Gormley: New Year's resolutions for Canada

The New Year’s resolution may culminate in self-loathing but its origins surely lie in envy. We hate that some people are better than us, so we resolve to be better than them; we fail to become even minimally better versions of ourselves, much less superior versions of anyone else, so we do it all over again the next year. Or, we die. 
Canada is good at many things. Many countries are better at many other things though, and this is annoying. It’s just the sort of irritation that