July 2009
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The Three Lies Canada Tells About Itself
London
We are not the Canada we think we are.
The country of our imagination - northern, colonial, rooted in a history of British settlement and only recently becoming pluralistic and multihued - is an illusion.
It is often a happy one, a tale that has held us together and propelled our art and politics for generations.
It is held together, though, by the thinnest tissue of beliefs and...