Canada’s national identity is disappearing, the victim of a woke revolution that Trudeau and the left have brought about, argues Eric Kaufmann. But all is not lost. The young are more conservative than their elders. More of his despair — and hope — can be found here: “Canada is disintegrating,” by Eric Kaufmann, Telegraph,
What happens in a country without cultural conservatism? Look no further than Canada, where the national identity is disintegrating.
In 2015, soon after taking office, the new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gushed to a fawning New York Times that, “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada. There are shared values – openness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard, to be there for each other – but there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.”
Along with his fellow travellers in the institutions, he set to work ripping the country’s historic identity to shreds. The three prongs of the attack involved setting fire to its past, promoting LGBTQ and critical race theory in schools and government, and unleashing an unprecedented wave of mass migration. Only now that the full impact of this cultural revolution is sinking in is the country waking up. Even the mainstream liberal left admits things have gone too far.
Journalist Omer Aziz, in the liberal establishment Globe and Mail, penned a viral piece about the betrayal of the ‘Canadian Dream’, which he characterised as on life support. He speaks of a social crisis, an immigration crisis, an economic crisis and a political crisis after the ravages of Trudeau. Former Tory cabinet minister Kevin Klein adds, ‘Today, our country’s identity is under siege, not from outside invaders but from within – by an ideology that seeks to erase what it means to be Canadian. The left’s relentless attack on our values, history, and sense of belonging is tearing at the very fabric of our democracy.’
This summer I spent five weeks in the eastern part of my country, setting foot in the only two of the country’s ten provinces I had yet to visit. What greeted me? The progress pride flag fluttered everywhere across the picturesque small towns of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Food chains in these overwhelmingly British-origin provinces were staffed almost entirely by recent arrivals, the product of an unprecedented wave of temporary foreign workers encouraged by Trudeau’s Liberals. If you think Britain, with 50 percent more people than Canada, took in a lot of immigrants last year, consider that Canada admitted a staggering 1.9 million to the UK’s 1.2 million.
But perhaps the most symbolic events have been over 100 arson attacks on churches across Canada. These, which Trudeau called ‘understandable’, accompanied a wave of statue toppling of Canadian founders such as Sir John A. Macdonald (as well as Queen Victoria), and were motivated by leftist myths about the churches’ role in the country’s Residential Schools programme for indigenous First Nations people….
Twenty-four MPs from Trudeau’s own Liberal Party have now called on him to resign. So far, he refuses. But he may be forced, nonetheless, to call early elections. And in that case, the estimable Pierre Poilievre of the Conservative Party will likely win, and the war on wokeness in Canada will take off.
Poilievre, incidentally, traveled through Israel as a teenager and stayed in a kibbutz at Ein Gedi, a historic site and nature reserve near Masada and the Dead Sea. He saw missiles shot from Lebanon into Israel by Hezbollah. Ever since, he has been an unswerving supporter of the Jewish state. He told a synagogue audience that “the Jewish people are the only people I know of who, in the same language, worship the same faith on the same land in the same country as they did 3,000 years ago. That is a true indigenous people.” And while the Bidenites exacted a promise from Israel not to hit oil and nuclear installations in Iran, Poilievre called on Israel to do both, saying “I think the idea of allowing a genocidal, theocratic, unstable dictatorship that is desperate to avoid being overthrown by its own people to develop nuclear weapons is about the most dangerous and irresponsible thing that the world could ever allow.” And he added this: “If Israel were to stop that genocidal, theocratic, unstable government from acquiring nuclear weapons, it would be a gift by the Jewish state to humanity.”
Jacob Kovalio says
I am an enthusiastic fan of Jihad Watch and of Fitzgerald and Spencer ideas and writings on today’s major issues – such as “the DEI insurrection” and antisemitism- which I – a Conservative academic- have also researched and written about. I have publicized my views in a number of ways including two recent videos (which I mentioned in a message of a few days ago). They are at Jacob Kovalio – You Tube/manage videos. “On the DEI insurrection in Canada and beyond: an ‘intersectional’ approach” is at https://youtu.be/jlBsQ14f-dM while “On anti-Zionist [politically antisemitic] historical lies and the Islamist/Leftist challenge to democracy – the full truth in 20 slides,” is at https://youtu.be/eeXSTsSFPno . I teach at Carleton U. and was wondering if we could meet for coffee or…ramen.
gravenimage says
Thanks for those links.
bagsgroove says
Canadians have never heard anything great said or done by our Junior Trudeau prime minister. Although he’s well versed in the art of meaningless smiling at hopefully liberal future voters. What a maroon.
Mike says
In the image above, he looks twice as silly as Pee-Wee Herman (the late Paul Reubens) did on the promotional poster for the movie “Big Top Pee-Wee.”
Trudeau’s policies seem to be no laughing matter, however.
OLD GUY says
Is Trudeau related to Kamala? They sort of look alike and talk alike and have the same ideologies.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I fear that Trudeau has already done in Conservative provinces & constituencies what the US Dems have done in states like Colorado and Minnesota, and that Canada may be un-salvageable. Unless they figure out a way to deport all the muslims and Sikhs they’ve been indiscriminately letting into the country
Wellington says
Both Trudeaus (especially the younger) have done great damage to Canada, arguably even more than Obama and his lackeys like Biden and Harris have done to America.
Overall assessment: Leftism never makes anything better. Never. It is a mental aberration that is highly destructive to any society when it has the power to implement its pernicious nonsense.
gravenimage says
Canada and Its Woke Revolution
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Canada *used* to be one of the most civilized countries in the world, and a fine neighbor for the US–this is increasingly less the case all the time. Tragic.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
At this point, I’d argue that Mexico is a finer neighbor than Canada
gravenimage says
Well, except for all of those drug dealers, criminals, and Jihadists flowing in over the border…
Skeptiker says
Wir alle NICHT-DENKBETREUTEN erinnern uns noch mit Schrecken daran, wie sich dieser Woke-Faschist Trudeau während der Massenproteste gegen die Corona Maßnahmen verhalten hat. Eine menschenverachtende Fehlbesetzung und eine Schande für Kanada. Solche Politiker verdienen keinen Respekt, weil sie den Souverän nicht respektieren.
SKA says
I attended a boarding high school in Canada in the 1960s. One of the rampant misconceptions U.S. citizens have about Canada is that it is a liberal and tolerant society. In fact the political culture of Canada is really very authoritarian. The elder Trudeau essentially suspended civil rights and liberties in Canada after the kidnapping and murder of one Canadian official by Quebec separatists. So-called “Human Rights Commissions” act as inquisitions of personal opinion and have almost bankrupted individuals like Mark Stein and Ezra Levant merely for criticizing excesses of wokism. And of course the entire world witnessed the illegal state actions against the anti-vaccination trucker protests.
Left Coast says
In 1960 Pierre Trudeau led a CPC delegation to Communist China. He participated in a Communist “victory celebration.”
He met his idol, Mao Tse-tung . He collaborated on a book called Two Innocents In Red China. (Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1968.)
Trudeau describes his meeting with the Communist leaders like this:
“…It is a stirring moment: these greybeards, in their ripe old age, embody today the triumph of an idea, an idea that has turned the whole world upside down and profoundly changed the course of human history.”
Of the greybeard who has murdered more than 30 million Chinese, Trudeau says:
“…Mao Tse-tung, one of the great men of the century, has a powerful head, an unlined face, and a look of wisdom tinged with melancholy. The eyes in that tranquil face are heavy with having seen too much of the misery of men.”
And today his poorly educated son is running Canada into the ground . . . supported of course by the same CCP.
Thank the Canadian Legacy Media for covering this up for 75 years.
WPM says
Amazing Pierre Trudeau gushing about a mass murdering dictator who murder more of his own people then Stalin and Hitler combined .He Trudeau even admits he knows this man murder over 30 million of his own people for the only reason was power and he Trudeau GUSHES ABOUT HIS BRO-LOVE OF THIS GREY beard ? No wonder his wife turn to Castro with the low T count this beta male must have.