The single greatest failure

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The single greatest failure of the Canadian experiment, so far, has been our inability to normalize – that is, to internalize consciously – the First Nations as the senior founding pillar of our civilization.

John Ralston Saul, A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada

We are

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We are more than our issues.

Sandra Laronde, First Nations person in Canada

Existential Illiteracy

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To insist on describing ourselves as something we are not is to embrace existential illiteracy.

John Ralston Saul, A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada