VIDEOS: Canucks explain why they celebrate Canada Day

Every year, about this time, Walt, Poor Len [and Ed.! Ed.] extend best wishes to the 1000s of Canucks who read WWW, for a Happy Canada Day! Occasionally... sometime later... we get a comment from a puzzled American reader along the lines of "Huh!? What was that all about? Huh?!" 

This year we're going to pre-empt such expressions of ignorance by posting a nice little video from Brittlestar, the Internet's favourite dad* (*unproven), in which a Canadian explains to his American neighbour exactly what it's all aboot.

So now you know... But this year there are a couple of distractions. First is the fact that, for the first time in history, Canada's team -- the Montréal Canadiens -- are questing, in the heat of summer, to bring the Stanley Cup back to Canada for the first time in 28 years. That's why we're putting up this post a bit early. Go Habs go!

Then there's the controversy over the finding of 100s of unmarked graves of Indigenous children at since-closed residential schools in Canada's western provinces. In displays of virtue-signalling rare even for Canada, SJWs and the loonie left have torn down statues, petitioned to have the names of old lwhite guys removed from schools and other buildings, and even called for Canada Day to be cancelled. Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface has preached that Canada Day 2021 should be not a day of celebration, but of reflection. Hair shirts to be worn and Maple Leaf flags flown upside-down. 

Walt urges Canadians -- and the foreigners, particularly the Chinese, who have been quick to condemn Canada -- to get a grip, and remember all the good things that have been done by the "evil white colonialists" which have benefited Indigenous people, white people, and, yes, the millions of BIPOCs who have come to Canada in spite of the "systemic racism" and are queuing even as we write to bring still more of their kith and kin to this "bastion of white supremacy".

It's a rare country -- I defy you to name even one -- that doesn't have some shameful acts and episodes in its history. Even Americans, the most patriotic people on earth (except for those who hate the USA and everything it stands for) should know that. I don't know -- and don't care to know -- any Canadians who don't think that Canada, for all its faults, is still the best country on earth. Like this guy...