When I came down the gangplank of the troopship in Halifax in November 1945, I was a proud 21-year old Canadian army veteran. If someone had told me then that my very own governments would take a wrecking ball and destroy almost all I fought for, I would never have dropped my weapons.
I rushed home and innocently returned to school; went to university, got married and contributed to the baby boomer generation. I trusted my governments. I foolishly believed they understood the fundamental principles that underpinned our laws and would never allow such principles to be breeched. I didn’t reckon with the wreckers; Prime Ministers Pearson and Trudeau and their acolytes.
There is insufficient space here to discuss all the convoluted machinations that these men employed to destroy every principle of justice and fairness that had been our heritage for hundreds of years. Had they obeyed just one single principle of the many, none of the massive soul-destroying changes they foisted on Canadians would have seen the light of day. That principle, once so well understood by every Canadian adult and most schoolchildren - at least in the English-speaking world - was simply this:
“Every citizen is the equal of every other citizen before and under the law.”
We all knew that there must be no special laws for any individual person or for any group of persons. We all understood that, ‘rich or poor, no citizen was above the law’ and the saying most knew by heart was,
“Neither prince nor pauper is above the law.”
The Wrecking Ball – the first Blow
Prime Minister Pearson started up the machinery that swung the wrecking ball. It was his belief that insufficient numbers of French speaking Canadians were represented in the federal and provincial civil service and that something had to be done to rectify this perceived injustice.
Like so many do-gooders that often wind up doing more harm that good, Pearson employed methods that were fundamentally unfair to other people. To do-gooder politicians, the outcome they desire for their constituents is often justification of any means they care to employ. Pearson’s means unfortunately corrupted our society.
Pearson began with the concept that Canada was composed of “two founding nations,” the French and English people; therefore the French and English language should have equal status all across Canada. He should have said French and British people but he was focused on rectifying the civil-service language imbalance.
The unfairness was instantly recognized by the Ukrainians, the Japanese, the Jewish people and other ethnic groups that felt that they had also played and would continue to play a role in the development of modern Canada. Now we had a culture upset.
Pearson had shot himself in the foot. The “two founding nations” hot potato was quickly abandoned. What to do? Answer - pass the hot potato to a
Bilingual and Bicultural Commission to look into both problems.
The next blow of the Wrecking Ball
That forlorn and biased Bi-Bi Commission of insanity recommended that the two languages French and English be given equal footing in Canada. It never occurred to these societal manipulators that they were recommending a legal framework that would pit 75% of Canadians that spoke English against 25% of Canadians that spoke French.
They also recommended ways (force and limitless financial subsidies) to ensure a wider recognition of the basic English and French cultural dualism of Canada. Our foolish Parliament of Canada agreed with the Commission’s recommendations.
The
‘principle of the equality of each individual citizen before and under the law’ versus the deadly substitution of the
‘rights of one group faction against another group’ was ignored by the Commission and our Liberal dominated parliament. The principle was not merely ignored, it smashed because the MPs knew that both the French and English-speaking cultures would resist. They therefore decided to force their plans on Canadians by passing the
Official Languages Act of Canada (1969) and appointed an Official Languages Commissioner to “administer” the Act and sell it to Canadians.
That was the beginning of the end of a peaceful and politically stable Canada
A democracy is not just a matter of political parties and a free vote. It is also a matter of the “rule of law” and our own elected representatives had ignored our right to be treated equally as individuals by that law. These politicians resorted to force of law and edict rather than debate and persuasion. It was the top-down rule of the select few; a French style of government totally alien to the majority of English-speaking Canadians.
The preponderance of French speakers lived in Quebec and they cared not at all for the equality of French and English; they wanted Quebec as a nation of French speakers. The stage was set for the so-called “quiet revolution” of the Quebecoise separatists, the exact opposite of the do-gooder’s intended result. Thus the two linguistic groups were angry.
The government then appointed a Language Commissioner, a Mr. Keith # MP who promptly went around Canada proclaiming the wonders of bilingual ability. English –speaking Canadians generally agreed; sounded good! Who could object to learning another Canadian language? Little did our Liberal would-be do-gooders or the public realize that the only way a language policy can be peacefully implemented is by natural individual preference; not the iron fist of law encased in the velvet glove of propaganda. Many English-speaking Canadians would pay a horrible price for their naiveté, particularly in Quebec.
The use of the force of law to bulldoze a free people into a social outcome had its unhappy effects all across Canada. In Ontario many towns and cities refused to declare their municipalities bilingual. The Mayor of Toronto, Arthur Eggleton (today a Liberal Senator) was so enraged at the refusal of many of his fellow Mayors and citizens to accept official bilingualism that he loudly declared that anyone not accepting bilingualism as a government policy was a “
Neanderthal red-necked right- wing bigot!”
In a democracy of free people that is an acceptable comment, even though extremely insulting to tens of thousands of people. But it is not acceptable today! Why? Because once the principle of individual equality before the law is fractured, then all else is permissible including the establishment Human Rights tribunals (a.k.a. kangaroo courts). Unfair penalties are now levied routinely against Canadian citizens that “hurt the feelings” of other specially designated, “in need of protection,” Canadians.
The Wrecking Ball’s third deadly Blow
The Bi-Bi Commission also persuaded our new Liberal-inspired dictatorship that they must recognize the
multicultural nature of Canada’s citizenry. It again it sounded good to the politicians and the public. It seemed inclusive. Everybody will be happy. Who could object? Like the blind leading the blind, our own government passed the
Multicultural Act of Canada (1971) that further separated groups of people into tribes.
The country was still absorbing large numbers of European immigrants, many still escaping from the dislocations of WW2 and the Communist areas of the continent. Vietnamese refugees and large numbers of people began to arrive from the Caribbean.
Now the people of Quebec and English-speaking Canada were becoming restive and a huge sales pitch was developed to persuade Canadians that we were different, we do not expect our immigrants to integrate into our society like the nasty USA; instead our immigrants were encouraged to keep their culture and not blend in with other Canadians or adopt the society that our existing citizens had taken hundreds of years to create.
Multicultural food, music and dance fairs soon sprung up all across Canada. The citizens of Canada rejoiced at the sights, sounds and smells of exotic and the mix of different peoples of the world. The majority, so it seemed, accepted the concept of separate identities as a social blessing. Few ever took the time or trouble to read the Multicultural Act of Canada for if they had, they would have gagged a the thought of the government spending billions of their taxed dollars to fund thousands of projects to create a separate identity society in Canada.
The Liberals listened to refugee immigrants like Irving Abella, and a new crop of multicultural experts and multiple ethnic beneficiaries of government largess that happily jumped on the bandwagon not realizing they were creating a disaster that could come back to haunt them.. The money flowed like water. Soon the politicians realized that Liberally granting money to minority groups was a real vote-getter. The sickness spread quickly to the provincial governments and the municipal governments.
.
The hype became extreme; soon the propaganda proclaimed that we Canadians have always been a multicultural society. It is our tradition. Some tradition, pass a government policy that virtually no Canadian asked for or wanted and presto, next week, it’s a tradition!
Then there was the “mosaic of cultures” propaganda. Trudeau saw it as a golden opportunity to divide and conquer English speaking Canada and enhance the political power of Quebec within Canada. The Quebecoise saw it as an attempt to swamp Quebec with English-speaking immigrants. Allophones they call them. Then other troubles began to show their ugly head.
The Racism Wrecker’s Ball
The so-called ethnic immigrants, foreign to the principle of “individual equality before the law,” did not value our centuries-old English common-law principle and soon began their chant of racial discrimination. They looked around at a sea of white faces with few black, brown or other colours and explained the imbalance by screaming racism.
They began to demand special laws of protection for themselves and laws to force their entry into jobs, the civil service and promotions. They were no longer encouraged to learn, work and serve their time integrating into the mainstream culture. Difficulties that any new immigrant faces were attributed to prejudice or racism.
Our authorities made no effort to help the new immigrant understand the history and laws of the society they were joining but instead sold them on the new multicultural policy of Canada. “Canada is a blank slate,” our Liberal propaganda machine said, it’s up to you to help us create a new Canadian society.
Imagine the insult to Canadians, who had welcomed so many poor people fleeing from murderous dictatorships and backward societies being told that their immigrant cultures were the equal of every other culture and that our Canadian society was a “blank slate” to scribble on.
The mss media pretended that it was difficult to define a Canadian culture. Some of the nastier ethnic minority MPs had the boorishness to sneeringly proclaim there was no such thing as a Canadian culture. That did not sit well with French Canadians and certainly not with pre Pearson-Trudeau English speakers. Most kept their mouths shut not wanting to seem racist by being outspoken. Those that did speak out were shouted down.
An ethnic writer, Neil Bissoondath; wrote a book titled “Selling Illusions” defending our Canadian culture. He saw through the wrong-headed policy of official multiculturalism. He was insulted and belittled by the establishment; the Liberal oriented mass media and eventually left Canada.
The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove
These intelligent idiots of our governing and intellectual classes, struggling to justify the unjustifiable saw that societal trouble was becoming more intense. Fearfully the government reigned in the electronic media. The Canadian Radio and Telegraphic Commission (CRTC).forced applicants for radio and TV licenses and existing stations to support the multicultural and linguistic policies of Canada. The wide-open immigration policy also became a no-no for open critical discussion by the mass media. The major print media, predominantly Liberal, danced the multicultural and linguistic tune by rote. Little debate of substance took place.
The Human Rights Act of Canada is passed - Another swing of the Wrecking Ball
Now real trouble began. The politicians were bombarded with visible minority complains of racism, job exclusion, schooling by teachers that didn’t look like them and curricula that they claimed they could not relate to because they said it was too “Eurocentric.”
Cities began to set up race relations committees, placing ethnics in charge because it was disgracefully assumed that only non-white faces or certain other ethnic or “disadvantaged” individuals or groups could possibly understand the hurtful nature of racist actions or even racist remarks. Their agenda was to tell the “European” population how to speak and behave towards themselves.
They recommend “sensitivity training” for citizens of the European variety. They went after anyone they feel treated them badly because they are of a different skin colour. These committees made no effort to apply the same sensitivity training concept to their own designated minorities. Their practice was to look through a one-way mirror.
The Human Rights Tribunal Wrecking Ball
Minority activists now saw that race relation committees could not enforce their mandate. They saw them as waste of time and money. So the cry of these activists became, we need “teeth” to enforce (the iron fist) Human Right’s Codes of the Federal and Provincial governments.
The Liberals agreed and thinking that they could placate their new vote-rich minority supporters and relieve themselves of any direct responsibility for breaking the laws of the land, they established Human Rights Commissions and their lawless tribunals all across Canada and ultimately every province followed suit.
The politicians deceptively washed their hands of any responsibility for the operations of these nightmare illegal tribunals by claiming they operated at arms length. They should hang their heads in shame. In a democracy, no government body can be immune to the direction of the people’s government. Here’s what our leaders agreed to:
The Human Rights tribunals are permitted to bring their victims to their kangaroo courts and charge them with any act directed by a majority person against a designated minority person. It can be the “crime” of hurting the minority person’s feelings. The accused does not have the right to be presumed innocence; no right to face his accuser and no rules of evidence protect him (heresy is admissible). His records if any are subject to seizure without warrant.
All the Accuser’s expenses and costs of any investigation and the trial itself are paid by the Commission. The Accuser is also provided with a lawyer at no expense. If he wins he collects up to $10,000 and up to $50,000 more if he goes after a corporation. If he loses, he pays no court or other costs. The Accused, win or lose, pays all court costs, for his own lawyer plus any penalty awarded the Accuser. Most of the judges are designated minority persons and therefore in a conflict-of-interest situation.
Most mind bending of all is that our insane governments have passed laws stating that the Human Rights laws that the Human Rights establishment has created takes precedence over any other Canadian Law. The politicians say there is nothing they can do to rectify the situation. That is absolute rot. They put these courts in place - they can scrap them.
Unfortunately, most politicians, especially the Liberals and NDP won’t touch them because they think the public is so dumb that if they say they will do away with the Human Rights tribunals, the public will throw them out of office because they are about to attack “Human Rights!” Fortunately, a few leaders are beginning to wake up.
The Wrecking Ball Supreme – The Charter of Rights and Freedoms
I know it is difficult to comprehend. I know it is difficult to believe. I know that when the Supreme Court of Canada extols the virtues of the
Charter of Rights and Freedoms as a “living tree” that helps Canada move forward with the times, it sounds wonderful. What they really mean is that when our parliaments don’t pass laws fast enough to suit their perceptions of a just society they, the unelected few will do so.
Virtually every Section of the Charter is conditional and nothing is guaranteed.
Worse, it is the cement that freezes all these wrecking balls into their ongoing destructive swings against Canadian justice and smashes our very freedoms. Ultimately, if we cannot rid ourselves of this Charter and the other despicable Acts mentioned in this article, the politicians and the courts will continue to dictate the terms of our existence.
In this article I have focused on just one of the fundamental principles that underpin the “rule of law” in our English-speaking world. That principle is the
equality of each individual person before and under the law. The Charter breaks that principle and permits special laws for the protection and promotion of particular designated minority groups and the individual members of such groups.
Not many have read the Charter and even if they do it is difficult to appreciate its draconian implications. Section 15, Sub Section 2 is perhaps the most damning. This Section changes Canada’s entire justice system by authorizing
special laws for special groups of people. Thus the stage is now set for
group rights that English-speaking people have taken centuries to eliminate. Our historic principle holds that if the law is applies equally to every individual, then all are equally protected.
That is why language laws, multicultural laws, employment equity laws, hate crime laws, our HR Kangaroo courts and the Charter all fracture that fundamental freedom of the equality of each individual person before and under the law. Every Canadian must be made aware that our leaders, having breached that legal principle, will continue breaking every other principle of the rule of law in the book so long as we allow them to continue these Pearson/Trudeau inspired evils.
The Liberals kicked the wrecking ball into action but today it continues its swing and no political party is immune from the temptation to use any means, principled or not, against the will of the electorate It makes it impossible for any political party to govern in the best interests of all Canadians,
Perhaps the reader will now understand why I feel as I now do. I was once a proud 21-year old Canadian combat veteran who along with millions of others fought for the principles of freedom and justice we all understood and loved. The enemy could not destroy them. We had beaten the enemies that tried. How awful then, to see our freedoms so easily trashed by our very own governments, either through ignorance or deliberate design. I implore my readers and all Canadians;
Do not submit to the iron-fisted hand of unprincipled law or edict encased in the velvet glove of any cancerous government propaganda. 
