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

Colonialism

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Colonialism is a denial of the reality of self in favour of an imaginary special position inside the mythology of someone else's empire. That special position can never exist because empires have their own purpose.

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