I once asked my mother, who was British, and who married my father during the war, and came to Canada in 1943, what was the biggest change she had seen in Canada during her lifetime, and she said, "When I was a girl, Canadians were the most glamorous people, they gave off this aura of having the world by the tail, they were rough but you felt they knew exactly who they were and where they were going, they had a kind of exuberant happiness. The future was theirs. And somehow it all went away...."

I just about broke out into tears when she said that.

yours ever,

Peter