Dominion Day Challenge

Peace, order, and good government (to quote BNA 1867).

Uniquely just like every other country in the world.

Blessed.

Et dominabitur a mari usque ad mare, et a flumine usque ad terminos terrae

I do think that the last part should be included.

Tommy Makem's opinion.

SIC ITUR AD ASTRA

or

PER ARDUA AD ASTRA

Very grateful to live and raise a family in a country the values freedom and property rights.
Although not to the traditional extent of the great people to the south of us.

Does that qualify??

Per ardua ad astra is a good motto for Canada, to be sure, though it is already in use by the RAF, RAAF, RCAF, and RNZAF.

Making love in a canoe?

I used to think being Canadian didn't mean as much as being a Newfoundlander or an Albertan. Having lived in many provinces in my life time my opinion has changed. Being Canadian to me means discovering a lot of the things that make you a Newfoundlander are shared across this great land, such being friendly, helpful and generous, and (outside of politics) a willingness to sit, listen and learn from others. Oh, and we're good looking too!

Having a full belly. Being able through hard work to advance beyond your social circumstances.

Not fearing Government thugs showing up in the middle of the night to cart you off to death or imprisonment without due process.

Having Individual freedom , not collective tyranny.
Being able to choose ones Masters at a Ballot box.
Living in a land of variety politically, & socially. Than being able to picking where one wants to live.

The right to speak your mind ( Unless you live in Ontario or BC).
Now with Sun news getting balanced reporting of the real world.
Not slavishly following celebrities. Journalistic nor actors. Having a simple political system.
Being able to worship God the way you want.
Many more good things.

WE all know the deficiencies.
Each Province having their own laws.
The right if we use it to change what we find unacceptable. The chance to live in good shelter. Magnificent scenery Nation wide, with abundant riches for us to develop.
Most Canadians respectful towards each other. Except certain exceptions WE all know about. The right to be a jack ass.
An army that has real balls that protect us instead of oppress us.
Divisible Politics. Not having the UN run the Nation.
Being able to spend our labor on what we like, not what where told to like.
Of course it has many faults but that's why SDA id here. (O:}

Great place to be a free loader.

@ John Lewis: Agreed

Psalm 72:8

He shall have dominion from from sea to sea

and from the rivers to the ends of the earth.

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

Lawn darts are too dangerous for us.
Only allowed to ride bikes with a helmet on.
We can only say nice things. (CHRC)
We can celebrate being gay, but not straight.
We pay tax on a .038% trace gas.
Only criminals are allowed to defend themselves.
We teach perversion in schools.
Our government is still afraid of Indians.
We pretend Muslims immigration is good.
We pretend we are bilingual.
We pretend we have a working metric system.
Our nanny state actually runs the country.
Hard drugs are encouraged with free needles.
Our politicians still believe windmills work.
Our national broadcaster only supports wingnuts.
We have no property rights.

I would celebrate but we are not allowed to use fireworks and I forgot to get a permit for our neighborhood barbeque.

Listened to Feist on Parliament Hill. Turned it off. That's the best we have?

A ride downhill without knowing where the bottom is...

It means being a proud memeber of a society founded, built and (so far) maintained by a people who share one common trait: They or one of their relatively recent ancestors came here with a desire for freedom and opportunity.

Was Feist singing in French or just mumbling? I could not tell.

Canada is a proud nation. It is not one to back down from a fight and pity the poor slob that picks a fight with Canada for Canada is the one 'French' speaking nation that has NEVER surrendered. Yes we have a few issues. None that can't be overcome.

Stand FREE! Stand TALL! Stand PROUD!

Oh yeah and the next time someone disses your Canada do what me old Welsh Grandfather would do and "Stick Fast Their Chops"! ('Jam it down their throats' for those who may not catch the Welsh expression)

I went for a pre-dawn bike ride this morning. Eased though the twisties along the river, then headed out to the main road to wind it up. I turned east, looked up and saw Venus and Jupiter burning like LED lights just above the pink of the horizon. Still a bit of a chill in the air, a straight road ahead with no traffic, forests and farms on either side.
Went fast enough to scare myself, then stopped at Tim's for a doughnut. And that's Canada for me.
If that's not good enough for you, bite me.

Being Canadian means 60% of the country thinks the government is smarter then they are.

Being Canadian means firing a teacher because he fails someone for not doing the work.

Arresting a father because his daughter draws a picture of a gun.

Being Canadian means being surrounded by people that think hydrocarbon is evil.

Canada is doing fine right now not because of its inner greatness but because everyone else crashed and we have been able to hold the retards off for the last 5 years.

That said with the changes Harper is making this could be Canada Century. Time Will tell.

Happy Dominion day may we make wise choices in the future.

The front page newspaper story above the fold on Dominion Day is about hockey, as it is on just about any day of the year.

To be a citizen of a country once thought great enough by my father, his brothers, and countless others of their generation, that they would risk, and sometimes give, their lives in its defense; a country which since, in its gratitude, has adopted, by the hands of its statists, a form frighteningly close to one those great men fought against: where little respect remains for the individual person; where their property is routinely exacted from them in the alleged interest of the "greater good"; where their public servants run ever-greater portions of their lives, and where far too many have learned to roll over and shut up about it.

Canada is not the same as the United States.

No wait.

Canadians are not Americans.

No wait.

We Canadians are superior to those south of us.

No, no wait.

Those people to our south are bad and we Canadians are wonderful.

Hey Kate...this is hard. It can't be done.

I've lived too many years under leftist teaching.

Fiscal sanity, at the federal level at least (I live in Ontario, land of the Dalt). We have had our close encounter with socialism and are backing away from it a little bit at a time. Unlike...... Europe which is plunging headlong towards financial meltdown because all their problems can be solved by borrowing more money. And more government. And retiring on a government pension at 60 years of age.

We've never turned our back on Israel.

The original national anthem was written in French to be performed on St Jean Baptiste day in 1880. Here's a partial translation.

Ton histoire est une epopee
Des plus brilliants exploits.
Et ta valeur, de foi trempee,
Protegera nos foyers et nos droits

Thy history is an epic
of the most brilliant exploits.
And your valour, steeped in faith
Will protect our homes and rights

Being Canadian means having the guts to stand up to a tyrannical provincial Premier who tries to ram undemocratic, harmful and oppressive policies down our throats.

Saying to yourself that if our fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers could go overseas and risk their lives for this country and our freedoms, then the very least we can do to say thanks is to stand up against a Liberal politician who has us on a fast-track to the destruction of rural life in Ontario.

To sit comfortably back in ignorance and complacency is no excuse and is shameful.

I love this province and I love this country. It is one of many beautiful and glorious lands on this little rock hurtling through space and I am very thankful to call myself Canadian.

Describe what it means to be a Canadian:

Realizing what our founders/ ancestors sacrificed and built as our inheritance was not to be squandered and given away to the worlds Socialists, leaches, and squatters looking “to better their lives” at our expense.

For parallel insights on this subject, I can recommend Adam Nicolson's "Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar" (Harper Perennial, 2005; the publisher's name and the publication date are both entirely ironic in light of the book's implications for modern Canada).

Trafalgar provides the skeleton, but the book is actually a social history of Britain at the time of its rise to global hegemony, contrasting what we would call the political correctness of the eighteenth century with its collapse and replacement with a self-assured global mission based on humane capitalism. These developments in Britain are further contrasted with the social history of France and Spain (Britain's antagonists at Trafalgar) in the same period.

The parallels with modern national Canadian politics, economic development and emerging identity, along with what's happening in Europe, are striking. A few tidbits:

- "Anyone in the swim in mid-18th-century England accepted lying and hypocrisy as both a necessity and the norm." (p. 165)

- "In response to this need for courtesy and delicacy, wide swathes of English 18th-century life became fragile and dainty, in a way that no age in England, before or since, has managed it...Politeness became a kind of affliction." (p. 166)

- "Acceptable behaviour had become toy-like and it was not long before the anti-heroic fashion for a delicate sensibility ran out of control. Manliness, or even the ability to survive, had in fact almost entirely deserted those who were suffering from the cult of sensibility" (p. 167).

Sound familiar? But then...

- "By 1805, the feminity of the mid-18th century was being left behind. Exaggerated sensibility had started to look absurd...A fashion for manliness had begun to take over the culture...It is not difficult to see in this powerful and spreading ethic and aesthetic a version of the new economic reality..in which the motor and generator of national life was increasingly commercial [and] increasingly impatient with and contemptuous of the stupidities of rank. What mattered was authentic, self-generated worth." (p. 171-173).

Nicolson gets his title from William Blake's poem, "The Tyger", which is a great encapsulation of where I see Canada heading:

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame they fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

Nothing happens overnight, and we still have a long way to go, but the social sentiment is gaining momentum. Evidence? Look no further than this site and its contributors, who every day express their increasing impatience and contempt for the "stupidities of rank" and belief that what matters is "authentic, self-generated worth".

Oh! Canada!

Yea can't wait until Canada/ Dominion Day is put off on years that Ramadan rolls in on the same month. We would hate to offend Muslims by not celebrating our diversity and forgoing any celebrations that detract from worshiping a dead paedophile, hanging gays, and treating women like cattle.

2014 is a little close to the next one considering weaker than France Muslim Demographics, but should be a good pilot test for the future. I wonder which Liberal NDP members put forward the “Ban Canada Day for peace” celebrations on that year.

http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/06/30/only-one-national-day

Good article on Canada Day, and our ongoing love for Quebec.

On THIS Canada Day, we can be grateful we've held the deluge back a few years, then tomorrow start fighting the good fight all over again as the terminally neurotic in our midst seek to create a perfect world.

Enjoy Dominion Day,fellow Canadians.

Carthago delenda est.

As a school kid,every year we had to give a "speech". I believe it was called oral composition or public speaking. Invariably one of the topics was "The twentieth century belongs to Canada".
There were some really fine speeches given on that topic but damned if I can remember any of them.
They went down the rabbit hole about the time Turdeau came on the scene. :(

"We pretend we are bilingual.
We pretend we have a working metric system."... LOL.

Well... we pretend a lot of things, as do all nations.
Still: "my home and native land"

Happy Canada (Dominion) Day. js

Not quite as nice as being a Texan.

what's it mean to be Canadian?

I'm not french:-)))

Too cold. Unless it's too hot.

I'm not Canadian, so instead I'll pass on the viewpoint from a few other Canadians.

From The Arrogant Worms, Proud to be Canadian:

We're proud to be Canadian
We're awfully kind to strangers
Our manners be our curse
It's cool in many ways to be Canadian
We won't say that we're better
It's just that we're less worse

In the words of John Diefenbaker, "I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind."

Being Canadian means I can work most of the year to pay taxes so underworked, overpaid bureacrats at all three levels of government can get paid undeservedly high salaries.

Being Canadian means you pay through the nose for a second rate health care system and wait almost forever to get treated.

Being Canadian means you have to put up with bunch of whiney, snivelling Quebecers that will screw the ROC out of every dollar possible so they don't have to work.

Being Canadian means trying to understand why most people in this country worship that fool David Suzuki.

Etc.

Getting high on patriotism ....in moderation.

Being Canadian ensures I can be what I want to be, who I want to be and how I want to achieve it. We are blessed to live in this great nation.

I can't relate to anything I saw on Parliament Hill to-day!

What it means to be Canadian. Living in a country with failed LIBERAL policies that still haunt us today.

Gotta a lot of whiners here that can't see how truly blessed they are to live in this nation.If you are after perfection, hurry up and die and go to the promised land.

To me, being Canadian is trying to extract as much money as possible from Ottawa while rejecting pretty much everything else about the ROC.

Vive le Quebec.

by chance of birthplace

not having to say sorry more than once

excuse me

pabst blue ribbon sucks

eh?

bob & doug mckenzie

parlez vous anglais?

rush, guess who, lightfoot, ian & sylvia, oscar peterson, lenny breau, maynard ferguson, effing ann murray

One cannot contemplate Canada without considering climate. We are shaped by our weather. We endure the extremes of cold and heat, of flood and drought, of fires and ice. To be Canadian means to bear this burden; when the snow falls, shovel it, and when the waters rise, build dikes. And because it affects all of us, when your neighbour needs your help, you offer it, as you know he will help you. Combined, this made us tough, humble, and civil.

To be Canadian means to be free, and not only free to speak as you please, or to worship as you wish, but to be free of imperial desire. While I enjoy the freedom to follow my own conscience, I reject the notion that it is any part of our heritage to force our beliefs on other lands. I will however fight violently against those from other lands who seek to force their beliefs on us, as we have done in 1812, 1914, 1939, and through the Cold War, and as we will do in the religious war to come.

We have pride, but it is a quiet one. We value our accomplishments, without boasting. We seek to do well, but not to brag. (Well, hockey aside..)

This is what it means to me to be Canadian. Some will say we have strayed from these ideals in the last generation; I will not argue. The post-war generation, of which I'm a part, has lived in unheard of wealth and luxury, which has dulled our edge and filmed our memory. In the coming years, as we struggle against neo-fascists of all persuasions, I am confident we will rediscover the values that make this country great.

"Making love in a canoe?"

Posted by: foobert at July 1, 2012 12:05 PM

You know how that's like American beer, right?

(Can I mention American beer?)

Some other points:

Battle of the Chateauguay, Battle of Queenston Heights, Vimy Ridge, Battle of the Scheldt Estuary, Normandy 6 June 1944;

Avro Arrow and Orenda Iroquois; NRX and NRU;

The gas mask, and insulin;

And many many other such things.