At our sesquicentennial back in 2017, we discovered our lost sense of celebratory spectacle. With the political left trumpeting the entire Canadian project to be a criminal enterprise, if not genocidal, and the political right promoting the idea that the left had irreparably broken the country, the fonts of patriotic fervour were running dry. Canada 150 came and went with rather less than the occasion deserved, especially compared to the centennial in 1967, when Expo ’67 in Montreal marked a months-long festival of Canadian achievement and confidence in the future. It was a long way down over 50 years.