What a pity that all those erudite cosmopolitans in Toronto and Montreal never happened to visit Singapore or read Lee Kuan Yew, or they would have understood that fundamental changes to their political system that rendered them irrelevant would soon be made inevitable by their pro-immigration policies:
Canadians are going to have to come to grips with a new political reality. In the past the political conflict has revolved around three interest groups, the Laurentians, the Albertans, and the Quebec nationalists. In theory they were all supposed to put Canada first. But in reality, they groups have worked to secure power for themselves and their own interests, often at the expense of the other and the nation as a whole. The Laurentians have dominated this battle, working in concert for a set of shared commitments around their own interests.
They did enough for the others and the whole to keep the pie together and keep the machine running. Canada as it has currently been constituted has been good for the Laurentians. But there is now a new dynamic, a new power base: The immigrant.
It may be worth exploring the roots of the why of mass immigration, but there is no denying that the bulk of it happened under the Laurentian’s, in hindsight foolish, turn towards the “politics of meaning.” Climate change. Green policy. Equity. Sexual revolution. But the biggest component of this was mass immigration. Perhaps it was do-goodism. They were helping “refugees.” Perhaps they were “solving” the birth rate problems and labour shortages. Perhaps they thought they could import a loyal political client, ensuring their power.
It’s probably a mix of all those. But, immigration has been promoted to the scale that that the one time client has now realized that it can form it’s own client base. So Indians, the Chinese, and to a lesser extent Middle Eastern Muslims have begun to work in concert. Each works for the benefit of their own group. The Chinese for the Chinese state, which is troubling.
The Indians are working together within their own clan structure for their own benefit. Yes, there are ties to India, but mostly it is self-interest. To put it bluntly, they are largely looking to loot Canada and bleed the host dry. They are not looking to build things for Canadians as a whole. They are looking out for Indians first and foremost. They are not thinking how they can help make Canada strong. They are looking how to manipulate and game the system to accumulate wealth and power for themselves as Indians.
This is the dynamic that is changing.
Perhaps this is the root of the Liberal party’s pivot. Perhaps that is all smoke and mirrors. But it must be understood that one of the downstream consequences of mass immigration is that instead of loyal clients for existing power groups to exploit, we now have new lower players that must be approached this way.
As a non-Indian or a non-Chinese or a non-Middle Easterner in Canada, those of European stock, one of the political calculations that has to be made is the question of containing and subverting or undermining the political influence of these groups. They are a threat to all three of the original power bases and to the nation as a whole. Why? Because they place family, clan, and ethnic loyalty ahead of other interests. It is not in their thinking culturally to look out for the nation as a whole.
You are thinking in older terms of DEI or the “meritocracy,” hiring the best candidates, and they are looking to hire or place Indians in positions whenever possible. You cannot defeat this by emphasizing institutional neutrality. That will be used against you. The shift that is going to have to come is that you will have do as they are doing or you will lose to them because they are better organized and are better at looking after their own interests. Attach whatever negative label you want to this, but you have been warned.
Because of the folly of mass immigration, Canadian politics and society is going to have to become a lot more tribal in nature. It already is, but only one group is engaged in this way at the moment and it isn’t heritage Canadians. That has to change and Canada has to change as a result. It’s unfortunate, but unless these groups assimilate and let go of their culture and identity and their own group interests, which because they are now here in significant numbers, is unlikely to happen, Canada needs to change.
Canadians need to change. It’s not about hate. It is about prejudice. It is about bias. It’s about working for the kind of society we want to live in and securing that means we have to look out for, protect and impose that society onto the immigrant groups as self interest. You are not going to like doing it and it will be a big shift. But if Canadians cannot make this adaptation, we are going to lose Canada.
Based on my experience with Canadians, they cannot make this adaptation. Due to their primary self-definition as “not-American”, they lack a sufficient sense of nationalism to reject the sort of subversive redefining that Americans are rejecting despite being subject to a much more intense redefinition for a much longer period of time.
America is a large British nation born in revolutionary blood. Canada is a small multinational, multilingual collection of loyal colonials, and they are thereby totally unfit for survival when forced to compete with two of the largest, longest-lived cultures, the pajeet and the Han. These dire, Boomeriffic “if-then” warnings are already too late; the only way Canada will survive as a Western society is if it is part of a Greater America that adopts serious repatriation policies. Because Lee Kuan Yew
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