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>Canada is an abstract concept - just like Florida Ah, the same mindset that caused Justin Trudeau to say >There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada
by TMWNN 5y ago
>Canada is an abstract concept - just like Florida
Ah, the same mindset that caused Justin Trudeau to say
>There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada ... the first postnational state.
in a New York Times interview (<https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/magazine/trudeaus-canada-again.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/magazine/trudeaus-canada-...>). If he hadn't been explicitly quoted, his supporters would say that attributing such words to Trudeau is actually an alt-right white-nationalist Trumptard conspiracy theory to make him look bad.
- dragonwriter 5y agoNah, I'd just say it was historically ignorant, because lots of superstates without a strong uniting identity have been formed, especially as part of decolonialization, but most of them have at some point (not always immediately after independence) viewed the lack of uniting identity as a problem to solve.