Commentary
This Canada Day, we should celebrate our country proudly and not let excessive focus on past grievances be used as an excuse to overshadow our accomplishments. Of which, Canada has many.
A group refugees whose small boat sank wade to shore in Malaysia in the late 1970s. Almost 200,000 Vietnamese “boat people” fleeing communism found refuge and freedom in Canada. K. Gaugler/UNHCR/AFP via Getty Images
Chuong Nguyen is a research associate with the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy and a Canadian expat and graduate student in American Studies at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary.
