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On this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a correct balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal values that Canada absorbed. An obstacle to our progress, Saul argues, is that Canada has an an increasing number of ineffective elite, a colonial non-intellectual business elite that does not consider in Canada. It’s essential that we recognize these aspects of the rustic as a way to rethink it is future.