Canadians shouldn’t start feeling all superior to our neighbours to the south

Quebec’s government nudged us towards the abyss. Their Bill 62, you see, makes illegal the wearing of niqabs or burkas by women offering or receiving public services.

The aforementioned Hamish Marshall ran Conservative leader Andrew Scheer's campaign out of Rebel's offices. And, when a Globe and Mail reporter asked Mr. Scheer about that, he abruptly walked away. He actually just walked away.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY WARREN KINSELLA

October 23, 2017

TORONTO—When do you cease to be a country? When do you stop being a people, a nation? Romeo LeBlanc, who I loved, had an answer. “When children sleep on the streets,” he said to us once. “When they have nothing to eat. That is when you are no longer a country, and when you become something ...

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