Salim Mansur takes a sober look back at the last fifty years and susses out the reasons for Canada’s current global presence, or lack thereof.
Here’s a snippet of “No longer punching above our weight”, which is now in the Columnist section:
[…] But beginning in the 1970s, the Trudeau years, followed by his protege Jean Chretien’s now increasingly questionable rule in the 1990s, boutique-left Liberal light-headedness incrementally transformed Canada’s record from punching above its weight into offering flim-flam rhetorical flourishes while mooring the country’s foreign policy into a swamp of confounded national interest.
Embracing Cuba’s dictator, Fidel Castro, as a friend might have seemed chic and symbolic of Canadian self-assertiveness, but such grandstanding came with a cost.
The cost is eloquently described by Andrew Cohen in his 2003 book While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World (McClelland & Stewart). It should be a mandatory reading for any thoughtful Canadian concerned about where, if anywhere, the country is headed. […]
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