*but it's an exaggeration to read into an ad produced by the Ontario government for its own provincial thing as the narrative taking over the entire Canadian identity. *

Perhaps, but it's disconcerting when your own Prime Minister declares there's no such thing as a "Canadian" identity. Considering my family settled in Canada in the 1600s, I don't define myself as a Scot -- I'm a Canadian. By his own suggestion, I -- and many other Canadians like me -- are caught in this cultural middle-ground as "old stock", where we can't be proud of our identity as Canadians (for fear of being called Nationalists or Xenophobes, as is the custom) yet we can't in good faith consider ourselves "Scots", or wherever our families came from 4 centuries ago. No one would deny Australians their own identity, despite being settled as a penal colony.

Statements like Trudeau's only inflame others, and cause the knee-jerk exaggeration I perhaps have been guilty of in our back-and-forth.

Moreover, it's obviously a current event that's top of mind which does have real historical context for us: Kosovoars, Vietnamese, Hungarians.

This is true, but in the grand scheme of our "150 years", this context is relatively recent. It just feels a bit alienating to have my country's history take a back seat to self-congratulatory advertising, over and over again.