It Seems We Really Care
Canadian nationalism is growing, even if we’re not quite sure why November 2007
On March 12, 2004, during a lecture at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Michael Ignatieff made a claim that would have been given long odds, judging by both Canadians’ view of themselves and a new book of essays. In Canada, he claimed, the state had created the nation.
Few of the Confederation delegates in 1864–65 conceived of federal union in nationalist…