RE:RE:Happy Canada Day TomorrowHappy Canada Day to all who call Canada home!
I wasn't born Canadian, but I am grateful and proud to call Canada home.
It's a day to appreciate what we have, who we are, the people around us, the great land under our feet, and why not the greatest neighbour one can ask for the US. Morevover, I am grateful for peace, acceptance, opportunity, and the joy in my kids eyes.
It's time to celebrate and waive the flag - Happy Canada Day everyone !!!
CanSiamCyp wrote: Fantome:
I could not agree more with you - and I was so happy to read your comments in this modern age of cancel culture being in the ascendancy!
I left Canada to work and live internationally from 1981 to 2017 - living for varying periods of time in Zambia, Tanzania, Mexico, Kenya, Ethiopia and Cyprus. My wife is from Thailand so we have also visited her home country many times. And after those 36 years of living outside of Canada, I can only second the statement by Dorothy in the classic film The Wizard of Oz: "There is no place like home!". Amen to that!
Is Canada perfect? No! Is any country on the face of the Earth perfect? No! Can we do better? Undoubtedly!
However, the very fact that so many people clamour to come to Canada via legal (and sometimes not so legal) means is because they see Canada as an escape from the oppression they suffer in their country of origin (consider Muslims in India, Christians in Pakistan and the Middle East, Muslims in Myanmar, Tibetans in China, Bahais in Iran, gays in almost any country mentioned plus most others, etc., etc.). The brave wokesters and FNs in Canada don't risk much by pulling down statues or blockading railroads while the police services consume their daily Timmies' quota while keeping an eye on them. In those other countries, people are "disappeared" for offering any opposition to the authorities.
Having said that Canada can do better, it is unlikely that we shall do better as long as we continue to be led by the poster boy for "White Privilege" and his band of incompetent but arrogant dimwits!
Anyway - enough of that - and a Happy Canada Day to you and all of the other serious investors (i.e., non-trolls) on the SH forum!
Fantome wrote: Tomorrow is a great day to celebrate the founding of our country in 1867.
There are many who are opposed to celebrating the day due in part to the recent discovery of the graves on the sites of a couple of Residential Schools (and there will be more for sure).
While in some ways they have a point that there is a dark underbelly to our history and that terrible things were done in the past....I wouldn't argue that point for a minute....BUT....over my life I have travelled extensively around the world....and each time I get back to Canada I breathe a sigh of relief that I am returning to the greatest country in the World and am proud and happy that I was born in this country.
Does that mean that we can't do better?
We can always improve as a country...and learn from the lessons of the past....but there is nowhere else in the World where I would rather live and see future generations of Fantomes flourish!!