Canada’s new governor-general, Louise Arbour sums up Canadian pride this way: “We don’t think we are perfect, but we believe we’re pretty well on the way there.”

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, meanwhile, chose the very day of Arbour’s installation to lay out what’s standing in the way of perfection — namely, the federal government.

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