A&B saturRDAY, JUNE 29, 2024 STRATFORD BEACON HERALD Poll shows Canadian pride as high as it’s ever been Asmaller : percentage of ' respondents say they were proud of Canadian history TRISTIN HOPPER Even amid arecent trend of public tism around Canad: poll shows that a huge majority of Canadians are unabashedly proud of their country. ‘Apoll commissioned by the As- sociation for Canadian Studies found 80 per cent of respondents vering “yes” to the question of whether they were proud to be Canadian. Although1 national pride differed and age gi majority of respondents agreeing to the sentiment, “I am proud to be Canadian.” This was even true among young people; a group that is typically the most skeptical of patriotism; three quarters of respondents under 24 said they were proud to be Cana- dian. Canadian pride also scored high marks in Quebec, where separatist sympathies often blunt: canal of as such,” he told National Post in p 5 mail. “It will be interesting to follow what leaders across the oe say about Canada on Jul Recent years have not a great for Canada Day or for expressions of national pride generally. n the wake of COVID-19 lock- i i f July] downs, “lam proud to Be Cau. Jack ec president of the Association for Canadian Stud- ies, anc | he Suspects feelings of Canadia: have never fully recovered to their pre-pandemic levels, in part due to official notions| that thec country ‘Anew online poll found that 80 per cent of respondents answered “yes” to the question of whether they were proud to be Canadian. PoSTMEDIA FILE although all of them reversed their plans in the face of public outrage. In Calgary, the cited reason was that a traditional Canada Day cel- ebration would be inappropriate given thatitwasthe 100th anniver- sary of the Chinese Immigration Act, a 1923 measure to dramati- cally reduce Chinese migration to Canada. “Formany Calgarians thisisaday of mourning or reflection,” reada City of Calgary press acy reads a description of the city’s Canada Together celebrations. The Association of Canadian Studies poll found that respon- dents weren't quite as enthusi- astic about Canadian history as they were about their own Cana- lereneas 68 per cent of respondents LS haba “proud” of Canadi- an history — and that figure dif- 59.5 per cent proud of Canadi- an history, with 88.7 per cent of over-75s saying mey were proud of Canadian history The poll didn’t ecity what as- pects of Canadian history respon- dents found worthy or unworthy of pride. It’s low number among younger people may potentially be a reflection of heightened public awareness of the Canadian Indian Residential School system. Polls have shown the purported discovery of 215 children’s graves atthe formersite of the Kamloops Indian Residential School did prone increased public knowl- A An ADA t Billionaire's new charges involve seven complainants from 1977 to this year ADRIAN HUMPHREYS The additional sex charges against 91-year-old business tycoon Frank Stronach involve seven complain- ants andallegations spanning from 1977 to this year, court documents show. The most recent alleged sexual assault was this past February. Ontario’s billionaire auto indus- try magnate and Order of Canada member was first arrested and charged on June 7 with five sex charges, including rape and forcible confinement, based on claims from three women alleging incidents as recentlyas last year and as far back as 1980. Theadditional eight charges, filed in court Friday, widen the pool ofal- dvicti d dthat edge of Canadian policies toward First Nations. “Th thi round whic! gi time frame of allegations back to - © RS Canadians are both proud and ashamed and the two shouldn't be seen as contradictory,” Jedwab told National Post. The Association of Canadian Studies poll was also surprising in finding that: national pridei isoften inversely related to one’s conser- vative leanings. This is the exact opposite of the situation in the United States, where Republican voters consistently score higher on rankings of mo pride than Democrat voter: pautia ‘identifying as being on the right were the least patriotic Of, any other Siam rt, Just 67.6 per cent id this year. Through his lawyer, Stronach has denied all of the allegations. He faces six additional charges of sexual assault and one each of attempted rape and indecent as- sault — although rape and inde- cent assault are charges no longer in the criminal code and date back to when previous versions of the Criminal Code of Canada was in © =] ect. In June 1977, in Toronto, Stronachis accused of attempting to have sexual intercourse wit! woman who is not his wife, ac- cording to court documents. (The ar pera of sex Cae at the ti ena of nats on the “ “right said they were proud of their country, vie the 86.6 per cent of cen- victim ane was a man’s as and one who was not.) 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