"I’m one of those guys who LOVES the HUSTLE and BUSTLE of the BIG CITY. I’m not intimidated by seeing more than four people in a grocery store, I don’t mind self-checkouts, and I’m glad to not have to drive 45 minutes to an hour to go to work."
Man, completely unrelated. But I see this from urban guys in cities like Montreal or Boston. You think you know big city, and you know, but what they are planning for us is not Montreal, it is Jakarta, Lagos, Mexico City. And this is a completely different game.
There is a pretty good chance Montreal is not going to be like the others. Solely because the language barrier, although failing, has kept most of the new arrivals at bay. The bylaws of the city also mandate that buildings cannot be taller than the cross on Mt. Royale. This has stopped huge skyscrapers and verticality, maintaining the city's character. As an island, and city that is 400 years old, it is well-established and limited in space. I can't say the same about Boston because I don't know. I do agree though, that present-day Toronto is about the maximum I can handle. Manhattan was too much, and I'm from a massive metropolis myself.
As someone *in Toronto* I can look out my window and see the following: two 55-60 storey condos completed in the last year, another one about to top off, *another* one next to that one just coming out of the ground, and if I crane my neck a 91 storey one about 2/3 of the way up, and across from *that* one a recently completed 80+ storey one. So Manhattan is here.
The larger issue is most acute here: more and more tales of almost being run over by students on e-scooters delivering food, nightmare subway commutes with crowds who no longer queue or wait for the subway doors to open, no English in any chain that isn't explicitly a US/corporate one, deranged derelicts literally on every corner, dirtier streets (but don't worry, we'll "decolonize" all the names of them first at a cost of millions), permanent tent encampments in many parks (the city has now officially adopted a soft-hand approach to the point where a couple of them have full time security guards on site), perpetual road and sewer upgrades, and on and on.
That consensus is cracking here, even in Liberal downtown Toronto. We're somewhat immune to the worst effects because most of the desirable neighbourhoods are still by and large white, and you can pass a day not seeing any recent "newcomer" aside from a security guard, food deliveryman or Uber driver taking you home from blowing too much money on posh Ossington Avenue bars.
But after a few drinks at a bar, that same silent nods of the head are starting to appear. My friends with kids absolutely refuse to talk about what the future holds for them.
The real reason why it won't happen as much to Montreal? They have their own tax system, they alone amongst the provinces can enact federal laws. So long as on the important issues that they vote in lockstep with whatever the enemy decides are the important issues. Yeah, they get perks and kickbacks. Will they save Canada? Fuck no, they'll save themselves. We'll save Canada. Oh, and true fact, they receive billions in equalisation payments.
Environment largely dictates culture and, to some extent, technology. Mountain Girl's environment will change, the tide will come in, and she will think more as you do. Your environment is changing and your culture changes in response.
It is astonishing to me we see little violence against this invasion. It is as though everyone in the USA and Canada have given up. We are just rolling over, letting the psychopath class foment a non-military invasion of our countries.
This must change. The psychopath class must be destroyed. They will not stop, cannot stop. Like moose suffering brain parasites, they have gone mad and are stomping everything in the meadow. It is a mercy to put down creatures suffering so badly.
The psychopath's legions of invader-savages must likewise be driven off by any means necessary.
If we do not fight for what is ours, it will not long be ours.
It’s spread to small towns too. I come from a nothing town in the wind blasted Prairies. It’s probably half immigrant now. Of one particular nationality (not the one you’re thinking of). It’s heart breaking. My dad is a teacher there. He says his classes are 75% foreigner. The few white kids are ostracized. If you don’t like the other white mids in class you’re kind of fucked cause you ain’t getting along with the majority.
You know what, if people can't appreciate what's going to happen to them, thank God they can at least recognise it when it's actually happened. Thanks for this update on what I think of as the "old country".
Canadian politics and life are so interesting to read about. There seems to be a vast disconnect between Urban and rural life in Canada; much more so than the US. You can obviously see the split in the US, but the jobs situation and culture bleed over isn't nearly as disparate as what you describe in this piece.
"They don’t care how it’s done, as long as it’s quiet and bloodless, and nobody makes a fuss about it." That is the attitude now but how long will that last? Here in the U.S. the Orange Man has gone from "Build the wall" to keep new aliens out to mass deportations of the ones already here. He won't do it of course, even if "elected" but the attitudes are getting more hostile by the day.
I travel to rural Ontario on a regular basis and it is stunning how many non-Canadians you seen even in small towns. Every Tim Hortons seems staffed by Indian subcontinent types.
See: the Calgary water main. Too many people moving to an area too fast has repercussions.
Openness to foreign competition and immigration is a difficult situation. Natives to any area can be bought out with big city money, from every big city from Shanghai to San Francisco. A friend of mine has PR in Calgary, and I come from a known immigrant demographic. Tech background. Locals from big cities could probably easily slot into his job, but Calgary natives possibly never stood a chance.
Every citizen of the West is in competition with the Best of the Rest, all in pursuit of climbing the income and wealth ladder.
Or nepotism or tribalism whereas we literally have rules in place to handicap our own kind.
Best of the rest is a misnomer. We are quite fine on our own and have been for all of history. It is just now with modern technology we suddenly 'benefit' from all these 'best of the rest'.
You came to us. Your resentment therefore is always going to be and remain higher.
No, every citizen in the West is not "in competition with the Best of the Rest." Thanks to diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, the newcomers have a distinctive edge in the job market - particularly in cushy, easy, very well-paid government jobs.
I know this because, for the last several years, every time I call a government department, I wind up speaking to someone who has such a thick, non-Canadian accent, at times I cannot even understand them.
Not to mention the fact that half of them cannot understand me - or *comprehend* whatever issue I'm trying to have addressed. The "tell" is when I have to re-phrase my question over and over again to try and get them to "get it," and all they can do is constantly repeat the same answer over and over again as if they are reading from a script.
Because I'm a "ruralite," most of my interactions with the government are over a phone line. But the last time I went into a government office in the closest small city/large town, every single last person in the Service Centre was either non-white (whether clients or staff), or a white woman. My husband was the only white man in the room. Out-fucking-rageous.
It's interesting that you ended with, "all in pursuit of climbing the income and wealth ladder." While there are no doubt many white Canadians on that ladder, at least some of us care about more than just material success, especially when it comes to the kind of society we want to build and maintain. I get the impression from most of the "newcomers" I've met (particularly the most recent ones) that all they came to Canada for was the money. There's little if any interest in actually contributing anything - everyone is on the take.
I'll preface with some context - I'm from a people-exporting country that bleeds a lot of people to the West, particularly mariners and business process outsourcing. That's where I'm coming from, and to us, the calculation is a lot more, almost entirely, self-interested.
Generally what I have tried to describe is the real estate inflation phenomenon - the fact that cities are becoming unlivable for natives because people are being mass imported into your countries to fill positions and compete out your young people. I speak good enough English that if I didn't have work here I'd have done my education with the intent of being exported - perhaps even to Canada, like a friend of mine has done.
Westerners like yourself now have to deal with being pumped full of people who have shot there shot and have to stick it out there - the alternative of moving back home is much worse than eking out a meagre existence back home. They'd rather go through a lot than go back - anything for a shot at entering the golden billion or establishing themselves in a country they think is better. That's what I'm getting at - they'll cross the world to make more money, because even after taxes, they can make more there than they could ever dream of back home (exchange rate adjusted). Whether they use it to establish themselves or send it back, they need it now, and they'll compete to do it.
"The Best of the Rest" just sounded good so I put it in. Admittedly it's not the real best crossing over. It's the bunch that want it the most, whether from poverty or greed. You might not want to climb, but they do, and they're willing to knock you off the ladder to do so - anything rather than going back down the pit.
Idealized situation to be sure, but that's the way it looks from the other side.
I appreciate your honesty. And Canadians should heed what you are saying - that the immigrants arriving here today are, by and large, really only interested in material gain. And that is changing what Canada is about.
Of course Canadians of European stock are interested in their material well-being - but you can't look at what was built up in Europe over centuries and say that was a group of people that *only* cared about money. There is such a thing as striking a balance.
It is beginning to dawn on me, and many other White Canadians, that we come from something different, and if we just allow anyone and everyone to come into the countries our forefathers built in the West, our countries will turn into the Third World. To everyone's detriment - not just out own.
I'm a gardener. I know that if I want to grow good vegetables, I have to establish good soil in my garden. The better the soil gets though, the more the weeds will invade and proliferate. It's not like there are no good weeds - I often intentionally harvest some for food and medicine - but ultimately, I'm trying to grow specific foods that need more care and attention than what would grow otherwise.
It's the same with our Western societies. If we want to have specific outcomes - a materially-spiritually balanced, economically productive, high trust society - we have to "cultivate our soil" and "keep the weeds at bay."
We should not be taking our cues from people who have built societies that virtually everyone wants to escape.
It’s a pet theory of mine that a quick shorthand for figuring out how a society will develop is to look at their historical population density. I got this off the Hofstedes, who noted that Power Distance and Individualism are heavily related to historical population density - warmer climates with big rivers and old civilizations tend to have higher PDI and lower IDV and vice-versa for colder countries that are harder to settle and haven’t been around so long.
In gardening terms, the immigrants are coming from overgrown gardens with every plant for itself competition to what they see as sparsely populated soil.
If I'm reading you right, you are trying to make the argument that colder countries "that are harder to settle and haven’t been around so long" are more prone to individualism.
Yes, the West is definitely more prone to individualism - it's what has helped us achieve so much - but I find your statement that we "haven't been around so long" quite disturbing. Kind of like setting us up for the argument that the West is just some kind of "passing fad." No need to preserve anything Western!
Funny how we "haven't been around so long," and yet we are the innovators and inventors that have gifted the world with all the mod cons every else covets. Not bad for an civilization that "hasn't been around so long."
"Haven't been around for so long" also means "has less baggage and enshrined ancient privilege", so individuals have more room to maneuver - and space to innovate and grow. The last few hundred years with the West at the helm have been exceptional. Whether that will keep going is something I both don't know and couldn't answer if I tried. I hope it does.
I don’t think the Roman Empire last days analogy is appropriate. Those people who are still holding the country together now, trying to stop the cultural and economic disintegration into complete dystopian hell, are the sensible, awake people of all ages who know what works, (free enterprise system, fiscal responsibility, and controlled merit based immigration), and what does not work , (socialism/communism, multiculturalism, uncontrolled immigration, and forced importing of cultures that are not compatible). They know what is right, freedom and independent thought, and what is wrong, authoritarian freedom destroying, big government. From a political name calling standpoint the people fighting against the destruction are in the centrist or right of centre category, because those who inhabit what is called the leftist realm have little to no sense or any idea how the real world works, and tend to destroy systems that work, in the name of progress. Rural areas tend to still be majority sensible people, who depend more on themselves and do actual contributing work, and big cities have been attracting the indoctrinated, nonsensical, non contributing people who want/need big government to look after them. Two political parties in Canada are comprised of the nonsensical and the third generally strives for the sensible.
You’re onto something. It’s ironic, isn’t it? That those who are the most capable, in the periphery, are also the hard working, and the few who are holding many things together. But their politics are self sabotaging.
Maybe, but I do not agree that their politics are self sabotaging. They are adverse to politics and avoid it like a real plague. They focus on contributing and living life. When the need occurs they rise up and resist and fight back against those who would take that from them. Count me one of them.
Anybody’s politics are self sabotaging if your idea of a functional society is multiculturalism. You have to play the great game, or you end up like the Green Armies of the Russian Empire. In that conflict your options were Red or White. It was preferable for them to choose the White Army.
Only a year ago it was "I'm not a racist, but" and "I'm not against immigration but" and that has dramatically changed. We will inevitably head towards a culmination of this. Oh, the Laurentians will continue blithely on, assured of their righteous cause, the destruction of white Canada.
But they will learn. A little more damage before we get off our butts and deal with this.
Boomers especially have *absolutely* no clue of what they're leaving behind in their wake. The ones I talk to might as well be speaking another language to me as they talk about their rental properties in Muskoka and Florida.
Murican crashing the party here. Just wanted to thank the author for enlarging my primitive perspective of Canada with this well-written piece. I’ve a Canadian friend, a big fan of Corner Gas, but personally my only experience was an evening in Windsor. Apropos of nothing, though, let me share this nice, all-too-short scene from the 1970s version of Silver Streak. Here Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor are bombing across the wheat fields around Lethbridge at sunrise in an E-Type Jaguar, to music by Henry Mancini:
From flyover country in the states. ... everything is new here about the time it comes out of fashion everywhere else. This includes ideas. Internet has changed that somewhat, but it's there. And yes. Something has to change
Why anyone thinks the “ ruralists” or Hicklibs are anything but invaders from cities is beyond me. Did we forget the timeless adage, “ you can take the person outta the city but you can’t take the city outta the person”’. The policies/ ideologies come with them…which means you can expect the same whining they left behind.
I encourage you to read about the great history of Toronto. The Americans referred to it in the 1940s as the “Protestant Rome”, an imperial and conservative city.
"I’m one of those guys who LOVES the HUSTLE and BUSTLE of the BIG CITY. I’m not intimidated by seeing more than four people in a grocery store, I don’t mind self-checkouts, and I’m glad to not have to drive 45 minutes to an hour to go to work."
Man, completely unrelated. But I see this from urban guys in cities like Montreal or Boston. You think you know big city, and you know, but what they are planning for us is not Montreal, it is Jakarta, Lagos, Mexico City. And this is a completely different game.
There is a pretty good chance Montreal is not going to be like the others. Solely because the language barrier, although failing, has kept most of the new arrivals at bay. The bylaws of the city also mandate that buildings cannot be taller than the cross on Mt. Royale. This has stopped huge skyscrapers and verticality, maintaining the city's character. As an island, and city that is 400 years old, it is well-established and limited in space. I can't say the same about Boston because I don't know. I do agree though, that present-day Toronto is about the maximum I can handle. Manhattan was too much, and I'm from a massive metropolis myself.
As someone *in Toronto* I can look out my window and see the following: two 55-60 storey condos completed in the last year, another one about to top off, *another* one next to that one just coming out of the ground, and if I crane my neck a 91 storey one about 2/3 of the way up, and across from *that* one a recently completed 80+ storey one. So Manhattan is here.
The larger issue is most acute here: more and more tales of almost being run over by students on e-scooters delivering food, nightmare subway commutes with crowds who no longer queue or wait for the subway doors to open, no English in any chain that isn't explicitly a US/corporate one, deranged derelicts literally on every corner, dirtier streets (but don't worry, we'll "decolonize" all the names of them first at a cost of millions), permanent tent encampments in many parks (the city has now officially adopted a soft-hand approach to the point where a couple of them have full time security guards on site), perpetual road and sewer upgrades, and on and on.
That consensus is cracking here, even in Liberal downtown Toronto. We're somewhat immune to the worst effects because most of the desirable neighbourhoods are still by and large white, and you can pass a day not seeing any recent "newcomer" aside from a security guard, food deliveryman or Uber driver taking you home from blowing too much money on posh Ossington Avenue bars.
But after a few drinks at a bar, that same silent nods of the head are starting to appear. My friends with kids absolutely refuse to talk about what the future holds for them.
The real reason why it won't happen as much to Montreal? They have their own tax system, they alone amongst the provinces can enact federal laws. So long as on the important issues that they vote in lockstep with whatever the enemy decides are the important issues. Yeah, they get perks and kickbacks. Will they save Canada? Fuck no, they'll save themselves. We'll save Canada. Oh, and true fact, they receive billions in equalisation payments.
Environment largely dictates culture and, to some extent, technology. Mountain Girl's environment will change, the tide will come in, and she will think more as you do. Your environment is changing and your culture changes in response.
It is astonishing to me we see little violence against this invasion. It is as though everyone in the USA and Canada have given up. We are just rolling over, letting the psychopath class foment a non-military invasion of our countries.
This must change. The psychopath class must be destroyed. They will not stop, cannot stop. Like moose suffering brain parasites, they have gone mad and are stomping everything in the meadow. It is a mercy to put down creatures suffering so badly.
The psychopath's legions of invader-savages must likewise be driven off by any means necessary.
If we do not fight for what is ours, it will not long be ours.
It’s spread to small towns too. I come from a nothing town in the wind blasted Prairies. It’s probably half immigrant now. Of one particular nationality (not the one you’re thinking of). It’s heart breaking. My dad is a teacher there. He says his classes are 75% foreigner. The few white kids are ostracized. If you don’t like the other white mids in class you’re kind of fucked cause you ain’t getting along with the majority.
A suitable application of extreme violence will solve this problem.
You know what, if people can't appreciate what's going to happen to them, thank God they can at least recognise it when it's actually happened. Thanks for this update on what I think of as the "old country".
Canadian politics and life are so interesting to read about. There seems to be a vast disconnect between Urban and rural life in Canada; much more so than the US. You can obviously see the split in the US, but the jobs situation and culture bleed over isn't nearly as disparate as what you describe in this piece.
It's so vast that I don't think there's any way to reconcile them. The trucker protest really opened my eyes to this.
Probably. I'm an outsider, so I couldn't say. It was appalling to watch though.
"They don’t care how it’s done, as long as it’s quiet and bloodless, and nobody makes a fuss about it." That is the attitude now but how long will that last? Here in the U.S. the Orange Man has gone from "Build the wall" to keep new aliens out to mass deportations of the ones already here. He won't do it of course, even if "elected" but the attitudes are getting more hostile by the day.
I travel to rural Ontario on a regular basis and it is stunning how many non-Canadians you seen even in small towns. Every Tim Hortons seems staffed by Indian subcontinent types.
The word "invasion" is increasingly not being seen as a fringe term.
See: the Calgary water main. Too many people moving to an area too fast has repercussions.
Openness to foreign competition and immigration is a difficult situation. Natives to any area can be bought out with big city money, from every big city from Shanghai to San Francisco. A friend of mine has PR in Calgary, and I come from a known immigrant demographic. Tech background. Locals from big cities could probably easily slot into his job, but Calgary natives possibly never stood a chance.
Every citizen of the West is in competition with the Best of the Rest, all in pursuit of climbing the income and wealth ladder.
Not to mention 'the best of the rest' don't have our scruples about lying and inflating their qualifications.
Or nepotism or tribalism whereas we literally have rules in place to handicap our own kind.
Best of the rest is a misnomer. We are quite fine on our own and have been for all of history. It is just now with modern technology we suddenly 'benefit' from all these 'best of the rest'.
You came to us. Your resentment therefore is always going to be and remain higher.
Can confirm I probably would if I were of the emigrating sort. I'd rather stay here though - the cost of living difference is intense!
No, every citizen in the West is not "in competition with the Best of the Rest." Thanks to diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, the newcomers have a distinctive edge in the job market - particularly in cushy, easy, very well-paid government jobs.
I know this because, for the last several years, every time I call a government department, I wind up speaking to someone who has such a thick, non-Canadian accent, at times I cannot even understand them.
Not to mention the fact that half of them cannot understand me - or *comprehend* whatever issue I'm trying to have addressed. The "tell" is when I have to re-phrase my question over and over again to try and get them to "get it," and all they can do is constantly repeat the same answer over and over again as if they are reading from a script.
Because I'm a "ruralite," most of my interactions with the government are over a phone line. But the last time I went into a government office in the closest small city/large town, every single last person in the Service Centre was either non-white (whether clients or staff), or a white woman. My husband was the only white man in the room. Out-fucking-rageous.
It's interesting that you ended with, "all in pursuit of climbing the income and wealth ladder." While there are no doubt many white Canadians on that ladder, at least some of us care about more than just material success, especially when it comes to the kind of society we want to build and maintain. I get the impression from most of the "newcomers" I've met (particularly the most recent ones) that all they came to Canada for was the money. There's little if any interest in actually contributing anything - everyone is on the take.
I'll preface with some context - I'm from a people-exporting country that bleeds a lot of people to the West, particularly mariners and business process outsourcing. That's where I'm coming from, and to us, the calculation is a lot more, almost entirely, self-interested.
Generally what I have tried to describe is the real estate inflation phenomenon - the fact that cities are becoming unlivable for natives because people are being mass imported into your countries to fill positions and compete out your young people. I speak good enough English that if I didn't have work here I'd have done my education with the intent of being exported - perhaps even to Canada, like a friend of mine has done.
Westerners like yourself now have to deal with being pumped full of people who have shot there shot and have to stick it out there - the alternative of moving back home is much worse than eking out a meagre existence back home. They'd rather go through a lot than go back - anything for a shot at entering the golden billion or establishing themselves in a country they think is better. That's what I'm getting at - they'll cross the world to make more money, because even after taxes, they can make more there than they could ever dream of back home (exchange rate adjusted). Whether they use it to establish themselves or send it back, they need it now, and they'll compete to do it.
"The Best of the Rest" just sounded good so I put it in. Admittedly it's not the real best crossing over. It's the bunch that want it the most, whether from poverty or greed. You might not want to climb, but they do, and they're willing to knock you off the ladder to do so - anything rather than going back down the pit.
Idealized situation to be sure, but that's the way it looks from the other side.
I appreciate your honesty. And Canadians should heed what you are saying - that the immigrants arriving here today are, by and large, really only interested in material gain. And that is changing what Canada is about.
Of course Canadians of European stock are interested in their material well-being - but you can't look at what was built up in Europe over centuries and say that was a group of people that *only* cared about money. There is such a thing as striking a balance.
It is beginning to dawn on me, and many other White Canadians, that we come from something different, and if we just allow anyone and everyone to come into the countries our forefathers built in the West, our countries will turn into the Third World. To everyone's detriment - not just out own.
I'm a gardener. I know that if I want to grow good vegetables, I have to establish good soil in my garden. The better the soil gets though, the more the weeds will invade and proliferate. It's not like there are no good weeds - I often intentionally harvest some for food and medicine - but ultimately, I'm trying to grow specific foods that need more care and attention than what would grow otherwise.
It's the same with our Western societies. If we want to have specific outcomes - a materially-spiritually balanced, economically productive, high trust society - we have to "cultivate our soil" and "keep the weeds at bay."
We should not be taking our cues from people who have built societies that virtually everyone wants to escape.
Social mobility from fresh soil brings in weeds.
It’s a pet theory of mine that a quick shorthand for figuring out how a society will develop is to look at their historical population density. I got this off the Hofstedes, who noted that Power Distance and Individualism are heavily related to historical population density - warmer climates with big rivers and old civilizations tend to have higher PDI and lower IDV and vice-versa for colder countries that are harder to settle and haven’t been around so long.
In gardening terms, the immigrants are coming from overgrown gardens with every plant for itself competition to what they see as sparsely populated soil.
If I'm reading you right, you are trying to make the argument that colder countries "that are harder to settle and haven’t been around so long" are more prone to individualism.
Yes, the West is definitely more prone to individualism - it's what has helped us achieve so much - but I find your statement that we "haven't been around so long" quite disturbing. Kind of like setting us up for the argument that the West is just some kind of "passing fad." No need to preserve anything Western!
Funny how we "haven't been around so long," and yet we are the innovators and inventors that have gifted the world with all the mod cons every else covets. Not bad for an civilization that "hasn't been around so long."
"Haven't been around for so long" also means "has less baggage and enshrined ancient privilege", so individuals have more room to maneuver - and space to innovate and grow. The last few hundred years with the West at the helm have been exceptional. Whether that will keep going is something I both don't know and couldn't answer if I tried. I hope it does.
I don’t think the Roman Empire last days analogy is appropriate. Those people who are still holding the country together now, trying to stop the cultural and economic disintegration into complete dystopian hell, are the sensible, awake people of all ages who know what works, (free enterprise system, fiscal responsibility, and controlled merit based immigration), and what does not work , (socialism/communism, multiculturalism, uncontrolled immigration, and forced importing of cultures that are not compatible). They know what is right, freedom and independent thought, and what is wrong, authoritarian freedom destroying, big government. From a political name calling standpoint the people fighting against the destruction are in the centrist or right of centre category, because those who inhabit what is called the leftist realm have little to no sense or any idea how the real world works, and tend to destroy systems that work, in the name of progress. Rural areas tend to still be majority sensible people, who depend more on themselves and do actual contributing work, and big cities have been attracting the indoctrinated, nonsensical, non contributing people who want/need big government to look after them. Two political parties in Canada are comprised of the nonsensical and the third generally strives for the sensible.
You’re onto something. It’s ironic, isn’t it? That those who are the most capable, in the periphery, are also the hard working, and the few who are holding many things together. But their politics are self sabotaging.
Maybe, but I do not agree that their politics are self sabotaging. They are adverse to politics and avoid it like a real plague. They focus on contributing and living life. When the need occurs they rise up and resist and fight back against those who would take that from them. Count me one of them.
Anybody’s politics are self sabotaging if your idea of a functional society is multiculturalism. You have to play the great game, or you end up like the Green Armies of the Russian Empire. In that conflict your options were Red or White. It was preferable for them to choose the White Army.
Only a year ago it was "I'm not a racist, but" and "I'm not against immigration but" and that has dramatically changed. We will inevitably head towards a culmination of this. Oh, the Laurentians will continue blithely on, assured of their righteous cause, the destruction of white Canada.
But they will learn. A little more damage before we get off our butts and deal with this.
Just for clarification, what do you mean by the Laurentians? Toronto and Montreal are pretty fed up
Normies. Boomers. They're always the last horse to cross the finish line.
Boomers especially have *absolutely* no clue of what they're leaving behind in their wake. The ones I talk to might as well be speaking another language to me as they talk about their rental properties in Muskoka and Florida.
Murican crashing the party here. Just wanted to thank the author for enlarging my primitive perspective of Canada with this well-written piece. I’ve a Canadian friend, a big fan of Corner Gas, but personally my only experience was an evening in Windsor. Apropos of nothing, though, let me share this nice, all-too-short scene from the 1970s version of Silver Streak. Here Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor are bombing across the wheat fields around Lethbridge at sunrise in an E-Type Jaguar, to music by Henry Mancini:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F49yB6fFGBA
From flyover country in the states. ... everything is new here about the time it comes out of fashion everywhere else. This includes ideas. Internet has changed that somewhat, but it's there. And yes. Something has to change
Why anyone thinks the “ ruralists” or Hicklibs are anything but invaders from cities is beyond me. Did we forget the timeless adage, “ you can take the person outta the city but you can’t take the city outta the person”’. The policies/ ideologies come with them…which means you can expect the same whining they left behind.
This isn't always true particularly in my area. Many leaving the "cities" are the ones with the values.
I encourage you to read about the great history of Toronto. The Americans referred to it in the 1940s as the “Protestant Rome”, an imperial and conservative city.