Between Canada Day and Independence Day in the United States there are few days to contemplate the different histories that together make up the North American experience.

We are all one people in many ways, along with Mexico, bound up by a ruggedness and vastness that typifies our nations. Our people all have a pioneering spirit and sense of getting things done that was born out of the empty spaces that surrounded more genteel notions of civilization. What we value on this continent are the skills that allowed us to survive in spite of constraints from afar.

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