President Donald Trump is currently renegotiating free trade with Canada, a country where over 70 percent of its trade is with the United States, and where probably over 80 percent of the population detests him.
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Do you think Canada is beyond saving?
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Ironically, before the 1960s Canada was a generally more substantively conservative country than the United States — and its politeness and “niceness” meant that it mostly avoided such negative aspects as racism and excessive commercialism. Indeed, before the 1960s even the Canadian Left (as typified by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation party) was mostly socially conservative, being rather friendly to traditional notions of family, nation and religion.
Mark Wegierski is a Toronto-based writer, social critic and historical researcher and is published in major Canadian newspapers, as well as in U.S. scholarly journals such as Humanitas, Review of Metaphysics, and Telos, and in U.S. magazines such as Chronicles and The World & I. His writing has also appeared in Polish, British and German publications.
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