Cancel Canada Day? Perhaps we should just cancel Canada

There is clearly no longer a national will for Canada, so I think we might as well shut it down. This state of disrepair is not temporary: it is bound to get worse.

Canada Day celebrations on the Hill in 2019. We face an existential crisis, writes Andrew Caddell. As each day goes by, Quebec nationalists attack Canada and carve out their own narrow space; Ontario uses the notwithstanding clause; Alberta plans a referendum on equalization.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

June 30, 2021

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—Fifty years ago this week, I was riding the train west to Lake Louise and then to Vancouver. It was a momentous trip: the farthest west I had travelled before was Stratford, Ont. I stepped from the station platform a few hundred metres from my house onto the train and sat up for t...

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