Hate Ottawa? The political game of bashing Confederation now reaps a spiralling human toll.
Mitchell Anderson is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to The Tyee. SHARES Canada’s feeble pandemic response is thanks to regional opportunists like Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, inflaming their partisan bases by attacking national authority.
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In 1775, the noted English essayist Samuel Johnson famously observed, “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” In the ensuing centuries, many a scoundrel has cloaked oneself in regional grievances to deflect popular outrage of their shameful conduct.
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