This is a shallow take though. Yes, people are engaging in reactionary flag waving because of the current aggression. But Canadian nationalism wasn’t born with Trump, and ignoring the violence that creates and sustains Canada as a colonial entity often includes “but were not as bad as them”
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Are new markets that we need to strengthen going to mean new pipelines on Indigenous land, other rapid environmental destruction? Best get behind it, because patriotism!
Actually fighting a worldwide neonazi uprising and not replacing it with a maple syrup flavoured version requires depth.
I do think centralizing the threat continues to have value, to prevent annihilation.
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