North of the Border Radical Chic

When two or three Canadians are gathered together to protest U.S. cultural imperialism, one of them is likely to be American. Scratch a “Keep It Canadian” bumper sticker and in a significant number of cases you will find “Vote McGovern.” In fact these days some of our most enthusiastic Maple Leaf flag-wavers turn out to be veterans of campus demonstrations who only months ago were dancing round the Stars and Stripes.

The reason for this sudden excess of patriotism among our newest immigrants is not far to seek. They have discovered in historic Canadian nationalism with its built-in anti-American bias, its fear, never entirely assuaged (did not President Madison say that the taking of Canada was a mere matter of marching?), of being swallowed up into a United States of all North America, an ideal instrument for carrying on their vendetta against the military-industrial complex.

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When two or three Canadians are gathered together to protest U.S. cultural imperialism, one of them is likely to be American. Scratch a “Keep It Canadian” bumper sticker and in a significant number of cases you will find “Vote McGovern.” In fact these days some of our most enthusiastic Maple Leaf flag-wavers turn out to be veterans of campus demonstrations who only months ago were dancing round the Stars and Stripes.

The reason for this sudden excess of patriotism among our newest immigrants is not far to seek. They have discovered in historic Canadian nationalism with its built-in anti-American bias, its fear, never entirely assuaged (did not President Madison say that the taking of Canada was a mere matter of marching?), of being swallowed up into a United States of all North America, an ideal instrument for carrying on their vendetta against the military-industrial complex.