Oh, no, hardly free of islamic or liberals! (In fact Montreal is the center of Canada's jihadist and islamicist cells.)
However, it has a large, established Jewish community, and is now considered North America's center of Yiddish (and Judaic) culture. Montreal's Jewish community is thoroughly and profoundly pro-American, completely assimilated into (North) American culture and an important element of Canada's Establishment. This does not mean that Canada's Jews are lock-step liberals, because they aren't. In fact, Canadian Jews are somewhat more conservative than US Jews and all these factors combine to form a useful bulwark against the encroachment of islamist influences in Canada.
Barbara Amiel spent many years in Canada, (prior to marrying Conrad Black, and moving back to London), and was a well known-voice for conservatism here.
During the '80's, Canadian Jews became quite impressed with Ronald Reagan, and developed an appreciation for him, far beyond their co-religionists in the US. The comments I'm hearing now about GW Bush, from Candadian Jews mirrors the experience with Reagan. Canadian Jews think he's got it right, and is doing a great job, in fact a far better job than our own leader Johhnie Cretin (Da Moron), who most Canadian Jews consider to be a "shlemiel", a putz and a "farshluffener" .
Shlemiel: a hapless, unlucky fool
Farshluffener: a sleepy-head, asleep at the wheel.