umm, VERY few people were EVER burned at the stake for being witches. please to be researching the veracity of your claims before making them.
also, it's funny that Horab thinks that Canada is somehow different from America.
TURD is right on both counts here.
Canada is just a large slightly independent state of the USA. Outside of the artificially maintained Quebec culture, what makes Canadians different from Americans? Not the accent. They speak like us. Or at least those of us who live north.
As for witch executions: Probably no more than 50,000 were executed for the crime of witchcraft, and that is the liberal count. Of those, I really don't know how many were burned as opposed to cut up or strangled. Each country had it's preferred methods.
At the time of the witch hunts (Early Modern to mid/late 1700's), far more heretics, jews, and various Christians were executed. Also, far more people died in warfare and uprisings during this time than by any other cause.
So in perspective, even though the Witch Hunt idea has a lot of power as a symbol in today's world. It is not historical.