Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.
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It overlooks tangible cultural and historical realities beyond abstract ideas.
After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons and Normans....There could be no m…
The old cliche about having all your eggs in one basket takes on new meaning with Canada and the United States, because there is something even more wrong abou…
We seem to be unable to allow ourselves the dignity of engaging in this sort of straightforward reconsideration of our acts. After all, questioning is the grea…
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
[Canadians] better hope the United States does not roll over one night and crush them. They are lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent.