Canada is not the country in which I was born, but it was the country which my parents and grandparents chose some decades ago, the country about which they first dreamed and then dared to build a new life for themselves and for us. This morning I reflected on why I still celebrate our country when some do not, or rather, when some can not. I hope no one thinks that celebrating ‘Canada 150’ is a requirement. I’m not especially nationalistic, and in fact, I aver any excess of patriotism – the kind that pushes a highly particular view of how things should be on to others. I consider myself a citizen of planet Earth more so than the citizen of a particular country.…