pman
Senior Member
Yes, much better to judge Black’s words on the basis of his criminal past than on the basis of his actual...words. Can this site ever get beyond mindless ad hominem attacks?
While I take Black’s point, it’s not the whole story. English Canada seems unique, in that its elites mostly assert it should lack any common, unifying, national culture and identity. Most countries encourage a sense of shared identity, interest and belonging, so that Bernier’s tweet would be unobjectionable in the rest of the world. But in English Canada (not Quebec), to say that we are a nation and a people sharing a unique collective identity is to commit thoughtcrime. I believe English Canada is the world’s only - what, exactly, place seems sufficiently anodyne - place, then, dedicated to the proposition of its non-existence. Bernier seems under the delusion that our fundamentally fractured and fragmented confederation could ever be anything more than a collection of unique, isolated and contending groups, many vying to outdo each other in their assertion of grievance and demands for restitution. You want to live in a real country? Move to Australia.
While I take Black’s point, it’s not the whole story. English Canada seems unique, in that its elites mostly assert it should lack any common, unifying, national culture and identity. Most countries encourage a sense of shared identity, interest and belonging, so that Bernier’s tweet would be unobjectionable in the rest of the world. But in English Canada (not Quebec), to say that we are a nation and a people sharing a unique collective identity is to commit thoughtcrime. I believe English Canada is the world’s only - what, exactly, place seems sufficiently anodyne - place, then, dedicated to the proposition of its non-existence. Bernier seems under the delusion that our fundamentally fractured and fragmented confederation could ever be anything more than a collection of unique, isolated and contending groups, many vying to outdo each other in their assertion of grievance and demands for restitution. You want to live in a real country? Move to Australia.