What our longing for the 'before times' reveals about our hopes and fears for 2022

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Editorial: Will we revert to some semblance of the old normal in 2022? Should we want to?

The pandemic has brought us no end of idioms, old and new, from “social distancing” to “covidiot.” Few, though, have served us as well as “the before times”—a bit of wistful shorthand for life before masks and border closures and denialist mobs who regard hospitals as symbols of state oppression.

But even a phrase used in jest can reveal something about our hopes and fears, and if we’re still resorting to words of longing in 2022, it is surely a sign of our shared anxiety about what lies ahead. Will we revert to some semblance of the old normal? Should we want to?In the movies, the survivors of global catastrophe emerge blinking in the daylight to build a new society, leaving behind the problems of the old one.

None of these issues lies beyond our capacity for creative solutions. And Canada appears uniquely poised to thrive in a post-pandemic world: its resources, educated population and stable government point to a future as a rich country whose prosperity arises from economic liberty, plurality and rule of law.

All of this has occurred amid a growing awareness of atrocity that lies at the centre of our founding myths as a country. If truth and reconciliation are part of a continuum, we’re only beginning to come to grips with the first piece, truth, symbolized by unmarked graves of Indigenous children who died while attending residential schools.

 

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