I relocated my family to New Brunswick Canada from a rural area in north Alabama in September 2005. I have now lived in Canada for exactly 4 years and nine months. In that time, I have not seen a single reason to believe we made a mistake in moving to this country. I think we're gonna stay for a whole lot longer.
Let me tell you about Canadians; we're so modest about our greatness. We'll tell you, "I would not want to live anywhere else in the world," or "we take for granted what we have here in Canada", but Canadians just won't come right out and tell you, "Canada is the greatest country in the world!" Braggadocio is not a Canadian trait.
So, I'm saying it for them.
Canada. friends, is the greatest country in the world!
A typical Canadian response to that is usually something like "Well, I don't know if I'd go that far"
But I can support my claim. You make a list of what makes a country "great" and if it is only wealth or power or size, well, you don't think the same way I do.
What makes a country "great" is the heart of its people and it has to be described with words like compassion, courage, and fairness, justice, equality.
What other country on this planet exhibits 'greatness' to the same degree as Canada? How about our parents, Britain and France? I don't think so. Any other place you can name in Europe? Asia? Africa? How about anywhere else in this hemisphere of the planet?
The United States is the exception; it was great, it has the potential of being great again, but control of resources or wealth or military power won't restore that lost greatness.
Greatness has to be in the heart of the people.
Canadians take their greatness so much for granted. If you ask them why they won't embrace the politics of racism, fear, hatred, prejudice or greed, they blow you off, and say, casually (as though theirs not a conscious choice), "Well ... we just don't go for that kind of thing here in Canada."
They make it sound so easy to be courageous and strong and principled.
And maybe it is easy. But that doesn't mean it has to be taken for granted!