How do YOU define a Canadian

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Some recent posts have made me curious to know what GTA-M members consider the definition of a Canadian.

As Canada is a young country, with a deliberately liberal immigration policy, the definition of Canadian is complicated at best. English, French, East Coast, West Coast, Native, North country, Southern Ontario, and the list goes on.

So, GTA-M, let's hear it...
 
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mlc said:
Some recent posts have made me curious to know what GTA-M members consider the definition of a Canadian.

As Canada is a young country, with a deliberately liberal immigration policy, the definition of Canadian is complicated at best. English, French, East Coast, West Coast, Native, North country, Southern Ontario, and the list goes on.

So, GTA-M, let's hear it...
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Someone who has a canadian passport period.
The other arguments about leave your crap at home or this isnt the 1800's have nothing to do with being Canadian and more to do with low intelligence and the inability to improve and move forward, while respecting where you are not just where you came from.
 
This man is the one and only true Canadian:

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sonnythebull said:
Someone who has a canadian passport period.
The other arguments about leave your crap at home or this isnt the 1800's have nothing to do with being Canadian and more to do with low intelligence and the inability to improve and move forward, while respecting where you are not just where you came from.
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Couldn't agree more man.
 
You're defining someone as a Citizen of Canada, which may differ from the originally-asked question of a "Canadian". What happens if someone didn't pay $100 to buy a Canadian passport, or is under the age of 16 and can't get one without a parent (who may be non-existent in their lives, dead, etc)?

The concept of international borders is ****ing stupid anyway. An obsolete relic of the barbarian ages used to control who gets to own your efforts through taxation more than anything else.
 
I have a resident card do I count?

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sonnythebull said:
Someone who has a canadian passport period.
The other arguments about leave your crap at home or this isnt the 1800's have nothing to do with being Canadian and more to do with low intelligence and the inability to improve and move forward, while respecting where you are not just where you came from.
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One of those rare occasions where I'm 100% in agreement with something posted by sonny. On a lighter note: Someone who's been to an all-inclusive in Cuba at least 3 times (sadly, I'm still at 0) :cool:
 
sonnythebull said:
Someone who has a canadian passport period.
The other arguments about leave your crap at home or this isnt the 1800's have nothing to do with being Canadian and more to do with low intelligence and the inability to improve and move forward, while respecting where you are not just where you came from.
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heyyyyyy... i dont have a passport.

damn, im not canadian. maybe i'll try my luck with being a Vaticano. they need all the people they can get
 
If u go abroad and don't tip, you're probably Canadian :rolleyes:
 
I speak with an accent and been in Canada since I was 1 but always get asked where I'm from.

I think a true Canadian is one that supports our local small businesses, restaurants and shops.
 
To me a Canadian is someone who embraces our culture and our Canadian ways. Don't care where they are from--they moved here to get a better life i suspect. If you want to bring all your traditions , etc from where you were, i suggest you should have stayed there!!!!! No- don't give up your heritage, or religion, or whatever, but you left your country because you didn't like it there, why would you try to change Canada to be "just like the home you left!" Welcome to Canada-----Fit in!
 
Being in Canada as an Aussie, my perception of a Canadian has changed since coming to Toronto, unfortunately not for the better. I met a ton of Canucks around the globe while traveling and they, along with the people in the less populated parts of Canada were almost always polite, friendly, helpful and generally fun people to be around and have a laugh. Here in the GTA though is the exception to the rule I guess. People are rude, unfriendly, always stressed and on edge, uptight and almost never smile.
 
The concept of a nation came to be with the rise of capitalism and will disappear with it's demise. I always thought that identifying with a nation, religion, creed, etc. is for people incapable of otherwise defining them self.

It's useful for people without personality to declare that it's most important to be national.
It's even more useful for those that rule them.

I have dual citizenship, but I wouldn't go to war for (or in the name of) any nation.
 
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Vlad said:
The concept of a nation came to be with the rise of capitalism and will disappear with it's demise. I always thought that identifying with a nation, religion, creed, etc. is for people incapable of otherwise defining them self.

It's useful for people without personality to declare that it's most important to be national.
It's even more useful for those that rule them.

I have dual citizenship, but I wouldn't go to war for (or in the name of) any nation.
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You don't like capitalism. What do you do for work and do you give away all the money you don't use for the bare essentials?
 
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Being in Canada as an Aussie, my perception of a Canadian has changed since coming to Toronto, unfortunately not for the better. I met a ton of Canucks around the globe while traveling and they, along with the people in the less populated parts of Canada were almost always polite, friendly, helpful and generally fun people to be around and have a laugh. Here in the GTA though is the exception to the rule I guess. People are rude, unfriendly, always stressed and on edge, uptight and almost never smile.
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Stick to outside the cities ..you're 100 percent correct
 
Vroom said:
To me a Canadian is someone who embraces our culture and our Canadian ways.
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See, there's where I get confused. Because we are not a "melting pot" country, what specific culture and ways do you mean?

Clearly, the city folks are different from the country folks, different Canadians celebrate Christmas on different days, not every Canadian observes the Sabbath on Sunday, we don't even all speak the same mother tongue, even when born here.

If we define a Canadian as one who qualifies for a Canadian passport, then what are the qualities that define the "Canadian culture and Canadian ways?"
 
In terms of Canadian culture and Canadian ways, successful new immigrants would probably be more "Canadian" than those born here.

Some of the stuff you have to know in order to immigrate is nuts. I wouldn't pass that's forsure!
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