Excellent! Much needed. I would prefer it to be oriented to a realist perspective in the analysis. Suggestions:
1) Canadian sovereignty particularly relative to the US ie domains where Canada has a relative degree of sovereignty - much of the current discourse related to Canadian nationalism seems fundamentally out of touch with reality and in itself a type of containment and/or surrogate activity
2) Canadian politics as essentially being a system for allocating patronage
3) the increasing use of courts to legislate (power upstream of law, and law upstream of morality)
4) identifying elites who have significant influence
5) Discussing rival castles in Federal politics (including how various provincial governments act as de facto castles)
6) manipulation of the needs of indigenous communities/peoples as pawns for various factions of elites
7) building reactionary alliances amongst/with more recent immigrant diaspora communities
- As @juliusruechel lays out in his thought-provoking piece, 'Trump's War on Socialism', the US is in the midst of a transition from Global Socialism to Populist Nationalism. In the old world, Canada didn't have to do much to maintain a semblance of sovereignity; just show up to global conferences and 'convene' other nations to resolve issues. In the new world, we are going to need to earn our sovereignity by adding real value to our geopolitical partners, in particular the US. The obvious answer is doubling down on our energy and resource sectors and investing in our military. Is that enough? What else?
- At a much more practical level, who are the 'new elites' that are supporting the above vision? Where are the gaps? What needs to be done? Who needs help? Who are the role models? I would love to see the builders and local leaders elevated.
- There are millions of angles on Canadian identity, I think the most interesting is, given the practicalities of our current 'mosaic', how do we accelerate the ethnogenesis required to renew a unified Canadian identify? Pragmatically, this needs to recognize all current citizens, not just old stock anglo and french.
Excellent! Much needed. I would prefer it to be oriented to a realist perspective in the analysis. Suggestions:
1) Canadian sovereignty particularly relative to the US ie domains where Canada has a relative degree of sovereignty - much of the current discourse related to Canadian nationalism seems fundamentally out of touch with reality and in itself a type of containment and/or surrogate activity
2) Canadian politics as essentially being a system for allocating patronage
3) the increasing use of courts to legislate (power upstream of law, and law upstream of morality)
4) identifying elites who have significant influence
5) Discussing rival castles in Federal politics (including how various provincial governments act as de facto castles)
6) manipulation of the needs of indigenous communities/peoples as pawns for various factions of elites
7) building reactionary alliances amongst/with more recent immigrant diaspora communities
Will be listening & looking forward to this, BH
Great news. Suggestions:
- As @juliusruechel lays out in his thought-provoking piece, 'Trump's War on Socialism', the US is in the midst of a transition from Global Socialism to Populist Nationalism. In the old world, Canada didn't have to do much to maintain a semblance of sovereignity; just show up to global conferences and 'convene' other nations to resolve issues. In the new world, we are going to need to earn our sovereignity by adding real value to our geopolitical partners, in particular the US. The obvious answer is doubling down on our energy and resource sectors and investing in our military. Is that enough? What else?
- At a much more practical level, who are the 'new elites' that are supporting the above vision? Where are the gaps? What needs to be done? Who needs help? Who are the role models? I would love to see the builders and local leaders elevated.
- There are millions of angles on Canadian identity, I think the most interesting is, given the practicalities of our current 'mosaic', how do we accelerate the ethnogenesis required to renew a unified Canadian identify? Pragmatically, this needs to recognize all current citizens, not just old stock anglo and french.
Looking forward to it!
For when you want to do Québec:
Already mentioned Alexandre Cormier-Denis
https://x.com/acormierd
Frederic Lacroix would be harder to convince probably because he is not as edgy, but he is very active in writing about Quebec issues.
Good starting point article: https://fredericlacroix.quebec/2025/01/28/de-maitres-chez-nous-a-minoritaires-chez-nous/
Also anyone from La Nouvelle Alliance, they are a group of young quebecois who promote separatism from a reactionary perspective.