Remember when Don Cherry got canceled? Over an immigrant not wearing poppies on Remembrance Day. When sports and news outlets didn't get behind him, I felt like our Canadian identity took a hit. I know he regretted the "you people" line, but he never apologized. That was very difficult for me.
I notice lots of people here are just believing the government 100%, no complaints about the covid hotels, the travel measures, the PM ethics violations, the PM not recognizing genocide in China, the CERB fiasco, the WE Charity scandal, the finance minister sitting on the wef board, the endorsing of WHO, the congratulating of a controversial US President-Elect right after a controversial election...
When did this start to happen in your opinion? Or am I nuts for thinking we're losing our identity and becoming bland?
The firearms act and the long gun registry.
When I was a kid there was a gun in every home I ever visited. Usually lots more than one. Firearms act came along, that was it, everything was downhill from there.
Yikes. Do you remember roughly what years that collection of guns happened? And what the reaction was?
I never remembered much of an identity other than polite people/hockey.
Hah I guess that's pretty good though, right?
What about the countryside, landscapes, National Parks, maple syrup in Quebec, Ottawa river skating, Saskatchewan bull runs, BC Skiiing. Just feels like everyone used to want to come here to see it.
I'll clarify that I am happy that Don Cherry did not apologize, I tried to say that the whole episode in our history was difficult.
Our identity started to disappear in 1968. That's when the 1st Trudeau came to power. Our County elected a homosexual communist as Prime Minister (he didn't admit to either at the time).
We've been riding a rocket sled to Hell ever since.
Conservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, applied the brakes pretty hard for a while, but Trudeau Junior managed to take the reins and he's got us back up to full speed.
Interesting. I'm in my early 30s and have only really researched that Trudeau Sr. was a real globalization guy, there's a lot more digging I need to do with Sr.
It wasn't gonna last with Harper I remember the day before Trudeau won I was in college, and I saw his name on the sign and just thought to myself "another Trudeau will be Prime Minister of Canada." I remember at the time it seemed like media was big time slanted his way, and he was a shoe in. Like a diet version of what happened to Trump in 2020, I remember HarperDictator hashtags and thinking people didn't understand what a dictator was.
But as far back as 1968 you say, that's pretty amazing to see the changes and especially the lastname come back into play.