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We can all do our part to bridge this “separation.”We can celebrate and embrace the richness of diversity.
His Highness the Aga Khan (who recently visited Calgary)makes the point, that Canadians have an earned reputation for tolerance and inclusion. Accordingly, how we deal with diversity, at home and abroad, is an example for the rest of the world. He calls upon Canadians to continue to foster a “climate of positive pluralism . . . to see the differences of “others” as not a curse or a threat, but as on opportunity and a blessing.
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