🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 03:59:23 GMT, hurricane @ ezpost.com wrote, in
part:
>On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:47:31 GMT, Rob Lee <rdlee@ucalgary.ca> wrote:

>>Adrienne Clarkson lived here pretty well all her life (from the age of
>>3) and contributed a lot to Canadian society, not least through her work
>>on CBC. She is as worthy as any other involved Canadian. And I thought
>>being Canadian was based on your sense of belonging, not on where you
>>were born...

>pretty well  all her life but not born here
>beiing a refugee she had a free ride
>To bad she isnt white and born here
>I,m sure there are pleanty of true canadians

>I thought you should take pride where you were born
>if not  you are a traitor.

There is a difference between taking pride in one's heritage and
hating all those who do not share it. Anyhow, for one thing, lots of
Canada's earlier Governors-General weren't born "here", but elsewhere
in the Commonwealth, and for another, when she was 3 years old, Canada
wasn't as generous to immigrants as it sometimes is today.

John Savard (teneerf <-)
http://www.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html