Whose Canada Is This?
Pearson often gets credit for forging the modernnation, but Diefenbaker’s legacy lives on November 2010
Pity the federal Liberals: confined to seemingly permanent Opposition, they await the deliverance that only power can bring. In this political purgatory they are now visited by further vexation: their legacy is cast in doubt. What legacy? Why, that tapestry of distinctive symbols (anthem, flag, citizenship), processes (a domestic constitutional amending formula, end of judicial appeals to London) and policies (admission of Newfoundland and Labrador as a…