Tecumseth and Canada's Social Economy

Tecumseth and Canada as a Social Economy

Yes, Canada is a mixed (state-capitalist) economy like others, but recent events have clarified its core, and often missed, differences with its closest North Amedrican neighbour . They go back to 1776 and the point of separation of the founding colonies of the USA from those generally north of the 49^th parallel that came to be known as British North America and ultimately Canada. The key indicators of difference were Canada’s retention of social (inon-financial) elements, in its cultural DNA, specifically French, through Quebec, and indigenous, through Shawnee first nation ally Tecumseth. Though these constituent factors derived from loyalty to the imperial settler regimes installed originally by Great Britain and France on reflection it emerges that they contained supra financial cultural values that, over time facilitated the inclusion of multiculturalism and key public institutions (most notably healthcare) in Canada’s. body politic.

It is this sometimes hidden counter-cultural statehood that has ensured independence over time and the current upswelling of popular antipathy to recent attacks by the present leader of the republic to the south. In essence, by birth, therefore, Canada is a social economy. however complicated by its imperial origin,  and so supports the concept of social economics that was our mission when TorontotheBetter was founded: economic affairs dedicated to values other than purely mercantile self-advancement. If Canada’s development as a social state has often been ignored it has recently emerged as a powerful emotive factor in the cultural politics of 2025 and what is likely to be a foundational election of North American differentiation. By birthright Canada is a social economy amd it is this that is fuelling the most overt popular resisitance to American hegemony in recent times.