Editing John Ralston Saul (section)

== Early life and education ==
Saul is the son of William Saul, an army officer, and a British mother whose family had a long tradition of military service.<ref name="walrus">{{Cite web|url=http://thewalrus.ca/citizen-saul/ |website= The Walrus |date=April 12, 2010 |title=Citizen Saul |author=Henighan, Stephen |access-date=August 2, 2018}}</ref> He was born in Ottawa, but raised in Alberta and Manitoba before graduating from [[Oakville Trafalgar High School]] in [[Oakville, Ontario]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-04-12|title=Citizen Saul {{!}} The Walrus|url=https://thewalrus.ca/citizen-saul/|access-date=2021-12-30|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=D'Souza|first=Claudia|date=December 12, 1999|title=When the Governor General Calls|page=9|work=The Oakville Beaver|url=https://news.oakville.halinet.on.ca/110341/page/10?n=|access-date=2021-12-30}}</ref> At a young age, he became fluent in both national languages, French and English. By the time he started university at [[McGill University]], Montreal, his father was in Paris and Brussels, working as a military adviser to the Canadian ambassador to NATO.