Canada Forsaken
Ten years hence, when the mulitipolar world is firmly in place the present era will be seen as a unipolar Dark Age. Canada will be a boondock nation.
The devil takes the hindmost
Life is full of choices and the world is in a constant state of flux. Change and the need to adapt are constants. There are leaders and followers. There are progressives and regressives. There are leaders with cajones and those without. The devil takes the hindmost. These are the immutable ways of the world and are always very high priorities. Where we ignore these tenets individuals and whole cultures become collateral damage.
Canada emerged from WW ll as a robust industrial economy. Like the USA it had reaped huge benefits from the war and was poised for further success and a promising future.
Canada though had an existential choice to make. Would it walk away from its sovereignty and become a colony to the aggressive empire next door.? It quickly became clear Canada would opt for colonization rather than nationhood largely based on economic pragmatism and lack of political will.
As US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stated in 1957 “get control of a country’s economy and we own it”. This was the corner stone of US foreign policy as it set out to conquer the world. Successive Canadian governments blindly gave away our political economic sovereignty. They opted for continentalism at the expense of sovereignty.
In the rampaging triumphalism of the post war times there was never any consideration given to a middle way where Canada and the US could co-exist as strong democracies, partners and exemplars to a world recovering from the most devastating war the world has ever seen.
Both made horrifically bad choices? The US opted for being the world’s warfare state, Canada opted to be its vassal state.