Might Nature Be Canadian? by William A. Macdonald

Author:William A. Macdonald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MQUP
Published: 2019-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

A Canadian Contribution

Great powers usually don’t feel any particular need for mutual accommodation as they go about their business. But without it, lesser powers like Canada cannot make much progress on anything. To thrive, Canada needs to rethink its role, that of the United States, and how, together, the two countries can use their individual strengths in a world that desperately needs fresh thinking, more vision, and greater collaboration. This reconsideration should be at the top of the new government’s to-do list after the federal election in October 2015.

Canadians in the past have chosen a peacekeeping role, but there’s now little call for that. Canada will be most useful if it commits its resources and experience to disintertwinement and long-term, humanitarian-based broadening of the inclusive global order.

North America has seen the creation of two improbable countries: the United States in the eighteenth century, driven by freedom and individualism, and Canada in the nineteenth century, driven out of necessity by mutual accommodation and collective action. Now may be the moment when these two neighbours, who are very different but share many values, can work together in a new way. It is possible that Canada’s talent for accommodation could join the economic and military strength that are the fruit of US freedom and science – and thus become a dominant and indispensable force in the twenty-first century.

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