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The Pledge to Canada Program
A pledge package was developed and sent to 16,000 schools across Canada
asking students to submit an expression of their pride in Canada. The
response was a landslide of letters, posters and pictures,
poetry, essays, videos, songs,
craft
projects and pledges. We now take great pride in presenting a web
site for Canadians in the hope that it will inspire an ongoing sense of who we
are and why we should be Proud To Be Canadian.
Many themes emerged in the children's pledges: multiculturalism, racial
harmony, freedom from oppression and discrimination, recognition of the
magnificence and diversity of our land and our need to care for it, our good
fortune to be living in peace and even a celebration of "national"
symbols such as the Blue Jays.
We hope that taking the time to think about what Canada means to them will
have an ongoing effect in their lives and cause them to take on the
responsibility of caring for Canada.
The comments we received from many of the wonderful teachers who spearheaded projects in
their schools showed that the project was exciting and inspirational and that
the future of Canada is in good hands.
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