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Oh Canada - Haliburton Echo

Summary

By Emily Stonehouse If you were to explain Canada Day to someone who had never heard of the holiday before, how would you start? Would you lead with the fact that it’s the day we officially became a country? But it was a country before colonizers settled on the land. Well before that. Would you explain that it’s a day where we honour and celebrate our natural surroundings? But our politicians are passing bills to destroy our climate. Every day. Would you share that it’s a day we should be proud of our diversity, our inclusion, our empathy we put into the world? But there’s still racism. Still homophobia. Still sexism. Still bigotry. Canada had a recent shot of adrenalin in the form of the ‘Elbows Up’ campaign; when Trump made some off-side comments about capturing Canada as the 51st state, and we realized that in fact, we do have it pretty good.

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