Ken Dryden: Hockey Hall of Fame Torwart, ehemaliger MP stirbt bei 78

RIP Ken Dryden. You were one of the good ones, both on the ice and in the HoC.

A great loss to Canada and another who joins the ranks of mostly forgotten but severely underrated politicians. We give so much more attention to other brands of politics these days. An incredible career, and his political role just small section of it, but he had a real vision for Canada.

If you havent, you should read his books. He has a bunch about hockey, but I really loved [Becoming Canada](https://www.amazon.ca/Becoming-Canada-Story-Politics-Future/dp/0771029454), which I read when I was young during the Harper years and upset with the Canada I saw around me.

He wrote about the Canadian „multiculture“ society, where Canadians could bring their lived experiences together to form a new Canadian identity, not erase their past, but celebrate it. He told us that we did not need to live in a world dominated by American supremacy, where Canada was just another form of American culture, but one where Canada epitomized a better world, at home and abroad. One which accepted differences without erasing the lines between us, or drawing them so forcefully that those differences were insurmountable.

He didn’t change the world, and I dont even think his book envisioned a true picture of the country, since everything that has happened since then sadly brings home that Canada does not accept multicultures. But at least he envisioned a world where Canada was unique, and it could offer a vision that was uniquely Canadian.

That’s rare among our political class, and even rarer today that it was true and empathetic, not divisive and vitriolic.