Posted on 06/20/2017 3:59:10 PM PDT by Twotone
"Never complain, never explain" was Disraeli's advice, and that holds as good in our touchy age of instant Twitterstorms and politically correct eggshells as it did when he first commended it to Queen Victoria. It's good advice for the Queen's viceroys, too. Consider by way of a cautionary tale the Rt Hon David Johnston, Governor General of Canada.
Full disclosure: I am not a great fan of His Excellency, as I thought he behaved disgracefully in evicting my old boss Conrad Black from the Privy Council and the Order of Canada. Nevertheless, he occupies the second highest office in the land, and that is not a small thing. Especially with the Dominion of Canada's 150th birthday coming up in a couple of weeks. So Mr Johnston has been out and about talking up the impending beano:
In an interview with The House on Thursday, host Chris Hall asked Johnston a question on theme with Canada's upcoming 150th birthday, "What kind of country are we?"
Johnston responded by calling Canada "a smart and caring country."
He continued: "We're a country based on immigration..."
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
The perpetually offended, always are and always will and basically useless because of that. Tell me dimwits, what was the land bridge where the Bering Strait is about now used for back then?
Native
noun
plural noun: natives
a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth, whether subsequently resident there or not.
“a native of Montreal”
It Came from Montreal,a true story about Canada and “Natives”.Almost as exciting as watching the ice freeze.
Native means born here. Maybe 20,000 years ago, “native” Asians crossed the Bering Strait to North America, while others are believed to have crossed the Pacific Ocean from Polynesia by boat. Did they ever claim they owned the whole thing? Society before Europeans arrived was basically individual tribes separated by large areas of no man’s land.
Steyn is a treasure. Am I allowed to say “our” treasure?
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My ancestors were some of the first immigrants to Canada after the split of the American Revolution...
The women and children fled from the US as refugees ..
(YES real refugees !!! Canada only gave them a hoe and some seeds to start again...and some land if they had fought for the British or were widows and orphans of those who had died...the Land Petitions...)
some arrived in Nov 1776 from the Susquehanna River valley and a widow and her children and grandchildren from a prison in Albany the following year...
My 4th great grandparents were married in Montreal in 1784 ..
Actually some were here before the land bridge.
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