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Is Canada Slowly Being Infected with U.S.-Style Social Problems?
Are we in danger of embracing fascism the way America has?
For most of its history, Canada has enjoyed social stability and general prosperity. We are a cooperative, polite people. We have never had a revolution or a civil war. We never embraced slavery.
Nevertheless, injustice is certainly not unknown here. Canada, like the United States, committed genocide against its Indigenous population. Racism here is endemic much like in the U.S..
However, we have mostly kept to the middle ground between conservatism and progressivism.
But that might be changing. The pandemic has disrupted the Canadian economy. There are Canadians who embrace conspiracy theories and deny the need for masks and social distancing. A significant minority of Canadians refuses to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
There are Canadian politicians who have broken with their party’s positions on shutting down the economy to reduce infections, or have been caught flouting government rules on travel and social gatherings while publicly towing the party line.
We are developing social divisions that threaten to rupture our relative peaceful and cooperative tendencies.
