From Tolerance to Respect

By Kit S.

August 30, 2017

This story is not my own— it’s the story of a friend, a Muslim, who to me represents all the astonishing beauty, all the unstinted warmth and diversity, all the generous understanding, of this country we live in.

We worked together last summer as day camp leaders at one of Vancouver’s neighbourhood houses, which meant spending 40 hours per week together, ferrying children across the city on public transit, doing headcount after headcount, playing cards and Monopoly and chess and, of course, talking We, as a nation, have had the good fortune of having incredible people throughout our history who shaped this country toward the direction it now leans: one of openness and respect, of diversity and understanding, of interfaith conversations such as this one

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