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I don't think it's so much America's impact as that TPTB have been actively trying to kill it for about 30 years -- Vancouver had a Canadian identity as lately as the 90s, and while it was still pretty self-centred I'd even give it to Toronto in the 80s.
It's something I've noticed a lot in the Trump discourse here lately -- if you substitute the "America" in all the unhinged things people are saying about Trump with "Ottawa", you will have accurately described the situation in vast swathes of the nation since about Y2K. Like, uh "We will not be reduced to a mere vassal paying tribute!" kind of rings differently in Alberta, y'know?
Looking at cultural commentary online, Canada does seem to have been doing its damnedest to kill any sort of national identity because that involves the cursed notions of patriotism and colonialism and all the bad things white people have done. They've fallen over themselves jettisoning British identity and links, but have not replaced it with a Canadian identity, instead it's all "We are re-naming 'Bufton Park' because that was named for a former Governor-General Sir Dedlock Bufton - boo, hiss! - and now it will be called 'Qqikwikll' Memorial Gardens' for the tribe of 120 people who died out about 300 years before ever an Englishman set foot on these shores". Never mind that all the locals will still call it Bufton Park and nobody could tell you who, what or why the Qqikwikll' were.
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Yeah, Canada and America are basically in the same boat: the nation vs the megalopoleis. It's just that Canadian national identity was easier to kill (America has more hicks and the hicks have more money). Blue Tribe Canada is overwhelmingly powerful and takes all the oxygen, but Red Tribe Canada is also, more slowly, losing its Canadianness.
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More like almost 60 years, during his long reign Pierre Elliott Trudeau did everything he could to crush Canada's nascent nationalism. Everything modern Canada is, is the achievement of his project, which his son continued and no prime minister between them, even Conservatives, really tried to undo.
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