> mike larkin wrote:
>
> >"Martin draws up a left-leaning blueprint
>
> Speaking of Canada, today's NYT has a piece
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/29/international/americas/29letter.html>
> on anguish within Canada about the country's
> "decline." The hook was the Olympic runner
> Perdita Félicien's tripping over the first
> hurdle, supposedly received as some sort of
> national trauma.
>
> Anything to this, resident Canadians? It sounded
> like a right-leaning obsession, but the piece
> never came out and said that.
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Bercuson, Bliss, Granatstein, and Morton are conservative historians and
good friends -- ideological kin to the Himmelfarb/Genovese school in the
US -- who have long lamented the leftist, postmodernist, PC takeover of the
academy; the lamentable failure of Canadian voters, especially those in the
East, to end the corrupt one-party Liberal dictatorship in Canada; the
insistent whining of French-speaking Quebecers for greater autonomy, all the
while suppressing the rights of their own internal English minority; the
waste and inefficiency of Medicare and other social programs; and the
endemic knee-jerk anti-Americanism which has reduced Canada's once-proud
military to penury and prevented the country from playing its proper role
alongside our neighbours in the global battle against terrorism. And, now on
top of this, they are having to deal with Perdita's fall. The rest of us are
still going about our business, best I can tell.
MG