The Editors opening statement is:
"Canadians don’t know how lucky we’ve been. Through our 150 years of history, the world order has been led by countries, first the United Kingdom and then the United States, with which we share not just the English language, but more importantly the language of democracy, human rights and law."

Let me rephrase it with facts and reality:
Canadians knows very much how lucky we've been. Through our 150 years of history, we smartly created a new country to shield ourselves from the epic national blow up in the U.S. called Civil War. A country of slavery and deep racism towards blacks, imperial expansion towards the west via war and genocide on natives. The lawlessness of the Wild West is legend. An ambitious America who shameless stole all that can be stolen from the British Empire. Then, just when Canada able to catch a breadth, its imperial master the UK proceeded to wage two epic world wars on Europe and the world. In the name of empire, colonialism.