First, the lyrics of Canada's national anthem:
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide, O Canada,
We stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee
And now this story:
B’nai Brith Canada calls on Toronto police to investigate display of flags of all banned terrorist groups
TORONTO, March 18, 2009 – B’nai Brith Canada has called on
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair to expand its investigation into the display of
flags belonging to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a banned
terrorist group in Canada...“We commend the Toronto Police for launching an investigation into the display of the flag of the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist group outlawed in this country,” said Frank Dimant, Executive Vice President of B’nai Brith Canada. “However, there have been many other instances of flags of other banned terrorist entities, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, that have been in full public view at rallies, most recently early this year during the period of the Gaza conflict. The appearance of the Hamas and Hezbollah flags at public rallies has often been accompanied by chants of ‘Death to Jews’.
“We call on Chief Blair to expand his police investigation to include the display on our city streets of the Hamas and Hezbollah flags as well. We hope that other jurisdictions will also take similar action...
Canada can be such a multi-cultural country at times.
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The Canadians are a mixed bag--some very conservative and some almost communist. Recall some years back on my travels to Mexico. Spent a great deal of time with some of my English speaking Canadian frinds and was quite surprised at the hostility between them and the French speaking Canadians---took me a while to figure that one out. Glad to see the government there cracking down on the extremist groups, nothing wrong with that.
Yes, one would not guess it but there used to be a bloody conflict between the French and English Canadians in Quebec, with hostage taking and murdering and all.
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