WE ARE PROUD CANADIANS
Bruce Allen is on the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Committee and new Canadians (specifically Hindi's/Indian's) want him fired for his recent comments outlined below:
[Note: these comments included the phrase "If you choose to come to a place like Canada, then shut up and fit in."]
I am sorry, but after hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in Hindi at the 2010 Olympics - enough is enough. Nowhere or at no other time in our Nation's history, did they sing it in Italian, Japanese, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German, Portuguese, Greek, or any other language because of immigration. It was written in English, adapted into French, and should be sung word for word the way it was written.
The news broadcasts even gave the Hindi version translation - which was not even close to our National Anthem. I am not the least bit sorry if this offends ANYONE, this is MY COUNTRY; My Grand Dad served in the military, other family members also served, as well as my wife & I served a combined total of 56 years between us. We made many sacrifices for our country and do not feel we should feel obligated to allow invited people we've welcomed with open arms to influence & change our society to better resemble the one they chose to leave to come here!!! - IF YOU AGREE ABOUT THIS GREAT COUNTRY, SPEAK UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE
I am not against immigration. In fact I believe we need more, my ancestors were immigrants -- just come through like everyone else. Get a sponsor; a place to lay your head; have a job; pay your taxes, live by the Rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the past -- and LONG LIVE CANADA!'
It's time we all get behind Bruce Allen, and scrap this Political Correctness His comments were anything but racist, however, there are far too many overly sensitive 'New Canadians' that are attempting to change everything we hold dear.
ARE you PART OF THE PROBLEM ??? Think about this: If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone, will we still be the Country of Choice and Still be CANADA if we continue to make the changes forced on us by the people from other countries who have come to live in CANADA because it is the Country of Choice??????
Think about it!
IMMIGRANTS, NOT CANADIAN'S, MUST ADAPT.
It's Time for CANADIANS to speak up.. If you agree ? Pass this along; if you don't agree? Delete it and reap what you sow because of your complacency!
Well... first things first:
Maybe if the person who wrote these comments knew the difference between a possessive apostrophe and a contraction, I would have more respect for his/her opinions.
Seriously though, I hear and see this kind of shit all the time, especially living in Toronto, and I have no patience for it. I happen to think the Canadian anthem should stay the way it is, because it's tradition, but I don't think the mere suggestion to translate it (and that's all it was, a suggestion, not an order or a decision) should cause mass xenophobic hysteria. Incidentally, xenophobia is the fear of foreigners or strangers. People who rant against immigrants "trying to change our great country" are scared, and their fear blinds them to the realities of how immigration actually impacts this country.
We are a nation of only-children who are not reproducing our own population. Once the baby boomers grow old, retire, and begin to pass away, we will not only be left with gaping holes in our employment system, medical staff and political leadership, but with holes in our society as well. We NEED immigrants - just as early Canadian settlers needed other settlers to help them establish themselves.
More importantly, whether our population grows or shrinks, our country is not as perfect as these people would like to believe. Canada may be high up on the index of living standards in comparison to much of the world, but the fact remains that we have major, major issues here that are not being dealt with. The rise in homelessness, the lack of government attention to problems like mental illness and inaccessible education, and many industries that lack young people being trained to work - crucial industries like health care, elder care and essential trades - all of these are really big problems that are convenient to ignore as we go about our daily lives, belting 'O Canada' at opportune moments and slagging the Americans for their messed-up way of running their country.
When I hear about people keeling over and dying in emergency waiting rooms because there aren't enough doctors to tend to them... when I see taxi drivers with medical training kept out of our system because of government bias and red tape... and when I see homeless men - and women - on the street corner every morning as I approach my office building, with their feet black with frostbite, it makes me wonder who could possibly think that immigrants are "spoiling" this country.
And for anyone who would accuse me of being cynical or anti-Canadian... I love my country fiercely and I vote every chance I get - thus I have the right to speak up. It is the unpatriotic and the politically apathetic who have no right to complain.
2 comments:
Have you considered perhaps that this country is the way it is right now because of immigrants?
Homelessness, long waiting lists at hospitals, our employment rate, etc??
Do you know how much money is spent every single year setting up immigrants, paying EI for them, welfare, health care? The huge amounts of money that are being spent on accommodating immigrants could give thousands of Canadians jobs, build facilities for people with mental health problems, build shelters for the homeless.
Also, have you actually looked at he population trends of Canada over the past 30 years? We are at an all time high for child birth and multiple children families. We are not running out of Canadians any time soon, so don't you worry about us needing immigrants.
Don't call out Canada on their little problems and say it's because of the way we treat immigrants. what other country in the world would allow Canadians to immigrate and give them the same first class treatment we give every immigrant that comes to our border.
Canada is in the problem it is today because we're too nice and we're allowing in thousands of immigrants every year, while not taking care of our own.
Nice guys finish last I guess.
"First class treatment" for every immigrant that comes to our border? I think not. That is hardly the experience of every immigrant.
And I think it's a mistake to blame high levels of homelessness and long hospital wait-times solely on immigrants. As you say, we are not taking good care of our own, let alone immigrants - but this is not the immigrants' fault, it is the fault of our federal and provincial governments and of voters and non-voters who do not insist on money going into these services.
Also, if you read my post more carefully, you will see that I did not blame any of Canada's "little problems", as you call them, on the way we treat immigrants. These issues are separate and would exist even if we stopped letting anyone else into the country. You yourself blame the immigrants and us being "too nice" as the cause for "Canada being in the problem it is today" - so are they to blame or not? Make up your mind.
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