In the US the division is arguably worse and the masks are coming off.
You sure about that? As recently as 1995, Canada was with 0.4% of a vote to split the country in two.
In the 1970's the deputy Premier of Quebec was kidnaped and murdered by Quebec separatists.
In 1990 the Canadian and Quebec governments used the military and authorized lethal force to put down an armed rebellion by the Mohawk tribe, after a Canadian court allowed the development of a golf course on native land.
Just because Canada is largely ignored by the American and International media, doesn't mean that everything is lovely and everyone is sitting around singing kum ba yah.
Just goes to show how insanely irresponsible the current federal governement's handling of the trucker rally has been in comparison.
(That doesn't mean I'm not sympathetic to the Mohawk cause, or that I think the federal government should have used force against them.)
It's like as soon as something remotely similar to a movie they've seen happens everyone thinks, "omg it's happening!" Civil war is happening, just like in the movies. Time to invoke the emergency act.
People seem to have little patience these days to actually think things through. You have people like Trudeau running away and pretending to be sick instead of dealing with issues head on. Either they're out of touch, or something worse.