From the start, long before confederation Canada has been a place where people of differing view points could still get along. When French exporer Samuel De Champlain settled Grand Pre, Nova Scotia that cold winter in 1680, that small speck of land would become the start of a nation.
The early settlers had to cooperate with the First Nation’s people who were already there. They had lots to learn from them if they intended to survive the first winter. With French and English explorers competing for control over this new land this lead to many disagreements culminating with the expultion of the Acadians in 1759. The English, who had all the control at this point, sent the French settlers to Louisiana for a while. They came back later, but this has never been seen in a positive light around here. Except for Louisiana getting in on all thier good food.
On July 1, 1867 Canada would formally become a nation.
Expansion over the years, and the final addition of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1949 give Canada the beautiful shape it has today.
Red is Canada’s colour, it’s not just because the Liberals are the governing party in the Federal Government. We’ve been so good at getting along for a really long time now. Everyone sharing all their ideas. For a long time provincial premiers have gotten along despite their different ideas about how to run things.
You may ask, “How do Canadians vote overwhelmingly Conservative in provincial elections, but equally overwhelmingly Liberal in Federal Elections?” Our current Prime Minister, Mark Carney is of the Liberal party. That’s just one of the nice things of being able to get along in all levels of government and maintain the current shape of the country we live in.
There are small groups of people in Alberta and Quebec who would like to see their provinces leave Canada to either join the United States or become their own counties. Let’s show you how weird looking and inconvenient that would make the map.
This is so ugly. Is this what we want? Not to mention all that Alberta oil money literally going down the drain and not able to be used for the betterment of the entire country. Also, how does leaving your country to get to the rest of your country work? Won’t that leave the Maritimes vulnerable to isolation? We can do better than this.