People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier, along with PPC candidates and supporters, attended the party’s first national conference in Gatineau, Quebec on Sunday. A little background: the PPC was launched in September of last year after Bernier resigned from Canada’s official opposition Conservative Party. Bernier is also a former cabinet minister with the Conservatives. His new PPC has managed in less than a year to form electoral district associations in all of Canada’s 338 ridings.
His split inevitably divides the right in the country on key issues affecting the conservative base. In his resignation speech, Bernier stated:
“I’ve come to realize this party is too intellectually and morally corrupt to be reformed…I am now convinced that what we will get if Andrew Scheer becomes prime minister is just a more moderate version of the disastrous Trudeau government.”
Bernier has been disqualified from upcoming official election debates scheduled on October 7 and October 10, on the grounds that his new party did not meet certain criteria established by the federal government:
Any party wishing to participate had to meet two of three conditions, which include having one sitting MP elected under the party banner, as well as candidates running in 90 per cent of the 338 federal ridings in the Oct. 21 election.
Although “the PPC plans to run a full slate,” the problem is that Bernier was elected as a Conservative. Still, he argues that to be excluded from the debates means “excluding the only political party leader who has anything different to say.” He is correct in this, specifically on the important matters of multiculturalism, immigration, the freedom of speech and the constitution. Bernier stands out as unique among his counterparts of the Liberal Party (Justin Trudeau), the New Democratic Party (Jagmeet Singh), and the Conservative Party (Andrew Scheer). Benjamin Dichter, a founding member of the group LGBTory.ca, the Rainbow Conservatives of Canada, who ran for the Conservative party in downtown Toronto in 2015, exemplified a cohesion that undergirds support for the PPC when he “pumped up the crowd” at the national conference by stating that “Canada is heading in the wrong direction when it comes to how it is dealing with Islamic extremism.” He continued: “Canada is ill and suffering, and it is suffering from the stench of cultural relativism and political Islam.” Dichter switched his support from the Conservative party to the PPC.
When reporters asked Bernier whether he agreed with Dichter’s assessment, he replied that he was “glad Dichter was raising the question,” and that “it connects to his policy on immigration, which would require everyone wishing to immigrate to Canada to undergo an in-person interview about whether their views align with Canadian ‘societal norms.'”
It is important to note here that whether one agrees or disagrees with Dichter that Canada has a problem with “cultural relativism” and “political Islam” — the latter of which Jihad Watch has covered quite extensively HERE, and also about its disastrous “anti-Islamophobia” Motion M-103 HERE — debate about these issues has been all but shut down in Canada. Any thinking individual with respect for Canada as a free society and its long tradition of freedom of speech should realize that issues of Islamic supremacism, the global jihad, open-door immigration, and multiculturalism are and need to be addressed in open dialogue and debate for the good of the whole people, in pursuit of a united Canada. So Bernier answered well in stating the importance of having this discussion.
The word “dialogue” in Canada has been hijacked by charlatans and manipulators of identity politics, along with Islamic supremacists. Together they have had a great impact upon those leaders who are inclined to political correctness and pandering to special interest groups. Sitting around a table and socializing with ethnic and religious groups does not constitute dialogue. It is an insult to the real meaning of diversity. Real dialogue requires open, intelligent debate and diversity of opinion; it includes all faiths, views and races, not just one faith and set of beliefs, Islam.
In reference to whether or not Bernier will be allowed to participate in the pre-election debates, he proclaimed that “it won’t be a real debate if I’m not there.” He hopes that the head of the Leaders’ Debates Commission will change his mind and allow him to participate. A petition has now been launched, calling on the commission to include him.
Beyond politicking and partisanship, a much bigger issue is at play: democratic values. Even the Toronto Star published an article defending Bernier’s right to be included in the debates. The article “Maxime Bernier should be allowed to participate in the leaders’ election debates” argues that “rules for participation are too restrictive, and the process of eligibility isn’t completely democratic.” Given the void in leadership that Canada has experienced under the Trudeau government, which has an Islamic supremacist entryist problem and a propensity for corruption, not to mention plans to “massively ramp up” refugee intake and roll out the welcome mat for Islamic State jihadists and their families, never before has it been more urgent for Canadians to be informed and weigh evidence before casting their ballot on October 21. After all, what’s to hide?
“Bernier Claims ‘Islamist Extremists’ Have Infiltrated Canadian Politics,” by Althia Raj, Huffington Post, August 19, 2019:
GATINEAU, Que. — Islamic extremists are infiltrating Canadian political parties, Maxime Bernier told reporters Sunday, alleging that political party leaders are playing footsie with them to get votes.
The leader of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC) was responding to questions about whether he shares views espoused by the guest speaker at his party’s inaugural conference. Benjamin Dichter contended that the Liberal Party of Canada is “infested with Islamiscists” and that Canada is suffering from “the stench of cultural relativeness and political Islam.”
Standing shoulder to shoulder with Dichter, a last-minute 2015 Conservative candidate stand-in in Toronto–Danforth, Bernier offered some of his own views.
“If we don’t talk about this now, and we don’t talk about immigration at the same time, our country risks become something it isn’t, in 25 or 50 years,” he said, in French.
“Look at Andrew Scheer. He went out of his way to meet Islamist extremists to get their votes,” Bernier asserted, offering little evidence.
“You reproached me for having my picture taken with someone at a public event that I didn’t know,” Bernier told journalists, referring to pictures he has posed for with a white nationalist and members of an alleged hate group. “But Andrew Scheer, he went to meet an Islamist extremist who tells people how it is good to beat your wife, and how to beat them.”
Bernier, the party said, was referring to Omar Subedar, a Toronto-area imam who has been the subject of controversial conservative Rebel Media videos as well as a recent posting in Jihad Watch.
Subedar told HuffPost Canada Monday that Bernier’s allegations are untrue and he is just waiting for “the right moment to use the Canadian system against him” and bring him to court.
The Rebel’s videos, Subedar said, distorted the message he was sharing. “Am I teaching men to go out there and beat their wives? No!,” said the imam.
Subedar was explaining the prophet’s teaching and contextualizing them, he said. “Almost every major imam who is in Canada has been found saying something with respect to this particular verse, because it is something that you do have to deal with,” he said, explaining a Qur’an passage that appears to suggest men may beat their wives lightly.
The Muslim cleric said he has no idea what Bernier is talking about regarding Islamist extremists infiltrating political parties, calling the suggestion “completely ludicrous and unjustified.”
“My personal opinion is he is trying to create a base that is hostile to people of colour,” Subedar said, of Bernier.
The imam said the first attack against him on the Rebel came when he posted a picture with then Liberal leader Justin Trudeau in 2014. The second happened this spring after he was photographed with Scheer. Subedar said he spoke with the Tory leader about the party’s relationship with the community and white supremacy.
He wanted to know how Scheer planned to treat Muslims, adding that the community did not begin to organize until after former prime minister Stephen Harper “started targeting” them and using them as “scapegoats,” pointing to the ban on niqabs during citizenship ceremonies as an example.
The Conservative party did not return a request for comment.
Liberal spokesman Braeden Caley called Bernier’s comments “another disappointing example of today’s conservative politicians doubling down on divisive politics and completely ignoring the facts.”…
In his speech, Bernier noted his is the only party willing to talk openly about the “Islamist menace.”
To reporters, he said the People’s Party of Canada welcomes Muslims and those of all other faiths who want to live according to Canadian values: separation of church and state, the equality of women and men. The PPC wants fewer immigrants and a stop to irregular refugees.
“We are against mass immigration, but we are for immigration,” Bernier said, noting his party wants to increase the percentage of economic immigrants. Pointing to social cohesion problems in Europe and in Britain, Bernier said he doesn’t want the same issues replicated in Canada because of new immigrants who don’t share the same values. The PPC wants face-to-face interviews with all would-be newcomers to gauge their potential for integration.
“It’s time to have that debate.”….
kp says
YES, #PPC here in Canada is the only wayyy to go!!!
St. Ferdinand III says
The fight back in Canuckistan is now starting.
Leslie Fish says
Finally!!!
Steve Scrivens says
PPC is the only reasonable approach if we are to save our country.
Tyler says
Mad Max is Canada’s only hope. The PPC is the first of it’s kind that adress real issue’s without beating around the bush. Bernier is not corrupted by PC or islamic supremacist’s.
Good email, great work!
CRUSADER says
Feel the Bernier!
Robert Janisse says
Allow Bernier to debate!!
gravenimage says
Leader of new People’s Party of Canada says his party is the only one willing to discuss the “Islamist menace”
…………………………
Kudos to Maxime Bernier for speaking out!
Westman says
Canada only has 35 million people. Equal immigration would have 10 times more impact on Canada than on the US. Let’s hope the PPC can bring immigration sanity before it’s too late.
A thought experiment:
Realistically the effects of the importation of young male reproduction-age Muslim immigrants is amplified because the equivalent age group of Canadians is no more than 1/4 of a total population of elderly, women, men, and very young children.
1/4 of 35 Million is 8.75 Million. Would the importation of 8.75 million Muslims completely change Canada in one generation?
Let’s suppose these young bucks marry and have an average of 5 children and the pre-migration population of young males have 2 children. On average, 2.5 Muslim males will be born for every male born to a pre-immigration Canadian family. In a generation there would be approx 30 miliion Muslim males, father-and-son, to the pre-immigration Canadian males 17.5 million, father-and-sons.
In essence the virile Canadian male stock would be outnumbered almost 2 to 1 by virile Muslim males. Of course, Muslimas vote according to the husband’s demands(maybe even while on a camel saddle), so by democratic means Canada would be controlled by Islam in one generation; not a pretty or wise picture.
If Canada doesn’t control immigration it will be lost.
Rufolino says
Well said !
Terry Gain says
“Would the importation of 8.75 million Muslims completely change Canada in one generation?”
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No, it would change Canada overnight.
Lauren Hermann says
Terry,
+1. You hit the nail on the head.
Jayme says
I know for a fact no party or leader wants Subedar to take Max to court as this would expose how much pull muslims have in Canada.
CogitoErgoSum says
Here is what is driving me “nuts” (or so I’ve been told). A person can say he welcomes the immigration of Muslims if they support the separation of church and state and the equality of men and women BUT when I read the Quran and research the hadiths and read about the life of Muhammad, I find that Muslims are not supposed to support those things. So If Muslims want to fit into our society they will need to forget about the Quran and hadiths and Muhammad’s example. They will need to reject a big part of what Muslims are supposed to accept. So why do they get upset about me criticizing Islam? I think the answer is that they really DO want to follow Islam and DON’T want to fit into our society — and they become angry when I point out the contradiction between what they say they want and what their god, Allah, wants. So yeah, I think someone is nuts and I’m most likely dealing with people who are a few cards short of a full deck in the game of life.
PRCS says
“So If Muslims want to fit into our society they will need to forget about the Quran and hadiths and Muhammad’s example. They will need to reject a big part of what Muslims are supposed to accept. So why do they get upset about me criticizing Islam? I think the answer is that they really DO want to follow Islam and DON’T want to fit into our society”
Problem: they don’t shed Islam from their minds when the plane crosses into Canadian airspace: because, as you note, they really DO want to follow Islam.
UNCLE VLADDI says
They are still free to follow that part of islam called “TAQIYYA” (holy lying for Allah) where they can openly claim to embrace “Canadian values” (separation of church and state, the equality of women and men) while privately (and, later, when there’s enough of them to win, in open violent jihad) embracing Qur’anic tenets.
😉
Michael Copeland says
How good of Subedar. He went to the trouble of explaining……
“a Qur’an passage that appears to suggest men may beat their wives lightly.”
“appears to suggest”?
“Banish them to beds apart and beat them” is a straightforward instruction.
That is what to do to those women the man may fear would be disobedient. They do not need to be disobedient: the man need only FEAR that they might be.
Oh, and there is no “lightly” about it.
That word is dishonestly inserted by helpful translators to take the flak away from Islam: it is not in the Arabic.
http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=4&verse=34#(4:34:1)
PRCS says
“a Qur’an passage that appears to suggest men may beat their wives lightly.”
“appears to suggest”?
Will he ever be challenged about that?
gravenimage says
The Qur’an never mentions “lightly”.
PRCS says
Well, kudos to Bernier for broaching the subject. but,when does this mindset end:
“Bernier Claims ‘Islamist Extremists’ Have Infiltrated Canadian Politics”
Can he—or anyone else—explain:
*What an ‘Islamist’ is?
* How ‘Islamist extremists’ differ from regular Islamists?
* Why he and others refer to ‘Islamists’ rather than ‘Muslims’?
And, good grief: the ‘Islamist Menace’?
Howard Rotberg says
You might want to read my book, The Ideological Path to Submission … and what we can do about it.
Available on Amazon.
Older Canadian says
Mr. Rotberg: I read your book Tolerism. It was excellent, extremely informative. I did not realize you had a new book out. Will buy it and look forward to it giving me answers to the present doings in western countries.
Trick_or_Treat says
The “Islamist Menace” (in the form of literary potential energy and physical application) speaks quite clearly and unequivocally for itself – it’s called The Qur’an.
‘Genetically’, it has to be viewed as one of those proverbial leopards who’s spots cannot really be changed, no matter how much you might attempt to bleach it and whitewash it.
gravenimage says
I’ll check these books out. Thanks.
PRCS says
Note the usual deflection:
“My personal opinion is he is trying to create a base that is hostile to people of colour,” Subedar said, of Bernier.”
Tim Chauvin says
That would be every other party Subedar. And we don’t agree with beating anyone especially your wife.
Giacomo Latta says
Note also that the usually opinionated Huffington Post did not say that Iranians, and thus whites, and thus not of colour, are also mostly Muslim, and that many people of colour do not even touch Islam with a ten-foot pole.
PRCS says
Subedar:
““Am I teaching men to go out there and beat their wives? No!,”
Then he’s not teaching Qur’an.
Angemon says
Of course not – it’s only when you fear disobedience and admonishing them and sending them to separate beds doesn’t work…
GreekEmpress says
I hope he doesn’t get shut out of the debates—
I read the opposition tried to shut out Faith Goldy when she ran for mayor of Toronto.
AP says
We don’t need, knifing, bombing, honor killing, or any of the other bull that goes along with them Keep them out. How have they made our countries better,. After all they were refugees, send them back. Their welcome is worn out.
Mary says
As a CANADIAN I wish that I could vote for him.
Jayme says
You can.
Mary says
No I can’t our election doesn’t allow us to vote for our Prime minister only for a person in our district
Kepha says
Kudos to Maxime! Sooner or later, we in the States are going to have to break apart the political duopoly, and for the same reasons.
Tim Chauvin says
https://twitter.com/QuigginReport/status/1160688507754602496?s=20
Marilyn says
We need to pray for this country that most Canadians take for granted and say nothing. We need to stand up for Canada. The values that have and are being expressed by Maxine Bernier are the fundamental values that are being eroded in front of our eyes. It is time for praying men and women to make their voices heard and speak and support this canadian man Maxine Bernier.
Barry Donnelly says
Max certainly had my vote ! It was a big disappointment to me when he lost the leadership race in the Conservative Party . However I wish he would have remained with the Conservatives at least till after the upcoming Federal Election here in Canada . As a Canadian voter I certainly agree more with the Platform of The People’s Party . However we really need to get rid of Chairman Trudeau and his corrupt Liberanos . My fear is a split vote with The Liberals getting in once again . ” God keep our land glorious and free ! “
Vicky says
Trudeau will win the next election and the fault falls back on Scheer, an impotent uncharismatic leader without a program who has nothing to say, who shies away from controversies, and keeps repeating the same old attacks.
There is quite simply little difference between Scheer and Trudeau except Trudeau now has more experience while Scheer has nothing of value to offer. Both parties are now throwing money out the window to attract voters.
And both parties, Liberals and Conservatives are Islamic infiltrated.
Paul Nowicki says
A vote for Scheer is a wasted vote. Scheer is Trudeau lite or Trudeau 2.0. If all CPC members that say I like the PPC but don’t want to split the vote just voted for PPC we would not have a problem. I find that most CPC members agree with the PPC policies but this vote splitting business has them voting for what they don’t truly believe in out of fear. Vote with your conscience vote PPC. If we all do, it will send a clear message to Scheer and will actually give us real change.
RKA RKA says
Things we Muslims do to ‘mark territory’ and use Islam to show the world our middle finger. Watch this video to see the arrogance of a Muslim prostrating to Allah
in the aisle of an aircraft, blocking entrance to the toilet and then punching the Kafir.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1163951787549843456
Holy Tshinge Maduha-Ncube says
I am voting for PPC…Max Bernier ..He is right .We are getting sick of the muslim menace and its violent ways and deceitful quest for supremacy..This country was founded on JUDEO Christian values, not BARBARIC Islamic sharia.
jca reid says
At L – O – N – G LAST!! Folk standing up & speaking the TRUTH about this vile ideology dressed up as a “Religion”, in Canada. Imagine if in the 1930’s hundreds of thousands of ardent, fanatical German Nazis “migrated” to your country & set up their “ghettoes” & started to dictate how YOU should live, what YOUR Laws WILL be from now on. YOU are to be subjugated! Failure to conform it is permissible for us to cut your throats. It is NO crime to murder, rape, rob non – Muslims, under Islamic Law. The WORST countries for breaching Human Rights are the Muslim majority ones. They ALWAYS figure at the TOP of the UN League Tables. Why bother with them in the first place in the UN? They should ALL be kicked out & treated as Pariah States!
Leila McIlwraith says
??♥️??VOTE FOR MAXIME BERNIER. HE HAS THE BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE TO FIT THE POSITION OF PRIME MINISTER.UNLIKE THE WAITER AND DRAMA TEACHER. MAXIME BERNIER HAS INTEGRITY AND SINCERITY AND DOESN’T NEED TO USE VIRTUE SIGNALLING AS A RESULT. HE IS AN ADULT AND HIS SPEECHES FLOW WITH NO UMMS AND AHHHS. HE IS THE MAN FOR THE JOB #PPC2019 ??♥️??
infidel says
Full supports to this new party from India…
Dave De La Rond says
The CBC ,Jihadi Justin and his Minister Of Islamic Affairs Omar Alghabra and Liberal Murdering Muslim celebrity $10.5 Omar Khadr are already celebrating their victory in October .The same scenario happened in Alberta 5 years ago with the 2 Conservatives parties splitting the vote and the Marxist Islamist NDP Rachel Notley winning and destroying the richest Province in Canada in 4 short years
ninetyninepct says
“as well as candidates running in 90 per cent of the 338 federal ridings in the Oct. 21 election.”
The Bloc doesn’t have the required number. They are a provincial Party and should be banned from running. I am in BC and I demand that I have the opportunity of voting for the Bloc in my Riding.
Walter Sieruk says
Concerning the last term in above title ,which is “Islamist menace” a much better realist tern would be “Jihadist menace.” For the words “Islamist” and “Islamism” are a fake words that were made up after September 11, 2001 in order offend or upset non-violent Muslims. .” For the world “Islamist” is a bogus word that was made up after 9/11 in order not to offend or upset peaceful Muslims. To keep with reality, terms should better be used as “Islamic terrorist” or “Muslim terrorist” . Let’s call people and thing as the really are.
Furthermore, the term d “Islamic extremist” was also use in the article is ,this likewise is a false term.. “Moderate Muslim” are actually Western term and not that well known in the Islamic Middle East. This is because what In the Islamic mindset in the Muslim Middle East as well as in Indonesia and other Muslim controlled countries what the non-Muslims of the Western nations view as “radical and “extremist” the Muslims of those places in the world see as “Normal” and even devout and committed to the Cause of Islam”. Likewise they view those who Westerns see as “Moderate Muslims” those of the Islamic worldview and non-devout and non –committed Muslims. The violent jihadists even see them as “hypocrites.”
Therefore, this explains the jihadist chant of those jihad-minded Muslims in different Islamic terror organizations. When they chant out loud “Death to infidels and hypocrites.” Meaning Death to people who and not Muslims and people who are non- jihadist Muslims.
Concerning the last part of this above essay, the violent spirit of that vicious jihadist chant “Death to infidels and hypocrites.” The later word of the chant “hypocrites” in the jihad –minded Muslim worldview is further explain in the book titled JIHADIST PSYCHOPATH by Jamie Glazov , for on page 42 the reader is informed that “Islam mandates that devout and real Muslims must punish , and in some circumstances kill, those Muslims whom they regard as neither legitimate nor properly devout.”
gravenimage says
Still better than what most leaders are saying.
Walter Sieruk says
The topic of Multiculturalism was brought up in the above article.The fact is that Multiculturalism as well as the idea called “Cultural Relativity” are worthless, sick and unrealistic philosophies.
Which are the concepts that all culture are equal because this MC and C.R concept teaches the foolishness that all values derive their meaning within the specific social content. This folly of thinking leads, or misleads, many people to view every position as only “opinion” and that truth is only relevant to the person or society holding that view. In other words, discovering actual truth in impossible.
These philosophies of multiculturalism and cultural relativity are absurd, nonsensical and contradictory. For example, to say “finding the truth is impossible “Is a statement of contradiction. For in making that statement that is saying, in essence, “I have found the truth which is finding the truth is not possible.” It should be obvious that this “War of Ideas” needs to and should have a solidly based in and on truth and not by a worthless “war of opinions” A person who embraces multiculturalism and cultural relativity would say about a scholarly truth teller about Islam with its different kinds of jihad , as Pamela Geller, that she is only giving her “opinion” on the subject.
Such ignorance is appalling. Just look at history. If Americans had that MC and C.R. view ,as many Americans do today , then during World war II it would had been madness and a fools fight to go into battle against the military forces of Nazism if it was only just “opinion” that Hitler was wrong and evil. Likewise in this twenty-first century it would be nonsense, for example, for the US troops to fight and maybe even die in Afghanistan if it’s just “opinion” that the Taliban and Al Qaeda are wrong and evil.
Two other examples of the falseness of MC and C.R. with its teaching that everything is only “opinion.” First is in the elate 1970’s two guys said “There are so many different religions that no one can ever know the truth about religion.” They were really saying that statement so dogmatically that they were self-contradicting. For they were saying that they know the truth about religion that is not one can know the truth about religion.
Second, a shallow man in the 1980’s said when asked the question “Why do you always small talk ? You don’t ever talk about a topic that might have some value, as politics? After all , all thing are related “ That shallow C.R man replied “There are so many different political ideas that finding the true one is unattainable and all thing are not related.” The wisdom-less man was saying that he obtained the truth which is the he can’t obtain the truth and who does can is really truthfully say that all thing are not related in he can’t find the truth. How foolish, an obvious contradiction.
What is needed to counter this nonsense C.R./P.C. is the concept of “Absolutism.” Which a definition of this, with the scope of the topic, is “An absolute standard or principle .” In this “war of idea’s it’s the Bible with its absolute standards and principles to stand firm against Islam is its different types of jihad with its many evils. In conclusion, in this War of Ideas a firm foundation for truth may be found in the Bible and not the weak folly multiculturalism and cultural relativity in which everything is “opinion.”
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “To reporters, he” (Maxime Bernier) “said the People’s Party of Canada welcomes Muslims and those of all other faiths who want to live according to Canadian values: separation of church and state, the equality of women and men.” And to discover if this is what they want or not, and to vet them for their suitability (again, or not) to gain entry into Canada, he plans to ask simply them about it in face-to-face interviews?! What does he think will happen – that they WON’T then instantly, automatically engage in TAQIYYA (holy lying for Allah)?!
Dusty says
I do worry about splitting the vote BUT I will vote with my conscience therefore PPC. Perhaps we have to have another 4 years of Trudope in order for many more of my countryman’s eyes to be opened.
gravenimage says
Yes–splitting the vote is a serious concern.
Geof Barrington says
Bernier is saying what we all feel but hes not saying what it takes to get voted in . All he can do and all he is designed to do is to help Trudeau get another four years
gravenimage says
Yes–as I noted above, splitting the vote is a serious concern. But the idea that he is lying in order to help Trudeau is baseless.
garethhinderman says
The People’s Party of Canada is the type of party Canadians need if they are looking for real change and genuine representation.The voice of the Canadian majority has been hijacked by both the Liberals and Tories who embrace policies that essentially serve the priorities of elites at the expense of the people.
Canadian multicultural policies have been enacted based in part on theories promoted by academics such as Will Kymlicka, best described as ‘a government sanctioned ideologue.’ While Kymlicka and his ilk call for rights and privileges for every ethnic minority under the sun, a less generous view is taken when it comes to the majority of Canadians who happen to be of European background. The group rights afforded to others, is viewed quite differently when it comes to Euro-Canadians, particularly those of British origin. Any of the latter who identify too stridently with their ethnic, as opposed to civic identity, get targeted as racist or xenophobic… people deserving of punishment. But the same pejoratives aren’t applied as readily to minority ethnic groups who can be very outspoken, even extreme in the promotion of their heritage and homeland politics.
Funding, disproportionate media attention and multicultural props and subsidies of one form or another get channeled toward the maintenance of the elite’s version of Canada. Media outlets such as CBC routinely celebrate “Canadian authors” who hail from Asia, Africa or the Middle-East. These newly minted icons are accorded an enthusiastic, even fawning reception. It would seem unusual, shocking actually, if Anglo or French-Canadian writers with long standing generational roots in the country were accorded the same level of attention.
It’s time for push-back against the remorseless encroachment of elitist top-down policies. It is also time to take a hard look at the downsides of progressive identity politics, rampant political correctness and neverending red tape.