Dividing Canadians and brewing resentment
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Summary
As proud as I am of being Canadian, I didn t get to choose this place. I was born here. And any time I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I'm jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada.
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One of the great reminders to me, as proud as I am of being Canadian, as proud as I am of Canada,
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I didn't get to choose this place, I was born here.
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And any time I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice,
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Because I think being able to choose it rather than being Canadian by default
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is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada.
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Which is why I always sort of laugh whenever you see people who are, not many of them, but intolerant
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or think, oh yeah, no, go back to your own country.
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This is your country more than it is for others.
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Because we take it for granted, we default into this place.
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And I think understanding that power of building a country
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that is made of people who chose or whose ancestors chose to build a new life here