Our shitlibs here are virtually no different than American shitlibs just like our media and culture is mostly American now. They try to do the same hysteria all of the time about how there are secret Nazis, Klansmen and white supremacists around every corner, etc. Up here there's been a huge increase in pushing black people to the forefront of everything despite that population being smaller than a few different Asian ones here, etc. Without getting too of topic, but you know that line about "If aliens just watched TV in the US they'd think that half of the country was black?" It's increasingly like that up here despite being ~3ish% of the population. The point I'm making is that if it's the current trend in America, give it about as long as it takes for a Twitter trend to get going viral and it'll be all the rage here too just with more smugness and less mainstream pushback.
It's all just our mentally ill people desperately wishing that they could be of the American variety. It's pushed that the Confederate flag is just a symbol of white supremacy by a lot of people in the States, and thus a lot of people here think the same. You should never underestimate just how much American cultural influence there is in Canada. I'd be willing to bet that the average Canadian couldn't name more than three current premiers (those are like our governors) here but could go on all day about American politics (informed by the CBC and Facebook.)