The New Switzerland?

Published December 8, 2004

Congratulations to Jim Creskey! I enjoyed very much his reflections on the diverging paths that Canada and the U.S. are taking regarding morality and the State ("A different path for Canada," Dec.1).

Although making historical parallels is always risky, I feel we are like France and Switzerland in the XVII century. When France exiled Protestants, it lost enormous amounts of wealth and progress to the...