What was your goal while writing this book?
To help break down the silos between the stories that we tell… about ourselves, about each other, and most specifically about this complex, challenging yet beautiful country we call Canada.
Was there a book or piece of writing that made you want to pursue writing as a career? What was it?
Writing is not either of our careers. Writing is something we both recognized can be a potent and impactful and meaningful vehicle for advancing shifts in public discourses and social consciousness, alongside other efforts and striving.
Who/what were your influences while writing this book?
The greatest influence were the Canadians we have met from coast to coast to coast who expressed a yearning for a revitalized understanding of Canada’s history that can help shape their efforts to build the Canada of tomorrow.
What is one thing you learned while writing this book you wish everyone knew?
That the voices of the past act as a mirror to the challenges of this present moment in time in every more clear and powerful ways.
Tell me a bit about why writing about Canada/Canadians is important to you?
The world is crying out for examples of peoples and places where justice and harmony in contexts of diversity and difference are upheld and embraced. Canada, with all of our advantages, capacities, and strength needs to be that example that the world so sorely needs.