Would you die for Canada? Polling suggests Canadians are more willing to fight for their country

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Open this photo in gallery: A poll of over 2,000 Canadians showed 72 per cent of respondents willing to take some action in the case of the country facing military attacks.JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press Thomas Homer-Dixon is the executive director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University. Toby Shannan is a technology entrepreneur. Is Canada a real country? One might have doubts if the key metric of nationhood is a well-formed national identity. More than 60 years ago, media guru Marshall McLuhan declared that “Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an...