August 6, 2007

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INTERVIEW

Q It’s hard to imagine a book titled Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession (Penguin) is going to be popular with your colleagues. Why did you write it? A: I know lawyers are going to say, “Come on, he’s talking about 15 or 20 members of a profession that has 90,000.”

MAIL BAG

HOW REFRESHING and reassuring to finally read mainstream press extolling the virtue of remaining in Afghanistan because we are making “remarkable progress” (“Winning in Afghanistan,” National, July 23). I applaud Maclean’s for providing balanced coverage of Canada’s successful efforts to rebuild this country and eliminate the very real threat to not only Afghanistan, but also our security here at home.