Our Invisible Nation Builders

This post (the first in too long) is actually a response to another blog written by an old aquaintance of mine. Reading her post left me wondering a great deal about what a nation builder to a Canadian is. In the end, after reading comments to her post I found myself being more concerned with what a nation builder IS NOT. To see the original post please click below:

Tara Janzen

To credit Harper with unifying the public and getting them more involved in politics I think would be jumping the gun, or atleast not giving credit where credit is due. To use an example given earlier,

Mr. Bush unified Canadians againsts the United States...while I do not agree with that statement he did win the award. (puzzled)

The last person to unite the political will of this country was not Harper, or even Martin (although he was the victim of that will). The last time I remember seeing a unified Canadian will was when we ousted the Liberals. We would have to give credit to Justice John Gomery for that miracle. (or even the liberals who started the whole mess if looking for the macro elements responsible)

Any political interest that Harper has generated in Canadians is certainly overshadowed by the carelessness exhibited when declaring, without the consent or even debate by parliment that Quebec was a nation within a nation. Purely political purpose, meant to steam liberal momentum (it worked) but destroying in one single sentence the work of hundreds of people, and millions of dollars that were spent over decades in an attept at unifiying this nations english and french factions.

Just when I was starting to like him too.

While political interest across this country as risen, I would credit that to a public that was
rudely awaken by the sins of the former Liberal party. People have realized that a political system only works when the people are actively involved. Harper is not the cause of this new involvment. He is more the product.