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Transcript – O Canada - Stronger Together
Video length: 00:00:30
[Video opens on a shinny hockey game being played on a frozen lake, with mountains in the background.]
[Four shinny hockey players stand on the ice with hockey sticks. Their boots are grouped together along the cleared ice nearby.]
Narrator: O Canada!
[A scenic view of mountains and a river shrouded in mist.]
Our home and native land!
[At a Canada Day celebration, a person wearing a headscarf smiles at a child who waves a Canadian flag while sitting on another person's shoulders.]
True patriot love
[A motorboat travels along a river. The captain raises their arms in the air while two passengers sit in the back and another passenger sits at the front of the boat.]
in all of us command.
[Close-up of an Indigenous person with long black hair, with city buildings blurred in the background.]
With glowing
[Close-up of a Black person with short curly hair wearing a black hoodie, with city buildings blurred in the background.]
hearts we
[Five members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ride on horseback, each carrying a Canadian flag.]
see thee rise,
[Close-up of the Peacekeeping Monument with a Canadian flag flying nearby.]
The True North
[On a snow-covered tarmac, three military personnel walk toward a parked aircraft.]
strong and free!
[A firefighting aircraft releases water over a forest fire, creating clouds of steam and smoke.]
From far
[Vehicles travel along a highway bordered by homes, with the Rocky Mountains in the distance.]
and wide,
[Residents stand on apartment balconies overlooking the street, while one person waves a large Canadian flag.]
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
[A person wearing a cowboy hat stands on a snowy plain facing distant hills.]
God keep our land
[Two hospital staff push a patient on a gurney down a hospital corridor with one staff carrying an IV pole.]
glorious and free!
[At an evening Canada Day celebration, a child with a maple leaf painted on their cheek gazes upward while being held by an adult waving a Canadian flag.]
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
[On-screen text: "A United Canada is a Stronger Canada"]
[The Government of Canada signature appears.]
Audio: "…musique notes O Canada stinger…"
[The Canada wordmark appears with an animated Canadian flag.]
Transcript – It’s time to choose Canada
Video length: 00:00:30
[The video opens with a sunrise behind a Canadian flag against the horizon.]
[A harbour with bright coloured houses transitions to an overhead view of an urban city on a coastal inlet with mountains on the right. Close up of an Indigenous person in regalia. A person dressed in coat and cap smiling standing in the mountains.]
Canada, it’s time for more… us.
[Person holding potatoes in a field. Transitions to hikers on a snowy mountain ridge. Transitions to a boat speeding up a waterway. Sweeping view of a field with fall trees.]
Because we’re more than just a place on a map.
[Black and white film of hockey players cheering around a net.]
We’re an attitude.
[Hockey scene with women on the boards cheering. Fans cheering in the stands. Black and white footage of uniformed soldiers carrying another soldier. Modern military soldiers on the stairs of an airplane. A crowd of people dancing together.]
One with more empathy than ego.
[Person dancing with a hoop. A person waving a flag on a crowded urban street. A skier in deep snow heading down a mountain.]
More unity than division.
[A mountain biker heading away on a path. Terry Fox walking along a roadway.]
More grit, go, and we got this.
[A crowd wearing Canadian jerseys cheering. Women’s hockey team members standing at attention holding their helmets. A crowd rising from their seats.]
The more we choose to stand up
[Black and white footage of soldiers in uniform. Close up on one man’s face. Close up of the Canada band sewn on a uniform. July 1 celebration stage with a giant Canadian flag waving, fireworks in the distance and a crowd at night]
as our most flag-flying,
[People walking in a small old pedestrian street full of shops, trees, flowers and strings of lights on a sunny bright day]
maple-leaf buying,
[Group of people in a yellow canoe on a body of water against a background of yellow and green trees. Two women hiking with daypacks with a view overlooking a waterway, wind in their hair.]
local-adventuring selves,
[A ferris wheel at night. A person wearing winter outdoor gear standing in front of sled dog houses in a snowy landscape.]
the more we are the True North,
[The Aurora borealis in green bands dancing across the sky, clouds, mountain top, treelined and stars. An Indigenous person dancing in regalia in a field.]
unbreakable, strong, and free.
[Photos of a valley with a river, trees, mountains stretching on both sides and in the distance, the sun coming through clouds and sunrays reaching forward.]
[Text on screen:
Choose Canada
Canada.ca/CHOOSE-CANADA]
[The Canada Wordmark appears.]
Transcript - Made in Canada
Video length: 00:01:15
[music]
Canada - a nation, united through triumphs and hardships.
With every generation, Canada's story grows, grounded in heritage, built on hope.
Our collective story spans thousands of years, woven together by the many peoples who have called this land home.
A land of proud creators.
From family farms to urban factories, small businesses of all kinds keep Canada strong, building what we need and what we believe in.
Being Canadian isn't just about where we live, it's about how we live together.
Showing respect, embracing diversity, and loving the land, our waters and each other.
That's who we are.
Celebrate what makes us strong and free.
Shop local. Travel local. Support Canadian.
[Text on screen: Travel Canadian. Support Canadian]
Discover how at Canada.ca/made-in-canada.
[Text on screen: Archival images courtesy of Library and Archives Canada]
[The Canada Wordmark appears.]
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