I'm voting for this father of five children.
Regarding Jag, the new NDP leader and how he addressed Quebec as a nation..One comment was as follows:
Functionally, it is that already WITHOUT having had to separate. During
colonial times the British treated it as 'distinct' in order to keep it
pacified. We should be grateful for the outcome of two referenda and
for the peaceful evolution of a semi-separate Quebec. Believe me, I
used to hate separatism with a passion. But quite frankly Canada is no
longer a nation, but a multicultural empire. Whatever values are SAID
to unify us are values by DEFAULT-------we are NOT like the Americans,
nor quite like the British. We do not discriminate against this or that
grous, which is nice, except that non-discrimination between true and
false beliefs is also implied.
It is each person for himself or herself, each community for itself.
There is no unity. That is the world of millenials; they do not know
how it used to be, before globalization and the expansion of the
internet. Trudeau's talk of a 'post-national state' is not original. I
thought as early as 2010 that Canada no longer had a real justification
for its existence as a nation, beyond administrative necessity.
Millenials need to wake up and understand that historical truth matters.
Technology and identity do not make history irrelevant. Jesus of
Nazareth came into history by an unusual route (the virgin birth), lived
an irreproachable life (the only one ever to do so), was put to death
as a righteous man, rose from the dead, and ascended visibly. He has
promised to return at the end of the age. Either this is all true, or
else there is no hope of human salvation, and human existence has no
sure meaning or purpose.
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