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QUICK DISPATCH: NEO-PATRIOTISM AMONGST THE NEW LEFT

With her induction this week as Canada’s new Governor General, Michaëlle Jean seems to have sent many hearts aflutter with her impassioned speech.

With phrases such as:

“Every Canadian woman, every Canadian man prizes that freedom and would defy anyone who tried to take it away – of that I have no doubt.”

And

“More than four centuries ago that spirit of adventure drove women and men to cross the ocean and discover a new world elsewhere.”

Many conservatives and hitherto non-believers were very much cast under her sway. She used the language they wanted to hear and they heard what she said. But what did she mean?

I have noticed, especially in the past few year’s amongst my New Left and liberal friends a resurgent patriotism with regards to Canada. Whereas during the nineties they would speak of Canada in derogatory terms and lump it with America as a great exploiter and capitalist nation, now they passionately defend it. They are almost….dare I say American in their defense of it. Talk of Canada as a wealthy exploiter nation brings looks of derision; they want to understand our history and better yet, they want to export it.

Why the change? Why the language used in Michaëlle Jean’s speech?

Many have said that this was a true patriot’s speech. Many conservatives have allowed themselves to say that this was no ‘liberal’ speech and have applauded it.

My first question with regards to Jean's references to freedom is…free from whom?

All language is imbued with meaning. Words only have meaning with respect to context and morality. The right and left do not speak the same language anymore.

To a conservative, the word terrorist conjures up an image of a member of Al Quaeda, chanting just before he straps a bomb to his body and goes running into a group of unarmed civilians.

To a New Left liberal, the word terrorist conjures up an image of President Bush reading his bible before he is about to give a speech to the nation about the state of New Orleans that is about to be carried on FOX news.

Same word…different meaning. So again I ask Jean…free from whom?

I submit that the past two years have been an extraordinary time in Canadian history and the New Left knows it.

That the Liberals will come through ADSCAM unscathed shows them that they are the entrenched establishment and can exploit the populace with its own consent.

The forced passage of same-sex marriage ensured that our Charter of Rights and Freedoms will now be interpreted through the prism of Marxist Oppression Theory and Feminist Gender Identity Theory.

The fact that a report last week stated that Canadian business’ are taxed at a level that is second only to communist China shows that our business community and entrepreneurial spirit will for the foreseeable future be curtailed by a government that can dictate what can and cannot be done at a level that no democracy should tolerate.

I do not know Michaëlle Jean. I do not know what is in her heart. I only know what I suspect. That she has been picked by the establishment because she is part of the establishment. That she refused to swear in on a bible yet had token ‘gospel’ singers at her party said much from a cultural vantage point.

The Canada Michaëlle Jean pledged alliance to in her speech was very much New Left…New Canada. It is not the Canada that fought Hitler in WWII and considers morality a bedrock of society.

“And that is how I am determined that the position I occupy as of today will be more than ever a place where citizens’ words will be heard, where the values of respect, tolerance, and sharing that are so essential to me and to all Canadians, will prevail.”

As she tells us, Jean’s Canada is the one of tolerance and sharing.

A Canada governed by human rights tribunals and hate crimes laws.

A Canada where one can have legal sex with a 14 year old but has to be afraid of imposing traditional morality on their children.

A Canada where the greatest perceived threat comes not from foreign weapons aimed at us but from our American friends to the south.

A Canada where the populace is not allowed to express itself freely and can only be what they are told…not who they are.

Jean’s speech said much. She is a true patriot. But before you say she represents all you hold dear and true, ask yourself a question.

Jean says we are a free country…but free from whom?

posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 6:13 AM