Passion pt. 2
so I was watching some online video clips on cbc.ca today about Canada and the fight to get our own flag. Wow my friends, just wow...it was an intence battle ended by the Liberals just forcing the vote almost. I watched this one video where the Prime Minister was talking to a crowd of Legionares and was just about booed off of the stage for talking about the need for our own flag...

makes me think...

The Liberals has a few motives in that running, they wanted Canada to be its own country. With our own national anthum and our own flag...and the Prime Minister was very passionate about this as where the Liberals who backed him up, while the concervitives wanted to keep with the old traditional "Red Ensign"...

But my focus for todays post is that passion and that drive that abtained for us what we now see as our national symbol...a flag that tells all wherever we are that indeed we are Canadian...not British but Canadian. Our country now flyes a flag with the maple leaf in the center and 2 red borders because someone wouldn't let it go...wouldn't give up. Some said it was the french's voices for a new flag because they wern't British, some peoples view of Canada as a British colony still held on very strong...we are a pridefull people by nature...one person and his marry band of Liberals took it and wouldn't give up. The dream was there and now we are here with a name and a symbol seperating us from our past and pushing us into our future.

I know its just a flag but...

When the Queen visits Canada she doesn't see the Union Jack, she see's the maple leaf.

you know what I mean? We have come such a long way from British North America.

And in the wake of Canada Day and the US "Indepencance Day" I look back to the great white north and I smile. We didn't wage some great war against the an evil dictator...we more or less just evolved into one heck of a great nation.

and it was passion that drove it...and it was passion that led us to where we are today. Where we don't sing God Save the Quees as our anthum because dangit O CANADA! Where we don't fly the Union Jack because DANGIT WE'RE CANADIANS AND WE'LL BE SEEN AS SUCH!

We hold true to our roots and will never forget them but we will also always be known by all the world all our own.

I love being Canadian...I love it alot.

I wanna watch more vids, they are awesome...peace.
- posted by Kai @ 7/05/2004 04:12:00 p.m.