This was the actual, official death of Canada. This was the moment we ceased to have any semblance of a country.
Don Cherry was a Canadian legend, a household name, someone that every young Canadian grew up watching. He was a professional hockey player, then a coach, but most famously the main personality on Coach's Corner, where he would give commentary on hockey games, mixed in with a few of his own views.
He was fired for saying that newcomers to Canada should respect our customs. He spoke brashly and with conviction, as he always did, and he used the phrase "you people" in reference to fresh immigrants, but fundamentally he was fired for trying to enforce adherence to our tradition of honouring our fallen soldiers on Remembrance Day. He suggested that "you people" need to wear poppies as a sign of assimilation, of respect, and of appreciation to the people who sacrificed their lives to build and defend our once great nation.
If this man, beloved by so many and for so long, can't ask that Canadian traditions be respected, then no one can. That was the message sent by his firing and humiliation. The government and media wanted all Canadians to know that "we can't expect immigrants to do anything at all when they come here, they must be given free reign to opt out of our society, even as they come here 'for our milk and honey.'"
If no one is allowed to defend our culture, then our culture ceases to exist. If we can't hold newcomers to even this most basic standard, wearing a poppy-shaped pin for one day a year, then we can never hope for "assimilation," because there is nothing for anyone to assimilate into.
And this is what we have seen since then; newcomers forming their own ethnic enclaves, doing business in their own languages, hiring their own people, bringing their foods and their festivals and their customs with them, never even attempting to understand what Canada is all about. Most don't know a single thing about Canadian history aside from "White people stole the land from natives," and many don't even speak either of our official languages. Why should they? They have their own cultures and enough people to ignore ours.
Don Cherry being fired signified the end of any expectation of standards being upheld, and the end of the ability for Canadians to stick up for themselves. Every day since then, multitudes of foreigners have come here, and none of them have ever thought about what it means to be "Canadian," other than to be given a piece of paper from the government. This place and its people have no meaning to them, aside from what we can give them.
Unless there are serious changes, and we grow the backbone to stick up for ourselves again, soon, we Canadians will be a minority in our own home, disenfranchised and disempowered, left at the whims of the ungrateful hordes who resent us.
This Remembrance Day, wear a poppy with pride, and take note of those who don't. They are not your allies.
@bears_aware I wish our government cared nearly as much about Canadians as they do about literally everyone else.
That's a house that could have gone to young Canadian couple trying to start a family.
Unfortunately "our people" includes the entire population of the world at this point. "Suicidal Empathy" is the facade that the elites have given us through propaganda in order to make us look the other way from gross economic negligence and mismanagement.
I have no problem with looking after "our people," so long as that means people who were born and raised here, who have known nothing but this land and its way of life.
Even then, taking money from the hard working taxpayers should only be done with the utmost respect and care, and the money must be assured to be going where it needs to.
I am racist, which is why the new AI that will be programmed by Indians and Liberals will automatically flag me for some imaginary crimes. Having the wrong opinions will become fully illegal if they ever manage to get this AI spy network off the ground. The lines of thought are quite correlated, as they are part of a cohesive worldview.
@seethroughit2 Who says he's got zero relationship experience? There are a few catboys and leftwing Twitch streamers who would disagree with this sentiment.
Ok, how many Chinese, Indians, Philippinos, Africans, etc etc are there? The future we're currently looking at without course correction means that we're in for a Balkanized fracture state. I'm sure "the Muslims" might not be able to hold more than regional power in certain strongholds, but they already have the numbers to take over certain areas if they so chose.
By dismissing this and saying "but they can't take over THE WHOLE country" is missing the point. Their presence here has guaranteed that there will be no WHOLE country to take over.
@colonelkurtz99 I am speciesest. Human life is more important than animal life. Factory farms are wrong and unsustainable, sure, but so is having women kill their own children.
To be fair, nothing has gotten dramatically worse, it's just continued the downward trend started by Trudeau more than a decade ago.
If we don't get a trade deal with the US and we lose all of our native manufacturing as a result, then we can say Carney has made things substantially worse than Trudeau in new ways.
@LozzaFox What is a nation if not a state that has been set up for a race of people in the land that they hold? Nationalism without the "ethno" is completely meaningless.
"I want this block of land to be good to whoever happens to show up in it" isn't nationalism, it's communism.
@hardyrenos Oh, he knows what he's doing. He's looting the coffers while there's still anything to loot, afterwards he'll retire in the US or Europe and leave us with the tab.
"A single foreigner in the UK is not going to replace you. Just because he is allowed to carry an M249 SAW and no one else is even allowed to look at one doesn't mean anything. He doesn't have any special privileges and he's not a threat."
I wonder Tommy, would you support 500k+ Sihks moving into Israel?
In Luke 14:26, Jesus states: “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.”
Christianity is in a sense, anti-family. *Your* connection with God is supposed to be more important to you than the wellbeing of your own children.
This can also be seen in the way Christians have distorted the Trinity of God, which was traditionally seen as a family, going back to ancient Egyptian times. Osiris was the father, Isis the mother, and Horus their son. In the Christian perspective, this has become God (the father) as the father, God (the Holy Spirit) as the father, and God (the Son) as the son of the father who is also the father.
I have no idea why the Holy Spirit is not the feminine aspect of God, the mother, but Christians will go on and on arguing this point because "it was the Holy Spirit who impregnated Mary." Every other time the Holy Spirit is described it takes on feminine characteristics, it is the passive energy which God gives to the world and to his followers to use, and it uses doves and things as symbols of peace. Even the direct Hebrew translation of it is "the breath of Life," which sounds to me to be feminine.
I'm glad for your son, but the economic realities are much tougher for his generation especially than they ever were for you or I. Your son is able to save money because you are paying all of his bills, and because he's actually managed to find a job.
Many of the young don't have those same opportunities. Broken families are rampant amongst Gen X and onwards, and jobs that will give out more than 3 shifts a week are hard to come by. I'm thankful for my current situation and standing in life, but I know many people my age and older, let alone many younger than me, who are severely struggling to make end's meet.
Calling everyone lazy as a way to flex about how well your son is doing is just ridiculous in these trying times. How about having some solidarity with your own people as we all struggle without a single sign that things will improve in the near future?
@RodAVanier Our economy took a massive downturn before any of Trump's Sabre rattling. It all started one fateful day in 2015, when a substitute drama teacher with a dream and a cocaine habit decided he could ride his step dad's coattails to success...