Canada used to have a reputation as a peaceful, law-abiding country. At least, most of it did: while Quebec harboured a terrorist organization for a few years in the 1960’s and early 70’s, the rest of the place was a snooze-fest. Toronto the Good. Cowtown, aka Calgary. Victoria, home of the newly wed and nearly dead. Canada was boring, and that boring-ness was highly attractive to millions of immigrants fleeing the ravages of war-torn Europe, or communist Vietnam, or various other oppressive or poverty-stricken regimes.