Canada’s considered one of the greatest countires in the world.
Why are you proud to be a Canadian and why is it great to be a Canadian.
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Canada’s considered one of the greatest countires in the world.
Why are you proud to be a Canadian and why is it great to be a Canadian.
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omg we are like, so totally all about multiculturalism and we totally value humanity and freedom and prosperity (can i get an amen, kyle?)
Oh yeah, and:
In the 1970s Canadian banks controlled 60-90% of banking in the Commonwealth Caribbean. They used their clout to push banking laws and other policies that favour Canadian corporate interests. Canada has used its military at least 26 times in the Caribbean since 1960 in response to threats to elite interests.
(Canadians do nothing, refuse to think about it, and will give me a thumbs down for reporting it.)
After a US invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965, Canadian troops were part of an OAS mission tasked with propping up the US installed president, Joaquin Balaguer. The fortunes of Falconbridge, a Canadian mining company, blossomed after the invasion. By 1974 it was the largest foreign investor in the country – thanks largely to the brutal repression of unionists. Today, Canada’s two biggest gold mining companies, Barrick and Goldcorp, continue to profit from the legacy of the 1965 invasion.
(Canadians do nothing, refuse to think about it, and will give me a thumbs down for reporting it.)
Canada has taken flak for its outwardly cordial relations with Castro, but the truth is that Ottawa regards Cuba as a threat. According to declassified US government documents, the US secretly urged Canada to maintain normal relations because it was well positioned to gather intelligence. Canada did not disappoint. Former Prime Minister Jean Chretien, by his own account, once told Bill Clinton: "…if we look independent enough, we can do things for you that even the CIA cannot do."
(Canadians do nothing, refuse to think about it, and will give me a thumbs down for reporting it.)
Forty four percent of Canada’s foreign aid is tied to the purchase of Canadian goods and services – a much higher percentage than most donor countries. [ zero percent of the foreign aid provided by the UK, Ireland and Norway is "tied aid". ]
(Canadians do nothing, refuse to think about it, and will give me a thumbs down for reporting it.)
The 1997 Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (in contrast to an EU agreement) included the Israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip as part of where Israel’s custom laws were applied.
(Canadians do nothing, refuse to think about it, and will give me a thumbs down for reporting it.)
At a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2007, Canada abstained from a vote that asked Israel to place its nuclear weapons program under IAEA controls.
(Canadians do nothing, refuse to think about it, and will give me a thumbs down for reporting it.)
In 1997, Ottawa initiated a re-write of Colombia’s mining code. CIDA worked on it with a Colombian law firm and the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI). The proposals became law in 2001 and offered a familiar list of goodies to mining corporations: the weakening of environmental and labor laws, reduced royalties paid to the government, tax exemptions, and added years to mining concessions.
(Canadians do nothing, refuse to think about it, and will give me a thumbs down for reporting it.)
When Canada opposed a 2007 UN General Assembly declaration on the rights of Indigenous people, it was not only facilitating the ongoing dispossession of indigenous peoples in Canada. It was protecting Canadian companies that have trampled on the rights of indigenous peoples around the world.
(Canadians do nothing, refuse to think about it, and will give me a thumbs down for reporting it.)
But let’s forget about these things, the TV says Canada is the good guy. At least Canada isn’t the US. So yea, pride is totally merited here. There’s universal healthcare and so much multiculturalism and being a beacon of freedom in the world. Oh, and a belief in morals and values. So don’t mention all those other things.
BE PROUD
BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
Because we aren’t overzealous in our nationalism.
Did you watch the Remembrance Day service from the National War Memorial today? My main source of pride was evident through the faces of those vets. Today everything else, though there are many, pales in stature.
We’ve never had a war on Canadian soil and I find that pretty epic. ^_^
we don’t have religious politicians and can’t carry guns, that alone weeds out most of the crazies
1. We never lost a war. Ever!!!!
2. We have the best trained armed forces in the world.
3. We do not have nuclear arms.
4. We have a highly advanced technological society.
5. We have a high literacy rate.
6. We have health care.
7. We are not ignorant about the world around us.
8. We are seen as liberators not invaders. Peacekeepers not warmongers.
9. We honour our commitments to the UN. When we go to war, it is a lawful act of war.
10. We don’t have a melting pot. We have a Mosaic culture.
11. We take pride in our feats of engineering. Telephone, light bulb, robertson screwdriver, snow blower, snow mobile, insulin, peacekeeping, and so on.
12. We take measures to protect our enviornment.
Any more?
In Christina\’s #11….she forgot
the mini-skirt…..lol.