Posted AT 7:51 AM EDT on 24/07/08
In case you haven't noticed, there's a new unity in the land
Prime Minister Stephen Harper declared recently that, "We are more united than at any point, than we have been, in four decades." The observation didn't gather much attention. But it should have.
Hyperbole, it wasn't. He was on the mark. At long last, the wrenching family feuds, the unity headaches, the regional grudges have subsided. Since they roared on, with all their debilitating consequences, for almost half a century, their diminution is of no small importance.
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