The Death of Canada

 

"I am Canadian, and freedom is my nationality." -- Laurier

The current Sean Feucht controversy—an American pastor-performer being harassed and prevented from performing in Canada, even in a church—underlines the sad reality that Canada is not longer a free country. Canadians demonstrably do not any longer have freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, equal treatment before the law, property rights, freedom of conscience, the right to have a nation, or even right to life. 

To be fair, neither any longer do Britain or France.

I have lived in Saudi Arabia. The atmosphere of oppression, of having to mind what you say, of government intrusion into your life, is stronger now in Canada than in Saudi Arabia even at the height of its autocracy. 

It is shocking how casually Canadians, and Britons, and the French, have accepted this, even voted for it, even demanded it. I grew up imagining everyone believed in human rights.  And France and Britain were among the cradles of liberty. Hyde Park Corner, the Oxford Union, Magna Carta, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and all that. It is more than sobering to see how gauze-thin the commitment ever was.'

At least, pushing back against errant government, earning eternal honour, we do still have the United States. This is a recent phenomenon even there; under Biden, the US was going the same way as Canada and Europe, even in some ways leading the charge.

This gives hope that a similar turn may come in Canada. But time is running out. Canada just voted in a Liberal government once again, probably for four years. Britain is in a similar situation, and France has banned the leader of their opposition from running.

I have felt since 2022 that the brutal suppression of the Freedom Convoy, which is ongoing with the prosecution of Tamara Lich and Chris Barbour, made Western separation, or at least Alberta separation, inevitable.

The federal government cannot or will not make a new trade deal with the US. They are insisting on preserving supply management, and this is something the US, reasonably enough, will not accept. It has also been torpedoing trade deals with the UK, perhaps others. The feds dare not negotiate this away, because the system is too popular in Quebec.

So everyone else is making deals with the US to get lower tariffs, and Canada can’t make a deal. Alberta energy is the one bargaining chip Canada might have had, and it is gone. 

Canada may not last another four years. Not to mention the effects of mass immigration, which look about to erase Britain and France too.

That being so, and liberty and human rights being vastly more important than any petty tribal loyalties, the most I can say is that I would not oppose an American invasion. At worst, there is little left to lose.