The Canada I Love.

"He shall have dominion from sea to sea…."

The Canada I love is a land where politicians have integrity. It is a land where those who govern value the trust they hold. It is a land where their "Yes" means "Yes" and their "No" means "No".

The Canada I love is a country that embraces diversity but not at the cost of unity so hard in the winning. It is a country where morality is not an anachronism and upright men and women are heard in the land. They are neither afraid nor ashamed.

The Canada I love is a land where the agendas of the strident and corrupt cannot take hostage the virtue and uprightness of time-honoured traditions. It is a land where the apathetic and amoral are not entertained by the shameless and the perverse.

The Canada I love is a country where cherished values are worth dying to defend. It is a land that believes marriage is a God sanctioned bond between a man and woman rather than a social contract between persons, however sincere.

The Canada I love is a country of peacekeepers. It is a country on guard for the danger without and the danger within. It is a country of big hearts and strong arms, quick to help and quick to defend and always ready to reach beyond her own borders to the weak, the timid, the oppressed, the hungry.

The Canada I love is a country where safety is normal and security a right. It is a country of firm, swift justice tempered by tender mercy, a place where women and children are not hostages in their own homes. It is a place where the rights of the victimized are more important than those of the guilty. It is a place where the elderly are respected and all, regardless of belief or culture, are afforded dignity and peace.

The Canada I love cares for the sick. She clothes the naked and feeds the hungry. In her streets, there are no homeless.

The Canada I love knows the cost of sacrifice and the price of freedom. The Canada I love is a land where liberalism does not mean relativism, where democracy does not mean the rule of the hypocritical for the good of the greedy, where reward does not mean favoritism, where virtue does not mean wickedness and where rights are not determined by the powerful few who are unaccountable to the people it is their God-ordained duty to serve.

The Canada I love is a land of mighty oceans and majestic landscapes but more than this, it is a land of people proud and strong, good and kind. It is a land whose citizens are hard working, honest and diligent, a place of manifold opportunities where fear does not rule, where disgrace is unknown and where comfort can be found around the next turn of the road.

This is the Canada I love. And if you say that this is a country of my dreams, then I say to you, who sit in the seat of scoffers, that I will dream of this country glorious and free. I will ply the trade of virtue before I ever walk in the way of self-interest, of those who stumble in the dark, without the least notion of how great is this country, this Canada that I love.

May God bless this country and keep her safe.