Editor’s note: our video on Canada’s structural unsustainability has garnered 19,000 views and almost 500 comments. Many comments have been helpful, and the one below merited placement as a standalone letter. I have added a headline and made slight edits for clarity. While the commenter (@tdawg7327) consented to having the comment published, he has not shared his name or location.
As a born and raised, now ex-Canadian, I approve this message.
Gasp … Big inhale … Begin rant.
I made the decision to flee my beloved homeland the day that the current regime was elected to power in 2015, and I was gone in less than six months. At the age of 42, I ended a high-paid, 20-year-plus professional career, sold everything I owned (house and cars included), and bounced. I grew up in British Columbia but had spent the last 20 years in Alberta after discovering that I had been born in the wrong province.
Since high school, I had been accumulating a bag of experiences that led me to believe that Canada was not sustainable as a nation. That included, as alluded in this video, seeing that Quebec and the Greater Toronto Area alone determined the fate of the nation collectively and who would rule over it. Next was the fact that, constitutionally speaking, there was no way to ever change or amend this fundamental flaw—by design, of course.
Then along came the discovery that I had no property rights to speak of. Through the course of this revelation, I came to the full realization that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is not worth the paper it was printed on. I, in fact, had no constitutionally enshrined “rights and freedoms” to speak of. Anyone who wants to discover this for himself can simply take 20 seconds to read the first couple paragraphs of the document and then wonder how such a fraud ever passed in the first place.
Sprinkle in years of demonstrated Liberal Party corruption, politically compromised law-enforcement and justice systems, a thuggish, entitled and incompetent deep-state bureaucracy, etc. Leaving was not so much as a second thought after learning that the ruling provinces had, once again, let the foxes back into the henhouse.
It was easily the best decision of my life. While I am now in a place that is, like anywhere, not without its own problems, I live in a real democracy where: my individual vote actually counts; the people tend to have the final say on government policies and matters (for better or worse); I am not taxed into oblivion; and I have constitutionally enshrined rights as a citizen and human being.
I had spent the last 25 years of my life warning everyone I knew about what was coming and no one—especially friends and family—would listen to me. Even after all the record-breaking acts of corruption, the Freedom Convoy protests, woke ideology and nation-destroying policies, they still refuse to see what is going on. There is an old saying that applies, about “leading a horse to water.”
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I miss my beloved homeland not so much for what it was before the dark times, but tragically for what it could and should have always been. I am afraid, however, that long-standing and widespread political and societal apathy has long spelled the end for the Canadian experiment. I have to agree with the assessment that, whatever comes next, Canada will cease to exist as a nation in its current form—if at all—in the coming decades.
I am also personally convinced that history will mark the Freedom Convoy protests of early 2022 as the beginning of the end for our nation. This is not because of the militarized police forces brutally attacking peaceful protestors and breaking up the largest and most patriotic street party the country had ever seen. Rather, it is because of the way the unwashed masses of the majority so hatefully and gleefully cheered on the violent and abusive downfall of the brave minority trying to salvage the last remaining vestiges of democracy that may have remained throughout the land.
It has been said that all democracies eventually die by suicide—a notion that we seem to be seeing playing out throughout the Western world as of late. The most pressing question facing everyone in the Canadian family now seems to be, “Do we decide to come together and move collectively forward towards improving the current state of affairs for ourselves and future generations, or do we part ways and pursue our dreams and goals on an individual basis?”
In closing, I would submit that for the former to happen, the lies, gaslighting, abuse, and rampant corruption at all levels of government, media, and society as a collective need to end immediately. Otherwise, all is lost.
End rant.
