I spent almost a year in the Tornto area.
I 10-0-% guarantee that Toronto and Canada are undergoing an existential crisis, similar to what Seattle did when the WTO riots happened there (I was in Seattle for that as well).
“How could such a terrible thing happen to people as great AND nice as us???”
It’s a nice narrative, except that so far there is zero evidence that this guy had any connection with, or was inspired by, Islamic terrorists. He may have copied what those terrorists did in London, Paris, etc.
That’s not to say that Justin Trudeau’s approach to Islamic radicals in Canada, including those who left to fight with Isis or similar organizations, and then returned to Canada, is not hopelessly naive (at best), but so far there’s no evidence that any of that had anything to do with this incident.