Who Will Be The Nation Builder Of 2007?

But after sifting through hundreds of nominations and discussing it among ourselves, the editors felt that, beyond his personal valour, Sgt. Tower was taking up arms up for the very rights and freedoms that Mr. Arar was so brutally denied. A year later, the time has come to ask you, our readers, to help us select the Nation Builder of 2007. But I have to tell you to hurry: Mr. Arar is already on the move, having submitted the name of someone he is nominating for this year, which we will disclose in due course, on Wednesday. So let's hear from you. We want to have a big, rollicking conversation about who over the past year has best exemplified the leadership and values that make Canada a great nation. Two years ago, former NDP leader Ed Broadbent won the award for being an island of civility in a mean-spirited House of Commons and for his intelligent advocacy of electoral reform. Previous winners include Paralympian Chantal Petitclerc, the Ontario Court of Appeal panel that finally swept away the last obstacles to same-sex marriage in Canada and entrepreneur-philanthropist Mike Lazaridis, the man behind the BlackBerry. So who is in the running for this year? ... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071124.wnationbuilder/BNStory/National/

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