This column is one of the TWO BEST COLUMNS on these pages about the Quebec Mosque massacre, the other excellent column being the one by Sheema Khan a few days ago ("To Fight Hate...").

Here are their EXCELLENT features: 

- They do not have multiple sentences dumping on America
- They do not name Trump
- They invoke an affinity for a Canadian/Canadian product (Gilles Vigneault and his book, or Statistics Canada, or Canadian public schools)
- They do not express a repulsion for a named American/American entity. 

These two columns by Khan and Elghawaby are the ONLY columns in this newspaper to succeeded in all of the above areas, yielding refreshingly CANADA-CENTRIC pieces. 

Well done, you have both written the kind of columns that MORE GLOBE AND MAIL COLUMNISTS SHOULD WRITE. Your words make Canada bigger. 

All of your colleagues' words, who failed in this competition, their words make Canada smaller. Their stale and boring and inane obsession with America, it stunts Canada's growth.