Letters to the editor: 'We are not Americans.' Readers on national identity, plus other letters to the editor for Jan. 1

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : However, if the best we can come up with is Eddie Goldenberg's entreaty to Justin Trudeau to step down as Prime Minister so he can take the role of Captain Canada to fight growing anti-federalist sentiments in Quebec and elsewhere, then I fear we are doomed.
47% : Mr. Ibbitson provides historical contextualization for our current ragged sense of what it means to be Canadian in this age of extreme political polarization, the re-emergence of the Cold War and the rise of support for authoritarian leadership around the world - indeed, right next door.
34% : Joel Rosenbloom DDS, Noma Action Group University of Toronto, Faculty of DentistryRe "Greenland is not for sale, the island's Prime Minister says in response to Trump" (Dec. 24): Donald Trump's mutterings about purchasing Greenland suggest that it would be preferable if Greenland chose to become Canada's fourth territory, with the same legal status as Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

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