Happy Canada Day to you all

Both to Canadian Boo-Men/Women and to all the rest of you, I want to wish everyone here a Happy Canada Day to you. We are 138 years old today.

I was trying to think of something good to say to sum up what it is about our country that I love. What I found however, is a piece from one of our Canadian Progressive Bloggers that seems to speak for me and probably a lot of us. A Little Bit Left wrote this piece, and I quote from it:

When push comes to shove, there’s no other country in the world that I would rather live in. And today, July 1st I will celebrate with mirth and verve the happiness that living in a progressive country that recognizes, acknowledges and cares for the least among us with no expectation of praise or adulation from the international community. We don’t do it’s fashionable or trendy, we do it because it’s absolutely the right thing to do and nothing more. Whether it gets noticed or not is inconsequential. Vive le Canada, the greatest country in world.

Canada is in a class of its own. A massive land mass with a relatively miniscule population. A population that, for the most part believes in the the idiom, “Live and let live.” To compare Canada to the likes of the U.S. or any other country is comparing apples to oranges. We are unique. We are unlike just about any other country in terms of land mass and population density. We are not America Lite. We are our own people with our own values and ideals. We have our own customs (Poutine, coffee and donuts). Please, be proud of what Canada is. Do not relegate it to a third rate, or even second rate country. Love what you have, because before you know it, it could be gone and only then will you appreciate all of the luxuries that we are afforded as citizens of this wonderful country.

Happy Canada Day, everyone. Please, celebrate it like you mean it. You are truly privileged to be in a country as great as this. Regardles of political leans. Sure, it’s not perfect but nothing in life is. I can only hope that you all have the same pride as I have when I say that I am Canadian.