‘Somali Heritage Month’ is the latest sign Canada lost its own identity

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“Somali Heritage Month” feels like another sign that Canada has lost its sense of identity. While the Liberals promote it, the country’s political elite seem to be celebrating every culture except the one that brings Canadians together.

Canada should be known for CANADIANS and there doesn't need to be a Somali Heritage Month at all. Why are Somalians even in Canada?

On June 8, Liberal MP for Etobicoke Centre, Yvan Baker, introduced a private member’s bill to declare July of every year as “Somali Heritage Month.”

It should be noted that Toronto’s Etobicoke is home to a large, heavily concentrated Somali population. In June 2024, Baker gathered with “members and leaders of the Somali-Canadian community” to raise the Somali flag at City Hall to “celebrate Somalia's Independence Day.”

Baker’s bill was co-sponsored by fellow Liberal MP and former Immigration Minister (2017-2019), Ahmed Hussen, who came to Canada with his family from Somalia as a refugee and serves as the national president of the Canadian Somali Congress.

In a post on X, Baker explained his bill by writing that “Canada is home to many Canadians of Somali heritage” who “have left and continue to leave a historic mark on Canada” and whose contributions are “reflected in Canada’s economic, political, social, and cultural life.” SOURCE