Posted on 07/01/2025 9:49:49 AM PDT by Salman
~To all my compatriots at home and abroad, a happy 158th birthday! At noon on this day in 1867, the British North America Act came into effect and the Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada - that's Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec) - were united into the brand new Dominion of Canada under a constitutional document that has since been applied, all but unmodified, to dozens of newborn nations in every corner of the globe.
Something to celebrate, you'd think. But, for any Canadians old enough to remember the glorious centennial year of 1967, the principal legacy of Jacinda Trudeau was to take advantage of the sesquicentennial to totally implode any viable sense of living Canadian nationhood.
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Imagine if, instead of forcing revolution, King George III had proposed Dominion status for his American colonies.
Subsequent world history would likely look very different.
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