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Best of 2019 "The Laurentian “Elite”: Canada’s ruling class | C2C Journal"
The Laurentian "Elite": Canada's ruling class | C2C Journal Best Blog Article of 2019 With the end of 2019 - I'm reproducing the best article I found on Canda Politics. Visit them at: https://c2cjournal.ca/2019/11/the-laurentian-elite-canadas-ruling-class/ The Laurentian “Elite”: Canada’s ruling class John Weissenberger November 26, 2019 T here come times in the history of nations when institutions and dominant elites fail, when they can’t accommodate change, or become severely detached from the lives of average citizens. In Canada, such detachment has been the rule rather than the exception over the last 50 years, and the Laurentian Elite is largely to blame. The Laurentian Elite, self-declared (though until recently unlabelled) arbiters of Canadian society and politics are, to paraphrase Voltaire, neither Laurentian nor elite. The 18 th century French philosopher was talking about the Holy Roman Empire, another musty, antiqu...
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