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A fashionable opinion about Canada holds that the country is a haven of mono-cultural peace; a place for Europeans and Americans to envy in the same way as they do Australia and New Zealand. I’ve lost count of the number of times I have read a comment like the following:
“Britain is becoming a third-world dump and I’ve had enough of it. I am going to apply for a Canadian Visa. At least the Canadian government still puts its own people first.”
On the 22nd of October, this delusion took a well-deserved knock.
In a bungled act of psychotic cruelty, 32 year old Muslim convert Michael Zehaf-Bibeau shot and killed a Canadian soldier before storming the national parliament.
It’s unclear what the objectives of the attack were, but if it was to provoke shock and fear in Canadian society, its success will be rather short-lived. I say this because Canada is currently blessed with a forthright and punchy executive in the shape of Stephen Harper, and his response to the attack has been predictably resolute and inspiring.
Nevertheless, the puncturing of the Canadian monoculture delusion is necessary and attacks like this serve only to accelerate that process. Canada, to repeat the point, is not a monoculture any more than Britain. Let’s look at some statistics…
The European (‘White’) population of Canada makes up just 76% of the total (compared to the UK at 84%). 3.2% of the Canadian population self-identify as Muslim, below the UK (4.7%), but higher than in Spain (1.9%), the United States (0.9%), Portugal (0.4%) and even Denmark (3%).
There are over 500,000 people from Muslim Arab states in the country, mostly concentrated in the larger cities, but also in smaller towns and urbanities. There are Mosques in every major population centre. According to the website Euro-Islam:
“Muslims in Canada constitute the fastest growing (national) population. The percentage of population increase from 1991 to 2001 is one of the country’s most significant: a 128.9% increase (topped only by Pagans who represent only 0.1% of the population). Statistics Canada predicts that by 2017, this population will increase by approximately 160%…”
True to form, this growth in the Muslim population has led naturally to an increase in the numbers of attempted terror attacks in Canada. According to David Frum:
“Since 2006, Canadian security has thwarted many localized plots—two in 2013 alone. At a July 1 Canada Day celebration in front of the British Columbia legislature, two Canadian-born converts to Islam intended to detonate homemade pressure-cooker bombs, police charge. Two non-citizens—one Palestinian, one Tunisian—were arrested in April 2013 for allegedly plotting to derail a passenger train.”
Canada’s level of multiculturalism therefore is more comparable to an EU state than to those in the Western hemisphere. The country to which Canada is erroneously (and often positively) compared – Australia – has a Muslim contingent of just 2.2%.
Any Englishman who believes that by deporting himself to Canada he will escape Muslim enrichment is sorely mistaken, and most likely has Canada mixed up with its southern neighbour.
But that Southern neighbour is also why all is not yet lost for our friends in the north. Unlike the UK, Canada is in the national security domain of a freedom-loving superpower. Even if the Canadian government no longer respects the concerns of its own population, perhaps the American voice will prove more convincing. The US would never allow an Islamic base on its own continent or at least not without massive resistance. If Jihadist plots against the US increasingly lead back to a Canadian source, there will be substantial pressure on Ottawa to regain its proper orientation.
Alas, the UK has no such big brother to keep us on the straight and narrow.
D, LDN.
Defend the Modern World 
These recent attacks (there were actually two, a premeditated vehicular murder in Ste Jean Quebec happened a couple of days beforehand) are already being labeled in our socialist media as the work of madmen, not terrorism. Anecdotes, indicative of no particular trend. It’s a completely disingenuous narrative. The thing is, Islam is the only major religion that encourages such madmen to act. Most crazy guys just panhandle or rant on the street. The difference is Islam.
When ISIL’s propaganda is designed to appeal to the mentally ill, depressed, or aimless, the problem isn’t just mental illness, depression or aimlessness – it’s the fundamentalist Islamic doctrine upon which their propaganda is based. And to me, ISIL’s propaganda wing is a lethal weapon. They can use it to project force just as lethal and as far-ranging as a tomahawk missile.
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Indeed. ISIL’s propaganda is incredibly slick and professional. So is al Jazeera. The link is Qatar. Why the hell are we still ‘friends’ with such a country?
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Also… Stephen Harper is going to be remembered in the long run as one of the greatest Prime Ministers throughout the history of the country. He has, nearly singlehandedly and through increments, moved the hump of the bell-curve of Canadian discourse to the right. He’s redefined what “the centre” means. He isn’t popular now, but children (i.e. voters) never want to take the necessary medicine.
He’s tightening immigration rules, and revamped the requirements for citizenship to include a greater emphasis on learning and adopting our language (either French or English) and our culture.
That said, he’s not perfect. But Canada has had junk leadership for over half a century, and Stephen Harper is just what our country needs.
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He’s fantastic. Very refreshing for country regarded as being a Scandinavian-style liberal state.
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Don’t underestimate the Canadians. They are, after all, the people whose national sport is…ice hockey. If you want a metaphor for Canada: allow yourself to see former RCMP man Kevin Vickers toddling out of his office and calmly blowing away the jihadi who had just killed a young soldier and barged into the Parliament building. Grandpa saves the day. Then reflect on the fact that the *entire parliament* – who knew damn well that their skins had most likely been saved by their usually-entirely-ceremonial Sergeant-at-Arms – gave Mr Vickers a standing ovation at the opening of the next sitting of Parliament.
And there have been other developments. Look up a Canadian Metis bloke called Ryan Bellerose: he’s a staunch Friend of Zion and during the last Gaza skirmish he conducted a little social experiment: he put on a kippah for a week – in Calgary, where there is a steadily-expanding Muslim presence and influence – and found out what happens when people think you’re Jewish (he concluded that Jews have it tougher than Metis). He has just founded a project he’s calling “One Nation” that is intended to push back against Islamisation of Canada; the mission statement uses all the warm fuzzy buzzwords but underneath it’s aimed straight at the sharia-pushers. For their first Event they invited Melanie Phillips as guest speaker and they got more than 300 people.
More: in the Canadian Senate a bill has just been introduced, under the no-nonsense title “Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act”. Read about it here.
http://www.voanews.com/content/canada-considers-immigration-ban-on-polygamists/2510250.html
If they get it through, and ENFORCE it to the letter, it could make a lot of difference. As Hugh Fitzgerald of New English REview remarks, succinctly:
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/57398
And – bearing in mind that one of the two Canadian soldiers who were murdered by Muslim ghazi raiders was from the Franco-Canadian side of things, his name being Patrice Vincent – there is also this: a Quebecois politician with his head screwed on tight. He goes straight for the jugular, so to speak, of Islam: he wants to SHUT DOWN THE MOSQUES! (a temporary ban, to be sure; but it would be a start. Enemy bases…enemy command-and-control centres: if one reads ex-Muslim Sam Solomon’s “The Mosque and Its Role in Society” one sees that the mosque is *it*; if you want to put a spanner in Islam’s works, target the mosques, shut the mosques, don’t allow them to build more mosques anywhere within the dar al Harb, the lands of the non-Muslims).
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/10/27/close-all-canadian-mosques-temporarily-quebec-politician-says
Speaking of the Muslims in Canada who killed the two soldiers, our sensible Quebecois remarks:
“These people all went through mosques,” former Herouxville, Que., councillor Andre Drouin told QMI Agency’s sister French television station, TVA. “So maybe there’s something wrong with mosques. You don’t have to be a genius to think that.”
Give him the “Stating the Flaming Obvious” award, 2014!
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I think the Canadians are a great people. However, there is a liberal tradition there comparable to that of the UK.
Still, I have far higher hopes for Canada (in the long term) than for most of Europe.
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I hope Canada learns from the mess in European countries and changes its immigration policy accordingly.
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For too long Canada has been under-estimated, even by it’s own people. Canadians have no taste for , or history of, revolution like Americans do but there is an element of toughness in Canadians that most of the world is unaware of because the country has always been overshadowed by the USA under left-leaning governments . Under Stephen Harper (and perhaps Brad Wall, premier of Saskatchewan) Canada will be a country to watch in many ways. The changes from social liberalism to classical liberalism will be gradual and measured ,the way most Canadians like it. Perhaps too slow for Tea Party Americans and Brits, but just right to Canadians.
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I agree. They are a tough people.
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