Received from a friend today........

Something to think about.    
A Canadian can be English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German,  Spanish,

Polish, Russian or Greek.
A Canadian can be Mexican,  African, Indian,

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, Arab, Pakistani or Afghan. 
A Canadian may also be a Cree, Métis, Mohawk, Blackfoot, Sioux, or one

of the many other tribes known as native Canadians. 
 A Canadian's religious beliefs range from Christian, Jewish, Buddhist,
Muslim, Hindu or none, as each of them chooses.
Whether they have a religion or no religion,

each Canadian ultimately answers only to God, not to the government,

or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God. 
    
A Canadian lives in one of the most prosperous lands in the history of

the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Charter of

Rights and Freedoms which recognize the right of each  person to the

pursuit of happiness. 
    
A Canadian is generous and Canadians have helped out just about every

other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in

return. Canadians welcome the best of everything, the best products, the

best books, the best music, the best food, the best services and the best

minds. But they also welcome the least -  the oppressed, the outcast

and the rejected. 
    
These are the people who built Canada . You can try to kill a Canadian

if you must as other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world have tried but in

doing so you could just be killing a relative or a neighbour. This is

because Canadians are not a particular people from a particular place. 

They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom.   Everyone

who holds to that spirit, everywhere, can be a Canadian. 

    
Please keep this going!   Pass this around the World.  

Then pass it around again. It says it all, for all of us. 

    
'Keep your stick on the ice eh'