Do You Think That We Need This Uh Grand Idea of the Nation to Begin With?

i've always been pretty critical of nationalism just being part because i've seen the way that it played out in this country and it's always seemed like quite unattractive to me as a canadian. The american system in general or in theory at least nods towards a kind of universalist aspiration of man which is embodied by things like you know the immigration system and the Statue of Liberty. It does have a sort of grand sweeping narrative but even that grand sweeping narrative is in some ways kind of utilitarian in scope, he says.