I'm not too worried about the past except where it infects the present. The past can't be changed, no matter how much some parties would like to do that, so we're just stuck with it. We can only use the past to learn from and help us change how we act today.

With that said, what I *am* worried about, increasingly, is the ever-larger drought in the Southwest. Canada has a lot of freshwater. We have a lot of guns, and also a larger population. Canada is not nearly far enough away from the USA.

LW's daughter might want to consider New Zealand. I doubt there is any Anglophone country that doesn't have the specters of forced boarding schools etc, but I haven't heard anything particularly terrible about them lately. (Australia is a no go. Not because of the spiders and snakes, but because their treatment of refugees seems to be pulling from the USA playbook.)

Alternatively, she can learn another language, but she'd better pick carefully. The far right is resurgent all over, it seems.