We're one of the world's oldest democracies: Random facts to fill your heart with Canadian pride

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We're one of the world's oldest democracies: Random facts to fill your heart with Canadian pride CanadaDay

. There are plenty of older countries, of course, but the vast majority of them have been hit by some form of revolution, coup or invasion in the last 155 years. ByThe UK Parliament was aggressively bored by the 1867 Act of Parliament that created Canada

that it was taking so much time. “There are defects in it, no doubt,” reads one of his many slams of our founding document.Article content ? In 1983, Mikhail Gorbachev was just a young and unknown member of the Soviet politburo when – during a state visit to Canada – he went to a friendly dinner at the Ontario farm of federal cabinet minister Eugene Whelan. While there, hewith Aleksandr Yakovlev, the Soviet Ambassador to Canada. Both men soon realized that they shared the same doubts about deep flaws in the Soviet system.

Stan Rogers sings Northwest Passage, a song often called Canada’s “unofficial national anthem.” Rogers was killed in a 1983 fire aboard an Air Canada flight, and he remains one of the last people ever killed in an Air Canada accident; the airline has had no fatal mishaps in the 39 years since. Click here to see the song performed live in the memorial documentary One Warm Line.

 

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We WERE one the world's oldest democracies.... NOT anymore!

Old and on its deathbed!

From which number the 'oldest' starts? I thought that there can only be '1' oldest.

Da Führer Trudeau has ended democracy in Canada!

Outrageous ignorance: 'one of the oldest democracies', how about learning the definition first? There is no such system which goes against its citizens. A revolution is often a democratic proof, unless it is suppressed by a dictatorial regime. Pride month was last month.

Not since JustinTrudeau was selected by the WEF. Although I am proud of the freedom movement I am embarrassed to be Canadian at times. We are no longer a democracy and have not been for years. TrudeauCorruption TrudeauTheTyrant TrudeauIsDestroyingCanada

Random fact: Did you know, despite what they say, the priests at the residential schools did in fact use lubrication when they raw dogged those kids? Fun fact

Democracy here because we can vote? That’s the only sign. Provided it’s not rigged. Everything else is in shambles.

No democracy in Canada who you trying to fool?

Canada literally has a Queen.

A failed democracy under Trudeau

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