Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com,
There was a version of this country that worked.
This was a country that used to punch above its weight across all key metrics and in a large part, did so espousing classical liberal values.
Multiculturalism here was both uncontroversial and functional. People came from everywhere, integrated, and got on with building lives, businesses and contributing to that overall ethos Canadian culture.
Minority rights and gender equality stopped being fights and became defaults.
Ontario, the most populous province, ran one of the cleanest grids on the continent for half a century on the back of CANDU, a reactor we designed ourselves. Peaceful, homegrown, zero-carbon, clean energy, and nobody lost any sleep over it. In fact, most people probably weren’t even aware of that.
By every classical liberal measure that actually mattered, Canada was a success story that inspired the rest of the world.
I want to be precise about the word “liberal”. The small-l, “classic” version meant open markets, open minds, equal treatment, and a state clueful enough to stay out of the way. That Canada earned its stature honestly.
Then, in 2015, the big-L Liberals took over the small-l idea. They have spent a decade undertaking what looks like something between a “controlled demolition” and act of subversion.
Start with energy, our single largest missed opportunity
We can’t build pipelines. A country sitting on one of the largest energy endowments on earth cannot get its ow
