This past Canada Day, I did something I didn’t expect to. I raised the Maple Leaf in celebration of being a Canadian. My early years were spent bouncing from one country to another, and after immigrating to Canada and completing school, I left to travel the globe. While I returned many years ago, this year was the first I felt the need to celebrate being Canadian, to join millions of other Canadians across the country, raise the flag, buy Canadian and vacation at home. Given the global turbulence and threats to our sovereignty by President Trump, from coast to coast to coast, “elbows up” has become the national rallying call.
