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