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I got an e-mail from a friend and thought this is really cool. Read on.  
 
Subject: Definition of a Canadian  
 
Now we know what a definition of a Canadian is from someone other than a  
Canadian and it is a great definition. Thought is was interesting enough  
to pass on just for the knowledge in the story. Do with it as you please.  
 
 
An Australian Definition of a Canadian - Written by an Australian Dentist  
 
Pakistan Newspaper Ad - Reward for killing a Canadian  
You probably missed it in the local news, but there was a report that  
someone in Pakistan had advertised in a newspaper an offer of a reward to  
anyone who killed a Canadian - any Canadian.  
An Australian dentist wrote the following editorial to help define what a  
Canadian is, so they would know one when they found one.  
A Canadian can be English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Danish,  
Polish, Russian or Greek. A Canadian can be Mexican, African, Indian,  
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, Arab, Pakistani or  
Afghan.  
A Canadian may also be a Cree, Metis, Mohawk, Blackfoot, Sioux, or one of  
the many other tribes known as native Canadians. A Canadian's religious  
beliefs range from Chistian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or none. In  
fact, there are more Muslims in Canada than in Afghanistan. The key  
difference is that in Canada they are free to worship as each of them  
chooses. Whether they have a religion or no religion, each Canadian  
ultimately answers only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs  
claiming to speak for the government and for God.  
A Canadian lives in one of the most prosperous lands in the history of the  
world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Charter of Rights  
and Freedoms, which recognize the right of each person to the pursuit of  
happiness.  
A Canadian is generous and Canadians have helped out just about every  
other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in  
return. Canadians welcome the best of everything, the best products, the  
best books, the best music, the best food, the best services and the best  
minds. But they also welcome the least - the oppressed, the outcast and  
the rejected.  
These are the people who built Canada. You can try to kill a Canadian if  
you must as other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world have tried but in  
doing so you could just be killing a relative or a neighbor. This is  
because Canadians are not a particular people from a particular place.  
They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds  
to that spirit, everywhere, can be a Canadian.  
Please keep this going! Pass this around the World. Then pass it around  
again. It says it all, for all of us.