I did not know this;
Don Cherry is a Canadian icon but remarkably Don Cherry is not a member of the Order of Canada.
How could that be? Who is more Canadian? I was surprised about this. Well sort of. He is as loud a patriot as there has ever been but he’s also been a thorn in the side of the Liberals who have ruled this land for much of its 140 years.
But with Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper in office now there are some hoping the tide will change and a few right-wingers will get a shot — with Don Cherry at the top of the list.
While they are at it maybe they can include a few well deserving Sun columnists, too. How the Toronto Star’s Michele Landsberg and the Globe and Mail’s Jeffrey Simpson are members of the order and Sun legends Peter Worthington and Doug Fisher are not, says everything you need to know about how unfair the process is.
Worthington and Fisher are Canadian veterans who served in World War II and legendary journalists who have 120 years of newspaper experience between them. I haven’t found any military service records for Landsberg or Simpson. They must have had other connections.
Cherry’s connection is his fans, regular Canadians, and an underground campaign to see that he gets his due has popped up. “Don Cherry epitomizes and is representative of the freedoms we as Canadians enjoy, the freedom of speech,” said Toronto Police video services manager John Sandeman. “He does what government’s strive to do, unite Canada.”
Sandeman sent over an e-mail yesterday hoping to get people to fill in the form and send it to Ottawa. Let me know what you think or call the Governor General’s office at 1-800-465-6890, e-mail info@gg.ca or write to Rideau Hall, 1 Sussex Dr., Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0A1.
Via National Newswatch (which is getting better by the day).
UPDATE – Maybe we should just pool our pennies and buy him one.
Onward socialist soldiers progressively marching towards we don’t know where. Did somebody say Utopia? Err, but Capitan Anonymous, because we don’t have a compass or any other way of establishing our present location, or for that matter, since we reinvented where we started from – won’t we end up, ah, marching in circles? Humph, poppycock! We must not get hung up on mere facts when there’s much idealistic marching to be done. Do it with feeling men, err, comrades.
I’m surprised that no one else has mentioned that
Rex Murphy ranted about this on Nov 9th, 2006
(full text available at http://www.cbc.ca/national/rex/). I watched his rant, blogged about it at the time, and heard no more about it. Now, Joe Warmington writes about it for the Sun papers and it’s news?
Strange how people somehow equated progress with communism. I am a liberal capitalist who is very left-wing on moral/cultural issues. How did I in any way advocate communism by attacking conservatism? I hate stupid ignorant people.
Strange how people somehow equated progress with communism. I am a liberal capitalist who is very left-wing on moral/cultural issues. How did I in any way advocate communism by attacking conservatism? I hate stupid ignorant people.
T.S. Eliot said that nobody should have an opinion without possessing the evidence.
Anonymous, thanks for providing the evidence. The ‘hate’ part is particularly useful.
I think that Cherry would be more insulted if you gave him one. There is no worse group in Canada (aside from the liberal party membership list – which overlaps) than that steaming pile of crap that is the order of canada.
Why would anyone but an obnoxious rosedale liberal want one? It’s worse than the nobel “peace” prise. Ya, I’d love to be in the company of Arafat and Carter. About as much as all the CBC journalists and other vermin in the order of canada.