Hi, Winnipeg.  You tell us, "every day we become more fractured into identity groups and regional interests; any semblance of a whole quickly deteriorating." And blahblahblah.

Another, "Gosh, in the good old days..." comment.  Maybe because you're too young to remember what Canada was like...before.  

Today, in Quebec, no bombs in mailboxes; no  FLQ-type groups stuffing government ministers into car trunks for assassination. Nobody in Ottawa (heck, even Edmonton!) scratching their heads over B.C.'s "Oriental problem"--which makes today's subtle west coast anti-Asian sentiment a joke.  Why? Only a few hundred Chinese East of the Rockies back then! When Ottawa sold hundreds of thousands of European refugees on coming here, the press called them "scum of the earth" and the "dregs of Europe."  Not much news about "Indians," though as the RCMP  rounded up the kids for residential schools...

Yeah, we got troubles today, boy!  We were never "whole," Winnipeg.  Never.