Commentary
What would George Washington say? I can ask, even about modern politics, this July 4 because America’s first president was a man of such studious self-control that his answer, though furiously indignant, would be printable.
As a Canadian I should also ask what Sir John A. Macdonald would say about our southern neighbour pondering a rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and our own squalid politics. But as he’s been cancelled and thrown into the Kichi Zībī, he would just gurgle. (Which some days he did anyway.)
I could ask about the Duke of Wellington since we have yet to erase Wellington Street, possibly due to ignorance of its origins. Even I only recently discovered the Iron Duke’s striking combination of profundity and wit, including “Being born in a stable does not make one a horse,” a splendid maxim for a land of opportunity….