Social media has sparked massive political changes all around the world, of course. But because Canada’s national identity was thin to begin with, its corrosive effect on our intellectual life has been more severe. Once immersed in this borderless, American-dominated online world, Canadians began losing interest in their old parochial projects — equalization, bilingualism, multiculturalism, single-payer healthcare, regionalism — and instead fixated on America’s far more exciting political melodramas, especially its race-obsessed culture war.
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