My mother and I were home in Orleans, just east of the Canadian national capital, watching the results broadcast live on television as the votes were tabulated, the yes and no sides exchanging leads back and forth. Even before the network announced the final tally—a razor-thin margin of 54,288 votes rejecting secession out of 4,671,008 valid ballots cast—the closeness of the vote and the emotions that accompanied it yielded only one certainty: the Canada I knew would change no matter the outcome. We are still today living the consequences of the turbulent referendum campaign and its culminating vote. The strength of the support in Quebec for independence surprised Canadians in all corners of the land, and it has reawakened the country to the pressing challenge of internal reconciliation. And yet the secession referendum also reopened wounds that for many have yet to heal and perhaps never will, further deepening old fault lines that continue to divide Canadians.