The first plausible sign of a more adult direction in public policy leadership for some years is coming from Poilievre
Despite its present parlous condition, the United States is the greatest and most successful country in the history of the world. Because we do not have the legacy of slavery, nor a revolutionary tradition, nor a constitutional right to bear arms, this is a much more peaceable place and a less complicated, if a less exciting, society. The United States is now, for the first time in its history, having a crisis of self-confidence.
When I was very young, Canada was a Dominion — a word purportedly adapted to political science by New Brunswick’s principal Father of Confederation, Samuel L. Tilley — which was somewhere between a colony and a sovereign country. It is now a kingdom with a non-resident monarch. Likewise, most Canadian companies included the words ”Canada Ltd.,” indicating that they were branch plants of American companies. When Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and his then-external affairs minister, Lester B.
Some readers will recall Pierre Trudeau’s efforts to emphasize Canadian independence, such as in upgrading relations with Cuba, China and other communist countries. As an unusually flamboyant leader by Canadian standards, he received a good deal of international attention.
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