Winnipeg Free Press: A Maple Leaf moment

The first is supposed to allow for pride when the country is seen as living up to or moving towards its highest ideals — and shame when it fails at this. The second would dismiss such shame as anti-Canadian.

“A narrow nationalism,” says University of Manitoba historian Sean Carleton, “risks a backsliding on much of what could actually make Canada different from the United States.”

Carleton was a panelist last week at a roundtable discussion at the U of M on the knotty and often unresolved questions surrounding Canadian sovereignty in “Trumpian times,” organized in response to student questions and interest on this topic.

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