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Living in a border region that sometimes feels like Wayne County South, where shoulder-shrugging indifference toward Canada is just part of the culture, it’s uplifting to discover that many citizens remain fierce defenders of a country they see as under siege.

My column last Saturday about the Omar Kahdr settlement and the ongoing war on history in Canada, ignited an outpouring of reaction, nearly all of it supportive, from people who believe Canada is being betrayed by our social justice warrior prime minister.

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I haven’t seen people, including a police intelligence officer, a former Liberal cabinet minister and a current senator, as well as lots of regular folks, this worked up since a long-ago column calling for a ban on pit bulls that had frothing canine supporters demanding my skull on a doggie dish.

The message, loud and clear, is that Canadians see the $10.5 million Kahdr sellout, with its craven apology, as Exhibit A in a crusade by the country’s first post-national prime minister to obliterate its past, illustrious or otherwise, and engineer a shining model of social correctness for a grateful world to follow.