"Let us hope that in the end jingoism fails and history wins. Canada has a rich and complex past, one that involves wars and statesmen but that also includes seamstresses and hod carriers, Inuit hunters and African slaves, land speculators and immigrant labourers. This is who we are. The 17th century battles between Iroquois and Huron nations in what is now southern Ontario may not have affected me directly. But they did have a profound long-term effect on the territory in which I now happen to live. So celebrate Canada Day. We are a real country. We have a real past. We have more in common than the fact that we differ from one another. And we can be justly proud of our country without straying into xenophobia. Being a nationalist doesn’t mean you have to be a moron."
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 14:00:16 +0000
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