When the first people who lived in this country that is now called Canada are no longer confined to rotting structures in government legislated rural ghettoes, and they have taken claim of the lands and resources that have been taken away from them, and their children and grandchildren have full access to education, meaningful employment and the quality of life that many here take as an entitlement....
When all fossil fuels are rendered irrelevant and all our power and energy needs come from renewable, nonpolluting sources....
When the division between rich and poor disappears and economic and social equality becomes an entitlement to everyone who lives here....
When everyone has decent, safe and affordable shelter, a home and access to good nutritious food and meaningful well-paid employment and homelessness has become obsolete....
When every person who lives here has access to all levels of higher education regardless of their income status....
When having money and accruing wealth cease to have value in our social myth and the value of each person and occupation is ratified by the priority given to ethics, morality and virtue....
When prisons become obsolete and constructive, redemptive and non-punitive methods of rehabilitating criminals become the norm....
When no woman, queer person, person of colour, or disabled person needs to live in fear of their safety and wellbeing no matter where they go any time of day or night....
When the wellbeing of the environment is no longer an elusive dream....
When we abolish the military and truly become a nation of peacekeepers....
When all these things finally happen, Canada will no longer be a Beautiful Fiction.
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