While most want equal consideration to both - which currently does not happen - 28% said Remembrance only while 20% said Canada Day only.
The feelings in this province regarding Confederation are changing every year. I wonder why?
Do you consider July 1 a day to celebrate Canada, or one of remembrance — in particular, for the Battle of Beaumont Hamel in the First World War?
- Celebrate Canada Day 20%
- Remembrance 28%
- Equal consideration to both 45%
- Neither. It's just another holiday. 7%
2 comments:
Sue,
I have very mixed emotions about July 4th. 9/11 changed my life. I struggle with some of the negative/criminal political decisions my leaders have made towards the world. I feel lucky to have my freedoms, but I don't feel like waving a flag. Sometime I feel that patriotism is detrimental towards humanity. It may seem weird, but I haven't said the pledge of allegiance nor sang the national anthem since 9/11. (but I did sing Oh Canada for both hockey teams at the last Olympics.) So the poll is interesting. I don't know where I would stand.
Preston
From Texas
I have been celebrating for the past 10 years now the date of July 1st to commemorate the Battle of Beaumont Hamel on that date in 1916,the place where 710 of our soldiers got wiped out in a badly planned battle. Only 68 men, out of the total of 778 Newfoundland Regiment soldiers responded to the roll call that day.
I used to celebrate Canada Day on that date and I would cry when the National Anthem was sung, today I won't even rise from my chair when it happens, it is a feeling that came over me naturally. I, like the rest of my colleagues in Newfoundland and Labrador, have been hurt badly from the way we have been treated, so what is there to celebrate?
When Canada came along in 1949 we were suppose to forget about our History and celebrate that day without very little mentioning of our precious boys who could have added so much to our country, had they been able to come back from the First World War.
We were put in our first economic straight jacket with that calamity from July 1st, 1916, the second straight jacked had to be endured when we joined Canada and we were supposed to forget our History and give up our natural and human resource base for the other Canadian provinces to survive economically.
Canada did the same to the First Nations people by putting them in Boarding Schools far from their families, where they were supposed to forget about their culture and language AND adopt the Canadian ways. They were away from their families for 10 months of the year, can you imagine what that did to the psyche of these poor human beings with no family connection or touch for 10 months of the year? It destroyed them.
Imagine 710 of our young virulent men were wiped out in one badly planned battle. At the time Newfoundland had a population of only 240,000 people, that 710 represented 3 per cent of our total population. We have not gotten over that calamity to this very day of losing 3 per cent of our population in just a few minutes. The impact of losing so many of our boys is, no doubt, still reverberating in our communities to this very day and Yes we were expected to put it in the past and forget about it.
To sum up if Canada wants to retain this province and make amends, it better start now implementing ways to make things better here by sharing with us the Federal infrastructure it hands out to the other provinces and to make sure that when our next resource is developed that we are the Primary Beneficiary and not the other provinces, like what we have witnessed and experienced over the past 62 years. All of our natural resources that were developed since we became part of Canada, some other province became the Primary Beneficiary of each and every one them, while we suffered not only from the worst Unemployment rate, but had to take sharp criticisms from Canada because it. Can anyone see the irony here?
We want parity and equality with the other provinces and to do it for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador won't cost them a cent because we have the resource base here and the great location to accommodate making us the Primary Beneficiary.
Ottawa knows all about our resource base, and our vast ocean and air space which has been contributing to Canada's vibrant economic well-being for the past 62years and it is reluctant to give us its reliance on it.
We now know the opaque manner in which you operate Ottawa, so please set out to undo the injustices you have created in the province of Newfoundland; and Labrador and our provincial and federal politicians better be put on notice that we know how some of them are toeing the line for what the Federal Government wants and some of them have benefitted from it greatly, as well.
The Telegram poll substantiates this call.
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