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Feel free to share updates from how you’re spending the day, either in this thread or as a separate post. Thank you all for being here :)
Thanks for posting this. My feelings about celebrating Canada have become so complex since I became an adult and starting learning about Canada’s true past. I love my country, and would very willingly die for this country (a feeling that became VERY clear to me with Trump’s talk of annexation), but I can’t deny that I will never see this country quite the same way I did when I was young and naive.
This land was stolen, it should never have happened, but the clock can’t be turned back, and now there are legions of us born here, and for better or for worse we are part of this country now. I also view everyone here as my brothers and sisters, and I’m glad there are native people willing to view us that way too, although quite frankly I would not blame them if they didn’t.
We can only move forward. That’s what the Truth and Reconciliation movement is all about. Acknowledging the horrors of the past, and trying to move forward in peace together. I hope that Canada can turn into the country I thought it was when I was young.
Happy Canada Day to you.
Couldn’t agree with you more. I think it is vitally important Canadians as a whole continue to reflect on the mistakes and unthinkable things done in the past, to make sure we do everything we can to prevent anything like them in the future.
If we all held onto, and strived for, the Canada we remembered as kids, maybe we can carve a newer, better future for all Canadians, present citizens and those destined to become Canadian.
We need to look to the authoritarian, old school countries as examples of what happens if we aren’t vigilant. To lean into and integrate our cultural and political differences as a source of strength, not division.
In my opinion, only then can we really become true Canada.