Canada seems to just have different racial anxieties than Americans, and so because Americans think everyone is like them, Canada appears enlightened. Canadians also consume a shitload of American media (duh), and generally align with the liberals specifically on the subject of Black people / African Americans. Ask them about Asians though, and a lot of Canadians become phrenologists, who will point to the asiatic skull being incapable of empathy. Also most canadians seem to think that native peoples all vanished into thin air upon contact with europeans, and that their mistreatment was a brief period in the 15th century, and not a litteral centuries long holocaust.