Video — It’s time to choose Canada
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.]