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| 2009-12-25 |
| This is how we got our country back by Jonathan Kay "My country seems to be slipping away in front of my very eyes," former NDP campaign director Gerald Caplan wrote in a December 4 op-ed for a Toronto-area newspaper. "Our proud identity, our cherished core values ... are being turned upside down. Gun control advocates are out, gun apologists are in. Preventing war is out, killing scumbags is in. Demonstrations for peace are out, demonstrations of a martial spirit are in. Thoughtful, restrained Canadianism is out, hand-on-heart Yankee-style patriotism is in." I'll confess to experiencing a brief spasm of schadenfreude upon reading these words. Eleven years ago, when I joined the National Post editorial board, we also used to spend a lot of time whining about our country "slipping away." The Liberals had been in power for five years, and seemed set to govern for another 50. Anti-Americanism was a "cherished core value" in the government caucus. The military was rusting out. At the UN, we voted aye to the annual parade of bigoted anti-Israel resolutions. Through the Court Challenges Program, Ottawa bribed litigious activists to lecture the rest of us about how racist and homophobic we were. Duck hunters were treated as public enemies, multiculturalism took precedence over assimilation, and any mention of God was taboo. That's the place Gerald Caplan says is "slipping away." He's right. Good riddance. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 God bless you Canucks, and thanks. Glimmers of hope for freedom and conservative values |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-12-25 15:59 |
| #1 Finally and thankfully, I do think we are becoming more conservative here in Canada. One can even see it on the CBC news web page. Just ignore the tripe that the journalists write and look at the readers' comments. Even there the shift away from left-wing-nuttery is quite noticable over the past year or so. MacLean's magazine too, Steyn would never have been given space there years ago... |
| Posted by: Chemist 2009-12-25 14:30 |