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Conrad Black: This is Canada’s moment, despite our minor flaws

Pierre Trudeau's era marked the height of Canada's self-destructive political correctness, argues Conrad Black.

In an updated edition of his book The Trouble With Canada, William Gairdner laments the prolonged pandemic of political correctness that afflicted Canadian public policy for decades, starting with the Pearson government (1963-1968), and cresting with the long regime of Pierre Trudeau that ended in 1984. During that time, Canada moved from a generous welfare system that provided an effective safety net but that unambiguously incentivized work, to a system that multiplied publicly lamented categories of victimhood and transformed the safety net into a hammock. The new raison d’être for Canada was to be more caring and sharing than the Americans, and to care extravagantly enough for Quebec to buy its adherence to Canada. Read More »