Prime Minister's remarks on Canada Day

2 years ago
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Happy Canada Day! Usually as a country our main concerns today would be to start the barbecue at the right time and to decide whether to let our children stay up to watch the fireworks. Many of you are still probably thinking about those things but this year they are far from the only challenges you are thinking about. This year is unlike any other. But it’s certainly not the first time that our country has celebrated today during tough times. 80 years ago our parents and grandparents marked this day almost a year into the Second World War. That weekend’s edition of the Toronto Star told them that they were living in “circumstances such as no one imagined would come to pass.” Well eight decades later that sounds pretty familiar.

Happy Canada Day!

Usually, as a country, our main concerns today would be to start the barbecue at the right time and to decide whether to let our children stay up to watch the fireworks.

Many of you are still probably thinking about those things but, this year, they are far from the only challenges you are thinking about.

This year is unlike any other. But it’s certainly not the first time that our country has celebrated today during tough times.

80 years ago, our parents and grandparents marked this day almost a year into the Second World War.

That weekend’s edition of the Toronto Star told them that they were living in “circumstances such as no one imagined would come to pass.”

Well, eight decades later, that sounds pretty familiar.

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