I don't think I have read a more self-absorbed piece recently.

Denise is right that there are still intolerant people in this country, but "Canada has always been a place where the idea of white Anglophone superiority is driven home with consistent ferocity" and maintaining that the simple existence of her Muslim relatives could get them murdered is hyperbole of the worst sort.

I would suppose she hasn't travelled much in the United States or read about race relations there.  Nor, if she believes that Anglophones have a monopoly on superior attitudes, in Quebec.  France and Great Britain have a much bigger problem with a right wing lunatic fringe than we do.

Canada is far from perfect -- what country is?  But we are probably more tolerant than any Western nation, and do a damned good job of taking care of our less fortunate.

This is what we should celebrate as we hit our sesquicentennial.