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RE: Cramahe's Canada 150 Party (Part 1 of 3) -- Citizenship Ceremony
Nice. I can't see the representatives of natives being invited though. Considering that French and English reaped this land out of them through violence.
Are you referring to First Nations people? I don't believe I said anything about representatives being invited, the platform party consisted of the various levels of government.
At the start of the ceremony the Presiding Official did announce an acknowledgement that the ceremony was taking place on the traditional lands of the First Nations tribes of this area. That has become pretty standard at most government ceremonies these days.
I see, but don't you think that First Nations representatives should take a part, especially considering that they acknowledge that it used to be their land?
Or maybe they don't invite them, because they know that they would refuse to support such ceremony?
No, I don't. There may be places for them to be invited but they are not a governmental group and the politics of their issues with the government do not belong in every ceremony that is held, just to appease them.
Actually, it would be to appease a small minority of the First Nations as most are proud Canadians and are as just as happy to welcome new Canadians as any other Canadian.
Isee. Is this your ceremony btw?
my ceremony? In what way?
You are aware that Canadian citizenship is granted by the federal government?
You posted about citizenship ceremony so I presumed that part of it is about ceremony of getting citizenship for ne Canadians too, just like the citizenship ceremony in Great Britain when you receive naturalisation.
Citizenship is probably granted by the government in every country... Not sure what you mean by pointing it out... What relation it has to my question.
if your convoluted path of query is to ask me why I posted about this .. apparently you didn't read the first part of the post. The citizenship ceremony was the first event of a weekend of celebrations locally to celebrate Canada's 150th and the local township's 225th.
If you didn't read the last part, I'll be posting about the other activities in a separate post.
I read that part.
I does not mean that celebrations cannot go together with giving away citizenship to new Canadians.
Township is a government entity.
The name "citizenship ceremony" is confusing. It suggests naturalisation of new nationals.
And you clearly wrote:
"As Mayor Marc Coombs stated during the ceremony, “What is more Canadian than becoming a Canadian citizen in a hockey arena?” and that is where the ceremony was held, on the pad of the local arena"
So the conclusion was obvious - part of this event must be giving away citinzeship to new nationals by township.
So I do not understand why you pretend not to understand my question asking if it was your citizenship ceremony.