Celebrate Dominion (Canada) Day with gratitude and drop the anti-Canadian propaganda

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Happy Dominion Day, from the river to the ends of the earth. It’s a bit archaic. But it sure beats Canada Day where they smash statues of Sir John A. Macdonald and flags fly at half-mast because hundreds of bodies haven’t been found, but if you say so, they want to put you in jail.

Not that I’m bitter. But I am baffled by the accelerating pace at which the Canada I knew is being trashed by people who don’t even realize that censorship is an ancient abomination. And before I was canceled like a dinosaur bitter about the loss of “privilege,” I let out a Mesozoic roar of protest that the things I loved about the Old Dominion made it attractive to the immigrants in whose name it now lives in major degree is Destroyed.

Justin Trudeau known as Canada “the first post-national state” with “no core identity, no mainstream.” Yet he strangely smugly casts any dissident of his core values ​​into outer darkness, snap “Far-right political actors try to outdo themselves with the forms of brutality and isolation they can inflict on these already vulnerable people.”

Also, curiously enough, I don’t recall the populace ever being killed by him, Trudeau Sr. or their professors have been asked if we wanted our national identity abolished lest they offend the primitive awake. Yet the revolution stamps on, statue by statue. Including Macdonald and Cartier sitting in the waiting room of Ottawa’s Macdonald-Cartier airport, one of the few things there is to entertain restless children, such as telling them how these visionaries set aside deep-seated differences, including ethical bigotry, to overcome these nation building. Now they are bad, and so is your country. Welcome to Canada. Put on a mask.

In the Canada of Psalm 72, we were wary of ourselves and our allies, cherished the Red Flag and freedom of speech, and our professors sought the truth rather than denying its existence. Today We stand on deceitful blatherAnd don’t seem happy or prosperous.

Regarding the unmarked graves of residential schools in which thousands of victims of genocidal murder have been surreptitiously dumped, the new label is stored those who want bodies with their bodies is “denial.” As are those who are skeptical of climate change alarmism, relentless COVID lockdowns, or anything else state-approved.

Is this a deliberate, dirty attempt to associate us with Holocaust-denying vermin, as Canadians claim? It is under a Prime Minister who smirks that people he disagrees with “take up some space”, while the radical left protests violently on purpose, and people try to “cancel” Jordan Peterson via garotte.

What went wrong? We were once so polite that we apologized if someone stepped on our foot. We debated big issues, tackled big social problems, and searched our souls for flaws. But we didn’t tweet obscenity, didn’t allow men in women’s restrooms, or routinely censored opposing views…or mainstream views.

It is not primarily a political or ‘practical’ problem. Ideas matter in the long run, and we are subject to them a profound intellectual revolution that we need to slow down.

Like Father Raymond de Souza just observed in the National Post, the “independent special interlocutor on missing children and unmarked graves and cemeteries associated with Indian residential schools,” a telling title, began her report “by stating that her role is ‘not to be neutral or objective’, but to be a ‘fierce and fearless advocate’, even if doing so ‘contradicts my responsibility to function independently and impartially, in an impartial and transparent manner.’”

There is postmodern Canada. A fiery public dance of victory over the desecrated vestiges of neutrality, impartiality and transparency. No thanks.

Of course the past was not perfect. We lost our patience. We had blind spots, especially in terms of race and gender. As I just wrote in the Aristotle Foundations new book “The 1867 Project: Why Canada Should be Cherished—Not Canceled,” would be none the less surprised than Sir John A. and his colleagues to learn that their work, and they personally, were not perfect.

In fact, their remarkable virtues include much more sober views of human nature than are common among utopians, including our second-rate group. But remember: it was the old boring boring Toronto-the-Good Canada that examined its shortcomings, repented of them and made the changes it needed and the improvements it could make. The new grunting, intolerant, relativistic version seems capable only of discovering, exposing, and imprisoning others’ shortcomings.

People call it progress. But I can think of other names. Still, I said I didn’t want to be bitter. So what can we do?

Tell the truth. Not mine or yours. The only real. Honestly, fearlessly and with a smile. It’s the Canadian way.

One more thing. I hope that most of us, including emphatically newcomers who, contrary to the official anti-Canadian propaganda, consider it a land of opportunity where sectarian and racial hatred are mercifully rare, will celebrate Dominion Day the old way. With gratitude.

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