At the same time, I have been deeply touched by the joy, creativity, and persistence of several generations. There are few students whose parentage is not mixed. I worked for 10 years in Montreal, and will never forget the way Qu b cois took me into their circle of friends and family. Some of my friends spent weeks in Montreal s Parthenais jail, where habeus corpus was a dead letter. It happened in every city.
Canadian authoritarianism can be as brutal as any other kind.
Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew. Even thee and me, I think, have a way to go. That's not the kind of peace I can believe in.