Canadian Nationalism

Canada is a marvelous country when it comes together whenever there is a national crisis.Where natural disasters occur like the floods in the West, mining disasters in the Maritimes or oil rigs in the Atlantic ,Canadians come forth with tremendous support. We fund raise huge amounts of money for events like the earthquake in Haiti. Every Time there is a need there is Canada right in the center to help.We as a country wept for every soldier who was killed in Afghanistan and established the highway of valour.

These last to events were far different . We suffered the loss of two servicemen and that was a tragic thing especially since they were murdered by Canadians on home soil.Our country came together to comfort the families of the murdered men and did a proud thing with full support of the whole country. There was however a very overreaction to these events. We were not attacked by an enemy from afar but from two mentally unstable people who sought their lives meaning by radicalizing themselves to a horrible cause.

We as a country can feel we were under attack and in one sense we were but the bigger picture shows us that there are enough people of like mind that have to be identified and helped. They must be either treated for their mental health or incarcerated because of their danger to Canadian society. In either case it is not being addressed in a successful manner at the present time.Our police and home security are unable to carry out the demands of such a program because of the lack of resources. The government is stating that they have a surplus of money in the billions of dollars. What better use of some of this money to keep us safe and safeguard our civil liberties. Making new laws will not cure the type of cases such as we witnessed during the past week. The lone wolf attacks require measures that require manpower and surveillance.That means monetary commitments to the responsible forces.