Yuan Yi Zhu: Face it, Carney just doesn't know much about Canada |
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Mark Carney received worldwide praise for his speech at Davos, in which he threw down the gauntlet against Donald J. Trump’s destructive politics. His speech, a couple days later on Canadian unity at the Plains of Abraham will not receive such international attention, but it is far more revealing of the fundamental flaw of Carney as a politician. For all his intelligence and credentials, Carney simply doesn’t know much about the country he governs.
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This is, I realize, a big claim. But anyone who is even mildly aware of the existence of Quebec society would have understood that to talk about the site of the Quebec nation’s foundational trauma as “the place where Canada began to make its founding choice of accommodation over assimilation, of partnership over domination, of building together over pulling apart” would go down very badly indeed.
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