My TV show enraged people. I had prostitutes on, and I treated them like real people…. I was fired from Maclean’s after I wrote a piece called ‘Let’s Stop Hoaxing The Kids About Sex’. Now I’m the ‘beloved author,’ the ‘beloved historian of Canada,’ an icon. I get standing ovations…. I never set out to be a patriot or a popular historian. I just liked storytelling. [interview promoting Marching as to War (2002)]

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