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Is Canada Even Still a Country? How Canada's Identity Crisis Could Threaten the US

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- When Canadian PrimeMinister, Justin Trudeau,

says his country is a post-national state

and has no core identity,no one should be surprised

when some start asking ifCanada is even a country.

But the identity crisis facing Canada

is not only multi-faceted, it's serious,

and could one day have a directimpact on the United States.

Canada is in the midstof, as one writer put it,

a civilizational experimentthat's transforming

a Western nation intoa post-Western nation,

and this revolution is centered

around the cult of diversity.

- [Woman] Your Canada.

- [Dale] Here's oneversion of Justin Trudeau's

post-national, post-Western Canada,

transformed by diversity.

- [Woman] Oh, Canada,you stand for everybody.

- [Dale] The questionis not whether Canada

should welcome immigrants.

The question, accordingto Toronto Sun columnist

and SiriusXM Canada host, Anthony Furey,

is who's values should win the day?

- In Canada right now it'slabeled bizarrely xenophobic

and anti-immigrant, andthey throw around terms

like racism to no end.

If you simply say I'd likeus all to integrate here

and live together in a compatible way.

- [Dale] Throughout theirhistories, both Canada

and America have welcomedimmigrants of all backgrounds,

but Canada, rather than beinga melting pot like the US,

has said that it is amosaic of many cultures.

The problem begins whenthe Canadian mosaic

includes more and more radical Islamists,

who favor undemocraticvalues under Sharia law.

Prime Minister Trudeauwelcomed almost 50,000 refugees

from the Middle East in 2016 alone,

and has even welcomedreturning ISIS fighters,

saying in an interview thatthey could be a powerful voice.

- And a lot of people,probably the silent majority,

are saying, "I'm unhappy with this."

Including new immigrantswho came to Canada,

whether it's a year ago or adecade or three decades ago,

who say, "No, I cameto Canada for a reason,

"because I wanted Canadian values,

"and I was escaping valuesin other countries."

- [Dale] One immigrant who would like

more Canadian valuesis pro-Western Muslim,

Tahir Gora, founder of TAG TV in Toronto,

a network with a largeinternational audience.

He's also a co-author of Submission:

The Danger of Political Islam to Canada,

With A Warning To America.

- I moved to this beautiful country

because of its Canadian culture.

People like me escapedPakistan and Middle East,

all the Muslim world, came to Canada

and some went to theUnited States with the hope

that they will be left aloneby those radical Islamists,

but now we see thoseIslamists roaming around

in this part of the world.

- [Dale] Tarek Fatah isa journalist, writer,

and founder of theMuslim Canadian Congress,

an immigrant from Pakistanand a proud Canadian.

Fatah says the Canadian left,

which in his words issinking in white guilt,

now accepts and evencelebrates undemocratic

radical Islamic beliefs and practices.

He likens it to a circus.

- It considers radical Islam as

a phenomena that needs to be embraced

because it's so curious.

So we, as Muslims, areconsidered as circus animals.

We need to perform ina way, and the white,

left, Liberal, feminist class

would sit in ringside seatsand say, "Ah, how lovely.

"Just look at thatmonkey jump up and down.

"Oh, that elephant stoodup on his two feet.

"Honey, did you see that?

"Oh, it's breathtaking."

- [Dale] Another facet ofCanada's identity crisis

can be seen in the growing trend

of what are called land acknowledgements.

- We want to begin by acknowledging

the traditional territory of the neutral

Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples

on which Wilfrid LaurierUniversity's campuses sit.

- [Dale] Land acknowledgementsare recited daily

on campuses and schools across Canada

and they essentially declarethat Canada is an occupier.

- [Dale] These continueeven though a poll this year

found that most Canadians do not believe

Native People should have a special status

and that the government should

stop apologizing for past wrongs.

The culture that is under fire here

traditional Canadian, Christian culture.

Ottawa resident, AlexandraBelaire, grew up behind

the iron curtain inCommunist Chekhoslovakia

and she sees some disturbing parallels

between life under Communism

and life in politically correct Canada.

What do you say to someone who says,

"That's preposterous, I cansay whatever I want in Canada."

How can you compare itto the Soviet world?

- But you can't say anything you want.

Because I was a daughterof a political dissident,

teachers would take the time to berate me

and say bad things about me infront of the whole classroom

because that way they'reproving they weren't

showing favoritism for thedissident's daughter, right?

Now, my friend's daughter was in school

and she was being shamedfor being too Christian.

How's that different?

How is that different?

She was being shamed forfeeling very patriotic Canadian.

How is that differentfrom being shamed for

being a dissident's daughter?

(bagpipes playing)

- [Dale] There's a sayinghere, that the world

needs more Canada but ifcurrent trends continue,

the world is going to get less of Canada.

As Canadian identity is swallowed up in a

left-wing, multi-cultural experiment.

Dale Hurd, CBN News,in Toronto, in Ottawa.

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