As a Canadian I wear the white poppy to honour our founding values of peace, order and good governance. I wear it because my Canada is a white-poppy country as well as a red one, and I want to remind our leaders of this. We are a country that has traditionally offered humanitarian aid first and foremost, a country that has welcomed refugees and treated them well. We have been at the forefront of UN peacekeeping operations, though our commitment has fallen from numbers of 4,000 at a time to, currently, less than 100. We have also led moves to step by step outlaw and criminalize war, for instance in framing and seeking UN adoption of a land-mines treaty in the 1990s; though today, Canada is the only NATO country that has not signed the Arms Trade Treaty. Regrettably, under Harper, and recent governments, Canada has been active in war for the last decade and longer. :-( thestar/opinion/commentary/2014/11/11/why_i_wear_both_the_red_poppy_and_the_white.html Jos Van Poederooyen
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:27:46 +0000
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