As two national holidays approach, our countries continue to influence each other in myriad ways — but our cultural differences are growing.
We move goods and services across it every day. We share energy, embrace the free market, honour human rights, freedom, opportunity and dignity. We practise democracy — the United States as a republic, Canada as a constitutional monarchy.
Roosevelt’s New Deal and Bennett’s New Deal. The New Frontier and the Quiet Revolution. The Great Society and the Just Society. Each was different but happened in the same decade. We had regulation and high taxes in the post-war era, for example, and then, under Ronald Reagan and Brian Mulroney in the 1980s, deregulation and lower taxes.Article content
Canada embraced peacekeeping as a vocation. Multilateralism, collective security, international law and free trade remain at the core of Canada’s internationalism, but not always America’s. Canadians look at Americans today and wince. They see the ambition and ingenuity that has created the world’s wealthiest society. They also see mass shootings, book banning, income inequity, public vulgarity. They see a ghastly tolerance for death, which is why the U.S. had far more deaths, proportionately, from COVID-19 than Canada.Canada, for its part, is restricting guns and increasing immigration, sharply. Religion has not entered public life.
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