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I'm a Canadian. Born 6 decades ago when the nation was still part of the British Commonwealth and the vast majority of the citizens were from the British Isles or of European descent.

We were a nation that was overtly part of Western Civilization. Christianity was the primary religion -- or, at least, the primary religious worldview. English was spoken by everyone and French was spoken in Quebec. Most households were occupied by families with a mother and father and two or three children. Sexual deviance may have occured, but never in public. The police were highly respected. Illicit drugs were safely managed and contained to the fringes of society. Murder was extremely rare. Toronto's annual violent crimes were below 100!!

Back then, the country was known internationally as' 'Canada the Good'. Crime was extremely low, civil discourse was always courteous, and most households were comfortably lower or middle class.

In the last 3 decade the entire ethos has changed -- everything I described above has either been massively altered, degraded, or vanished. However, within the last decade, the process of transforming our beautiful nation was managed and accelerated under the Liberal regime at a new and alarming scope and pace.

It's not surprising, then, to see the corruption of the current regime, although it is quite breathtaking. It reads like Livy or Tacitus -- the financial, moral, political corruption is staggering. Trudeau Junior was an unmitigated disaster. His reckless policies have broken the basis of the state, the nation, and the social institutions. He has been a wrecking ball.

The hatred of the traditional way of life is pathologically lethal, and based on certain theoreticians, I would say, diabolical. Only a force of prodigious power and might could undertake the successful overthrow of a nation in so short a period of time. It would need to be a force that works ceaselessly night and day to undo and destroy every social, legal, and moral binding. And it would need to be everywhere, because no pocket of resistance has been tolerated -- it is a force that is waging a total war against the traditional way.

There are dozens of churches across the land that have been burnt to the ground in the last few years and yet there has been no major criminal investigation looking into the group who is behind these acts of wanton destruction. Given the circumstances, it's plain to see that hatred of traditional Christianity is now acceptable. But, then, why would the Woke regime bother to protect traditional Christianity? It seems to be the one entity that is opposed to the core values of Wokism.

But the hope that the Church will stand for the true, the good, and the beautiful -- the central tenets of true religion -- is fast fading. This sad fact was observable to every intelligent person when many, many churches throughout Canada not only went along with the COVID mandates, but actively promoted and pushed these diabolically unlawful restrictions on their people. There were few if any Thomas a Beckets standing in faithful resistance to the tyrant. There were quacks who spewed nonsense -- but fearless, faithful, righteous saints were in short supply.

No, Canada is in an existential crisis.

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Richard Roskell's avatar

As a born-and-raised Canadian, I spent many decades believing Canada was a sovereign nation. I was proud of it, imagining (without any real evidence for doing so) that my country acted independently and solely in its own best interests according to international law. Looking back on it now, I realize that I believed in a fairy tale. A pleasant one to be sure, but one that concealed a dark secret.

Canada is not independent. We are captives to the USA first and foremost. There also remains ties to the UK that confine our thinking. Who could believe that in the 21st century an entire nation would pledge allegiance to a foreign king and his progeny, in perpetuity, as the foundation of our state? Yet suggest dumping the monarchy and many Canadians go ballistic. Even that notion is well outside the Overton window at the moment.

As is the notion of Canada becoming the 51st state of the USA. Reportedly only 10% of Canadians will admit to entertaining the idea. Yet when you ask those Canadians to describe the ways that Canada is truly independent from Washington, they are silent. Canada's domestic and foreign policies cannot contradict what America wants. We will make war for America with a military that is tightly integrated with theirs. We will vote for Nazism in the UN for America. We will send America 80% of our foreign trade. We will soak up American culture like sucking on a Slurpy. When the US targets another country we will antagonize it like a baying hound. The list goes on and on.

In practical terms Canada already is the 51st state, but the problem is that Canadians neither see that reality nor are willing to demand their rightful say in Washington's decisions. We're in political no man's land. We're an ostensibly independent country that's completely at the mercy of an overwhelmingly powerful nation next door. And we have no vote as to what decisions are made for us there. As Canadians seem to be without any interest in acting independently, we would be better off as part of America. At least then we would have some agency.

This is a long way of saying that I agree with Professor Dugin. Under the reality of living next door to the USA, Canada doesn't have the means nor the inclination to act as a sovereign nation. It will eventually disappear: not soon, but in the not-so-distant future nevertheless.

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