Stand up for Canada

Canadians will take a few slaps on the face and then turn the other cheek and we will show the world the way honest hard-working people can live economically in harmony and peace.

We do not need the rhetoric from south of our border trying to divide our society and unstitching our social fabric. Canadians should be calling on all leaders (Especially Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh) to stand together, unified as Canadians, professing in no uncertain terms, that the contemptible and offensive “verbal diarreha” filtering north from the (United States) will not be tolerated anymore.

Any Canadian contemplating the annexation of this beautiful country and who advocates ceding our nation, must be considered a traitor and a coward. America is not our enemy but our friend and sometimes we need to take a break from our friends—in this case (the next) four years.

There are, however, some words we can take to heart from our good friends to the south and around the globe.

• From the presidential inauguration (address by the late John F. Kennedy in) 1961: "And so, my fellow Americans [Canadians]: Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country".

• From author G. Michael Hopf: "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times."

So ask yourself, are we weak men in Canada? What can we do for Canada?

And from around the world:

• (The late former British prime minister) Sir Winston Churchill :" There are no limits to the magestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

• (The late former Canadian prime minister) Priere Trudeau: "Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they fell that all Canada belongs to them"

• (The late Canadian philosopher) Marshall McLuhan: " Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands."

Any person who believes that ceding any Canadian territory or Canadian sovereignty, at any time, is very weak indeed.

Roberto Basso