Natalie and I had a great time in Vancouver at the awards ceremony for the National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction earlier in February, which ended up being won by Newfoundland's Russell Wangersky for Burning Down The House. All the same, it was a completely first-class event. The organizers flew in from Montreal Pierre Trudeau's son, writer and documentary film-maker Alexandre Trudeau, to introduce me during the awards presentation. His introduction (posted above) was flattering and gracious and generous and about a million other nice things as well. As you can see from my short speech (posted below) I was pretty floored.
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