I admire immensely what you're doing, Charlie. And I appreciate this reminder of how you started this path. I've learned a lot more about Canada and Canadians following your travels and writing. And your clarity on resisting the still rising gangster fascism is inspiring. I'm also intensely curious about our path forward. Carney's government is, no doubt, less bad than what Poilievre had seemed on track to create. But Carney seems to be clinging to the exhausted ideology of neoliberalism and seems to be doing nothing but maintaining our electoral status quo. What is our path to Canadian governance (federally, provincially, territorially, and municipally) that can act in the interests of all Canadians? My life has been devoted to popular education which, I think, has a remarkable history in Canada, from the Antigonish Movement, the Quiet Revolution, The Farm Radio Forums, The Peoples Food Commission, and even the tumultuous Company of Young Canadians (to mention early examples). Along with popular education and activist colleagues between 2002 and 2006, we organised a remarkable coalition to create something we called The Democracy School (aka The Activist School). We failed. But in failing we learned a tremendous amount and realized one remarkable accomplishment 0 i.e. in addition to getting the buy-in of all the major trade unions, we had representatives from every single province, the difficulty of which, I trust, you can appreciate. It amazed us. I still hold to our ambitions and am working quietly to support what I can. Stay strong, keep up the good fight! And Happy New Year!