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Who was Barbara Mitchell?
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June 30, 2016
1:11PM
This Canada Day, remember our twin pillars— civil liberties and economic freedom
Livio Di Matteo
The founders were familiar with the works of American founding fathers such as Jefferson and European political philosophers such as Edmund Burke.
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