to adopt a quote: the united states is the worst country in the world, except for all of those other countries in the rest of the world, which are way worse.

canadians made quite the effort to get full independence from europe, and we succeeded when we ratified our constitution for the first time, in 1982.

i am not interested in turning the clocks back. i would prefer to dissolve confederation altogether. ontario's future is in a new great lakes confederation, not in a return to european colonialism.

in that sense, i am in agreement with the monroe doctrine: europe has no place in the americas of the future. that is, i will choose to align with groups in this hemisphere to expel the europeans, and not with europeans to pick a fight with the americans.

but canada is very much the last colonial state and a substantive proportion of the people that live here continue to act like it.