Correct me if wrong, but a suspended Surrey councilor is not even remotely close to a Member of Parliament in the UK...is it? At any rate, more evidence that some Britons appear to view fellow-Briton George Orwell's works as an instruction set rather than warnings.
Canada isn't abandoning lucrative trade arrangements with its largest trading partners, has a codified Constitution, a pretty decent immigration system, and doesn't have Donald Trump vying to lead it. The only drawback is it is currently October 17th and there is 2-3 inches of snow on the ground in one of our largest cities. Tradeoffs.