Whathappenedto gloriousandfree?

DEAR EDITOR:

O Canada. Oh dear Canada. We seem to be having an identity crisis. How many people consider Canada their “home and native land?”

Or, has it become their home and “we will change this land to where we used to live or what we want?” Is there any patriotic love for “all our sons command”? Whoops, as of 2018 there was an amendment to the National Anthem Act to change it to “all of us command.”

Apparently, having it remain unaltered since 1939, the current narrative required a change so it is more “inclusive” despite the anthem being given Royal Assent in 1980.

Oops, that’s taboo too apparently. We are not so “glorious and free” either. We have become a compliant public manipulated to believe the government is acting in our best interests.

Since the 1950s, there has been a growing disinterest in questioning or confronting political leaders about their policies and policy making. This is evident with a usually poor turnout at the voting polls. There is little critical thinking. I get it.

People are busy with their daily lives and many prefer the freedom from making choices even if it means the choices being made for them aren’t the best.

The backbone of this country has, for the most part, been independent businesses, but government overreach and over regulation has undermined this causing many to go bankrupt.

Who benefits? Government and large corporations. Corporations want policies that benefit them. Think not, think again. Many politicians are motivated to create policies because of their desire to stay in power which takes money. Who has that money?

Big corporations.

Governments were created by man to represent and protect the property of man. Instead, the political reality has been government expansion through overreaching rules and regulations which have strengthened their position, via a veil of deceit, at the expense of individual freedoms.

Power is a problem.

Unfortunately, corruption is the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. As for “standing on guard for thee,” I believe that people will be content with their comfortable lives until they recognize they are not getting what they've been promised.

Mark Twain said it best, “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you, that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” Mary-Anne MacDonald

Summerland