However, it was made clear to the first generation of Canadian-born children that the path to opportunity was through education.
For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.