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.