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LaFontaine, Baldwin responsible for implementing foundations of modern Canada

Author John Ralston Saul says Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin laid down the groundwork for the legal system, a professional civil service, bilingualism, and more.

Contrary to most of what we've read in Canadian history, John A. Macdonald is not the father of Canada, argues John Ralston Saul. Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin, for three years in the mid-19th century, were the ones who laid the foundations for the best of modern C...

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