Canada Pride?

Call me old fashioned. But I can remember celebrating Canada on Dominion Day. We were proud of Canada then. Now it is Canada Day, July 1st.

 

A recent poll I saw said a huge portion of Canadians don't give a damn about their own country now. It used to be a respectful and quiet pride. Flags and fun and picnics with the day off. 

 

Outside my window they are painting the building. A whole crew of Mexicans, doing a wonderful job refreshing the apartment block. Lots of buzzes, engines running, warning tones from a heavy crane reaching high. Mexico celebrates Carnival, Holy Week, Easter etc. and Anniversario de la Independence, September 16, which commemorates Mexico's independence from Spain and is most important to them. I assume Canada Day is not on their list, nor do I expect it to be, or on any country's list. I think it is what happens when we allow our politicians to not give a damn.

 

Every country seems to revere an important event ... Canada has many. WWII was important to us. While America entered that war in 1941, we heard the distress call from Britain in 1939 and just went with what we had. And Canada shone brightly in that war. In 1945 I was a kid in the street with people rejoicing the end of the victory and a man gave me a small flag to wave. It was the Red Ensign then. We are so fortunate to have much to be proud of but we no longer celebrate. 

And often if we do these days, it is under the criticism of someone pointing out how offensive and bad it is to be doing it. And Canadians, as is their wont to do, say sorry, and just shut up.

 

Hard to imagine Americans backing away from July 4th. Maybe those who bad mouth the USA should stop and start to emulate them for of their pride in their country? 

 

Before this post gets banned and has a warning that I am violating 'Community Standards' again maybe an explanation of those standards is due, so the reader can understand whose standards they are?  

 

Canadian media keeps reminding us how we are now made of a huge diversity of races, classes, colors, religions, voices and how nice that is, but are we losing our uniqueness? Are we becoming a transition to nothingness? No personality? No common goal?

 

I have a large Canadian flag on my balcony right now, but it is the only one in the neighborhood and seems to attract only curious looks. Well I am proud and not apologetically so.

 

So I hope some people are able to read this before it is removed by a 'moderator' as offensive. The guidelines seem to encompass anything one says as 'offensive'.