If Canada is to be worthy of its envied standing in the world, if it is to offer something to its own people and to humanity, it will have to forge a national spirit that can unite its increasingly diverse peoples. We cannot achieve this unanimity unless we teach our national history, celebrate our founders, renew old and establish new symbols, and strengthen the terms of our citizenship. We will never be able to achieve it if we continue to allow the educational theorists and the timid provincial politicians to control the agenda. We have a nation to save and a future to build.
~ My favourite Canadian historian, J.L. Granatstein from his awesome book, Who Killed Canadian History?
And of course who better to help define this identity than Molson beer and Tim Horton’s coffee. I’m not really sure that this is what Mr. Granatstein would have wanted. Oh well, Happy Canada Day!
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