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First name is required. Last name is required. I presume our government is agreeable to the idea of celebrating the country it heads. That caution springs from the tepid and uninspiring performance it gave on the landmark occasion of our th anniversary. Any other nation, at peace, prosperous, with an earned reputation for good will in foreign relations and moderation at home, would have put on a show to shame Olympic spectacles and blasted Hosannas to the globe.
But either through a kind of careless meekness or perhaps a vague fear of being too showily patriotic an emotion many shun as unenlightened these days the government turned what should have been a birthday party for the ages into a frigid pantomime, something with less buzz than an after-party for the Geminis or shudder the annual Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner. A deeper consideration might suggest that to locate or identify these particular three attitudes or virtues as synonymous with Canada, or the central feature of Canadian identity, is a self-regarding delusion.
Is Toronto meaningfully more diverse than London or New York? A high-sounding regard for diversity and inclusion is now the banner boast of most Western countries, and some not of the West. They were as much the artisans of our present good fortune as those craftsmen who worked in stone, ages before there was a Canada, to give Europe its cathedrals. They were as much the artisans of our present good fortune as those craftsmen who worked in stone.
It was they who delivered the heritage of accomplishment for which on every July 1st we give thanks for, they who evolved the civil code, that manner we have in dealing with and thinking of our fellow Canadians, that we take such pride in. The latter-day penchant for frequent historical apologies is troublesome, especially if it is not at least occasionally played against the recognition of how much of the mixed past was right and honourable.
We could do with a dose of modesty about our current progressive moment, and a little more reverence, or at least respect, to the many, many moments that preceded it. A Canada Day celebration, thoughtfully conceived, would be something of a festival of thanksgiving for all the good things, brave actions and enduring fortitude it took to bring Canada to its 21st-century heights.
It would, naturally, count our heroes, but fix equally on the nameless labourers, farmers, loggers, traders, fishermen, and emphatically the mothers of our pioneers.
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