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History has chosen different path for a country Hurtig so loved

Mel Hurtig would have warned Justin Trudeau there’s always a cost. Hurtig has successors—Maude Barlow, David Orchard—but like him, they remain outsiders.

Mel Hurtig, pictured in Ottawa in 2008 on book tour for The Truth About Canada.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY PAUL WELLS

August 8, 2016

OTTAWA—Edmonton publisher Mel Hurtig, one of the lions of Canadian nationalism and a true gentleman, died on Wednesday at 84. It is awful news, but it is conspicuous in its timing. As the lurid pageant of the U.S. presidential election plays out, I don’t recall it ever being clearer than it has ...

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