Canadian Unity Hailed By The British As An Ideal Model
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In a speech delivered at the University of Oxford, British House of Commons leader Jack Straw hailed Canadian Unity as an ideal model for waning British self identity.
In a speech on Thursday at the University of Oxford, House of Commons leader Jack Straw hailed Canada - along with the United States and Australia - as an ideal model for inventing a new brand of "Britishness" that balances multicultural diversity with allegiance to a "national community" of shared beliefs, values and stories.
Canada -- which had to establish its nationalism across a "vast continent" and "has faced the challenge of Quebec separation, too" - has achieved, by necessity, a kind of civic cohesion that still eludes modern Britain, said Straw, a former foreign secretary.
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