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“A Métis Civilization,” Saul makes a strong (if counterintuitive) case that Canadian culture owes more to its native roots than to the European settlers and their Judeo-Christian belief system
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A Fair Country by John Ralston Saul is a good read that addresses this question. He has a fascinating POV on it.
Current issues? The BIG issue is that Canada's First Nations were promised equality but ended up being marginalized. Now we can seriously start doing something about it, or continue pretending we are by nibbling at the edges.
I suggest John Ralston Saul's "A Fair Country". John is the president of PEN International, as well as the husband of past Governor General Adrienne Clarkson.
If you would like to read a review how the Ontario schools curriculum contributes to the public's ignorance of Aboriginal issues, read "Cultivating Ignorance of Aboriginal Realities" by Anne Godlewska, Jackie Moore and C.Drew Bednasek of Queens University.
I recommend [A Fair Country.] (http://www.amazon.ca/Fair-Country-Telling-Truths-Canada/dp/0143168428/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320394310&sr=1-2) It's more of a sociological perspective, but I definitely enjoyed it.
If we are talking about social progress I honestly believe it is because of racism. Canadians are comfortable with complexity and understand that both individual and group rights are important. Americans live in a perceived power struggle (within themselves and between groups) that they can't reconcile.
>The long winters that the first settlers faced, forcing them to look out for one another?
And the First Nations people that showed these settlers how to live and brought them into their ever-growing circles and showed them what acceptance really looks like.
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