Reflections After Canada Day: Thoughts on Canada’s 145th Year
July 13, 2012 | 4 Comments
I recently wrote an article discussing the supposed collapse of what John Ibbitson calls the “Laurentian Consensus” and the subsequent shifting of political and economic power towards Western Canada. In my mind, with Western alienation having been such a major political issue for such a long time, we have to be careful not to simply repeat the problem by allowing Eastern or Northern alienation to become further entrenched. I also point out that, despite what Ibbitson claims, Canadian values have not shifted as much as he seems to claim, and that there’s much more common ground between all of us as Canadians than most people realize.
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July 16th, 2012 @ 11:37 am
I don’t have any comments right now, Jared (though I may have something to say later). It’s an interesting column, and I don’t think there’s much in it that I could disagree with.
…but I’ll try to think of something, if only for the fun of it.
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July 26th, 2012 @ 11:14 am
“Canada itself is a broad coalition of many different groups, who have often had to make compromises with one another in order to be able to live together.”
There is another group in Canada which is forgotten more and more by the current shift of power towards the Petro-Province. It’s the children, the future generations. Their interests are represented less and less by a government cutting environmental regulations, cutting science research, and muzzling scientists. Of course, for those who believe in their god more than the world consensus of scientists, or those who would rather believe in conspiracy theories than the established and well respected best knowledge, you can easily dismiss this ethical concern as superfluous and continue to pump our environment full of destabilizing substances.
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February 20th, 2013 @ 4:21 pm
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