Many older Canadians, people who were born here, keep telling me, "Canada has changed. This isn't the country I grew up in. This isn't the country I remember." It's not just nostalgia, viewing the good old days through rose-coloured glasses. It's a fact.
Now Alex Himelfarb, former Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada, has written a thoughtful article about how Canada is being subtly but definitely changed, without the knowledge or consent of its citizens.
According to "Canada's silent transformation", the changes the country is witnessing are being brought in under the radar by a government the majority of Canadians didn't vote for, driven by forces in the U.S. and the rest of the world. And, Mr. Himelfarb suggests, these changes are not in our best interests. Canada is becoming a tougher, meaner place in which to live.
Why so? Because we're not paying attention. And because Canadian political parties are not discussing policy -- if indeed they have any to discuss. They are in perpetual campaign mode, trash-talking each other and thinking only of getting or staying in power.
Mr. Himelfarb argues that it's high time there was a public conversation on the kind of society we want. It's time we start to shape that change, he says, before it's shaped for us. Thanks to Agent 26 for sharing this bit of worthwhile reading.
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