Thursday, November 12, 2009
Cease the notion of '3' founding peoples of Canada
The notion of '3' founding peoples as is bing put forward under Ottawa's new citizenship guide is in itself outdated. What are they the founders of exactly? The Canada we know today or that of a decade ago and the decades preceding that, is the result of a highly plural development. It is not of one, two or three peoples but a diverse origin of citizenry that is the result of valuable input from people the world over. Canada's success is not the purview of three peoples as is intimated with the establishing them as the 'three' founding peoples but the fact is clear that today's success is the result of a diverse base of cultures and peoples. It could be argued that if left to the stipulated founding three, Canada would not have been the success it is today. All the successful societies of our world's history were based on taking in what the rest of the world had to offer (e.g. Greeks, Romans, British, American, etc.). I suggest we should therefore cease the illogical concept of '3' founding people and in its presumed arrogance that the substantial and no less significant input of all others have had no input in founding the country we know as Canada today.
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