{"id":2943,"date":"2025-01-08T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T16:45:14","slug":"opinion-justin-trudeau-was-his-own-worst-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=2943","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Justin Trudeau Was His Own Worst Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/13\/magazine\/trudeaus-canada-again.html\" title=\"\">he told<\/a> The New York Times Magazine in 2015. \u201cThere are shared values \u2014 openness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard, to be there for each other, to search for equality and justice. Those qualities are what make us the first post-national state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This vision, when he articulated it, seemed powerfully contemporary, steering Canada in the same direction as an opening, borderless world of expanding cross-cultural and economic exchange. He did not ask himself \u2014 few did \u2014 what a \u201cpost-national state\u201d would look like, or if it would work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The term itself sounds glamorous, a way of existing politically without the various insanities of nationalism. In practice, however, it is unclear how a post-national state could survive. Mr. Trudeau\u2019s tenure has seen patriotism decline significantly. Only 34 percent of people in the country today <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/from-oh-canada-to-no-canada-national-pride-has-taken-a-steep-decline-in-recent\/article_e7bc4dc2-b96e-11ef-bb4e-8b3a91ed0b48.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">say they are \u201cvery proud<\/a>\u201d to be Canadian, down from 52 percent in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The failure of Mr. Trudeau\u2019s inclusive vision is more than a culture war question. Canada\u2019s economic superpower has always been its widespread, cross-party support for well-regulated immigration, which has been vital to replenishing the country\u2019s small, aging population with skilled workers. His government\u2019s policy since Covid of bringing in half a million immigrants a year, without any firm plan on how to manage their impact on housing and infrastructure, has been a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/ircc-immigration-housing-canada-1.7080376\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">disaster<\/a>; his faith in immigration as a positive force might have been too na\u00efve to allow him to inquire about its limits. The result has been that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/support-for-immigration-in-canada-plunges-to-lowest-in-decades\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the number of Canadians<\/a> who believe there is too much immigration has increased more than 30 percentage points in the past two years alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At times, Mr. Trudeau seems to embody virtue signaling without effective policymaking, the worst feature of progressive politics as they have devolved over the past decade. During his time in office, land acknowledgments became common practice across Canada, while Indigenous <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/thecurrent\/why-canada-s-health-care-system-needs-more-indigenous-professionals-1.7335256#:~:text=The%20recent%20report%20by%20the,years%20for%20non%2DIndigenous%20people\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">life expectancy rates plummeted<\/a>. I might add that virtue signaling is now, and has always been, a Canadian affliction, not just Mr. Trudeau\u2019s. What Canadians have come to hate about Mr. Trudeau they have come to hate in themselves, which explains, at least in part, the intensity of the hatred.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada,\u201d he told The New York Times Magazine in 2015. \u201cThere are shared values \u2014 openness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":2944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[3926,236,57,237,215],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - 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