Canada

“It is a strength and not a weakness that we are a permanently incomplete experiment built on a triangular foundation – aboriginal, francophone and anglophone. What we continue to create today, began 450 years ago as a political project, when the French first met with the Aboriginal people. It is an old experiment, complex and, in worldly terms, largely successful. Stumbling through darkness and racing through light, we have persisted in the creation of a Canadian civilization.” (Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, October 7, 1999)