The host of this interview says we should not talk about 1812. I think we should talk about 1812 - at that time, we invaded Canada under the delusion that the Canadians wanted to be liberated by America. That turned out to be totally untrue, and we were beaten badly.
Correct. I'm descended, in part, from United Empire Loyalists: Americans loyal to the British Crown who left and resettled in Upper Canada and the Atlantic during the Revolutionary War. Many of them were in the militia that pushed back the Americans in 1814. There were a good number of American settlers who weren't Loyalists, and the Americans mistakenly thought they'd support their cause. They didn't.
The Loyalists are the reason Canada is mainly an English-speaking country instead of French. They left the U.S. and didn't want to go back. Ontario's motto is still
Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet ("loyal she began, loyal she remains"). The U.S. had legitimate beefs against the British in the War of 1812. Repatriating American expatriates in Canada wasn't one of them.
Canadians still do not want to be liberated, at least not by us. A lady in my church recently visited Toronto and reported that the people there are in an uproar of rage against America because of our threats to annex them.
These days, "Canada is not the U.S." is a constant point of pride, even when the president isn't imposing punitive tariffs on us. Correct. We are similar to you, but we aren't you and don't want to be you.
As you point out, many American states have also adopted assisted suicide. To my recollection, of some of the more notorious "progressive" causes our Liberal government has legalized, such as MAID and legal weed, many of them were at least talked about in progressive enclaves like Oregon and Colorado first. Go bother them.