<strong>Title:Nationalism Back At The Forefront In Canada </strong> <a href="/article/235929903-" target="_blank"></a>
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<strong>Date: </strong> Tuesday, November 30 at 00:00<br><br>
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Peter C. Newman posits that this "reactivated" nationalism will see the demise of nations in a direction opposite globalization, and more in the direction of the city-state..........

   

Well, of course the obituary is premature. 99.9% of my fellow Canadians i talk to still believe that the maintenance of, and improvement upon, this country called Canada is still important. What good is it when trade agreements and institutions like NAFTA and the WTO through their corporate friendly rules prevent governments from improving their country`s situation by preventing them from enacting progressive legislation? Countries and cultures are still all too important to people. And Canada to me, is still a wonderful idea! I still think that we Canadians, and people of other countries, can still take back their sovereignty, and self-actualize, improve, and evolve as the greater communities that we are. We can still be friends and trade with other countries, but the people, through their governments, should formulate the rules. But as we know, it is the banker-corporate fascists, who dictate through our puppet governmnets.

   

^I thats an over simplification. Canada doesn't run it's own production for one thing, whoever knows anything knows that. Especially in Edmonton. Canadian companies are selling like hotcakes to the foreigners..eg shell canada to the dutch and many more. This government doesn't care and never will. Unless you have a plan for taking back sovereignty don't bother mentioning it. Kind of a waste of time. Canada is not a Nation State we are owned by the British; the queen is the largest holder of land in the world. We could never be Nationalist because the elites would NEVER allow for it, they destroy every nationalist government. The fact is that any independents get run out of town by the big box. Ive lived through the classic example of this and believe me we're just a bunch of merchants in Canada

   

Yes, Canadian corporations are being sold out because we don't have strong foreign ownership laws. However, it's hardly the British that own us or are threatening our ability to maintain a strong nation--as George Grant pointed out in Lament for a Nation over 40 years ago, our problem with sovereignty has been the fact that the US likes to use us a source of resources. The "free trade" agreements only institutionalized that, and recent NAFTA-plus agreements such as the Security and Prosperity Partnership are taking us even further down the road of deep integration. Our elites profit from this, and toady to their US masters, becoming (as Ron Dart calls them) compradors to the U.S. empire. It's heartening that Canadians are finally waking up to this fact, and speaking up to say NO. But it needs to become a serious election issue next federal election, and we need to keep hammering on this until the mainstream realizes it's happening too or we won't win back our independence.

   

Channel Billy Green and James Fitzgibbon. Maybe a bit of Joseph Willcocks. Depends on the person. Remember that this country has a great deal of potential greatness: we just have to believe in ourselves.

   

Prior to the arrival of the OIL SHIEKs, the Brits were whinning about canadians owning everything in sight........because the Brits had to sell everything to pay their stupid taxes....