It is citizens of the world, like the Liberal Leader, who have the strongest need to believe in their own nations

“All ideas of nationhood are fictions. The fiction cultivated by the #Canadian studying abroad may be more likely than that of the Canadian educated at home to eschew regionalism, depending on a more overarching, all-embracing idea of nationhood.”

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    23 hours ago

    With the exception of the blips of John Turner and Kim Campbell, both of whom did graduate work in England, the prime ministers between Pierre Trudeau and Mr. Carney studied exclusively at Canadian universities. They never had to defend the idea of Canada before know-nothing Yanks or haughty Brits. They swam in a university environment immersed in the finite ambitions, comfortable familiarity and ironic self-deprecation that can pervade daily life in Canada.

    This piece puts well why I have been very optimistic about Carney. He can dream bigger and actually realize that dream, far better than your average Canadian politician having Stockholm syndrome.

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