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So here's us, on the raggedy edge.
Been down a thousand highways and they're all the same / Another empty place where I can hide my shame — Steve Earle, Shadowland |
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Reaction to the news that the Hudson’s Bay Company has been purchased by an American business has been…interesting. What it hasn’t been is varied.
This from a self proclaimed political pundit:
This is just sickening. It is a Canadian tragedy of epic proportions.
Is a fairly extreme example, but only in its language.
Canadians are appaled that the country that’s perceived as a national institution is selling out.
The same Canadians, of course, never shop there.
So this is the dichotomy, and what a typically Canadian one. Our ill defined national identity haunts us still, and we protest it in commerce.
Business is business, and the wheels of commerce are turning here. The Bay has long since lost its status as a national institution, and this is not a national tragedy.
Yet.
The answer is simple: if Canadians had shopped there, the company might still be Canadian.
Posted by skooter at 8:18 PM This entry is filed under Vancouver.