"If we go on insisting that Canada is an expression of the West and of its rational, Judeo-Christian tradition, we will be increasingly carried down a road with all that it contains--an obsession with clarity, a fear of social complexity, a horror of overlap, a constant confusing of moral rectitude and power, a conviction that the individual must dominate the place, a tendency to remove obstacles, such as minorities, minority ideas or minority language. This linear approach makes no sense, given what Canada is. It does not help us make sense of what we have done, even when we have been successful." - John Ralston Saul, A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada