During recent decades, our politicians have told us a sweet bedtime story about Canada being an exceptionally compassionate country, a world leader in multiculturalism and wonderfully generous to the poor countries. All of this expresses something called “Canadian values”. All lies.
Robert Fulford, quoted in “Canada takes a new look at ‘fable’ of its image”, New York Times, 2005-05-25. (Link updated thanks to MILNEWS.ca in the comments.)
November 22, 2021
QotD: Canadian values
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This link worked for me
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/25/world/americas/was-canada-just-too-good-to-be-true.html
as well as this archive link
https://archive.ph/LEYPp
Comment by MILNEWS.ca — November 22, 2021 @ 06:32
Thanks for looking this up. I thought much of the NYT‘s older content was behind a paywall, so I didn’t dig deeper.
Comment by Nicholas — November 22, 2021 @ 09:03