O Canada, why did you forsake Dominion Day?
I am blessed to have Canadian acquaintances and relatives. They are moral, hard-working folk from western Ontario who have not taken kindly to the incremental loss of freedoms or harm to Canada-U.S. relations orchestrated by the liberal governments of Chretien and Martin ...
Make no mistake — the recent Canadian election that rewarded the conservative Harper government with control was no fluke. There is a growing trend among Canadians, frustrated and angry with their homeland's wrong-headed march toward societal and academic communalism, as well as with the liberals' nihilistic embrace of multiculturalism.
And so at the ballot box, Canadians showed their displeasure with their socialist government, including displeasure over the debasement and betrayal of Canada's next-door neighbor, her greatest trading partner, and dearest friend.
Therefore, it is fitting to honor our northern cousins this July 1, known officially as Canada Day but forever remembered in the hearts of millions of Canadians as Dominion Day, with words from one of Canada's own sons.
The following is an outstanding article from Free Dominion by Peter O'Donnell that expresses the ever-growing essence of discontent. In it he lays bare the contrived "celebration" of Canada Day as a reflection of the contrivance of the country itself, from it's revisionist history and appeasement of Quebec to its abandonment of common sense for the sake of disingenuous ideology:
Happy Dominion Day
I offer these greetings, not to be cantankerous, but to celebrate something which many Canadians have lost, forgotten, or never known.
When July 1st was renamed Canada Day in the Trudeau years, it was one of a large number of political moves to place the name of our country high in our consciousness, and to link it to the red and white maple leaf flag, which we had a previous discussion about (one FD member called it a candy wrapper). For those who may be new here, or obtuse, many of us (dreaded conservatives) have mixed feelings about this flag, if not outright hostility, because of its links to the Liberal Party, and our suspicion that the flag is best understood as the corporate logo of a vast state corporation that approximates a socialist one-party state.
Others may not be so concerned, and it's hard to separate out the patriotic feelings that might be stirred by seeing the flag, recalling its appearance at sporting events of significance, or just by the default feelings of patriotism that might exist within us. But to return to "Canada Day," this is a rather unusual designation for a national holiday in a western country. It has the shrill ring of some tin-pot third world dictatorship -- one readily imagines Zimbabwe Day, or Cuba Day. The United States is as patriotic as western nations come, but they call their national day "Independence Day" and this indeed is a similar term, deeply rooted in their history, to our now eclipsed Dominion Day.
The term Dominion Day refers, of course, to the political process of the years 1864 to 1867 which led to the creation of self-government at the national level, and a federal system, in the Dominion of Canada. Our history from that point onward was one of evolution from a colony to a semi-independent nation state, to the fully independent and equal nation forged in the heat of battle of world war, and strengthened by its turbulent but always essentially loyal development from Pacific to Atlantic.
As the French version of O Canada relates, our history is a grand saga of very great exploits. And this wasn't good enough for Pierre Trudeau, who spent World War II riding around like a fascist on a motorcycle. What he did after that was to lead a movement to bury our proud national history and traditions under heaps of post-modernist revolution, based on the most uncritical acceptance of academic socialism seen in any of the large western countries after 1960.
So when I wish you and yours a Happy Dominion Day, there is but one thing to celebrate, really -- the election of a government of some principle and some contrarian frame of mind, that has shown a willingness to play around with the fabric of the Trudeaupian state that Chretien endorsed to whatever extent he understood it, while Martin demanded that we accept as his own justification for further revolutionary change, always disguised in a shroud of rhetoric that stressed "Canadian values" such as "tolerance" and "multiculturalism."
I'm not one who would just like to turn back the clock to (say) 1956 and live in a mainly European and largely loyal Canada. While I oppose the philosophy and the cynicism of multiculturalism, I see in our present racial diversity a great opportunity for Canada to become a different kind of revolutionary force in the world -- one that confronts old liberal assumptions and demands higher accountability and faster change towards democracy and freedom around the world. Even the United States sometimes waters down their commitment to these ideals by an excessive weighting of self-interest -- for example, the international community has been slow to react to Darfur, slow to confront China's abuses of human rights, and slow to demand religious freedom in Iran.
The opportunity we have, then, is for the nation, and especially the young, to rediscover what is largely forgotten, the foundation of the history and the culture of the Dominion, the role of the monarchy, the importance of duty and responsibility, and dare I say, the dignity of the founding races of this land, who are sometimes now asked to think of themselves as second-class citizens who ( in the awkward lexicon of the cultural nationalists ) "lack multiculturalism." Yes, and men, who lack feminism -- they could use a break too.
Perhaps I'm a dreamer, but I dream these things under the heading of Dominion Day. Others can enjoy the hollow celebrations that tend to be forced upon the nation under the other heading of Canada Day. I would not cross the road to watch these contrived events that glorify our "inclusive" nature, because I know that in this rush to be "inclusive," people like myself have been quite deliberately excluded. Unless we bow down before the earthly gods who created this earthly religion of "Canadian values," we are asked to exclude ourselves from much of the national life. Yet with the help of the freedom of the internet, many of us have found ways to make our own stand, reach out to those who believe what we believe, and who value what we value.
So that's what I will celebrate on Dominion Day -- Free Dominion. I find it to be such an inspired name, and I hope it will be a prophecy. God knows, our government could use inspiration. They have made some small and perhaps significant changes, but look around you -- the socialists continue to control large segments of the media, the churches, the universities and schools, the professions, the courts. We have so much that we need to do to make this a truly free Dominion.