At a time when the president of the United States tells everyone within earshot that he wants Canada to become America’s “cherished 51st state,” it feels mildly unpatriotic as a Canadian to review a book titled Don’t Be Canada, even more so for an American publication. Yet there is no escaping the fact that something has gone very, very wrong in the dominion of the north.
Once widely viewed as a boring but worthy place, everything seems to have fallen apart in Canada over the past decade or so. Foreign correspondents used to find it hard to make a living reporting on Canadian news. Now, not a month passes without some fresh horror, be it euthanasia for wheelchair users or life imprisonment for speech crimes,
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