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Who's up for some good old-fashioned iconoclasm? The Globe and Mail’s Doug Saunders entertainingly and incisively questions four of this country’s most central and most ill-informed myths. For example: we are not in fact “a northern nation,” but a nation that lives quite logically in its southernmost climes, that rarely thinks about the Arctic except to indulge misconceptions about it, and that as a result of its negligence—particularly in contrast to nations like Norway—is at risk of losing its claim to all the booty up there. Also, Saunders argues multiculturalism is not a 1960s, Trudeaupian phenomenon, noting that Governor-General John Buchan was pitching the same basic concept in 1935. Great stuff, as usual, from Saunders.
If, however, this leaves you yearning for a not-very-interesting, rather hackneyed and (in the unlikely event you make it to the last paragraph) squirm-inducing examination of the wilderness’s place in the Canadian “psyche,” please consult the Globe’s Margaret Wente.
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