Canada

I think you may have misunderstood my comment. I do not subscribe to Canadian nationalism, and I do not think that Canada should exist by merit of it being a genocidal, white supremacist enterprise fundamentally as a settler-colonial state. Grant would not agree with or even like me.

My criticism of Canada's subordination to the US is out of concern for the harm this will cause to the most vulnerable among us, not the wellbeing of a self-perceived national identity or groups of people who materially benefit from this system. Canada is an extractive enterprise, its settlers have been subordinated under imperialism for its entire existence, but they have been complacent with that so long as they benefitted by being a white settler nation, and especially after being a white settler nation in the US metropole. The Canadian state has supported imperialistic US campaigns all over the world not because it is subordinated, but because it benefits from them.

Grant's criticism of the PC and Liberal parties is honestly quite ignorant in reality,, not even informed by the decolonial and anti-imperialist arguments of his time. It refused to interrogate why Canadian and US interests intersected, and instead resolved to construct some idealized, immaterial past where Canada somehow existed without global imperialism and liberal capitalism. Obviously, this is untrue, Canada has always been a liberal-capitalist state and its entire existence hinges on the continued genocide of indigenous peoples and extraction from the land they live on. He even saw the Agrarian Socialism of the CCF and how readily the state appropriated those policies into a capitalist economic framework, and still concluded that it was the bad actors of a vague, wealthy elite that threatened Canadian national identity and not that this system inevitably benefits capital and capital alone.

I'm not surprised to hear if someone finds his writing appealing in 2026, as we are in a particularly energized fascist moment now that liberal capitalism is meeting the material limitations of reality. White Canadians are having to contend with the negative consequences of participating in empire for the first time in their memory, and they've responded by attempting to salvage some ideal, more "pure" form of national identity that maintains those core values but pathologizes the "Americanness" of their imperialism in the same way he did. It's disturbing, and I can guarantee many of them would not care about the genocides that would be required for that identity to exist.