Canada is not a nation of immigrants
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Summary
A nation is more than just a country, an economy, or a random set of boundaries. A nation is a people, a people with a shared heritage, language, identity, and identity. And a nation is by a dictionary definition, it s a people a people with a common heritage, a shared language and identity .
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but these are the two central questions that kind of underpin our two main ideas so canadian
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nationalism and remigration so when we talk about nationalism we're not talking about some kind of
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vague civic nationalism some some patriotism we're talking about nationalism in the real sense of the
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word and that's to say that a nation is more than just a country an economy a random set of
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boundaries a nation is by a dictionary definition it's a people a people with a shared heritage
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language and identity we at the dominion society we're big on history we understand who we are and
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where we came from we knew that canada was not built by immigrants as is so often said in this
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day and age but it was built by brave settlers that came mostly from france england ireland
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and scotland that risked their lives to build a country from nothing they came to in barren
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wasteland and built and braved the elements and built an incredible country from the ground up
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I think it's a huge disrespect to these great men to just call them immigrants
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and kind of equate them with this kind of modern economic unit
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that comes here to take advantage of our wealth and opportunity
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when really they risked everything to pass down a prosperous country to their descendants.