I have a chapter in there on symbols and how the centennial symbol was chosen, and the centennial song, “Ca-na-da, we love thee”. That's a kind of an anthem, which is still viable and still owned by the Government of Canada. I believe the patent on it has not expired.
It's extremely important to have symbols that people can focus on and that just by their definition join us all together--extremely important, very, very valuable. We had to have a symbol for the centennial, of course. It was my responsibility to get that symbol. That forms a very lively chapter in the book, on how that happened, because Canada was going to show the flag to the world, and it didn't have a flag. Here we were, trying to get a centennial symbol through the executive ranks of Parliament and our federal decision-making centre, and at the same time the flag debate was on. You remember Mr. Diefenbaker held the debate up for the whole summer because he was wedded to the old symbol. My answer is, it's almost clear, on the face of it, that symbols are extraordinarily important, and it's a very, very good place to start to bind people together.