Collins seemed enamoured of a Trudeau-esque vision of Canada as a model for the internationalizing world, a civic-minded mosaic of multiple identities unencumbered by regulation.

The argument tended thither.

The increasing solicitude for human life that characterizes administrative government is limited to people who are perceived as members or citizens of the polity, for reasons that will be discussed at length in Chapter 6.

There were radio towers ahead of us and high-tension lines picking up speed as they raced across the skyscraperless sky.