ME:: George Grant was right. Nationalize the things needed in order to keep Canada independent. Work with indigenous folks and the EU and the rest of the world to build our independence from the USA He wasn't right about abortion of course! ; Michael Ignatieff, George Grant's nephew:: Sixty years ago, a philosopher, George Grant, said Canada would be absorbed by America. He could still be right - The Globe and Mail
Discovered: Jun 29, 2025 14:23 ME:: George Grant was right. Nationalize the things needed in order to keep Canada independent. Work with indigenous folks and the EU and the rest of the world to build our independence from the USA He wasn’t right about abortion of course! ; Michael Ignatieff, George Grant’s nephew:: Sixty years ago, a philosopher, George Grant, said Canada would be absorbed by America. He could still be right - The Globe and Mail
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What else could Canada have done? Grant’s answer was to embrace radical left-wing populism. Only a populist government with the guts to cut its tie to the Americans and launch a frankly socialist nationalization of the economy, he argued, could have preserved Canada’s sovereignty. Only then could Canada have remained master in its own house. His paradoxical belief in a socialist state made Grant, a religious conservative who was profoundly opposed to abortion, an unlikely darling of the Canadian left.
Grant’s politics may no longer make sense, but his diagnosis of our dilemmas remains as acute as ever. The French and British sources of our distinctive identity remain our lynchpin, but they remain in permanent tension even to this day.