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Teaching North America: Learning from an Emerging Continental Polity
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We are in danger of becoming a nation whose time has gone...Already, almost all Canadian institutions designed to express national sensibilities are under attack as impediments to world trade -- by the WTO or the North American Free Trade Agreement or just by the Americans. We cannot protect our magazines or books; we cannot demand distribution of Canadian films. We have been a nation for 132 years. Unless we wake up, we will not keep going for another 50. Death will come slowly -- a privatization here, a trade agreement there. Maybe there will be a currency agreement with Washington. For reasons of efficiency, we will put our cash-starved armed forces under American command. And finally, to give all Canadians a crack at the big apple, will come a common North American citizenship. The withering of Parliament will take longer, for politicians are adept at holding on to their jobs. In the new North America, Parliament might even survive intact, as a quaint, powerless regional body charged with matters that are not deemed too important. You want to know Canada's situation as the last embers of the 20th century flicker and die? This is it: We are not exactly being murdered. Call it, rather, assisted suicide.
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Canadians are often their own severest critics, and not all of them see an emerging North
America as a threat to their well being. The former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Lloyd Axworthy, has pressed for further integration, including the so-called Murmansk to
Monterrey corridor that would dramatically integrate transportation. He writes, “This
interaction may also point the way to a wider sense of community and help shape a shared
sense of 'North American-ness'. Mexicans, Americans and Canadians already have a strong
sense of their own identity. The challenge will be to develop a North American 'footprint' that
treads lightly enough that it does not crush the existing landscape formed by distinctive
histories and cultures.” He then adds, “Our aim should be to construct a community that
serves north Americans but that is also open to the world—a community… that is open
southward to the rest of the Americas or northward to the Arctic region.”
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| | Authors: Rich, Paul. and De Los Reyes, Guillermo. |
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We are in danger of becoming a nation whose time has gone...Already, almost all
Canadian institutions designed to express national sensibilities are under attack as
impediments to world trade -- by the WTO or the North American Free Trade
Agreement or just by the Americans. We cannot protect our magazines or books;
we cannot demand distribution of Canadian films. We have been a nation for 132
years. Unless we wake up, we will not keep going for another 50. Death will come
slowly -- a privatization here, a trade agreement there. Maybe there will be a
currency agreement with Washington. For reasons of efficiency, we will put our
cash-starved armed forces under American command. And finally, to give all
Canadians a crack at the big apple, will come a common North American
citizenship. The withering of Parliament will take longer, for politicians are adept
at holding on to their jobs. In the new North America, Parliament might even
survive intact, as a quaint, powerless regional body charged with matters that are
not deemed too important. You want to know Canada's situation as the last
embers of the 20th century flicker and die? This is it: We are not exactly being
murdered. Call it, rather, assisted suicide.
Canadians are often their own severest critics, and not all of them see an emerging North
America as a threat to their well being. The former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Lloyd Axworthy, has pressed for further integration, including the so-called Murmansk to
Monterrey corridor that would dramatically integrate transportation. He writes, “This
interaction may also point the way to a wider sense of community and help shape a shared
sense of 'North American-ness'. Mexicans, Americans and Canadians already have a strong
sense of their own identity. The challenge will be to develop a North American 'footprint' that
treads lightly enough that it does not crush the existing landscape formed by distinctive
histories and cultures.” He then adds, “Our aim should be to construct a community that
serves north Americans but that is also open to the world—a community… that is open
southward to the rest of the Americas or northward to the Arctic region.”
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