Will Reconciliation Survive the Trade War?

The Hatchet · Mar 5, 2025 · 44m

There’s been a surge of Canadian nationalism over the last month, and understandably so. I’ve been feeling it too, I think it’d be hard not to. You really couldn’t grow a better villain in a lab than Donald Trump to actually rally Canadians in this way.

And with that has come a good amount of talk of both Canadian history and the need for modern-day nation-building. That’s a good impulse.

This is not the first time that the United States has presented itself as an existential threat to our country and there’s so much we can learn from the past.

And I don’t think anyone would argue against the…