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To mark the publication of William A. Macdonald's Might Nature Be Canadian? Essays on Mutual Accommodation, Trent University's School for the Study of Canada, the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, and William A. Macdonald are sponsoring a webinar on mutual accommodation in both national and international affairs.
Speakers:
The Hon. Bill Graham, Trinity College
Heather Nicol, Trent University
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
David Walmsley, Globe and Mail
Thomas Mulcair, former parliamentarian
Shawn Atleo, Compassionate Leadership Initiative
Heather Atleo, Compassionate Leadership Initiative
William A. Macdonald, author "Might Nature Be Canadian?"
Margaret MacMillan, University of Toronto
In Might Nature Be Canadian? William Macdonald explores the theme of mutual accommodation with a close lens on the Canadian experience. Canada has a drive toward mutual accommodation. The United States has a strong drive toward division. There has always been a divergence of ideologies between the two countries. The United States now appears to view the world as a never-ending struggle, which has become greater since 2000, between good and evil, while Canada, by contrast, leans toward the idea that there is an underlying order at the heart of things. Canada has always faced strong limits in creatively overcoming a challenging geography and French/English language differences within its own borders; on the other hand the United States sees itself as a country with virtually no limits. Throughout its history Canada's drive toward mutual accommodation, stronger than that of any other country, has allowed its increasingly diverse citizens to live together peacefully and successfully, even as they retain their own culture, language, and religion. Nature can be described as simultaneously either/or and both/and. Is there something fundamentally Canadian about this?
William A. Macdonald is the founder and president of W.A. Macdonald and Associates Inc., which provides economic and policy counsel to business and government. He lives in Toronto.