Editorial: Paul Dewar's gifts to Ottawa

It speaks eloquently to Paul Dewar’s character that he called his diagnosis of terminal brain cancer “a gift.” He did so in an interview with the Citizen last year, explaining, “The gift is you’re being given a moment to see what life is, what it can be and what it has been.”
He had already lived his life well. But to the surprise of no one, Dewar used his remaining time well, too. Although the incurable disease from which he passed away Wednesday, at age 56,