Canada and Identity Crisis

identity crisis: We Canadians love to define ourselves by what we're not, and spending the better part of a year in a truly world-class city London surrounded by a union having an identity crisis the U.K. has certainly sharpened my appreciation for what makes Canada tick. , according to CBC. But I'm also a Brit. My mum was born and raised in west London and immigrated to Canada just as Carnaby Street was set to swing. In many ways it feels like home, but in others, it feels like another planet. It Dominion Day, the time we bust out the clichs over what makes Canada so great. One of the best things about being a Canadian is the ability to be culturally schizophrenic. In my case, having grown up in an English household, and having been steered into French immersion by my father once an ardent Trudeau man, now rehabilitated , my Canadian identity has always included our French heritage. And I'm the better for it. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.