What Canada Can Learn From Britain’s Escape From the European Union

Brexit supporters gather in Parliament Square, the venue for the Leave Means Leave Brexit Celebration, in central London on Jan. 31, 2020, the day the UK formally left the European Union. Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images

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When the United Kingdom finally left the European Union following the Brexit vote in 2016, the greatest insult the EU mandarins could deploy was to call the British people “retro-nationalists.” The sentiment was intended to be shameful, as though the Brits were some uncouth failed social experiment that simply lacked the sophistication and poise to be truly enlightened.