Seriously:
More Canadians take pride in the things that affect them today than they do in their country’s history, a survey from the Association for Canadian Studies suggests.
The online poll found that 73 per cent of respondents see universal health care as a very important source of personal or collective Canadian pride, while 70 per cent are proud of their Canadian passport.
“We’re putting the greatest value on the things that are connecting with us in a contemporary sense – things that are more current, we tend to value,” said Jack Jedwab, the non-profit organization’s president and CEO. “We’re not looking too far back. We’re trying to look at today and ahead.”
The Canadian flag takes the number three spot on the list of symbols of pride, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom comes fourth.
Who the hell answered this poll? The Liberal Party?
By the time the British North America Act took effect on July 1st, 1867, Canada was a fledgling country of four provinces and a population of a mere 2,616,063 citizens. It gradually expanded to ten provinces, built a railroad in conditions that were logistically nightmarish, repelled an American invasion force (who's marching into Canada now, Henry?), distinguished itself on the battlefields of Europe, invented insulin and Superman and had the fourth-largest navy in the world with which to beat the Nazi war machine.
Now, this country is being run into the ground by the useless frat-boy son of a wife-beating communist sympathiser who didn't even fight in the Second World War. Where we offered the world insulin, we have nothing but dope-smokers and people who don't know a damn thing about the Holocaust. We can't capitulate to every single group fast enough.
There is nothing to be proud of now.
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