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What a fabulous article by Tasha Kheiriddin — 100 per cent bang on. Over the past few years, we have been made to feel negative about ourselves, our country, and all our various weaknesses. It appears not to be “cool“ to mention what a fabulously welcoming, forward-looking and diverse country we are. It is only “cool” to enthusiastically back any whining fringe or Canada-bashing group, without the benefit of fact or truth in most cases. Merely bandwagon hysteria.
The silver lining to the whole Trump saga is that we have come down to earth with a bump. But we have come together as the country we know we are — I even returned my spinach to the store yesterday when I discovered it had come from south of the border — I can do without spinach for a while.
We need to diversify as far as trade partners go. We need to be more self-reliant as far as military threats go. But most of all, we need to recover our national self-esteem. We are Canadian, and it doesn’t get much better than that.
Marguerite Caunt, West Vancouver
Canadians shouldn’t lower themselves to Trump’s level
We Canadians pride ourselves on the first-class hospitality that we extend to visitors from all countries.
So why would we “boo” the national anthem of visitors who have no control over their president’s extreme idiocy or his third-class standards?
Let’s not lower our standards to match his.
Jody Hunter, Wells
How about instead of booing the American anthem at sporting events, the fans simply put their head gear back on and stay seated?
Bryan Caldwell, Vancouver
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