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A young girl enters Green Gables Heritage Place, which served as the setting for the “Anne of Green Gables” novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery, in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan
While assessing the merits of historical developments that occurred during the second millennium, the India-born economist and author Deepak Lal asserted that “the ascent of the English-speaking peoples to prominence in the world surely ranked highest.”
William Brooks is a Canadian writer who contributes to The Epoch Times from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
