Unify Action - October 21, 2025


This Canadian Veteran’s Passion for His Country Gave Me CHILLS


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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

173.58

Word count

512

Sentence count

25

Harmful content

Hate speech

2

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Summary

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What does it mean to be Canadian? What does our national identity mean to us and why do we have a strong sense of pride in our country and what does it take to live up to our potential as a Canadian.

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00:00:00.000 What does it mean to be Canadian?
00:00:02.560 Well, for me, it's maintaining a country that's free to be able to do whatever you want, of course, within the law, and to follow your dream.
00:00:14.280 We're generally accepting of everybody that wants to come here and be Canadian, but not change our way of life to suit them.
00:00:23.400 Come here and be Canadian. To me, that's what it's about.
00:00:28.580 Yeah, what do you think is our national identity?
00:00:31.280 Do we have a strong national identity?
00:00:33.420 I think we do.
00:00:34.500 I think it's tied to the land, to the, you know, to the Rocky Mountains, to the prairies,
00:00:39.380 you know, to the maritimes and everything in between.
00:00:42.220 You know, Canada has always been a kind of country of explorers and entrepreneurs.
00:00:47.940 And I think that's part of our big heritage and our national identity.
00:00:53.240 And the things that we've done overseas, especially, you know, World War I, Vimy Ridge and all these other things, right?
00:01:00.360 Cap Young, you know, in the Korean War, that type of thing.
00:01:04.040 That helps with our can-do type of identity.
00:01:08.780 That if you want something done, give it to the Canadians and they'll get it done.
00:01:12.100 Yeah, yeah. 0.96
00:01:13.440 So you're showing history, right?
00:01:15.500 And a lot of people, when I ask them these questions, that's not something they bring up, right?
00:01:20.360 I feel like our national pride definitely is strongly attached to our history, like in many countries it is,
00:01:26.260 especially in Quebec, like their culture, their history, they really hold on to that, and that is who they are.
00:01:32.560 But a lot of Canadians don't even recognize what their history is,
00:01:36.860 and when I ask them if they love our history or if they ever learned our history properly, 0.52
00:01:42.740 they're like, oh, I don't really care too much.
00:01:45.280 That's because I don't think it's being taught enough in schools.
00:01:48.580 because, you know, I mean, they're worried about, I guess,
00:01:52.100 it's been a long time since I've been in school,
00:01:54.380 or university, but, you know, grade school and that type of thing.
00:01:58.720 But if you don't teach it to the kids and make it important,
00:02:01.780 then they're not going to bother.
00:02:03.640 So that's what we need to do is get back to teaching people
00:02:06.620 what it's like to be Canadian and what our history is
00:02:09.040 and the geography of this wonderful country.
00:02:12.020 And he is a veteran. He is a veteran.
00:02:14.300 And so his heart is here in this country, too.
00:02:16.700 Yeah, absolutely.
00:02:17.100 Yeah, thank you for your service.
00:02:18.180 yeah so just even being abroad and like serving our country um you feel like our national identity
00:02:28.280 is more who we are in our history rather than our diversity and other yeah absolutely absolutely
00:02:38.100 like both said to my grandparents came here from other places but when they got here they were
00:02:43.480 they became Canadian, right?
00:02:46.040 And so my parents felt the same thing, right?
00:02:50.460 What happened in the old country, wherever they were from, can stay there.
00:02:54.400 And you build a new life here as a Canadian.