A popular book in my youth was Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes, in which the issue of the French and English identity of Canada was explored in the fictional character of Paul Tallard. The identity crisis of mid-twentieth-century Canada was cultural. The identity crisis of Canada in the early twenty-first century remains the story of two solitudes, but the solitudes are ideological. The “peace, order, and good government” of the United Empire Loyalists in southern Ontario, destroyed by the globalist corruption of Laurentia, is now at odds with the “of the people, by the people, for the people” worldview of Alberta. To preserve unity, Westerners accepted peace, order, and good government, but can that broken Humpty Dumpty be put back together again? I don’t think it can.
