Rex Murphy: Canada was built — and on July 1, we celebrate that inheritance

I presume our government is agreeable to the idea of celebrating the country it heads. That caution springs from the tepid and uninspiring performance it gave on the landmark occasion of our 150th anniversary. Any other nation, at peace, prosperous, with an earned reputation for good will in foreign relations and moderation at home, would have put on a show to shame Olympic spectacles and blasted Hosannas to the globe.

A high-sounding regard for diversity and inclusion is now the banner boast of most Western countries, and some not of the West. The same is true of every bland corporate mission statement, and virtually every muttering from our universities is crowded with numb prose professing their unshakeable devotion to “a diverse environment” and an “inclusive approach” to whatever it is they are misteaching these days.

We’re only in a position where we can effuse about our superior virtues, because absent our comforts, absent our wealth, absent our security, earlier Canadians offered their “blood, toil, tears and sweat” to labours beyond our capacity, and in conditions we will never taste, in fashioning this country. They were as much the artisans of our present good fortune as those craftsmen who worked in stone, ages before there was a Canada, to give Europe its cathedrals.

A Canada Day celebration, thoughtfully conceived, would be something of a festival of thanksgiving for all the good things, brave actions and enduring fortitude it took to bring Canada to its 21st-century heights. It would, naturally, count our heroes, but fix equally on the nameless labourers, farmers, loggers, traders, fishermen, and emphatically the mothers of our pioneers.

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Rex, what the heck...you forgot to bash Justin Trudeau!

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