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Monday, July 2, 2012
Canada Day celebrations in Coleman
Yesterday, I participated in my 18th annual Canada Day Celebrations in Coleman. The crowds on the streets for the parade were dismal. Sparse would be an understatement. The worst attendance I have ever seen. Was it the threatening storm clouds, long-weekend, Canada Day falling on a Sunday, who knows?
Some people who I know and respect as pillars in our community, couldn't help voicing their displeasure with our current mayor and council, and the direction they have been taking us, blaming them for the sudden lack of community spirit.
I couldn't help noticing the municipal float the mayor recently referred to as a "death trap" was in the parade? Someone commented on my blog that the driver should be given the 'Order of Crowsnest Pass'. :-)
All in all, it was disappointing and distressing for some that apathy and antipathy seemed to have taken over this year's celebrations.
But a brave face was put on by all who attended and for a brief period we shared with friends and strangers alike what it means to be 'proud' Canadians, who love our land and appreciate who we are and what we have and are blessed with.
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.
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3 comments:
john
hashtag of the day after happycanada day was denounceharper
we are one year into the harper-con dynasty
the beatings will continue until moral improves
if you did love canada
july 1 is more like a memorial service now
some of us just stayed home and cried
Gotcha! And I did hear about the #denounceharper and thought to myself that more and more people are waking up to the dangers our country is under with him and his gang in charge.
I cry every day knowing he is a traitor who is selling our country and its people out into a fascist reality that is becoming more clearer for some with each passing day.
JP
Blood on the Wire
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to its people
And the country is drifting to war
And there's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs
On the radio talk shows and the T.V.
You hear one thing, again and again
How the U.S.A., stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends,
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who, finally, can't take any more
And they pick up a gun, or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire
There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can't even say the names
They sell us the President the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are..
I want to hear somebody asking them why..
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire
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