A few years ago now, before launching into a talk in West Vancouver about the ugly realities of child soldiers, Senator Romeo Dallaire made some interesting comments about Canada's future and the leaders who will point the way.

He said that in six years (now three) Canada will have its 150th birthday. It will also be the 150th anniversary of Confederation, and the 100th anniversary of Vimy Ridge, the WWI battle where Canada went up the ridge a colony and came down a nation.

It's the perfect storm of Canadiana. The perfect moment to finish (as Dallaire suggested) or start (since no one seemed to listened) a big project that unites the country. His proposal? A high-speed train, a gesture that would echo the national railway promised as part of Confederation.

Of course, it could be anything. President John F. Kennedy in the early '60s promised a man on the moon by the time the decade was out. A man on the moon! Just think about that. Now that was an audacious vision.

And that's the key, right? Audacity and vision and the confidence that Canadians are, when challenged, greater than the sum of their parts rather than petty, self-interested consumers to be divided by base, wedge politics.

To be honest, we may not get that kind of vision from our leaders. So, instead, how about you tell them, dear reader, what kind of audacious vision would you like to see launched or finished on the 150th anniversary of this country.

Is it national free wifi from coast to coast to coast? Is it reinstating full funding to the CBC? Is it a high-speed train? Is it a true shift to nationalized renewable power? Now's your chance. In the week of Canada Day, you tell them...