New York City has the lowest murder rate of any big city in the USA. Coincidence??? I think not.
Notice how the 13 of the top 15 cities with the highest murder rates, are all located in red or swing states.
"The five large, urban counties with the lowest rates were home to San Jose, California; Irvine, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; San Diego, California; and the borough of Manhattan in New York."
New Orleans, Louisiana, had higher murder rates in its home county than any other major city.
usafacts.org
I was hardly a "loyalist defendant". My original North American ancestor emigrated from France in 1741 and settled in Quebec City. He fought with General Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham in 1758, surviving the Battle, and building a successful architectural business in Quebec City. Nothing to do with Americans or their war of Independence years later.
Canada is an independent nation, just like you are. We have CHOSEN to align ourselves with the British Commonwealth of Nations. Instead of deifying politicians as happens in states where there is no one above government officials and politics.
A Cult of Personality is unlikely to happen in a Constitutional Monarchy, but easily happen in Republics, or direct democracies.