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On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:37:28 GMT, jsavard@tenMAPSONeerf.edmonton.ab.ca
(John Savard) wrote:

>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


Yes, people tend to forget we didn't have a 'home grown' GG until the
50's.

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