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Gale's greatest challenge in Montreal is the pursuit of meaning. At first he pursues happiness via chasing the past (his fleeting relationship with Dawn), but meeting the architect at La Ronde kicked off a chain of events where he began questioning his own reasons for being in Montreal. Most notably, Tara's suggestion that he elope with her presents itself as an alternative to being with Dawn, as Gale and Tara were once high school sweethearts who broke up in their first year of engineering at the University of Waterloo.