Proud to be Canadian, Happy Canada Day!
by Scott A. Sumner
Canada Day is a very important day! Our beautiful country is having a birthday and we should all celebrate!
Canada is an amazing country with very talented people and a strong G7 GDP economy of around $2.5 CDN trillion. We have very good resources in Canada ranging from minerals to forestry products to grain agricultural products to water. Canada has a population of 41 million and is the second largest land mass in the world. That alone makes us an extremely unique place. I mean with 8 billion people in the world, you can really understand that we are very lucky to have so much land and clean water. Canada really is a leader in the world, with a very diverse, smart, talented population.
Politics comes and goes, but the land, the people remain the same. If you have people that care about other people in positions of leadership, they will take their job seriously, and ensure that they respect the feelings, wishes and legal rights of every human being. They will also respect the planet and our environment to try and maintain it for future generations.
One of the beautiful things about Canada is that there is an excellent safety net in place so that almost every human being can expect some quality of life. Yes I know it is not perfect everywhere, including in Thunder Bay, but at least there are people who are making an effort to try to improve things, not make it worse.
I was talking to someone recently at the gym and I said to him, Canada is the best country in the world. His immediate comment was yes and Thunder Bay is the best city in Canada. Yes, Thunder Bay is an amazing city and my response was we have Lake Superior, the largest fresh water body in the world. We have such beauty here in the northwest with so much to offer. There are all the amenities that you would want to have but not live in a more congested large population center say like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal.
So today I wanted to say Happy Birthday to Canada! Canada has an excellent future, and even though there is quite a bit of turmoil in the world at this particular point in time, I think as we go along things will stabilize, improve and we will thrive.
Perhaps one of the most important things for us living in this environment today is to maintain a positive attitude. There is so much negativity surrounding us with wall-to-wall coverage with traditional media and social media. Social media can have few guardrails. It can be hard to change the channel on this but it is a good goal. You have to be prepared to keep positive. That is definitely a great way of maintaining a good quality of life.
So let's all follow what's happening in the upcoming weeks and months ahead- with change possible, but keep a positive outlook because things will be good especially if we all work together!
Happy Canada Day!
