David Solway: ‘Oy, Canada’

He writes:

And one must be thankful, too, for that platoon of brave and honorable Canadians, like National Post columnists Barbara Kay, Robert Fulford, and George Jonas; David Warren at the Ottawa Citizen; national security consultant David Harris of the Canadian Coalition for Democracies; Point de bascule founder Marc Lebuis; and authors Kathy Shaidle, Howard Rotberg, Jamie Glazov, Ezra Levant, and Mark Steyn, who have taken a principled stand against the spreading infection of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism within the body politic.

The country’s anthem asserts our glowing patriotism as we rise to the defense of “the True North strong and free.” I am not convinced. For one thing, we seem to have descended into a state of ethnic bickering and dissembled anti-Semitism leavened by a strain of self-infatuation that strikes me as unearned.