Canada: Stupid Country

Five Excellent Reasons Not To Live Here Anymore


Warren on the two Canada's, the old and the new:

[In the new Canada,] "there are the people who speak, effectively, no language; who are deracinated, who have no history. That is the other nation. There is very little communication between these two nations -- the “old” Canada, and the “new” Canada -- because little communication is possible between two such groups. The one is aging and shrinking, the other expanding while growing ever younger. (Yet all trends are reversible.)

Demographically, but also spiritually. Those who have no language, no culture, no religion, no sense of past, and therefore of destiny, remain ever young. Outwardly they may become old and wrinkly, but inwardly they retain the mind of the pre-school child, unformed and cloudless.

Steyn wishes us all a Happy Dominion Day:

"...if you looked into the face of Canada, you'd wonder why the old gal keeps lying about how old she is. "We are a young nation." How old were you when you first heard a Liberal apparatchik drone about what a "young" nation we are? Maybe you were young yourself, and now, as the healthy glow of late middle-age fades from your cheeks, you're wondering why you're so old but your country is younger than ever. It's like The Passport Photo of Dorian Gray.

While John Robson grumps a bit:

I also cannot pick up a Pearson Pennant and go rah rah for the next 500 words because if you look back at the optimistic mood at Expo '67 it's clear they didn't think we'd end up here. I don't just mean no geodesic domes. Our politics are shabby, our lives frantic, our material possessions conspicuously failing to buy us happiness.

...we cannot be sanguine about the state of our country. At the superficial level of policy, we cling to the doomed Canada Health Act while chronically underfunding defence, infrastructure and just about every other legitimate core function of government. The way we debate policy is also depressing, favouring novelty over experience, computer models over historical facts, and abuse over discussion. And the whole rickety structure rests on the sand of "value systems," not the rock of morality.