The United States has a historic pattern of the presidential office seeking the man in times of crisis. Canada has had an excellent era while the U.S. has been mired in the Middle East and in fiscal shambles and internal discord and increasing violence. Partly Canada has prospered precisely because for the first time the United States has been less of an overwhelming contiguity. This government and the next Conservative leader should explain the impending transformation of Canada into a country of quiet, justified, confidence, not carpers and certainly not braggarts. Macdonald, Laurier, and Pierre Trudeau knew how to stir the country’s imagination and move it up the ladder of nations.

Source: National Post February 03, 2017 15:28 UTC