. Yep, drove away highly slighted.
Later, a gas station attendant tried to hit me up on the money conversion paying for gas. We went back and forth and finally he gave me the correct change. I realized, too, after a quick Google, that Canadian grass-roots folks are suffering financially.
Their cities are primarily along the U.S. border, and they draw from our economy.
Some of the people are very nice there, though. A teenage girl in a store was so excited because she was helping my wife and me. She kept saying, "Ohhh, you are Americans"! -- like she had met some truly special people. "Americans!" The older store keeper smiled with us. It was a cute moment.
Well, did Marie-Joseph Angélique burn down the town? We'll never know, but she had a right to. lol
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LOL, man Canada was full of crap, Canada was no different from all those slave states in the south. Being in Montreal in 1700's was exactly like being in any plantation of Mississippi, or Louisiana, hahahaha!! In all cases Canada was a "lie" for those Blacks who escaped up there. hahaha!!
Anyway, during the night of April 10, 1734, Montréal burned. Marie-Joseph Angélique, a twenty-nine-year-old slave, was arrested, tried, and found guilty of starting the blaze that consumed forty-six buildings. Suspecting that she had not acted alone and angered that she had maintained her innocence, Angélique's condemners tortured her after the trial. She confessed but named no accomplices. Before Angélique was hanged, she was paraded through the city. Afterward, her corpse was burned. Angélique, who had been born in Portugal, faded into the shadows of Canadian history, vaguely remembered as the alleged arsonist behind an early catastrophic fire.