Monday, June 30, 2008

How Did We Lose Our Canada?

Most revolutions are declared, fought, won and then consolidated. How long they last depends on how they evolve, or how much repression they can bring to bear.

But the Canadian revolution of 1968 was not declared, only fully visible in retrospect, and has not entirely replaced the ancien regime. This makes it the most unusual revolution in history. Even today, fewer than ten per cent of the people of Canada understand that a revolution has taken place, although perhaps half of them accept most or all of its principles.

As a result, Canada is a nation governed alternately by representatives of the revolution and the ancien regime, and the gulf between them continues to widen. Rather than being in dialogue, they operate along separate channels, without much interaction, just a mutual fear and loathing.
Here's a great research posted by Peter O'Donnell on Free Dominion. Peter analyzes the political and cultural trends that turned out to be nothing less than a social revolution, as they had reshaped the old Dominion of Canada into a Soviet-like state where secularism, multi-cult and pseudo-environmentalism are enforced by unelected officials.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You would love this commentary from Mark Steyne:

http://www.hillsdale.edu/hctools/imprimis_archive/2008/01/2008_01_Imprimis.pdf

From a talk he gave at Hillsdale College.

Keep the faith!