Category Archives: Canada

Updated: Canada Votes

Canada, Democracy, Drug War, Economy, The State

It was swift and efficient. It took a day. There was little fuss. Campaigning did not begin three years earlier. Voters and election officials managed to cast and count the ballots. There are no reports of systemic voter fraud. Conservatives have returned to form a minority government. (As the American duopoly merges into undifferentiated socialism.)

The Wall Street Journal once called Canada “an honorary Third World country.” The tables are turned.

Update: (October 18) It’s important to make finer distinctions. Canada is more socialistic than the US; the US is more fascistic. Take the Drug War. Canada doesn’t have one nearly as destructive to lives and liberties as the US’s. Ditto an SEC. The US put Canadian newspaper mogul Conrad Black in jail; not the other way round. When last did you hear of an SEC witch hunt in Canada? Canada has tried to follow the US’s lead in these areas, but has not lived up to the latter’s brutality. Not by any measure.

Update IV: Bus Beheading

Canada, Crime, Criminal Injustice, IMMIGRATION, Multiculturalism

A shaken witness, who’ll probably never exorcise the horror from his head, dilates on a beheading on a bus in Canada.

My daughter travels on the Greyhound; lots of young people do. I do too, although not lately. The thought of this 22-year-old youngster hooked up to headphones suddenly being assailed by an evil individual—how horrifying and sad. Rural Canada is so safe and peaceful; who allowed evil to enter? Must I now issue a warning to my daughter; “Don’t sit near ‘foreign’-looking men on the bus; if one sits near you, get up and stand near the old lady at the rear end”? Is this the misery that multiculturalism has wrought?

Would that guns were allowed in Canada. The poor slain man, a mere boy, might be alive, because some good soul would have dropped the assassin on the spot.

I’d like to think that the American authorities would not have engaged in a stand-off, but would have stormed the bus right away, filling the monster with lead. Wishful thinking?

The initial official silence about the killer’s identity: Canadian authorities would have extended similar cordiality to all foreign killers of their population, but also to “native Canadians” or Indians. Had the barbarian been a honky, well, you know the drill.

Canada doesn’t have the death penalty. I hope that once Vince Weiguang Li is incarcerated, that the inmates take care of business. The same criminal injustice system is charging Li with second degree murder–unpremeditated murder–rather than First.

Update I: As you listen to the accounts, note how the victim, Tim McLean Jr., is depersonalized–how little sympathy is expressed for this innocent young man’s awful demise (but empathy is oozed for those who had to stomach the scene); how his name is never uttered; how attempts are made to turn passengers into heroes, when frankly, from the available accounts, there seem little evidence of heroism. Where is the passenger who took a crowbar (one of those implements available on buses to pry windows open) to the perp?

Update II: Away from the malpracticing media, on Facebook, there is sadness and grief for a young friend. And better, intelligent reporting from CTV. A lot of talk about the bogus “mental disorder” exculpation. Expect more of the same. Prepare yourself with a refresher: read “EVIL, NOT ILL.”

Update III (August 2): The killer, Vince Weiguang Li, looks decidedly as though he might be from Muslim-populated western China. If Muslim, there isn’t a ghost of a chance Canadian authorities will admit it–not if they can avoid it. This from Lawrence Auster’s “View From the Right”:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at one point said the following:

‘RCMP announced Friday morning that they have charged Vince Weiguang Li, 40, of Edmonton with second-degree murder. He is scheduled to appear at the Manitoba provincial court in Portage la Prairie. A Chinese Muslim, Li expressed to investigators that his actions were motivated by the Koran.’

That has since been deleted from the site. Canadian blogs have made copies of it for posterity. Here is the sanitized version of the CBC story without the Muslim reference.

Update IV (August 3): Jihad is a corner stone of Islam. If indeed Li is Muslim, then his actions, smiting at the neck of an infidel, are perfectly compatible with Muslim martyrdom.

From “For the Love of Islam“:

“The Call to Jihad” instructs Muslims that, “When you meet those who disbelieve smite at their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them.” “Holy war, which is demanded in Islamic law, is not defensive war as the Western students of Islam would like to tell us…”

Recommended reading from my Islam Archive:

“For The Love Of Islam”
‘Obsession’ By Muhammad”
“Benedict The Brave”
“Islamikazes in Our Midst”

If Muslim, the Canadians will opt for the mental-disorder mantle to cloak Li with. The American traitor class would do no different

Canadian Loony NOT on Life-Support

Canada, Economy

Bill O’Reilly will not like this, but the Canadian economy, tied as it is at the hip to ours, is doing just fine. Their loony is not on life-support like our dollar. No banks have gone under there—not yet.

This may mystify American teletwits (and their viewers). That’s because they try to present the recession as a function of market failure unmoored from the political class’s pillaging. It’s the housing market, the morons exclaim. Or Barack Obama’s white grandma.

Canada’s banks, I believe, are less promiscuous about increasing the money supply. Because its central bank is not as lenient about allowing the commercial banks to pyramid checkbook money on top of their own reserves, it’s my understanding they’ll be doing much less feel-good lending than our whorish paper peddlers.

Correct me if I’m wrong about that. I’m not, however, wrong about the Canadian economy, which is, so far, humming along.

CCD applauds Harper government for withdrawal of support for UN ‘anti-racism’ conference

Anti-Semitism, Canada, Israel, Race, South-Africa, UN

Our good friends at the Canadian Coalition for Democracies have posted my father’s “positively prescient, brilliant and stirring piece”—their words—on their website. Dad’s 2001 op-ed warned against Jewish participation in the first, UN “anti-racism” convention of cannibal’s in Durban. But, as the CCD warns, here they go again. Has the US emulated Harper? I hope so. (Unrelated: A few years ago, in Canada, Stephen Harper and I exchanged e-mails about classical liberalism. He’s an amiable intelligent man. Unrelated: Here’s another link to a CCD post out of which I still get a kick.)

For Immediate Release
Wednesday, 23 January, 2008
Ottawa, Canada – The Stephen Harper government has withdrawn its support for a UN anti-racism conference scheduled to take place next year in South Africa, according to a media release today from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
Jason Kenney, secretary of state for multiculturalism and Canadian identity, said today that the conference, like its predecessor in 2001, “has gone completely off the rails… Canada is interested in combating racism, not promoting it. We’ll attend any conference that is opposed to racism and intolerance, not those that actually promote racism and intolerance”.
“Canadians are shocked when they hear the clear and simple expression of reality by their leaders,” said Alastair Gordon, president of the Canadian Coalition for Democracies (CCD). “We are used to hearing double-speak from our politicians — fantasies that are at odds with the reality that most Canadians see and the values that they hold.”
The last UN anti-racism conference held in Durban in 2001 degenerated into a hate-fest of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel vitriol, while the most egregious human rights violators escaped criticism. The Toronto Star today reported that “all of the non-governmental organizations invited to the first conference have been invited back to the second, including those that were at the ‘forefront of the hatred’, some of which posted pro-Hitler posters at the 2001 gathering.”
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is in charge of planning for the conference, an entity that has directed 93% of its resolutions on human rights violations at just one nation – Israel. Iran is a member of the organizing committee, despite its government’s open call to wipe the Jewish homeland off the face of the earth.
“The Stephen Harper government has again demonstrated that Canada can project power as a moral leader in international affairs,” added Gordon. “A nation does not need a massive military to provide the moral leadership and clarity that denies legitimacy to Orwellian UN agencies that hijack the language of human rights to promote Jew-hatred.
“Stephen Harper has signaled that Canada will act on principle, regardless of UN consensus. This is the stuff of global leadership.”