Maybe I'm wrong, maybe the Kilt isn't 'just clothes'.

[Singlemalt]

My fathers parents came to Canada from Inverness. My mother family has been in Canada many generations, however she was a Kerr with Cameron, MacLeod and Mac Niel in her immediate background. I have never actually been to Scotland though I still have some contact with relatives there. However, I am emphatically not Scottish, I am proudly Canadian and tell my son's regularly that being born in this beautiful country is the equivalent of winning a lottery.

Thousands of my fellow Canadian's have served Queen and country in our military kilted. My mothers uncle died at the battle of the Somme kilted during the war that was to end all wars. Yet still young Canadians are regularly Piped home from Afghanistan in caskets draped in the Maple Leaf.

When I wear my kilts I am not pretending to be Scottish. In the words of one of my favourite philosophers of the 20th century Popeye T. Sailor "I am what am and that all what I am!"

Any Scotsman who inferred I did not have a right to wear a kilt had better be ready for whats coming!