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Important questions for a Canada that’s ‘better than we know and worse than we think’

Mary Jo Leddy's Why Are We Here? A Meditation on Canada is a new book full of honest questions about Canada.

There is no political agenda here; no partisan program but there is, says Mary Jo Leddy, a starting point. 'This would mean, for starters, saying at least this: We are not here just to make a living. We are not here just to go shopping. We are not here just to look out for ourselves—and our own barbeques. We are meant for more than this.'

Opinion

BY JIM CRESKEY

March 4, 2019

We have to admit that we are not very good at asking questions in this town. When we ask a question “with respect” we mean just the opposite. Opposition MPs craft questions meant to embarrass. Journalists plumb—not too subtly—for the gotcha moment. Tweeters and reader commenters use their qu...

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