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2004-08-18 Great White North

How Canadian Tolerance Became Intolerance

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Posted by tipper 2004-08-18 19:45|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I don't think this guy has a very good handle on Canadian politics and identity. Take this statement:

Its official ideology is "multiculturalism." Canadians may not like the term, but that is the ruling Liberal Partyâs entrenched policy since the premiership of the late Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the 1970s.

Most Canadians love the term. Being multi-cultural means you are sophisticated and nuanced. It allows you to strike a contrary pose to the uni-culturalists, i.e., the intolerant and culture free Americans. If you want to read informed analysis of the folly of multi-culti Canada, start and end with Mark Steyn. Excessively tolerant Canada is a long way away from an open break with the enemy within. I put this in the same category as the American Jewish community continuing to disproportionately support the Dems. If you refuse to believe there is actual evil in the world, you are unlikely to change your mind until it breaks through your front door.

[Hey Steyn: I know you lurk here. Get your buddies at the Western Standard to drop their US rates. Believe it or not there are some of us Yanks (as opposed to Western Canadians in US exile) that would subscribe. But it's not going to happen at C$150/year.]

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2004-08-18 10:30:29 PM|| 2004-08-18 10:30:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Perhaps we should take them at their word, however this means that they *must* abide by sharia and appropriate punishments shall be meted out for all crimies (theft, etc)

Posted by Brutus 2004-08-19 12:03:54 AM|| 2004-08-19 12:03:54 AM|| Front Page Top

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