Held up in the future as The Failed Canadian, an example to every schoolchild fron Newfoundland to Vancouver Island and from St. Jean Port Joli to Kitikmeot. Reviled from Beaver Creek to the Bonavista Peninsula, his own mother and family cutting his name from the Family Bible and burning his birth records, his memory will serve Canada as that of Guy Fawkes serves England or Benedict Arnold the United States.

Oh, the shame of it!