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Canada and the United States (A Thought for a Citizenship Program) Editor's Note: “The Educational C om-ier” recently published a reply by Eugene Forrey, to an article by Miss Jean Howarth in the "Globe and Mail,” implying that a great many Canadians would like to see Canada annexed to the United States. We quote part of Mr. Forsey’s reply. believing that the points lte makes are well worth the attention of all Cana- dians and that they might well he used in a program on Citizenship at a Women's Insti- tute meeting. in fact feel we should join the United States. and if we are not to be governed by mere feeling (whether majority or minority) then it is high time our leaders started giving the populace some instruction on the differ- ences between the two countries. “One of the fundamental differences is that the United States is a country of one language and one culture, Canada a country of two lan- guages and two cultures. The Fathers of Con- federation deliberately wrote into the British North America Act English constitutional law for both the Dominion and the provinces (‘a Constitution similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom‘). French civil law for Queâ€" bec, and the equal official status of English and French in the Dominion Parliament and courts and the Quebec legislature and courts. They also wrote into the Manitoba Act the equal official status of English and French for the legislature and courts of that province. If we could all get it firmly into our heads that both the British and French traditions are basic in the Canadian tradition. and that to remove either is to destroy ourselves. we might at least have some better notion of what we should lose or gain by annexation. “A second fundamental difference is in our systems of government. They are both forms of democracy, but otherwise as different as chalk is from cheese. The Americans have a presidenrial-congressional democracy, modelled on the early 18th century British constitution. It is a proof of their genius that they manage somehow to manoeuvre this political sedan chair through 20th century traflic with astonish- ing success. We have monarchical-parliamenâ€" tary-responsibleâ€"government democracy, model- led on the late 19th century British constitu- tion, and steadily modernized to meet new IF A LARGE NUMBER of Canadians do 26 problems. Joining the United States “mm m. politically, reactionary, in the proper “me Hi that word. It would be going back, 1.101, :t deed ‘to Methuselah,‘ but to a system of govu-nmen; which the British peoples outgrew new centuries ago. We should have to adj“ selves to a whole series of quaint p; we. fraught with meaning for Americans 5 .IIIN‘e‘ rooted deep in American history, but a \ Htl’lle obstacle race to anyone else. Just loot the way the tax bill and the civil rights i m, stuck now in the U. S. Congress: The A m... tration ardently wants them passed, but gm. lWO our. not even get them discussed in the two i m Our system of government has its fan In” at least if a Canadian government a. _ a policy, it has no difficulty getting it dcl : m our two Houses; and the measure is en .lr]. proved pretty promptly or we get a nt in. ernment. “If these fundamental differences ‘ cur. Canada and the United States seem lll :lul- in‘ and academic, there are others. lex tit.- mental, but important, which are not ; In that reproach. We have family allowai the Americans have not. We have non-t :‘m- tory old age pensions; the Americans h .mt. We have hospital insurance; the AI lll‘ have not. We have a national system 0 cm- ployment insurance; the Americans h «it, We have Workrnen‘s Compensation“. thi cri- cans have nothing like it. Perhaps som the people MlSS Howarth interviewed m: uol have been quite so glibly annexationixi my bad realized the solid material henel ‘m would lose by union. My old Scots .11 Oxford used to say that there are two ‘ nt wanting a thing: really and unreally. on really want it, you are willing to pay ill .u if you are not willing to pay the pm lull you only unwreally want it. I suspect that ‘ltl many Canadians who say they want Lllll- tilt the United States only un-really want ll 1' * 1" WHAT DOES THE HEART REMEMl By Esther Baldwin York What does the heart remember, looking bar Along the years when one was very young! Grandmother‘s shelf of fragile bric-a-braC; Walks after violets; and being swung In an old rope swing; long rainy afternonm Up in the attic land of Make-Believe: Fairytale books; and thurdy-gurdy tunes: The starry, magic feel of Christmas Eve- Running through rustling leaves and fallifl.L "“" The sudden picnics on green slopes of spring A song that Mother sang nights long ago; The heart remembers every lovely thing â€" Like seeing sunlight through a window flow 4 d And thinking, "This is what home is. J“ knowing! * 'k i’ HOME AND COL‘ :‘JTR‘!