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ELIZABETH TROTT
Today, multiculturalism is more often a policy directive. Previously we
gradually learned to put up with each other."? Now we are being told to work
harder to make sure everyone remains distinct. This is a long way from
Canada’s past, where cooperation was needed so that everyone remained the
same, that is, alive.
Northrop Frye, a Canadian philosophical and literary critic, wrote, “The
Canadian genius is the ability to work out strange hybrids.”
Canada is a unique place, one developed through the genius of determined
minds overcoming seemingly insurmountable contradictions.”
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Mistakes are made; apologizing is the most efficient way to avoid confrontation.
74 John Robert Colombo, The Northrop Frye Quote Book, Toronto, Dundurn, 2014, 20.
I thank very much the determined minds who read this paper and provided useful comments
and corrections: John Leslie, Professor Emeritus of philosophy, Lucan Gregory, PhD. LLB/
BLC, Luke Bowman, MA., Ellen Michelson, M.A.T., Paul Treciokas, B. Eng.
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