The Census Long Form – a Racist Document – Changes are necessary

Politicians and the media have very short memories. The Conservatives would not propose canceling the document because a few thousand super-sensitive souls are worried about the government asking how many bathrooms in their home. The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) has a much more important goal in mind. I suspect that goal is to promote the real meaning of being a Canadian citizen.

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The separate identity policies of official multiculturalism foisted on Canadians by the manipulative Liberal Party of Canada have almost driven Canadians of the original pre 1968 English-speaking group out of existence. By placating minorities from all over the world and funding their hundreds, if not thousands of ethnic and racial sub-groups they have tied these groups to the Liberal Party for some 40 years. It is their modus operandi. The Liberal Party is now being driven crazy because Mr. Harper and the CPC have cottoned on to the ethnic racial vote game. The difference is that the CPC respects ethnic minorities and unlike the Liberals does not assume their voting loyalty. Minorities have matured and have come to realize that the Liberals took them for granted to the extent that they assumed they were some kind of unthinking monolithic blocks that only voted by group cultural or racial identity and could thus be forever manipulated. Think for a moment about the new immigration Study Guide, Discover Canada, that Jason Kenny, our Minister of Immigration and Multiculturalism introduced recently. If you haven’t read it you should. For the first time in 40 plus years a Canadian government has talked about the real culture of Canada that has existed here for over two centuries and is not predominantly French or exclusively multicultural. The Guide encourages new Canadians to learn our history and understand the culture of freedom and democracy under the rule of law that they have joined. It alerts newcomers that certain cultural practices they might bring to Canada are not and never will be acceptable. This is so radically different to the usual Liberal bafflegab that Canadians must be sensitive to multicultural practices and that the expectations of immigrants and their ways should always be accommodated. Canadians running afoul of that policy have been ordered repetitively to undergo “sensitivity training” and never, until now have they been treated with respect by any government. Race relations committees, university human rights experts and the minions of so-called human rights tribunals (kangaroo courts) have made profitable careers out of destroying the rule of law and suppressing law abiding Canadians. What has all this to do with the Census Long form? For many census years prior to the 1996 Census the questions that form asked were not so intrusive and personal. In respect to a person’s family background, they were only asked their original country of origin. Nothing wrong with that – it is good demographic information. However, even then the form did not ask if a person was Canadian. You could be a tenth generation Canadian of say Scottish background and you were supposed to say Scottish. There was no place on the form to say you were a Canadian. Canadians did not exist. A lot of Canadians were offended and wrote in, I am a “Canadian.” On the 1986 Census 69,060 Canadian wrote in that magnificent word. On the 1991 Census 765,095 Canadians wrote in the word “Canadian” (another 267,935 reported “Canadian” in combination with other origins. More and more Canadians were rebelling at the insult. The Liberal mind-set was revealed when the 1996 Census Long form was announced. For the first time the Long form asked about racial origin and skin colour. Question #19 asked, is this person: White, Chinese, South Asian (East Indian, Pakistani, Punjabi, Sri Lankan etc); Black, Arab; Filipino, South-East Asian, Latin American, Japanese, Korean? Strange, too, for professional statisticians to be so inaccurate since black and white are skin colours and do not designate origins and South Asian could be any of 85 or so races or cultural identities. Again, “Canadian” did not get a mention Most culturally offensive to Canadians was all this emphasis on race and skin colour. Most English-speaking Canadians had been brought up to believe that it was impolite and socially unacceptable to ask a person’s race or treat a person differently because of race or original background. Millions of Canadians were grossly offended. Another upsetting factor at that time (1994-5) was that Bob Rae and his NDP socialist-racist group had introduced a racially based hiring policy, known as the Employment Equity Act of Ontario. A job notice went around the Ontario government offices that included a last line that only female visible minority applicants would be considered. The headlines quickly blared, “White Men Need Not Apply.” The province was in an uproar. The Federal government did the same. Canada became a racially oriented and skin colour biased state by law. White men and women were marginalized in their own “home and native land” in favour of newcomers. In case you think the powers that be did not intend to discriminate, here is the Statistics Canada announcement that went along with the Long form regarding Question 19: “Question 19 tells us about the visible minority population in Canada. This information is required for programs under the Employment Equity Act, which promotes equal opportunity for everyone.” “Equal opportunity for everyone” is doublespeak; you cannot have separate laws for separate groups of people and create “equal opportunity.” Tens of thousands of people saw through the falsehood immediately. Activist groups were formed all across Ontario to fight the Employment Equity Act. They defeated the Act and tossed out the Rae government. Any racially based policy and, more importantly, racial laws should never have made an appearance in Canada but the Liberals saw it as a win-win proposition. They could see such favoritisms to special groups would corral the ethnic vote as a permanent alliance and the Liberals would thus become the “Natural Governing Party.” When an organization called the Voice of Canadians Committees saw the racially charged proposed Census Long form, they mounted a national campaign to change the form. The campaign was called, CENSUS by RACE – WHAT A DISGRACE. Many other organizations picked it up and ran with it as did many of the national and local media. There were kits of bumper stickers, post cards pre prepared for citizens to mail to their MPs, plus dozens of radio and TV interviews. I admit to being chairman of that organization and somewhat biased. Our campaign was paid for out of our member’s pockets and by our printer who refused to bill us for over $25,000 because he felt so strongly about the disgrace that the 1996 Census represented. We did not succeed in removing the racist questions but we did succeed in getting the designation CANADIAN into the final print of the 1996 Census Long form. The official count of citizens marking themselves CANADIAN exploded to 5,326,995. In the 2001 Census the number rose to over 13,000,000 and I believe over 15,000,000 in 2006. That is why I began this article by remarking on the short memory of so many media people and politicians of the leftist parties who fail to mention the huge anti-racist Long form Census campaign millions of Canadians participated in 1996. But then think about that a little. The left wing Toronto (Red) Star for example (and its subsidiaries) has supported all the racial minority special laws since their inception and went overboard to back the Employment Equity Act. They haven’t forgotten. Perhaps they prefer to keep silent from embarrassment. Maybe that is why the left thinks it is enough to join in idiotic cant that, “Stephen Harper wants to destroy the Statistics Canada Census Long form, just to satisfy a thousand or so complainers.” The Liberals politicians still see a need for every piece of racial statistical information they can acquire so that once back in power they can continue to “develop special programs” and curry favour with Charter designated minority groups. They will fail because minority groups are fast coming to understand that all Canadians must return to our fundamental legal principle that every individual citizen must be the equal of each other before and under the same set of laws. They know there can be no special laws for any person or group of persons. The Liberals still haven’t caught on. So why is Mr. Harper suggesting the cancellation of the Long form? I don’t know because I do not have any inside track to the CPC. However, my guess is that that step by step Mr. Harper and certainly Mr. Kenney is trying to bring this country back to a country of strong common values where all Canadians can be proud of themselves and their culture once again. Perhaps proud enough that they never again have to ask, “What defines me as a CANADIAN?” What better step could Mr. Harper take than continue to remove any racial, colour or other group division of our people by scrapping or redesigning the Census Long form?