When retired Lieutenant-General Michel Maisonneuve stood before an audience in Winnipeg earlier this year, he asked a question that continues to resonate. It boils down to this: “Can you name three reasons to maintain and defend an autonomous Canada?”

It’s the kind of question that should have evoked a chorus of patriotic replies. Yet when posed across the country, the silence that followed, by his account, was overwhelming.

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Increasingly, Canadians cannot name even one reason. That failure is not of the people—it is a failure of leadership across institutions and government.

As President Trump continues his rhetorical and fiscal assaults on Canada—including his spurious “51st State” bluff — our national purpose should be firm and united. Instead, our governments, fed

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