By Matthew Ehret “Canada originally was put together by two groups of people who didn’t have much in Common, but did not want to be Americans” The above words taken from a 1973 interview of George Grant present a remarkable irony: One of the most influential founding fathers of the “new nationalism’ which arose with Canada’s 1963 ouster of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and rise of a New Liberal Party under Walter Gordon, and Lester Pearson, is a man who never described what Canada is in any positive measure, but merely what it wasn’t. Grant’s influential, lie-ridden life’s works culminated in his 1965 Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism, and served as an attack upon the collective psyche of young Canadians who were in the midst of watching a post-JFK America fall under the influence of a British-steered imperial policy, and economic policy beginning with the war in Vietnam.
Your article talked about a lot of things and people that I definitely didn't know about before, but there were some that I'd certainly heard of, such as Nietzsche. I suspect that your article will mean more to me as I learn more of the people and concepts you mentioned.
Brilliant article. I wish we learned real Canadian history like this back in the day. It is much more interesting than the nonsense they taught then.
Your article talked about a lot of things and people that I definitely didn't know about before, but there were some that I'd certainly heard of, such as Nietzsche. I suspect that your article will mean more to me as I learn more of the people and concepts you mentioned.