John Robson: In Mark Carney's Canada, nothing matters

Not even being conquered seems to matter all that much

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The other day I got a really scary idea. Second-hand, this time, from Post columnist Chris Selley who cast it before X last December and I pounced. Does it matter?

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Not that I’m pinching it. As John Ruskin said, borrowing is fine if you pay interest. And what Selley said that should interest us all and has been haunting me since was: “Historians will (hopefully) view this as the period when Canadians and their government(s) realize, to their horror, that some things actually matter.”

The premise, clearly, is that currently Canadians and their governments are conducting themselves as if nothing mattered. And logically, before reacting to any claim you ask “Is it true?” Or, here, “Can it really be true that we are acting like such fools?”

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