I’ve heard a lot of Canadians get indignant over the years about charges that this has always been, and continues to be, a fundamentally racist and colonial society. They were indignant when Maclean’s published a piece asserting that Winnipeg was perhaps the most racist city in the country. They were happy to retweet Stephen Harper’s absurd claim that Canada had no history of colonialism. They are always happy with smug comparisons to the U.S., as if being marginally less hateful …