That’s pretty well the only thing Canada’s liberal-left asks when it’s considering foreign-policy options these days, and Ezra Levant, who is wrong about most things, has written something with more than just a ring of truth to it in this bromide-in-the-form-of-a-review of Michael Byers’ Intent For a Nation (a play on George Grant’s seminal Lament for a Nation).

I reget to report that Levant gets far too much perfectly right, in a general way. I’m also beginning to feel sincerely sorry for Byers. There are reasons to doubt my sincerity here, I concede. But really.

Levant’s review brings to mind an Andrew Coyne column that sheds light on Canadian politics in a way that should be especially useful to people from away: Is there any politics on Earth that is shallower, more boorish, less worthy of the attention of serious people than Canadian politics? Answer: There is none. Canadian politics is uniquely stupid. Our politics may not be quite as crude as the Americans, as cynical as the French, as corrupt as the Japanese. But for sheer vacuity, there is none to match us.

Quite possibly so.