Ken, members who want to know more of Canadas experiment---and it is an experiment---of building a great nation of liberal values through immigration and multiculturalism, theres the book by Jonathan Tepperman, the Canadian-born managing editor of Foreign Affairs, considered one of the most influential magazines on US international relations. The book is called The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline.
Conservative governments played major roles in changing what was once a small, closed ethnically homogenous state into a vibrant global powerhouse and one of the worlds most open and successful multicultural societies. Thats an accomplishment that politicians everywhere, especially in the US, would be wise to study carefully. Bottom-line, in the Economist and other internationally informed sources: Canadas gig is respect and consideration for others.
In the November issue of Canadas distinguished magazine Walrus, Foreign Affairs Tepperman wrote: One survey revealed that Canadians are prouder of multiculturalism than they are of hockey, bilingualism, and the Queen. Multiculturalism came tenth in 1985, and had climbed to second in 2006. All told, 85 per cent of Canadians see multiculturalism as important to their national identity. Our Liberal prime minister today signed a mostly conservative-made trade agreement worth gazillions with Europe.
Clinton and Trump say their America as the world's greatest democracy and industrial empire will tear up trade negotiations and agreements and prosper by taking in each others' wash from glittering California to the woods of Maine. Canada could help to preserve your conservative values by buying all of America's exported GDP, re-branding and selling it to the world clamouring for it, ending any trade deficits here forever.
