All around the world people want to be us

Opinion. The views expressed are the author’s own.

This land offers opportunities offered to our special financial capacity,
to afford a home, a cottage or car is a costly affordability,
Extravagance in the eyes of some, but reality also to the 7!% of us.
Being Canadian is placing your wallet into the hands of others,
taxman, everyday services and the banking institutions.

There are many Canadians living below the poverty line,
looking for work and a chance to financially unwind.
The middle class diminishes each passing year
as the growing number of Canadians become millionaires.
To few prosperity lived while the rest of us work away. diligently.

Kids need to go to College or University right?
To advance in ones principal education seems right.
Does higher education come through with its promised land?
Well paying jobs, a career and a family plan?

To be Canadian is to struggle at best
financially, nationally and personally too.
I guess we are like the rest of this world
brothers and sisters tolling in peace and strife,
bettering ourselves with hope, patience and thought.

Different we are, yet similar still to the world out there,
a world whose population desires our best
either to move to our homeland or accept our charitable hand,
whatever the decision lets be ready to serve our homeland.

Canadians search the meaning of this place our home,
what’s it means to be a Canadian homebred or from another place.
All that we have can be better expressed to others my friend,
to Be Canadian what to You, are we place, a people to a dream realized?

Steven Kaszab lives in Bradford, Ont.