June 14, 2012

Canada and a New Era of War

Jennifer Welsh, Literary Review of Canada

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For an increasingly vocal set of commentators, the tendency of the Harper government to elevate our experience in armed conflict and to depict the world as one marked by danger and epic struggle is part of a broader campaign to transform Canada into a “warrior nation.”

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