Happy Canada Day to our Guelph chapter. Here is a note from the Council of Canadians Executive Director: Friends, Today is a day to celebrate this truly magnificent country of ours. We celebrate Canada's natural beauty, water and environmental treasures - and our commitment to protecting them. We celebrate the progressive values of social, economic and environmental justice - and our commitment to acting on them. We celebrate Canadian democracy - and our commitment to defending it. On Canada's 145th birthday, we also celebrate Tommy Douglas, a founding member of the Council of Canadians, on this 50th anniversary of medicare - Maude Barlow on receiving the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of her contribution to Canada - and all of you, for your own important and often unsung individual contributions to making Canada a better place. So today let's celebrate what you and I and tens of thousands more have achieved, and will achieve, united under the banner of the Council of Canadians: a powerful collective voice of the people, working to bring hope and positive change for the even better Canada we know is possible. Happy Canada Day! Garry Neil Executive Director -- The Council of Canadians 700-170 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, ON K1P 5V5. Tel: (613) 233-2773; Toll-free: 1-800-387-7177 Fax: (613) 233-6776 inquiries@canadians.org www.canadians.org Sign up to receive Council of Canadians e-Newsletters and Action Alerts

My Dad (read Baba) is a Chevening Alumni as Well as a Goodenough Alumni. The Official Chevening page and the Official Goodenough Page have shared my article link for Royal Commonwealth Society & HM The Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations and put it on their page :) I am so happy :) Please vote for me if you LIKE my article by clicking the heart shape appearing under the article. You have to register to vote. please don't feel daunted as Its very easy to register only email and name etc is what they will ask you. Please do vote for me if you LIKE it :)