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The Canadien Champion, Fniday, June 23, 2000 - 7 Maybeîits timie to revisit nationhood scoop We'd lova Canada Day is the perfect urne to get southern neighbour. Sure. Blame the big, Maybe it's time to revisît the entire to hear patniotic about thîs big, beautiful nation of oblivious guy next door instead of ail the notion of nationhood in tiss country. ours. damage wrought by incessant in-tighting. Actually, 1 kind of support tise principie your story And judging by the immoderate (get it Personally, I adore wisere I byve, and my of federalism.ies - it's a beer commercial) succesa of the patniotism ia perbaps bolstered by virtue of Ge te But then, t support long, untroubled mar- Molson Canadian rant, we're sufficiently being boroed agea, happy chidhoods and summiner ail Plea.çe primed. 1 waa born in New York. 1 was raiaed year long oo cacs uy oe a ti~/ the Stili, there's nothing like the meling of iargeiy in Ontario, but lived for spelis in persa sionur Or myew aiueJl oci Canada's birthday and an impending fed- Boston, Florida and Califomia. cease-fire on tise internai potshots, open lews- erai election to show juat how wide and 1 ieft the latter shortiy before the emuption *the highest office in the land up to anyone room at deep the fault lines around the notion of a of the race riot that made Rodney King wîth tihe guts and gumption (not geograph- united Canada are famous, and moat of us ashamed. Boçdera are flexible, and there have been icai background) to go for it, and look to 878- Event federalist to the bonte former Prime T --.'t~ ,A.ln rat in br hni ut a hust of boundary changes around tise something otiser than a beer commercial 2341. Miniater Pierre Trudeau seema to have stopped dragging bis creaky self out of mûtrement te sing ita praises. But politicai parochiaiism is threatening to cap politenesa as Canada's top trait late- iy and if 1 didn't know better, I'd suspect no one much likes anyone anymore. Tise only party not seeming to graap this is tise Canadian Alliance and tise geo- graphical data of tisese guys is being skew- ered like a shisis-kebos. Two are too Alberta for Ontario. A third ia too Ontario for Alberta. A fourtis resides in Britias Columbia, which tisinka it's part of California and won't be voting anyway. According to barroom wlsdom, you can't buy an elected prime minister these days who isn't fromn Quebec. Perisapa to challenge tise notion, those Alliance guys have been accused of trying. And this obsession wits -it's not what you aay, it'a where you're fromn' isn't just national. Tnîe blue Torontonians speak with con- tempt of tise 905 regions. Tise 905 regiona are often happy to retum tise sentiment. And I once interviewed a pretty well- known Alberta singer wiso wouidn't warm up to me until 1 assured him I wasn't boni in Ontario and if 1 had been, it wouldn't realiy have iseen my fauit. But juat aak and we'll ail say we love Canada. Which we do. Just not tise people in it. Or sometising. Federalism today reminda me of a fraz- zied marria8e counselor trying to rein in tise unruiy reaentmenta of a couple who tired of each other long ago. If they reaiiy wanted to be there, it wouidn't be sucis a isard slog to keep themn together. Meanwhiie, we're so wary of our giant Letters welcome The Canadian Champion welcomes letters to the edi- tor. 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