The recent flap that ensued in Canada when a former First Nations activist went on a rambling, semi-coherent, anti-Semitic rant points up a larger problem among the nation’s public figures, says John Gray. Why can’t anyone in government speak with any degree of profundity or even a basic grasp of what makes for stirring oratory? “What I find not only boring but dangerous is not the lack of imagination, nor art, nor insight, nor even intelligence — but the absence of specifics. When Canadian public figures speak, I literally do not know what the hell they are talking about.”