The indomitable Canadian spirit
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with former Canadian Prime Minister Jack Layton to talk about his vision for the future of the country and what it means to be a Canadian. We talk about the challenges we face, the opportunities we have, and how we can work together to overcome them.
Transcript
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Do you think this country has a future? And the reason I ask you that, it's, you know, I mean,
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Quebec has been wanting out for 50 or 60 years. Alberta looks like they're getting closer and
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closer to their own sovereignty. And if they go, then Saskatchewan is next. So what is left for
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this country? How do we get it back? I'm very optimistic by nature. I think that we can take
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this country back. It's going to take hard work, but there's something that's here that's worth
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fighting for. And a lot of young people in particular are looking for something bigger
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than them to give them to give purpose in their life it comes from this kind of secularism that's
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taken over our society there's an emptiness that needs to be filled and I think that can be filled
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by by nationalism and this greater kind of mobilizing myth of remigration we have something
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that we're fighting for and I think that having that empowers people to do great things so there
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is a lot of challenges on the horizon but there are people that have gone through more difficult
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things look at what happened in Spain when the country was conquered by the Muslims they were
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wiped out to small minorities in corners of cities before they took back their country and
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rebuilt it. So I believe in the kind of indomitable Canadian spirit. I think the people of this land
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are some of the most creative and powerful, forged in hostile territory. The very lands that we grew
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out of are perilous, and we are a uniting of some of the greatest European nations into one. So I
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I do think we have a great kind of foundation to build off of.
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It's just about accepting the problems and the solutions and then working together to achieve them.