From “At the Trough: The Rise and Rise of Canada’s Corporate Welfare Bums.”
Canada’s history is taught to schoolchildren as the slow knitting together of hinterland colonies by settlers lured to a vast frontier by the lustre of fur, the sparkle of cold seas teeming with fish and the glitter of gold — prizes deemed worthy of the genocidal displacement of the peoples who were here first. This is very unlike how I was taught American history in the United States, where I grew up. There, a procession of firm-jawed presidents descended from the heavens to guide the world’s oldest and greatest republican experiment to its manifest destiny.
