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Hockey Loss Should Awaken Canada To Its Long-Running Anti-American Decline

Canada lost to the United States on the largest stage and in the one domain in which its superiority felt metaphysically guaranteed.

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In a healthy nation, Canada’s loss to the United States in the 2026 Olympic gold medal game would be only a disappointment. In Canada today, it feels like a verdict.

When a people that has systematically emptied politics, culture, and education of any serious aspiration to excellence discovers that even its last unquestioned superiority, hockey, no longer belongs to it, the sting is not merely athletic; it is spiritual. The game revealed what we have been at pains to avoid: Reality has returned, and it has no patience for our stubborn ideology.

For decades, Canadian nobility and self-respect have been constructed in large part against the United States. We consoled ourselves that we were more decent, more humane, more peaceful, and more equal. All this while quietly dependent on American power, American military protection, American capital, and American innovation. Our anti-Americanism became a kind of ersatz patriotism: a cheap, risk-free moral superiority available to everyone. But such a posture only works as long as there remains at........

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