Monday, July 1, 2013

Happy Canada Dominion Day!

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Some history on how "Dominion Day" was dumped in favour of the meaningless "Canada Day":

... In hindsight, it was a case of identity theft, an act of historical vandalism. A quarter-century ago, 13 members of Parliament hastily -- some say indecently -- renamed the country's national birthday in a swift bit of legislative sleight-of-hand.

At 4 o'clock on Friday, July 9, 1982, the House of Commons was almost empty. The 13 parliamentarians taking up space in the 282-seat chamber ... The whole process took five minutes. ... a private member's bill from Hal Herbert, the Liberal MP from Vaudreuil ...
Read on ...

That's how Liberals treat Canada's heritage - with skullduggery and contempt.

7 comments:

Alain said...

Absolutely correct and it was done to "appease" Quebec, which clearly did not work. The same reason was how we ended up with the meaningless Pearson Liberal flag replacing our traditional Red Ensign. Both Dominion Day and the Red Ensign represented our true history as opposed to these artificial constructs. Oh, well just more theft of our traditions and history by the Liberals, who by the way share nothing with our historical Liberals. On a better note Happy Dominion Day to all.

Anonymous said...

It's very sad that Canadians allowed such Liberal vandalism to happen, their trust was misplaced, and absolute treachery from the Liberals themselves. Of course the tired old excuse of throwing out Canadas English history and traditions to make french speakers feel more at home garbage is the all purpose excuse. Once again like Trudeaus imposed Charter, no public demand, no public consultations, just vandalism of the nation behind closed doors, or else. Canada Day, such a banal contrivance to be sure. Love seeing the Red Ensign, thanks JR, good enough for the boys at Vimy, good enough for me. Canada could've and should've continued to be a great country, instead we get Trudopia, good grief what a let down. Shameful.

Anonymous said...

Harper has had 7 years to change back to Dominion Day. He has chosen not to. You can't blame this on thevLiberals anymore.

Rick Thomson said...

Regardless of what anyone thinks, it is, and remains Dominion Day as far as I am concerned, just as the Red Ensign remains the true flag. I also refuse to learn any new versions of "Oh Canada", and actually prefer "The Maple Leaf Forever" (original version of course). Does this make me a reactionary? A dinosaur? Tough, deal with it.

Anonymous said...

You want go back to the Red Ensign? Dominion Day? Are you like 90 years old? Harper is right to reject this goofiness.

Rick Thomson said...

As I said, tough deal with it.

Anonymous said...

I could'nt care less what you think Rick. The Conservativevgov'tbis not going to adopt your fantasy as policy.