This podcast of Canada’s Governor General Adrienne Clarkson is one of the most amazing speeches I have ever heard from a politician. Please take time to listen to her and what she has to say about how we can come together as a people and live amongst our differences.

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This is from the CBC website

Canadians have come to believe that the diversity we enjoy in our country is familiar and reassuring. But, what about the future of a Canada which lives with difference but does not understand it? Is it necessary to prepare for a future in which contrasting values and expectations could clash? In the 2007 LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium, The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson reflects on the challenges we must face individually and as part of the community we have created around us.