when you want to solva problem and put a group of people pretty close to identical in their educationheir identities and socioeconomic status, you will not get the same kind of creative thinking or out of the box solutions that you would actually get if you bring together a diverse group of experts from different fields, different backgrounds, different life stories, different perspectives. if that is the case in solving a specific problem, it is even more the case when you are trying to do justice by serving an extraordinarily diverse, geographically, ethically, historically, culturally, country like canada, and making sure that we have a broad range of voices has been transformative in the kind of discussions had and the solutions put forward. canada, well, by definition, maybe because of our winters and the distance between communities, we have always known we have to be there for our neighbors. we have to make sure there is success for all of us. we are eager to lean on each other to create that success, and that brings a mindset where we are aware that having good public schools,

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