O’Canada
It’s Canada Day, and even though I liked Dominion Day a great deal more; I still love living in this country. Like a number of Canadians I have had some choices about where I wanted to live and I still chose Canada. I love living in a place where there are four seasons and I do love living in a country where I can look out my big bay living windows of my 19th century flat and see literally the faces of the entire world walk on by.
I like living in a country where water, food, and relatively clean air are in abundance. I love living in a place wherein the ‘authorities’ get shifty with a citizens charter rights – most sane people get absolutely tanked with outraged. This is a good thing. I love the fact our holidays are for the most part sacred and rarely are we allowed to legally pick and chose which day we will celebrate them on. This has given me a mid-week break with enough time to sew two dresses, see a movie with my daughter and lose myself in Patrick O’Brian’s world – all before I have to go back to work tomorrow.
If I had one wish for my country (other than lower taxes) it would be this; peace, order and good government was the order of the day no matter which group of stiffs is running the government.
