Are there a fair percentage of Canadians who are pro-trump?!

I wouldn’t do that myself. But I later would have gone to some of the AI web sites and tried this:

“Are there any cases where a Canadian husband and wife were murdered in California?”

And I just did that (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity).

I guess the alleged uncle and aunt could have not had Canadian nationality. But the AI’s I checked gave borderline cases, and none come close to that story. And as you say, anything close would have been big news.

As to why a certain number of Canadians like Trump, I think some people are born with authoritarian instincts.

About 30% from all indications worldwide. The non-authoritarians desperately need to keep the 20% who’re authoritarian-adjacent on the side of tolerance. Because there is always and everywhere 30% happy to vote for the vilest scoundrel on offer.