Searching for Race-Neutral Ground
An author declares the equality hopes of the Charter a promise not met April 2007
Recently I spent a long, at times tedious, day deliberating among some one hundred people about how history is taught and learned in Canada. I thought the evening boded well, however, when someone I had heretofore known only from afar asked if he might take the seat at dinner beside me. Quite apart from his being a perfect gentleman—a woman notices this—I had admired his respect for the opinions and experiences of…