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The First Post-National Holiday
Steyn On-line ^ | July 5, 2017 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 07/05/2017 10:56:01 AM PDT by Twotone

Justin Trudeau has moved on - he's getting an honorary degree from Edinburgh University for being nice to Syrian refugees (like this one) - and his Scottish hosts are even less interested in Canada's sesquicentennial than Canadians turned out to be. Nevertheless, the complete stinkeroo Justin's Liberals made of the anniversary is fascinating, and revealing about the state of civilizational self-loathing that afflicts the west's political class. It is in that sense relevant beyond Canada - not just for the other settler nations of the Anglosphere, and the mother country itself, but for all kinds of other places - Sweden, for example - where the breezy assumption is that things that were once taken for granted can be dismantled and shuffled around without consequence as easily as modular furniture from Ikea.

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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: dominionday; marksteyn

1 posted on 07/05/2017 10:56:01 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Spent the weekend in Canada (Toronto).

Might as well call it Canukistan.

Arabs, Indian, and Chinese...nary a white man to be seen. Felt like I had stepped in to Qatar rather than Canada.


2 posted on 07/05/2017 10:59:33 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Twotone

3 posted on 07/05/2017 11:09:56 AM PDT by yoe
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