For the week of April 13, 2025:
Canada was world-renowned for its middle class and multicultural values, with a strong social safety net, anchored by its universal healthcare system.
Tristin Hopper (Google Meet/Mackin)
This week’s guest, National Post columnist Tristin Hopper, conducted an inventory of Canada’s declining productivity and rising social unrest over the last decade. He authored the witty and wise new book called “Don’t Be Canada: How One Country Did Everything Wrong All at Once” (Sutherland House).
In less than 100 pages, Hopper delves into euthanasia, identity politics, runaway housing costs, “harm reduction,” government censorship, the catch-and-release justice system and a mismanaged healthcare system. “Don’t Be Canada” is vital reading before you go to vote in the April 28 federal election.
“It’s not a partisan book, so you’re not going to find the name Trudeau in this book all that often,” Hopper told host Bob Mackin. “But about 10 years ago, particularly in the last five, the way Canada was being mentioned internationally started to shift. We were frequently mentioned as a model of what not to do. I’d never really seen that before.”
Listen to the full interview with Tristin Hopper.
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