George Parkin Grant: A Philosopher of Localism, A Man for Europe By A. Millar

“Modern civilization makes all local cultures anachronistic,” wrote Canadian political philosopher George Grant (1918–1988) in his Lament for a Nation (1965). Grant, who regarded English-speaking Canada’s culture as essentially British, regretted what he considered to be the former country’s dissolution from a nation to a mere part of the U.S., through military, economic, and political relationships in which it was the weaker partner.

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