WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CANADIAN
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CANADIAN
by Tom Choy
Vancouver, British Columbia
Having lived in Canada for a couple decades, Canada becomes home for me and my family. You appreciate how lucky you can be living in one of the best places to live in the world. Canada gives you comfort and honor. In return, we have to make Canada proud of us too.
You feel welcome here in Canada despite some instances when people notice your colour is different from theirs. Sometimes you have to work doubly harder to prove you deserve to live in this wonderful country who embraces people who have chosen to stay here for good.
When people tell me that Canadians contributed the insulin, blackberry, basketball and ice hockey and poutine, it gives me enormous pride and honour.
Even if I have not invented anything huge, I love possessing the uniquely Canadian aura of being helpful to other people. I love volunteering in the soup kitchens of Vancouver Eastside.
There is nothing embarrassing to be thought of by Americans as very polite people. Yes, Canadians are very polite. They let you have your right of way on the road. They say "sorry" all the time even if it is not their fault to say so. They hold the door when you are behind them in a swinging door. Yes, nothing is wrong being polite.
I love helping make our Vancouver City more progressive and greener by showing up in townhall meetings and giving my input to the collective. I am still saving to buy an electric car to bolster my carbon tax credit.
I show up in mass actions to bring justice to the aggrieved and abused sectors of our society.
I enjoy exercising my right of suffrage aware that in the past some people because of their gender and colour of skin were not allowed to vote. I want to elect the right people to lead us. After all even the young people of America who are being killed in schools by mentally ill schoolmates with access to guns and bullets are now taking it in their own hands to tell Washington this has to stop. That there has to be common sense gun control. Let the mentally ill people be barred from owning or possessing weapons of mass assaults.
I am proud to be a Canadian because our leaders have apologized to the relatives of the victims of the Chinese headtax, Japanese internment and the Komagata Maru.The government's efforts to resolve the truth and reconciliation affecting our First Nations brothers and sisters must still reach higher levels of resolution.
I am proud of Canada welcoming people who flee their homelands to find a safer and more fulfilling life in Canada. They end up on a happy note becoming future government officials, doctors, lawyers and volunteer peoples after having been given a second chance at success by Canada.
I am proud of Canada for being in the forefront of helping cmbat global warming and terrorism.
I am proud of what it truly means to be a Canadian-respectful, helpful and inventive.
by Tom Choy
Vancouver, British Columbia
Having lived in Canada for a couple decades, Canada becomes home for me and my family. You appreciate how lucky you can be living in one of the best places to live in the world. Canada gives you comfort and honor. In return, we have to make Canada proud of us too.
You feel welcome here in Canada despite some instances when people notice your colour is different from theirs. Sometimes you have to work doubly harder to prove you deserve to live in this wonderful country who embraces people who have chosen to stay here for good.
When people tell me that Canadians contributed the insulin, blackberry, basketball and ice hockey and poutine, it gives me enormous pride and honour.
Even if I have not invented anything huge, I love possessing the uniquely Canadian aura of being helpful to other people. I love volunteering in the soup kitchens of Vancouver Eastside.
There is nothing embarrassing to be thought of by Americans as very polite people. Yes, Canadians are very polite. They let you have your right of way on the road. They say "sorry" all the time even if it is not their fault to say so. They hold the door when you are behind them in a swinging door. Yes, nothing is wrong being polite.
I love helping make our Vancouver City more progressive and greener by showing up in townhall meetings and giving my input to the collective. I am still saving to buy an electric car to bolster my carbon tax credit.
I show up in mass actions to bring justice to the aggrieved and abused sectors of our society.
I enjoy exercising my right of suffrage aware that in the past some people because of their gender and colour of skin were not allowed to vote. I want to elect the right people to lead us. After all even the young people of America who are being killed in schools by mentally ill schoolmates with access to guns and bullets are now taking it in their own hands to tell Washington this has to stop. That there has to be common sense gun control. Let the mentally ill people be barred from owning or possessing weapons of mass assaults.
I am proud to be a Canadian because our leaders have apologized to the relatives of the victims of the Chinese headtax, Japanese internment and the Komagata Maru.The government's efforts to resolve the truth and reconciliation affecting our First Nations brothers and sisters must still reach higher levels of resolution.
I am proud of Canada welcoming people who flee their homelands to find a safer and more fulfilling life in Canada. They end up on a happy note becoming future government officials, doctors, lawyers and volunteer peoples after having been given a second chance at success by Canada.
I am proud of Canada for being in the forefront of helping cmbat global warming and terrorism.
I am proud of what it truly means to be a Canadian-respectful, helpful and inventive.
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