Dear fellow Canadians,

Today we celebrate the 143rd anniversary of Confederation, 143 years of building and growing, reaching ever higher. This is a noble Canadian tradition, and it is this tradition that has built the beautiful nation that we are proud to call home.

The Pirate Party of Canada joins with you in celebrating the achievements of the past, but also in anticipating the great achievements yet to come. We, too, seek to continue the never-ending push to build the Canada capable of ever stronger feats and guided by ever deeper convictions.

There are as many visions for a perfect Canada as there are Canadian citizens, and ours is of a Canada where those visions are protected, where the freedom to culturally express oneself is encouraged rather than restricted, where innovation is protected not stifled, where Canadians can live without fear of identity theft and abuse of personal information, and where their desire and right to monitor the activities of their government is defended.

In short, our vision of a perfect Canada is a Canada that every Canadian visionary, every Canadian, can help to build.

Happy Canada Day.

The Directors of the Pirate Party of Canada

“Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.” —Terry Pratchett