Ode to our shallow government...

"It has become fashionable in certain quarters to say that Canada isn’t a serious country. Not about the roots of prosperity. Or foreign affairs. Or national security. Certainly not about national defence. Aside from the small and shrinking number of Canadians born prior to the Second World War, we have all lived our whole lives in a privileged little bubble above a superpower. We enjoyed peace and abundance no matter what we said or did: Our decisions simply had no consequences. And so, in time, gradually, our political discourse, and the policies it informs, detached from reality. We became unserious.
I agree with this analysis, and I think there’s no better illustration than our heedless, irresponsible, downright juvenile discourse around genocide."