SharonM
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Jasmine Laine is a Canadian podcaster. She recently wrote this article.
"Why is it that every time our leaders speak, they sound like they're auditioning for a job at the UN? Why is our "sovereignty" always tied to some foreign "imperative" or strategic partnership that costs us billions with little to no benefits to us, while our own productivity and economy stalls?
Mark Carney now says the world will be rebuilt out of Europe. I say the world should be looking at a strong, independent and unapologetic Canada.
We need to stop leeching onto other nations' identities and start being proud of our own. Citizens of most nations would be appalled by their leaders going on stage and saying that being a "post-national" state without pride or a core identity is an achievement.
Everywhere else in the world, being a nation is a point of pride: in Ottawa, it's treated like a hurdle to be cleared on the way to the next international summit. Canada isn't a "post national" experiment - it's a country. It's time we started acting like it."
"Why is it that every time our leaders speak, they sound like they're auditioning for a job at the UN? Why is our "sovereignty" always tied to some foreign "imperative" or strategic partnership that costs us billions with little to no benefits to us, while our own productivity and economy stalls?
Mark Carney now says the world will be rebuilt out of Europe. I say the world should be looking at a strong, independent and unapologetic Canada.
We need to stop leeching onto other nations' identities and start being proud of our own. Citizens of most nations would be appalled by their leaders going on stage and saying that being a "post-national" state without pride or a core identity is an achievement.
Everywhere else in the world, being a nation is a point of pride: in Ottawa, it's treated like a hurdle to be cleared on the way to the next international summit. Canada isn't a "post national" experiment - it's a country. It's time we started acting like it."
