Support our podcast! Rhetorical and real threats to Canadian sovereignty pose a tough question to critics of the Canadian state: Do we align with liberal nationalists in defense of the Canadian project or do we remain skeptical?

In this episode Team Advantage traces a brief history of Canadian nationalisms, including earlier attempts at imagining a socialist national project, in order to better understand the current moment of rising nationalist sentiment. We ask if it's even possible to extricate a good Canadian nationalism from the history of colonial land theft and genocide that undergirds this state, revisit the one time Canada was actually cool, and offer trenchant critiques of Canadian civic statuary.

Works Cited

Really Existing Nationalisms: A Post-Communist View from Marx and Engels - Erica Benner
Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism - George Grant
Canadian capital and secondary imperialism in Latin America - Todd Gordon and Jeffery Roger Webber
La tentation québécoise de John F. Kennedy - Jean-François Lisée
Responding to Donald Trump with a popular democratic project for Canada - Marcel Nelson
Silent Surrender: The Multinational Corporation in Canada - Kari Polanyi
Becoming Native in a Foreign Land; Sport, Visual Culture, and Identity in Montreal, 1840-85 - Gillian Poulter
Mohawk Interruptus - Audra Simpson
Louis Riel - Thee Headcoats

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