Remembering the Dead we Betrayed

Every November I listen to The Green Fields of France, but I rarely sing along because I can’t even listen to it without weeping. I weep because we have broken faith with the unquiet dead who lie under Flanders fields. Not just because we’re still sending our sons and now daughters to die in foreign lands, but because so many have died in vain. We told them they were spreading democracy, but we have failed to protect and preserve democracy here at home.

Every time a Canadian dies in battle, we have a chance to make sure he or she is the last to die in a pointless foreign entanglement to ‘increase shareholder value’ for transnational fossil fuel corporations. However, we cannot accomplish this unless and until we reclaim the power to do so, and electoral reform is the best solution to the erosion of our democracy.

To us they threw the torch from failing hands and we dropped it.  Its time to pick it up again and hold it high the next time the government tells us Electoral Reform is not a priority.

 

 

 

 

Previous Remembrance Day blog post:

“Red Poppy, White Poppy. Different Colours, Same Flower“