A different path for Canada

Published December 1, 2004

When he passed through Ottawa in October, Jeremy Rifkin tried to alert Canadians to the fact that America was continuing to live out a philosophical and religious past that creates a deepening divide between it and Canada. America, he said, was stuck in Protestant Reformation and Enlightenment individualism while Canada was moving toward a European communitarianism. The outcome of the U.S. presidential elections appeared...