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Mordecai Richler Quotes: Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples.
         

Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples.


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