Salim Mansur once again offers us his beautiful writing as he laments the present and future of Canada, depsite its glorious past.
Here’s a snippet:
Canada itself was relatively young when those men and boys, barely showing whiskers, left for battles across oceans and their women, with similar courage, filled their spaces at home.
It was a different world then, where people did more, and gave more.
They came from farms and factories—ordinary people with mundane hopes and fears who opened this country of lakes and mountains across a continent out of their own enterprise—and then when called upon to take arms, defeated professional warriors claiming superiority of race and culture.
It was due to them this country emerged into the first rank of nations in the world, a people respected for the leadership shown in battles fought and won.
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