Reflections on Canada, five years in

Reflecting on the fifth anniversary of landing in Canada from Australia, I've decided to set out something every citizen loves to read—a series of unsolicited, lukewarm takes from a foreigner about their country.
Canada Day celebrations in Ottawa in 2019, about seven days after Stephen Jeffery first arrived in the country.

OTTAWA—On Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day five years ago, my partner and I touched down at Pearson Airport from Australia after a series of flights so long, and passing through so many time zones, that we had started to question the very nature of reality.

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