“Canada is not Canada. We are not the country we think we are.”
- Gord Downie
Discussion
A national identity based on a past that no longer exists.
Watching the hip live at Woodstock in 99, tons of flags even a Leafs fan. We were a storied Nation defined as not USA, peace keepers, polite.
I think the peak was in 2010 with Vancouver, you could feel the pride, the Golden leaf flags.
Now Canadian Content laws are bumping into the digital multinationals, which could directly hurt our competitiveness.
We attacked our own lines of production blocking railways, national crossings and stopping pipelines. While we are a nation state that is rich in natural resources we have decided to be service oriented and relay on our housing crisis as our only “means of production”
I will only say that the botched protection 2021 is of the current regime's own creation, fueled by inaction, fear, and CERB.
I bought my last Canadian flag in the summer of 2019 it sits tattered still on mast, just like my nation state.
