Freefall

To be an English Canadian, by contrast, is to be a stranded colonist, floating untethered on the plane of human varieties. Our ties of continuity with the past were cut in the hope that the French would cooperate and drift toward us; it is indeed terrible to contemplate the betrayal of that hope and our consequent state–so terrible, in fact, that Coyne can write that “[Quebeckers] have as much or more in common with other Canadians as they do with each other” and not even recognize that he has been driven totally round the bend by horror vacui. colby cosh

Colby neglects to mention that, as well as having the ties to the Anglo Canadian past severed, we have also had the endless, relativist, politically correct delights of multi-culturalism paraded as the ideology of the enlightened. Which has not been quite as pleasant as the pundits predicted.

Written by jay on November 29th, 2006 with no comments.
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