Canadians have been getting the thin end of the wedge of American values - they tend to form a large indigestible lump somewhere south of Calgary, then drift up - but basically here the pandemic has proven that we still understand the idea of a social contract, the concept that, to completely reverse what the odious Margaret Thatcher once said, "there's no such thing as an individual, only society." Individuals without society is a logical impossibility.

Always except for Alberta, of course.

DR