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Auric Hellman wrote:
> By Eric Kaufmann, October 29, 2024
> 
> 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.
> 
> Though mistreatment of indigenous Canadians occurred at these schools, 
> as they did in reserve and non-native schools, records show that native 
> people who attended Residential Schools had significantly lower 
> mortality rates from infectious diseases than their peers who remained 
> on reserve. Documentary evidence reveals that children were not removed 
> from reserves without parental consent. Aspirational native parents 
> sought to have such schools constructed and wanted their children to 
> attend. Many who attended spoke positively of their experience. The 
> evidence also does not back up accusations that the schools were 
> designed to erase the culture of First Nations people.
> 
> The charge that children were killed or placed in ‘mass graves’ by those 
> who ran the schools has no basis in documentary or forensic records. 
> Rather, it is based on selective oral testimony and ignores the 
> considerable monetary and identity incentives shaping the narrative of 
> plaintiffs, white progressive allies and well-paid lawyers. Recently, 
> the Canadian government forked over a whopping $2.8 billion to atone for 
> their claims. The notion that residential schools amounted to a form of 
> ‘genocide’ is based on misinformation and an abuse of the English 
> language, but this did not stop the entire political and media 
> establishment endorsing the lie. Telling such truths is smeared as 
> ‘denialism’ by woke elites, and zealots among them are trying to 
> criminalise it.
> 
> Meanwhile, gender reassignment surgery and self-identification are the 
> norm, the UK’s Cass Review has been dismissed and draconian human rights 
> bills like C-16 and C-63 permit plaintiffs to haul people before 
> kangaroo courts known as Human Rights Tribunals for subjectively-defined 
> offences like misgendering. Trudeau’s government has majored on speech 
> policing and authoritarianism towards the right, abusing the language of 
> ‘hate’ and ‘misinformation’ while trafficking in both.
> 
> The downstream effects of this woke revolution include falling per 
> capita GDP, rising crime and youth unemployment, soaring house prices 
> and a surge in homeless encampments. As I note in my new book Taboo, the 
> so-called ‘culture war’ is about much more than culture.
> 
> Perhaps the only silver lining to the story is that Trudeau’s dumpster 
> fire seems to have woken people up. Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are 
> crushing the Liberals in the polls by nearly 20 points, on course for a 
> clear majority of seats. Two-thirds of people want lower immigration and 
> the issue is a top concern for voters for the first time I can remember. 
> Meanwhile young Canadians, bucking trends elsewhere in the Anglosphere, 
> appear to lean well to the right of their elders on some metrics.
> 
> Only time will tell if this is too little, too late.
> 
> 
> Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at the University of Buckingham 
> and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
> 
> 
> 
if you don't like the country you live in , move