A Personal Response to Marc Garneau’s “Canada Must Put the Planet’s Interests First” Essay
A Personal Response to Marc Garneau’s “Canada Must Put the Planet’s Interests First” Essay Since moving to Canada, my parents occasionally took me out to see the beautiful outdoors where the flowers blossomed in the springtime sunlight, or where the fish danced in the clear river waters of fall. Never in my life had I imagined how wondrous Canada’s landscape and native inhabitants were. Even the Canadians themselves appeared, at times, strange and confusing to me as a child. The indescribable cold chill I felt down my back (and still do to this day) the first time I stepped out of the plane, as an immigrant from China, was so startling that I still remember feeling like a bear woken up in the middle of his hibernation. I felt like I had stepped into someone else’s ‘house’ and was captivated by all the things that I had never had, nor had seen before. A few years past and I started to realize that that ‘house’ known as Canada had become my very own home as well; a very beautiful home. Marc Garneau in his article, “Canada Must Put the Planet’s Interests First”, shared his opinion of how beautiful he felt that the entire planet was and that we should protect it so that it stays that way for future generations to come. Despite showing strong belief in Canadians making the first move in saving the Earth, I believe that anyone with knowledge of the planet’s current condition, including myself, after reading his essay has reason to agree with, or listen to him because he has a tone that is not forceful but rather friendly and conversational, he has an admirable argument with important supporting details, and he is clearly emphasizing the things that he thinks the reader should remember about his essay. While reading Garneau’s essay, I was very compelled to the way he spoke as if he was talking to the reader in person. I could feel how serious he was about his argument and how important it was to him because of his collective first person point of view and because his
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