The author reflects on living in Canada during the 1960s, highlighting the nation's strong community ties and political landscape under Pierre Trudeau. While he appreciated its sense of unity and beneficial systems like healthcare, he recognizes the decline in democracy and recent troubling trends influenced by American politics. Events like the vaccine mandate protests demonstrate a growing division and tension within Canada, signaling potentially troubling shifts, such as the rise of far-right figures like Pierre Poilievre amidst global discontent.
As a clueless émigré, I was sent to the principal's office on my first day for not showing this particular form of respect.
Canada's democracy has frayed and strained in the years since, but always held-Quebec's independence movement was subdued by real concessions from the rest of the provinces.
America's craziness has drifted north across the border in recent years, though, producing out-there influencers, such as the psychologist-podcaster Jordan Peterson.
The bilious mood that's gripped the planet, post-COVID, seemed almost certain to set the stage for the election of a Trumpian figure, Pierre Poilievre.
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