How Canada Was Destroyed: Gradually and Then Suddenly
When I look at the accelerating mess that is Canada, I am reminded of the answer by a character in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, who was asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he replies. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
That answer, it seems to me, might apply to the question, “How was Canada destroyed?” It feels like we’ve arrived at the “suddenly” part.
The increasing dysfunction of Canada is the subject of Tristin Hopper’s book, Don’t be Canada: How One Country Did Everything Wrong All At Once. Amazon’s description provides a nice summary:
Drawing from real headlines, deep research, and extensive interviews, acclaimed journalist Tristin Hopper uncovers the bizarre missteps and policy experiments that have helped Canada set new global standards for dysfunction. The examples are legion: the real estate bubble that never bursts, Orwellian internet regulations, harm reduction policies that escalate harm, official health guidelines that recommended the use of glory holes in a pandemic, and a runaway euthanasia system that inspired the Wall Street Journal to declare, “Welcome to Canada, the Doctor Will Kill You Now.”
As sobering as it is comic, Don’t Be Canada examines the cascading consequences of extreme policies and tells the tragic story of a country that took its wealth, tolerance, and functionality for granted.
One of those extreme policies pertains to immigration. Massive rapid population growth deliberately achieved through a reckless immigration system is a primary driving force behind the current immiseration of Canadians. While Justin Trudeau shovelled coal into the firebox of a runaway steam engine, the first to start disabling the brakes was Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and no one has really fixed them since...
In 1990, Mulroney’s immigration minister Barbara McDougall won a major cabinet battle when she succeeded in raising Canada’s target for immigration to 250,000 annually, regardless of economic conditions. Prior to that time, the number of new immigrants to Canada had varied from year to year, depending on perceived economic conditions...
Contrary to what we consistently hear from the mainstream media, there was never a “consensus” on immigration. The Mulroney government never consulted working Canadians, the losers in McDougall’s scam. Instead they were subjected to relentless propaganda about the benefits of immigration, a mythological history in which high levels of immigration each and every year had always been the norm, and the deification of multiculturalism...
It took Justin Trudeau to break the alleged consensus that had kept Canadians compliant with the immigration scam for so long. He did this by raising the intake of all categories of newcomer to the point of creating a severe housing crisis, homeless crisis, food crisis and general affordability crisis, such that 70% of Canadians agreed with Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre that “Canada is broken.”...
As a result, Canada’s population grew by 1.05 million in 2022. In 2023, it grew by 1.27 million, with 97.6% of the growth coming from international migration and only 2.4% from natural increase.
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“…the one thing that comes through this book clear as day is the evolution of my father’s thought away from nationalism towards a bigger view of Canada and of Quebec’s role in it than folding back on this idea of a nation. It’s an old idea from the 19th century. It’s something that is not relevant to the vibrant extraordinary culture that is Quebec as being such an amazing part of Canada. Nationalism is based on a smallness of thought that closes in, that builds up barriers between peoples and has nothing to do with the Canada we should be building. We need to start looking forward and unfortunately, some people these days are wrapped up in this idea of nation for Quebec, which stands against everything my father ever believed,” Trudeau said, before clarifying that his father’s thinking had evolved to that position...
While Canadians were never consulted in any meaningful way about their government’s immigration policies, they were subjected to a great deal of propaganda, overt and subliminal, to forge what was called a “consensus.”...
The guiding mantra of the immigration industry seems to be that doing more of what has been driving Canada into decline will fix things...
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