“I say: Write what you don’t know. Get outside your own head. Relentlessly explore the lives of people who aren’t like you … Win the Appropriation Prize.”
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This editor has nothing to apologize for.  He is correct.  The trend of today's CanLit is boring , predictable, and blankets Canada and Canadians as bland.  The editor fell on his sword deferring to the curse of political correctness, and the likemindedness that this festers.  Sadly he succumbed to milquetoast weakness as he was likely pressured to do.