Can we not treat Hacker News like some Reddit thread, making low effort political jokes in an attempt to curry upvotes? If that's not what you were doing, and instead were being serious, then do note that Canadians ape American culture more heavily than any other nation I can think of, so this characterization is not correct.
> an attempt to curry upvotes
Offtopic, but sometimes a witty (at best), or just butty (at worst), joke is made only for it's own sake, sometimes it's for other's amusement and sometimes it's for upvotes as well.