Celebrating Canada?

Vincent J. Curtis

30 June 20

Today's Spectator editorial called for celebrating Canada's 153 anniversary tomorrow. 

It’s rich, to the point of nauseating, to read a Spec editorial calling for the celebration of Canada.  The Spectator has delivered its readers a steady torrent of reasons to hate Canada and most Canadians.  Canada is a racist country, it was and is a colonializing power, its first Prime Minister (besides being a racist colonizer) began a program of genocide against aboriginal people - founded in a belief of white supremacism.

 How can you love a country that’s systemically racist?  How can you respect a national police force that’s systemically racist?  Perhaps the geographic area called Canada has much natural beauty, but the majority of people in it are irredeemable racists, colonizers, and tiny destroyers of the planet earth.  Only Indigenous, blacks, and recent immigrants from the third world are lovable; the rest are deplorably evil.

The praise the editorial does offer for Canada has to do with actions by governments - that it approves of  - in respect of Covid-19, which it would be racist to call the “Wuhan virus,” like they do in China.  The editorial celebrates that most Canadians aren’t selfish, irresponsible yahoos who think the lockdown has gone too far too long, but rather who can be panicked into staying home, living on-line, and doing all the right, progressive things without complaint.  

There is much to celebrate about Canada, but all of them the Spectator has recently condemned as irredeemably and unspeakably evil.  So, Spec readers, let’s all celebrate those systemically racist colonizers who made this country what it is!

-30-