AUG 10 (2026): CANADIANA, native land poems #7, (O Canada! STAND on GUARD) [5]

Following on with our penchant for all things Canadian, this post is a continuation of a collection of verses displayed here on August 10, 2020 (national anthems #1), August 10, 2021 (national anthems #2), August 10, 2022 (national anthems #3), August 10, 2023 (national anthems #4), August 10, 2024 (national anthems #5), and August 10, 2025 (national anthems #6).

previous poetic posts (Note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" as of 2024).

(national anthems #1): Canadian spellings, speech borrowings, Canadian weather, Toronto/Buffalonian.

(national anthems #2): Canadian moose, compassionate use, overwintering waterfowl, seniors hockey. 

(national anthems #3): joual, Kim Jong Un's visit, snow-biota, Canadian Thanksgiving.

(national anthems #4): Haida Gwaii, prairie home, Mounties, Nanaimo bars, 

(national anthems #5): founding cultures, crept and leapt, Newfoundland potato famine (a 'brief saga').

(national anthems #6): ('Don'tinental unification), inadmissible.

CURRENT CONTENTS (#7 -- August 10, 2026)
Fifty-first
Dual citizenship
Honoured
Canadian bacon
Tariff terror

Authors' Note:  In Canada, a longstanding rule decrees a candidate for entry (visitor or immigrant) "inadmissible" if they have a criminal record elsewhere.  Over 30 other countries have such rules, although generally less harsh and better specified, dependent on length of incarceration, etc. The European Union ('Schengen-countries') will activate new regulations in mid-2025, likely more severe than previous versions. The government of Italy undertakes policing functions for the small, enclosed, but otherwise independent Vatican City.

Incidentally,  the current US President, Joe Biden, had been scheduled to visit Pope Francis in Rome on January 11th to present him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The visit was postponed due to the California wildfires. 

  

Authors' Note: In the US recently, there has been a concerted effort to pin many of society's putative ills on immigrants. In Canada, on the other hand, the significant portion of citizens who hold two passports is honoured. Commonly, through training programs and other personal initiatives (e.g., marriage), the US is the second country involved.

As a feature left over from earlier times, when there were fewer global immigrants, the expression dual citizen, or even more curtly dual, is assumed by Canadians to imply, failing further specification, a person who holds citizenship in both the US and Canada.

The verb subdue, and its derivatives seem to derive from a different linguistic root.

Authors' Note: 

The above verse gives an apocryphal Canadian response to tongue-in-cheek proposals made in January 2025 for the liberal-leaning New England states to secede from the US.

Authors' Note: The sentiment expressed in the above verse is likely totally bogus. It is doubtful that a single Canadian, even if terrified by looming tariffs,  would approve the changes of name from "Lake Ontario" and "Niagara Falls". In fact, the possibility of such name changes is apocryphal, although "Mt. McKinley" and the "Gulf of America" seem to have entered a state of geographic quasi-reality (please refer to our posted poem "National Pique"). 

In fact, US prez DJT signed an executive order changing the name of the lake to "Lake of America", but this change ws ignored by MapQuest.

In traditional American procedure, any proposed name-change would have to be reviewed by protocols of the Board of Geographic Names.

Readers might also enjoy the previous sets of verses collected under the rubric "Canadiana". Start by clicking HERE. 

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