Jean Ovide Bourdeau

Quebec 5.0 Jean Ovide Bourdeau

This is an act of tough love directed at my French-Canadian ethnic group - a community that did not take care of me as a child and teenager - via a few unorthodox political discussions between two serendipitously and propitiously partnered older but newly found soul mates each in the winter of their life. I was after all too poor and not Roman Catholic enough (if I ever considered myself religious at all) in that small world of Ste-Cunégonde within the St. Henri area of my origin, so well described by Gabrielle Roy. It is also and further an expression of hope for the future, as I peer into what I believe, we, as a community, can contribute to the generations following us as well as for the rest of the world.