Political Campaigning Reaches Canada's Evangelical Churches

In groundbreaking move, Poilievre campaigns among evangelical Christians (David Akin, Global News, July 5, 2024)

 

My thoughts exactly.

 

I once heard a Canadian say that the only form of Canadian Nationalism is anti-Americanism. They aren't sure what they are but they know they aren't American.

The reality is that the US culture leaves a big imprint. I recall reading a Brit complaining that his kids were saying diapers instead of nappies. Power of US movies and TV.

 

What is Americanizm is changing.
There are Amerikanizms.
Some fading away.

 

According to JJ McCullough, my favorite "Can-splainer", (his term), the Canadian national identity comprises mostly "We're not the U.S." and that this identity was carefully created and fostered by the British to keep Canadians from wanting to join us.

I'm not sure I agree entirely. Canadians are a diverse lot. French Canada surely has its own identity that has nothing to do with the U.S.

Having spent some time in both Mexico and Canada, though, the former is a solidly "foreign" country while the latter is...awfully familiar.

I suppose that if politics-based religion developed here it will inevitably appear in the Great White North.