By Pepper Parr
July 1st, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
Canada Day!
Is it going to be different this year?
There was a time when Bobby Gimby sang his C a n a d a while children marched behind him.
That was our Centennial year. We were noisy then – we had a lot to celebrate.
As a nation, we are a quiet people. The Americans are the noisy ones.
Things are quite a bit different this year. We face an existential threat from a President who is ignorant, psychologically unbalanced and a convicted felon who awaits sentencing from a Judge as soon as his presidency ends. He could well find himself in jail at some point.
Many of the elected officials in the American Senate have forgotten why they were elected. Defending the American Constitution is what they swore to do.
The threat from the United States will be with us at least until the 2026 American midterm elections.
In the meantime, we do what we can to manage a very difficult economy; tariffs are wreaking havoc on how business with the Americans is going to take place.
Be resolute and continue to stand firm.
Prime Minister Carney has the experience and, so far, the capacity to make the decisions that are necessary. Some of them are going to be painful.
In the recent past, Canadians have found themselves standing and singing the National anthem before events. Not something we have done for some time.
This country has so much going for it – the level of services delivered by the different levels of government is incredible.
We complain about how long it takes to get hip surgery procedures done, how long it takes to get appointments for small surgeries that, for the most part, cost citizens very little.
Americans often go bankrupt as a result of medical bills they cannot pay.
We are the envy of the world for many.
In his Canada Day message, Prime Minister Carney said: We are a “strong, bilingual, multicultural, ambitious country, a country built on the values of freedom, democracy, justice, generosity and humility, because we know that we can always be better.
We have to be resolute and continue to stand firm.
We will prevail.
Great message….the Americans have elected a dictator and a congress and senate whose republican members care only for themselves not the people they were elected to serve…we used to talk about other countries like this….who knew that such a deplorably run country used to be our closest ally…
We will have to make sacrifices but our sovereignty is worth it!!