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   From: vote-trump@nytimes.com   
      
   Canada is presently in the throes of social and political   
   disintegration. A left-leaning electorate has once again   
   empowered a socialist government promoting all the lunatic   
   ideological shibboleths of the day: global warming or “climate   
   change,” radical feminism, indigenous sovereignty, expansionary   
   government, environmental strangulation of energy production,   
   and the presumed efficiency of totalitarian legislation.   
   Industry and manufacturing are abandoning the country in droves   
   and heading south.   
      
   Canada is now reaping the whirlwind. The Red-Green Axis   
   consisting of social justice warriors, hereditary band chiefs,   
   renewable energy cronies, cultural Marxists, and their political   
   and media enablers have effectively shut down the country. The   
   economy is at a standstill, legislatures and City Halls have   
   been barricaded, blockades dot the landscape, roads and bridges   
   have been sabotaged, trains have been derailed (three crude-by-   
   rail spillages in the last two months), goods are rotting in   
   warehouses, heating supplies remain undelivered, violent   
   protests and demonstrations continue to wreak havoc—and the   
   hapless Prime Minister, who spent a week swanning around Africa   
   as the crisis unfolded, is clearly out of his depth and has no   
   idea how to control the mayhem. No surprise here. A wock pupper   
   politico in thrall to the Marxist project and corporate   
   financial interests, Justin Trudeau is generally baffed out when   
   it comes to any serious or demanding concerns involving the   
   welfare of the people and the economic vitality of the nation.   
   Little is to be expected of him in the current emergency apart   
   from boilerplate clichés and vague exhalations of roseate   
   sentiment.   
      
   Still, Trudeau may have been right about one thing when he told   
   The New York Times that Canada had no core identity—although   
   this is not what a Prime Minister should say in public. Canada   
   was always two “nations,” based on two founding peoples, the   
   French and the English, which novelist Hugh MacLennan famously   
   described as “two solitudes” in his book of that title. But it   
   may be closer to the truth to portray Canada as an imaginary   
   nation which comprises three territories and ten provinces, two   
   of which, Quebec and Newfoundland, cherish a near-majoritarian   
   conception of themselves as independent countries in their own   
   right. Newfoundland narrowly joined Confederation only in 1949   
   and Quebec held two successive sovereignty referenda that came a   
   hair’s breadth from breaking up the country.   
      
   The latest entry in the exit sweepstakes is oil-rich but hard-   
   done-by Alberta, a province which suffered under the National   
   Energy Program introduced in 1980 by the current PM’s father   
   Pierre Trudeau, and is currently struggling under a concerted   
   left-wing campaign, sponsored by Green-progressivist foundations   
   (American consortiums masking via proxies as Canadian   
   coalitions), clueless Nobel laureates at their virtue-signaling   
   best, and a Liberal government ideologically aligned with the   
   NDP (New Democratic Party) and the Greens, to prevent the   
   development of its vast oil reserves. Alberta has always   
   resented the indifference to and domination of the Canadian West   
   by the so-called Laurentian Elite comprising “the political,   
   academic, cultural, media and business elites” of central   
   Canada. There is now a Wexit movement gathering momentum.   
      
   It might just as plausibly be argued that Canada is composed of   
   a veritable congeries of competing, self-identified mini-   
   nations—English, French, Islamic, Chinese, Sikh, native tribes   
   with multiple patrimonies and unpronounceable names, and sundry   
   political constituencies affiliated with the global left.   
   Contributing factors like indiscriminate immigration from   
   dysfunctional countries, metastasizing socialist doctrine   
   verging on nascent totalitarianism, a state-funded national   
   broadcaster and a deeply compromised print media subsidized by   
   the Liberal government added to the destabilizing brew.   
   Meanwhile, to quote lawyer and former philosophy professor Grant   
   Brown, “the education system invites Extinction Rebellion kooks   
   into the classroom to terrify the children” (personal   
   communication). An army of little Gretas will carry the country-   
   killing revolution even further.   
      
   George Grant’s 1965 Lament for a Nation argued that Canada had   
   ceased to be a nation, having surrendered its identity to the   
   continental thrust of American dynamism and to the historical   
   progress of the “universalist and homogeneous state [as] the   
   pinnacle of political striving.” He goes on to argue that the   
      
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