While Canada is known internationally as a land of opportunity for the poor and the disenfranchised - a reputation that has slid northward from the United States over the past hundred years - some inequalities remain, despite the best efforts of politicians and educators. Whether or not inequality can be exterminated entirely is a matter of much debate and no small difficulty, and a battle that's fought daily at personal, municipal, provincial, and federal levels. For every nine citizens that are against discrimination, one person in a position of power harbours secret hate or makes unfair decisions. No minority is immune either - women, immigrants, the disabled - for bigotry is something that takes many ways and many forms.