The kirpan and Canada’s French-English divide
That two such disparate world views can live in the same political space remains a miracle. We should remember that on weeks like this, when everybody is yelling at everybody else.
John Ibbitson - The two solitudes, when they don’t ignore each other, yell at each other. This week, they were yelling. The French are angry with the English for being angry with the Quebec National Assembly. Security guards, with the assent of both the Liberal Party and the Parti Québécois, refused to allow four Sikhs to enter a committee room this week, where they were to testify concerning...