You
probably missed it in the local news, but there was a report that
someone in Pakistan had advertised in a newspaper an offer of a
reward to anyone who killed a Canadian...any Canadian! An Australian
dentist wrote the following editorial to help define what and who a
Canadian is, so they would know one...if and when they found one.
A
Canadian can be French or English...or Italian, Irish, German,
Spanish, Ukrainian, Swedish, Polish, Armenian, Russian or Greek. A
Canadian can be Costa Rican, Honduran, Jamaican, Trinidadian,
Haitian...African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese...Korean, Australian,
Iranian, Asian, Arab, Pakistani or Afghan. A Canadian may also be an
Iroquois, Cree, Algonquin, Haida, Salish, Metis, Ojibiwa, Blackfoot,
Abenaki, Sioux...or any one of the many other tribes known as “First
Nation Canadians”.
A
Canadian's religious beliefs range from Christian, Jewish, Buddhist,
Muslim, Hindu or none. In fact, there are more Muslims in Canada
than in Afghanistan. The key difference is that in Canada, they are
free to worship as each of them chooses. Whether they have a
religion or no religion...each Canadian ultimately answers only to
GOD...not to the
government or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and
for God.
A
Canadian lives in one of the most prosperous lands in the history of
the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Charter
of Rights and Freedoms
which recognize the right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.
A Canadian is generous and Canadians have helped out just about
every other nation in the world in their time of need...never asking
anything in return.
Canadians
welcome the best of everything: the best products, the best books,
the best music, the best food, the best services and the best minds.
But they also welcome the least ~ the oppressed, the outcast and the
rejected. These
are the people who built Canada!
You can try to kill a Canadian if you must...as other
blood-thirsty-tyrants in the world have tried...but in doing so, you
could just be killing a relative or neighbour or friend.
This is because Canadians are not a particular people from a
particular place.
They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom.
Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, can be a Canadian!
(I extend gracious thanks to Dilu for the above article)
Merle Baird-Kerr...written November 12, 2014
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