The title is misleading, as I'm not certain that all Canadians view our politics in the same way that a couple who we met in 2008 view it.
But back in 2008, when my husband was still employed, they sent us to Montreal for a job at Bombardier and for work on a Lear Jet - LJ 200, which was originally owned by an American company in Kansas, but Bomardier bought Lear Jet.
I think they still have employees in Kansas, but it's owned by Bombardier.
Montreal is a beautiful city, but when it comes to the French there?
Well.
My husband's job also took us to Paris, France for 2 years in 2002, and we all believe, or at least I did, that the French dislike us, but that's not true - yes, there is rudeness towards Americans - but it's not as common as you're led to believe.
Montreal French - they are rude - or at least that's my experience and I can speak French.
I'm not fluent, not at all, but I understand what it means to be a guest in a foreign country, and when it comes to Montreal and Quebec, even other Canadians are in a foreign country.
My father was from Quebec, and my last name is very common and even respected - there is a street named after a person unrelated to me, but we share the same last name yet when we were in Montreal, they pretty much disliked me.
We made friends with a couple and they are here now visiting, and their French accent is very noticeable.
To be honest, they can barely speak English, but between the French we know and the English they know, we communicate and we're having the greatest of time.
We've been talking politics and they so get it when it comes to our Republicans.
"They're rich white racist men" is what they say about our Republicans.
I asked them if their Republicans were the same, or their right wing, and they said NON!
They told about driving through Las Vegas and how they saw a parking lot somewhere, and it was filled with homeless people, and Celine asked her husband if he was seeing what she was and yes, he saw, and they were shocked.
This is America?
They asked in shock.
The richest country in the world has homeless people, and in Las Vegas, sleeping and living in a parking lot?
They are shocked by seeing the homeless in my country, and they admit that there are homeless people, too, in Montreal, but the homelessness in the USA shocks them, when they RV camp in the middle of nowhere, and see people with shopping carts and wearing layers of clothes.
How can this happen in the USA, they ask?
Republicans, we answer, and then they nod and understand.
The two Canadians who we know, get it.
They talk about choice and even know that the Republicans here want to take away birth control - and they say to us - they want to take us back - women - to the cave dwellers.
I tell them, "not you, because you are Canadians", but they fear our politics since they are on the border and that our politics will eventually make its way up to them.