As I watch people pass by my window with red shirts or maple leafs on their cheeks, or flags flapping from their car antenna, I am struck by the collectivism a day like today (Canada Day) evokes in behavior. I ask myself, what are they celebrating? Is it being a Canadian? Is it Canada the country?
If one is a "proud Canadian", I ask, what are you proud of, what is it about Canada that makes you proud?
What is it to be Canadian? What defines a Canadian?
As a country, what is there to be proud of? What has the country done - and don't say, won a hockey game.
I don't think most face painted, flagging waving members of the tribe have given it any thought.
I wonder if they like Canada because it's not the big bad USA. The country who's President said mean things about them, or imposed tariffs that impact subsidies which had allowed for some industries to coast along and not innovate?
Canada, the country that is economically forecast to finish dead last in the G20 for the next 2 decades. Canada the country who's government were so afraid they arrested protesters who were playing road hockey and honking horns. The country who's government (which they just RE-ELECTED by the way) froze the bank accounts of innocent people who simply donated to a cause.
Is this the Canada the sheep adorned in red clothing are celebrating?
I no longer tell people I'm Canadian. I say, "I travel under a Canadian passport" that's it. I have no patriotism to the country of Canada. I now understand that my forefathers died in a banker's war for no other reason than to disrupt the balance of global economics. It had NOTHING to do with freedom, even though that's what we and the fallen were told. WHAT FREEDOM?
The only time in the last 30 years I felt any camaraderie
was seeing the Truckers and the reactions of many others who understood the gravity of that movement. But that was a cause not national pride.
Canada was never more than a collective ideal. Regionally speaking we couldn't be more different. The similarity resonates north/south rather than east/west.
What is it to be Canadian?
What are you celebrating?
Describe a Canadian, what do they believe and or represent?
Since 1867, here's the most common descriptors:
- They're polite
- They like maple syrup
- They're good at hockey
While Canadians were told by their government:
- you're brave fighters
- you are liberators
- you are peace keepers
(notice the war connotations)
Now the government tells Canadians:
- you celebrate diversity
- you welcome immigrants
- you believe in equality
Again I ask, what is it to be Canadian? What is being celebrated?
Did Canadians represent freedom and fight for the rights of their fellow "countrymen" during the pandemic? Did they accept personal medical choices or did they dial the police when seeing more than 5 people gathering? Did they stay silent, disengaged and do nothing, so as not to attract any unwanted attention on themselves? Very brave eh?
My answer to the questions above:
To be Canadian, you're one who bought into a fantasy you've been told exists. You're one who is in love with a fictitious story. You identify with a post card. You believe in an emblem that gets you a friendly nod when traveling. You are fearful of defending your identity but you'll virtue signal for others to defend theirs.
Canada is a fake construct and the celebrating masses are willfully blind to anything that contradicts the menagerie that this land mass is anything more than fictitious dots separating one region from another. At the end of day, Canadians don't really give 2 shits about one another.
Prove me wrong.
Happy Canada Day - eh?
