It is a landscape of circles, perspective exercises a country of geometry . . . The horizon a dozen miles away is as clean a line as the nearest fence . . . Across the immense sky move clouds, their bottoms as even as if they had scraped themselves flat against the flat earth. You resonate with all the people who have had different relationships to the land, who are part of a transformation from rural to urban, who have inherited the result of Saskatchewan's innovation in providing co-operative solutions to matters of the public good. It is not hills and mountains which we should call eternal.
Eternity is a plain.
Saskatchewan by its seemingly immense horizon, psychological and physical, draws all our imaginations to a larger space and all your activities, cultural, social and democratic, enhance us all as Canadians, as part of the ever-enlarging circle that Aboriginal people have always offered to newcomers. This is the real promise of being Canadian and this is what Saskatchewan helps to do for all of us.