Okay, it’s time to get serious about celebrating Sir John A.’s birthday

I want Canadians to write to me in the House of Commons with their ideas for honouring Canada's first Prime Minister.

It's not the Canadian way to celebrate the birthday of great leaders–perhaps because venerating politicians is something that we leave to our hemispheric neighbours, all of which are republics. While Canada's royal bloodline is more than 1,000 years old, politicians are here today, gone tom...

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