Thou should'st be living at this hour

"Some people think that we should be willing to swallow any kind of nonsense in order to 'preserve the unity of Canada.' I am not interested in a Canada that would be just a splash on the map, with a six-letter word scrawled across it. The only Canada I want to preserve is a Canada that can do something: for its own people, for the hungry two-thirds of the world, for the survival of the planet; not a phantom that can only watch helplessly as we all tumble down a steep place to destruction." -- Sen. Eugene Forsey, constitutional scholar, statesman, patriot: his last published words. When he died, in 1991, not one federal cabinet minister attended his memorial.