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SJ's avatar

Norm’s view of nationalism was formed while playing football for one of Quebec’s few Anglophone schools, when the conscientious and historically-minded Francophone students would take it upon themselves to demonstrate to him practically how the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ought to have ended.

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AKAHorace's avatar

You say that

In recent generations, the U.S. and Canada have thrived by being vaguely friendly without interfering too much in each other’s business.

Unfortunately, Trudeau the younger loved using his position as Prime Minister to involve himself in American politics. He could not resist commenting American failings, using US school shootings as reason for more gun control (we have few mass shootings of our own) and very publically opening our borders to refugees on Twitter to contrast with Trump expelling Haitians.

A lot of left wing Canadian nationalism is just a form of this sort of stupid on upmanshipt.

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