An article at the website Chronicles examines how tenuous the bonds holding Canada together appear to be. It observes Trump’s wisecracks about a 51st state and ‘governor’ Trudeau shook the already fragile tree.
We know of course about Quebec separatism, which ebbs and flows but never disappears. Add in the independence dreams of oil-rich Alberta and Saskatchewan and the manufacturing orientation of Ontario - it doesn’t take much to have different regions pulling in separate directions. Key quotes:
Canada isn’t a real country. Its inherent lack of unity can’t be solved within the existing Confederation.
Canada is afflicted with fundamental regional, economic, linguistic, and demographic contradictions.
The symptoms may be in remission, but the pathologies remain. America’s neighbor to the north is living on borrowed time, and its next crisis may be just around the corner.
