Posted on June 27, 2022

The Latest Attempt to Cancel Canada Day? Renaming It ‘New Day’

Lorne Gunter, Toronto Sun, June 26, 2022

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At the Forks in Winnipeg, there will be no Canada Day this year. Instead, there will be a new day called, unimaginatively enough, New Day.

Since the Forks is Winnipeg’s busiest gathering place with more than 4 million visitors a year, its Canada Day celebration has traditionally been the largest in Manitoba.

But this year, instead of bands and fireworks, there will be (according to the Forks website) a day devoted to reflection, inclusion and “fun for everyone.”

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But what if you’re proud of Canada, warts and all? What if you want to blow off a little midsummer’s steam and rejoice in what this country has done right while also acknowledging (but not dwelling on) things it may have done wrong?

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And what if, in the process of cancelling Canada Day, organizers alienate people who are proud of the country and like the annual celebration? Don’t those people deserve to be included in the official inclusiveness, too?

Or are only the people who accept the “woke” version of our country’s history to have a July 1 event?

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Edmonton is going ahead with its Canada Day events. Vancouver, too. And both of those cities have Indigenous populations in the range of Winnipeg’s.

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We just held National Indigenous Peoples’ Day (which is more widely known as orange-shirt day) and in September, we will commemorate the second National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (or as the PM calls, National Surfin’ in Tofino Day).

White “progressives” may welcome yet another day set aside for beating themselves up for the crimes of colonialism and for refusing to see any of the good done by European settlers. But ordinary Canadians need to party once in a while.

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