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ONE THING P ils say for this county, it is many countries, Socupationsl. Thesapists
each of them different i in surprising ways. Maybe that’s the Home Support Workers’

~ one thing about if worth preserving: the differentness. se : : . for. fo: \.
: ; 4 7. Private Duty’, 4

Over the years I: nave neky
enough to travel back aiid forth
across Canada nuinerau: times, It
is one of the advantages of having
lived a writer's life, « 7

Newspapers, magazines, ‘TV sta-
tions and publishers hive picked i
up the tab mostly, although” :
freebecs from airlings accoumed i

for alot. Sometimes, | admit; 1; |

had to pay for it myself. i]...
“As a young man} J hitchhiked or:
travelled by Greyhound, camping
and staying at YMCAs, sleeping
_on the couches of relatives as, I:
passed through own, rie:

“Candia itself fills)
me with a certain.
amount Of; dread.3]

And since big. is ‘bitd,
there must be. cme

‘political ei. in the 7
Jeoncept.”” Pg Ha

fahitwene bluff sreriookens Y,
Kamloops with a: herd of nervous.
‘horses pacing around’ me — me"

4. too wet,"cold and terrifi ed to try to.

» make run for the neon lights’
below.” My, heart. aches, i in fac’

= remembering the't exquist e:

* Jonelingss of that: Moment, | oy

“Since then, I have logged 50 or |

60 jet flights’ between Vancouver
and Toronto °.. i driven from.

. Vancouver to Winnipeg probably a’
‘dozen times ....fr¢
| 7 Regina and Flin Flon and: ;Thomp-
i son and Kenora and onto. Toronto”.
. from Vancouver, to Fort Rupert
we from’ St, John 16 Moncton 2:
along | the Rideau Canal i in Ottawa
up the St. Lawyence on aies
ighter in the autumn ’.:. zipping |
“around the coast of Labrador and
Newfoundland in helicopters’ :
“traversing the Insitle Passage by:

bucking the headwi
Tuktoyuktuk int: hanvary

“Jam staying at home or travelling

| Halifax... nee hanging out with good om
4 foiks talking about whase dog was L
related to whom o1..Prince Edward ~
Island ... being mobbed in St. An-
‘tony, Newfoundland : . circling «|
around the amazing new skyline of
Calgary ’ wondering what cily this
was...
“It's not often | get a a feeling like
this. Having just taken a trip back
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‘naturally a bit more open to feel- BAKE Noe THIRSTY, Fo

‘ings of Canuckness than when I VUMMER.
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Jabroad,
i Most of the travelling | have
{done i in the last decade. has been
i through other countries. | haven't.
7 honestly paid all that much atien-
-| tion to Canada.

Yet, as side-trips, | kept. fi firiding
! | myself i in different Canadian loca-

. Ptions. And lately, this has, acceler

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; ated, 4
The idea of Canada itself fills
me with a.certain amount ‘of ft
# dread, It is too big to believe. And
i since big is bad; there must be».
| some inherent socio- ‘political evil i in:
» the concept. af:
‘Canada is, after all, an empire
i It isin its quiet way one of thé.
! most remarkable empires in histo-

ity. if

Vos Look al ‘the size ‘of us! How did”

we get away with holding on to ' :
"this amount of the planetary turf? |

4. |The answer has always been that

Canada is mostly hopelessly...
juninhubitable and who would wani fh
Lo take the place over anyway? Af
‘Ninety-nine per cent of Canadians“:
live. pressed against the American
‘border, straining tb inch -
southward,

i But that’s a pre-industrial

‘answer, ' wo

| The fact is, in terms ‘of

* resources, we are one of the.

~ world’s richest treasure-boxes, .
-: saved the i ignominy of innexation ;

: only by the fact that w
“become the buffer-z between
history’s two most’ powerful i im- *
perial states. “fe

But for our, location, one or the ; oop

: other’ would have Srabbed us fong
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m Winnipeg to 3,

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-There/f am; grumbling ag
~ about Canadian impote
in ‘fact, I don’t believe in it.
mI think we have actually §

We have uniqueness poing)for Us,
after all. And our uniquer ess is
this vast amount of siniquleness i in,

bloody flawed vision: §

waste. Such a collectici n ‘of u

' fairness and inequalit} and ;
. dullness. Yet, whether. [ like it or po
not, ‘1 feel, an emoti gna, bond with’,

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