Trudeau’s culture war on Canada’s symbols erases history
may not seem like much of a reason to get one’s traditionalist knickers in a knot. But it is the same kind of culture-war attack on patriotic symbols that aims to discredit our past as removing statues of Sir John A. Macdonald. It rejects seminal events on our path to nationhood in favour of a sanitized version of what it means to be a 21st-century Canadian, which in the end, means almost nothing.
The ruby, sapphire and emerald of the old crown have been replaced by a squiggly blue line meant to represent Canada’s “many lakes and rivers … its three ocean borders,” as well as “Indigenous teachings that water is the lifeblood of the land.” This design change is less objectionable, if somewhat unimaginative.
“They erased Vimy Ridge to put an image of a squirrel eating a nut,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre complained in the House of Commons. “They erased Terry Fox, a guy who ran halfway across the country to fight cancer, to put in a man raking leaves.”
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