Keep reminding us, Jesse! Another Dylan, Dylan Thomas, wrote that we should not go gently into the good night. He was writing about death and you I believe are warning of the death of Canada. His poem continues, “Rage, rage against the dying of the light”. This is what we m
We must rage against the authoritarian takeover of not just our country, but our human freedoms. “Keep kicking at the darkness until it bleeds daylight”. Charlie Angus/Bruce Coburn
If it were US Democrats that were using more "polite" language asking for greater continental integration, would the response be different? Is "Canadian Culture" merely a subset of US culture, or something entirely different?
Listening to the podcasts, it feels as if you are both more optimistic than I am. I'm not as convinced Canadians see themselves as entirely outside US institutions. I see them only as not seeing themselves in the individual of Donald Trump, and not in very specific policies.
(Note: I don't see myself reflected in the Republicans, Bloc, Democrats, Conservatives, Liberals, Greens, or NDP -- so my personal views on British North American parties is largely dismissed).
Curious if you have been reading https://substack.com/@charlieangus , who has attracted a readership largely in agreement that Canadians are going to fight.
I see the problems as longer term and systemic: if all Canadians have is a focus on the cult of personality, anything that isn't accomplished in the next few years will merely be accomplished later using a less obvious strategy.
Is systemic Canada (not people's personal impressions and wishful thinking, but actual laws and institutions) that different from the USA? Canadians can point to policies that have historically been different, but are those policies core to “Canadian Values”? Are they actually willing to fight for them?
Is it possible for a future Canadian political party (more centralized into party executive each government since P.E. Trudeau) to erase those differences, and then with short memories people forget that there ever were differences?
Note: Lots of "buy Canadian" and noise about tariffs, but no discussion of Canada exiting FVEY where Canada's continued "cooperation" (subservience) has far greater implications.
Now, if the USA were to actually exit NATO, and that cold-war era entity were allowed to fade, that might actually be a good thing longer-term. NATO should have been disbanded with the fall of the Soviet Union and never expanded eastward, as it was created by a subset of WW1&2 allies in order to launch a cold war against another of the WW1&2 allies.
Keep reminding us, Jesse! Another Dylan, Dylan Thomas, wrote that we should not go gently into the good night. He was writing about death and you I believe are warning of the death of Canada. His poem continues, “Rage, rage against the dying of the light”. This is what we m
We must rage against the authoritarian takeover of not just our country, but our human freedoms. “Keep kicking at the darkness until it bleeds daylight”. Charlie Angus/Bruce Coburn
FU. End of us? I came to Substack to read and be positive. End of us. Jesus,Joseph and Mary. Go fight a Canada Goose you knucklehead. 🇨🇦
If it were US Democrats that were using more "polite" language asking for greater continental integration, would the response be different? Is "Canadian Culture" merely a subset of US culture, or something entirely different?
Listening to the podcasts, it feels as if you are both more optimistic than I am. I'm not as convinced Canadians see themselves as entirely outside US institutions. I see them only as not seeing themselves in the individual of Donald Trump, and not in very specific policies.
(Note: I don't see myself reflected in the Republicans, Bloc, Democrats, Conservatives, Liberals, Greens, or NDP -- so my personal views on British North American parties is largely dismissed).
Curious if you have been reading https://substack.com/@charlieangus , who has attracted a readership largely in agreement that Canadians are going to fight.
I see the problems as longer term and systemic: if all Canadians have is a focus on the cult of personality, anything that isn't accomplished in the next few years will merely be accomplished later using a less obvious strategy.
Is systemic Canada (not people's personal impressions and wishful thinking, but actual laws and institutions) that different from the USA? Canadians can point to policies that have historically been different, but are those policies core to “Canadian Values”? Are they actually willing to fight for them?
Is it possible for a future Canadian political party (more centralized into party executive each government since P.E. Trudeau) to erase those differences, and then with short memories people forget that there ever were differences?
Note: Lots of "buy Canadian" and noise about tariffs, but no discussion of Canada exiting FVEY where Canada's continued "cooperation" (subservience) has far greater implications.
Now, if the USA were to actually exit NATO, and that cold-war era entity were allowed to fade, that might actually be a good thing longer-term. NATO should have been disbanded with the fall of the Soviet Union and never expanded eastward, as it was created by a subset of WW1&2 allies in order to launch a cold war against another of the WW1&2 allies.