Chapter 52:
Live and Forgive
There are no footnotes for this chapter.
Chapter 53:
Diversity Day at The Office
All quotes in this chapter are taken from the “The Office,” season 1, episode 2, Netflix.
Chapter 54:
Humans Are Groupies
Source: Cass R. Sunstein, Why Societies Need Dissent (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003), pp. 111-144.
Chapter 55:
Should We Celebrate Bad Traditions, Too?
* “But I don’t think enough people asked, ‘Does that include harmful traditions within cultures?'”
Note: This is a question for America as much as for Canada. See, for example, Alene Tchekmedyian, “For the first time in the U.S., a doctor is charged with female genital mutilation. Here’s how the law came to be,” Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2017.
* “Group honor legitimized slavery and segregation in the Southern states of America…”
Source: Kenneth S. Greenberg, Honor & Slavery (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996).
* “When it came to identity, he championed ‘individual freedom of choice.'”
Source: Rt. Hon. Pierre E. Trudeau, speech in the House of Commons, October 8, 1971.
Chapter 56:
Even in Canada
* “Canada, he proclaimed, would adopt multiculturalism as a ‘conscious support’ for the individuals freedom to choose.”
Source and note: Rt. Hon. Pierre E. Trudeau, speech in the House of Commons, October 8, 1971. All of Trudeau’s quotes in this chapter come from the same speech.
* “‘If a nation aims to prevent terrorist activity,’ writes Cass Sunstein, ‘a good strategy is to prevent the rise of enclaves of like-minded people.'”
Source: Cass R. Sunstein, Why Societies Need Dissent (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003), p. 118.
* “When the second referendum failed by a thin margin, the face of the movement blamed ‘money and ethnic voters.'”
Source and note: Andy Riga, “Quebec’s 1995 referendum: 140 minutes of agony,” Montreal Gazette, October 30, 1995.
Pour une couverture de la soirée référendaire d’un point de vue québécois, regardez: “Le Choix des Québécois: Référendum 1995,” TVA, 30 octobre 1995.
* “‘We mean it only for Muslims who are a menace to secularism,’ one of the bill’s supporters said.”
Source: Conversation between me and Charter supporter on March 6, 2014.
* “Its purpose has been revised to ‘preserve and protect’ the cultural traditions of minorities.”
Source: Michael Dewing, “Canadian Multiculturalism,” Library of Parliament, Publication No. 2009-20-E, updated May 14, 2013.
* “He cunningly told a Canadian journalist that ‘[b]eing a minority is very difficult.'”
Source: Avery Haines, “The Canadian roots of white supremacist Richard Spencer,” Maclean’s, November 25, 2016.
Chapter 57:
Ben Franklin, Founding Farter
* “… when Martin Luther King Jr. described Canada as ‘the north star’ for fugitive American slaves.'”
Source: Martin Luther King Jr., 1967 Massey Lectures, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
* “Canada became the site of the first reported race riot in North America.”
Note: The riot took place in Shelbourne County, Nova Scotia. For a thought-provoking treatment of this and related incidents in Canadian history, watch Desmond Cole, “The Skin We’re In,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, February 1, 2019.
* “Franklin was a fartful, I mean artful, jokester.”
Source: Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), pp. 373-374. All quotes attributed to Franklin in this chapter can be found in these pages.
* “Jefferson died embittered and fearful of the future.”
Source: Gordon S. Wood, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different (New York: Penguin Press, 2006), pp. 115-116.
* “She originated in – wait for it – Egypt.”
Source: Michael B. Oren, Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present (New York: W.W. Norton, 2007), pp. 268-270.