Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff to president Barack Obama and a potential presidential candidate in 2028, is an unlikely advocate for a program not normally associated with the Democrats: national service.

The former mayor of Chicago and the most recent U.S. ambassador to Japan, has said that everyone talks about diversity as a strength but that only works if there is a foundation of unity.

In his mind, western democracies have lost that unifying principle and one way to revive a sense of civic purpose would be to oblige young people to join the military, the peace corps, or to commit to public service of some kind for six months.

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Recent reports by my Postmedia colleague David Pugliese that the Canadian Forces are exploring

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