Dec 6, 2023
"And best of all is finding a place to be in the early years of a better civilization. For we are a conquered nation; sea to sea we bartered everything that counts, till we have nothing to lose but our forebears' will to lose. Beautiful riddance! And many will make their choice and eat imperial meat. But some will come to themselves, for there is no third way at last and these will pitch their lives in the ranks of civil resistance, deploying motherwit and guts—sustained by bloody-minded reverence among the things which are, and the long will to be in Canada."
—Dennis Lee, excerpt from "Civil Elegies"
