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Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

John Ralston Saul

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John Ralston Saul
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Ottawa (Ontario)
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