Dominion Day

Dominion Day provides an opportunity to reflect upon the principles and practices that made our nation great, and to renew our resolve to protect them. A nation, like a tree, is only as strong as its roots.

But how can you observe the strength of hidden roots? Simple: You will know a tree by its fruit.

If we are honest, there’s a lot of bad fruit around here.

The so-called ‘progressive’ vision has nearly run its course, and in many ways our country is in ruins.

We are governed by liars and marxist ideologues. Our ‘House of Commons’ is the House of Elites, where lies, hypocrisy, and evasion are rewarded with applause (and more of our money).

Our once-admired institutions are hollow shells, from our collapsing health care to our mainstream media. With the passing of the inimitable Rex Murphy, one cannot help but feel that the last of mainstream Canadian journalism passed with him.

We have abandoned our roots, and we have seen the rotten fruit.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

The historic roots of the Dominion of Canada are enshrined in the official motto of our coat of arms: “a mari usque ad mare”. This Latin phrase is a translation of Psalm 72:8, meaning ‘from sea to sea’.

One cannot overlook the uniqueness of our geography: a vast, rugged, beautiful landscape stretching from sea to sea, which has shaped us as a people in innumerable ways.

But the Psalm is actually speaking of the dominion (or rule) of a righteous King, stretching from ‘sea to sea’.

It is an irrefutable fact of history that our nation was built on principles and values that find their roots in the supremacy of God, and the belief that human flourishing is found in living under His benevolent and just rule.

The fruit of this widely-held belief was the nation that many of us can still remember:

A nation that valued the rule of law over the rule of the powerful.

A nation that valued truth over lies.

A nation that valued universal human dignity over tribal instincts.

A nation that valued responsible government over tyranny.

These shared values produced strength and freedom, just as good roots produce good fruit.

This Dominion Day, let us resolve to recommit ourselves to the principles and practices that once made us great. Let us return to our roots, which once produced the greatest human flourishing the world has ever seen.