your country currently has a law which criminalizes referring to a person using the incorrect given name or personal pronoun. the US supreme court recently affirmed that even hateful statements which are clearly abhorrent and of no inherent value are protected. it is simply a matter of optimization for different things - Canada optimizes for its idea of the most civil possible discourse, and takes it to an extreme. The US optimizes for its idea of minimal obstructions to expression, and takes it to an extreme.

it is this difference in definitions of protected speech that causes people from the US to attack Canada for the current state of free speech, I think.