By Steve Beckow

March 4, 2025

I’d like to make the argument that the world is much better, right now, for having two nation states in North America rather than one. (1)

I could make it on a number of bases, but here I’d like to look at one very basic principle.

The United States welcomes all peace-loving immigrants, as does Canada.

But, after that, there’s a slight change in nuance, which makes a difference. When I grew up and studied history, we were taught that America was a “melting pot.”  People who came left their culture more or less behind and became “American.” That was the way things were represented, whether it was true or not.

The Europeans who came to what became Canada created a different paradigm for their society.

From the beginning, French had to live with English and so there would be no unicultural melting pot in what became Canada (period). That option was off the table from the start.

Now add to that the evolving nature of the British Empire. It of itself was multicultural and even more so when it became the British Commonwealth of Nations.

At least the part of it we were allowed to see. No one knew about the darker part. If we stumbled across it, we’d scurry away. The authorities would take care of it.

And I grew up thinking multiculturally. I belonged to the British Commonwealth of Nations and was very proud of it. So did the Nigerian and the Bharatiya (East Indian) and the New Zealander I passed on the streets of Vancouver. “Hi, there!” We all belonged to the same group.

Roger Bannister, fresh from breaking the four-minute mile, ran with a second man, John Landy, who had also just broken the record after Bannister. They were here in Vancouver at the Commonwealth Games when I was eight.

Bannister won. It was great fun. The Commonwealth was a great unifier of people.

But it in no way played any part in our governance, save the deep-state part which is now being revealed and had nothing to do with the Commonwealth I knew throughout my life.

The deep state is a global problem, not restricted to any country and practically no one was aware at that time of what was really happening.

So I was quite used to bumping into folks from Britain, Nigeria, India, etc., in Vancouver, even more so when I went to college. And, in the meeting of them, I didn’t approach them with a unicultural mind.

That is to say, if they moved here, I wouldn’t have expected them to drop their culture and assimilate. And that affected the way we behaved with each other.  They weren’t seeking to become Canadian. I had nothing they wanted and vice versa so we could just be with each other.

In fact the difference in expectations, multicultural vs unicultural, affects much, much more than that. Let’s turn to that more general field now.

And I ask you, please, not to be offended. We all have our role.

But if you asked a Canadian what they wanted Canada to be? I don’t think they’d say “great.” That’s not our role and probably not a role we seek.

I think they’d say “decent.”

Because, in my mind, from having grown up in this culture, working for a living, and going through all the experiences we all go through? The word that describes Canada best in my mind and heart is “decent.”

Yes, we’ve had outbreaks of anti-Orientalism, upon which I reported as a historian, (2) and now we hear of utterly terrible, ghastly things that have been done to native children.

America is great. You’re the leader of the free world. Your situation as a military leader probably makes uniculturalism desirable. I don’t know.  I leave that to others.

Hopefully you lead us to peace. All praise to America. And, for the most part, we follow your lead.

Nevertheless, Canada has her own role to play and her own contribution to make. It doesn’t lie in the military area. We contribute to this area but it isn’t where we place all our chips (not saying you do either).

It lies not only in the area of multiculturalism leading to unity of heart, but in other areas I could mention on other occasions. Ask me about “responsible govt. vs. checks and balances” another day. Ask me about the refugee system as I knew it at the turn of the century. These reflect the Canada I know.

Canada’s role is not America’s role. America’s role – if you asked Canadians, I think they’d say – is not Canada’s. … And that’s OK.

If we stopped being aggressive in our trade policies and negotiation styles and approached things win/win, we might get away with free trade. (3)

Footnotes

(1) That doesn’t mean forever. The galactic civilizations who are waiting to meet us undoubtedly would not abide meeting with nation states rather than our world. So unity is coming. This is just not the time, yet, in my view.

(2) S.M. Beckow, “Keeping British Columbia White”: Anti-Orientalism in the West, 1858-1949. National Museum of Man/National Film Board, 1974. On Canadian racism in general, see ….., “From the Watchtowers of Patriotism,” Journal of Canadian Studies, Aug. 1974.

(3) Kevin O’Leary’s idea.

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