ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a discourse of interdependence, a theme better grasped in Canada than below the border. The theme unfolds here with the help of three crucial autumn dates in recent history, 9 November 1989; 11 September 2001; and 4 November 2008. It also explains about Canadian society that has come to reflect, to achieve in its actual civil society and politics over the last 50 or 60 years as it confronts and embraces the realities of interdependence. For these realities define our global circumstances, nationalist and independence ideologies and methodologies still exercise on us. Both Samuel Huntington and Francis Fukuyama, from opposite sides of the divide, in fact made certain assumptions about the predominant civilization that tended to confound democracy with capitalism and market society. With the fall of the wall what was left standing was above all market society, though many took market society to be synonymous with modernity, rationality, science, enlightenment and liberal democracy.
