Keep Christmas concerts

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Published: January 28, 2016

To the Editor:

I was so dismayed at the article in The Western Producer on Dec 24, 2015, about Christmas concerts. (“Where have all the concerts gone?”)

I can’t believe that Santa and giving gifts is not allowed anymore, because we have other cultures in our midst. Slowly, our traditions are being eroded away.

Why, I even remember singing songs about Jesus at school Christmas concerts when I was little — can you imagine such a thing?

OK, he’s definitely not allowed anymore. But Santa, and gifts —come on. Our children love it.

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We have a terrific country — free and beautiful. That’s why everyone wants to come here. But when they arrive, they start complaining about our way of life and traditions, and we change everything to suit them. I don’t call that too free.

I am enclosing a quote from Sir Wilfrid Laurier written in 1907: “And we have room for loyalty, but only one, loyalty to the Canadian people. We won’t accept anyone, I’m saying anyone, who will try to impose his religion or his customs on us.”

If we don’t stand for something —we’ll fall for anything.

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