Happy Birthday, Canada?
On the Media | Jun 30, 2017
Our northern neighbor has a lot to celebrate these days: a flourishing economy, an effective single-payer health care system, and a Prime Minister with a philosophy of tolerance. Not to mention, July 1st is Canada’s 150th birthday.
But writing in the New York Times this week, novelist Stephen Marche says that many Canadians aren’t so jazzed about the occasion. He and Bob discuss how Canada’s lack of patriotism helped the country defy the waves of western populism that helped usher in Brexit and Donald Trump. Stephen Marche is the author of The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women in the Twenty-First Century.
