🇨🇦 Half of Canadians say it's hard to stay friends with people who disagree on international conflicts: poll

The sharpest absurdity is right there in the numbers: 52 per cent say foreign conflicts are now poisoning personal relationships in Canada, while just 21 per cent say it is not getting harder, as reported. That is what happens when a country stops acting like a country and turns into a moralized holding pen for every imported grievance on earth. Social media gets blamed, naturally, but the deeper issue is a political class that has spent years encouraging identity blocs, outsourced loyalties, and permanent emotional mobilization.

The poll says the pattern cuts across anglophone, francophone, and allophone respondents. Translation: this is not a niche problem, it is national fragmentation. The least reconcilable issue was Israelis and Palestinians at 14 per cent, which tells you the temperature is no longer theoretical. Canada was supposed to be a sovereign nation with shared civic ground, not a therapy room for the world’s unresolved conflicts. But under the usual elite gospel of diversity without cohesion, this is the predictable result: less trust, less unity, more managed division.

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