Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Sunday, July 2, 2017
Canada 150 Special Edition: Thank You Governor General David Johnston
Prince Charles receives the Extraordinary Companion to the Order of Canada medal
from Governor General David Johnston at Rideau Hall in Ottawa
July 1, 2017
As a member of the Royal Family, Prince Charles has been made an extraordinary companion of the Order of Canada, the highest level of the order, for his global philanthropic work and support for Canada's Armed Forces members. [Source]And
Companions of the Order of Canada, the highest level of the Order of Canada, have demonstrated the highest degree of merit to Canada and humanity, on the national or international scene. [Source]And finally about the order:
Established in 1967 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Order of Canada is the cornerstone of the Canadian Honours System, and recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation. The Order recognizes people in all sectors of Canadian society. Their contributions are varied, yet they have all enriched the lives of others and made a difference to this country. Since its creation, more than 6 000 people from all sectors of society have been invested into the Order.
Desiderantes meliorem patriam: They desire a better country
The Order of Canada, the highest level of distinction in the Canadian honours system,
was established on July 1, 1967, the 100th anniversary of Confederation. [Source]
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Thank you Governor General David Johnston, for fawning over the adulterer Prince-in-Waiting Charles. And for continuing the archaic relationship we have with Britain. When will Canada finally grow up and separate from its sovereign Queen Elizabeth?
About the role of the Governor General:
The Queen or sovereign is the head of state in Canada. The Governor General of Canada represents the sovereign, and most of the powers and authority of the sovereign have been delegated to the Governor General. The role of the Canadian Governor General is mostly symbolic and ceremonial.And
The governor general acts within the principles of parliamentary democracy and responsible government as a guarantor of continuous and stable governance and as a nonpartisan safeguard against the abuse of power. For the most part, however, the powers of the Crown are exercised on a day-to-day basis by elected and appointed individuals, leaving the governor general to perform the various ceremonial duties the sovereign otherwise carries out when in the country; at such a moment, the governor general removes him or herself from public, though the presence of the monarch does not affect the governor general's ability to perform governmental roles.But aside from all these roles and responsibilities, the Governor General's role "is mostly symbolic and ceremonial." So why don't we do something symbolic and remove this symbolic relationship!
Saturday, July 1, 2017
Canada 150 Special Edition: Thank You Prime Minister Trudeau
"Diversity has always been at the very core of Canada...Ours is a land of original peoples and of new comers."
Thank you, Prime Minister Trudeau.
For the teepee presence and the diversity slogan:
"I'd like to acknowledge that we are on ancestral lands of the Algonquin people," starts off the Prime Minister at his speech on Parliament Hill this Canada Day.
"Today isn't really our 150th birthday. We're much older than that. Canada, and the idea of Canada, goes much further back than just 150 years. For thousands of years, in this place, people have met, traded, built, loved, lost, fought and grieved.Here Trudeau resumes his speech in French (he had been making this dual-language speech as is officially required), and the irritating translator talks over his voice.
Canada is a country made strong not in spite of our differences, but because of them. We don't aspire to be a melting pot. Indeed we know true strength and resilience flows through Canadian diversity. Ours is a land of original peoples and of new comers. And our greatest pride is that you can come here from anywhere in the world, build a good life, and be part of our community. We don't care where you're from, what religion you practice, or whom you love, you are ALL WELCOME IN CANADA!!"
He talks about how this multicultural spirit came from the inclusion of the French language and French-Quebec culture into Canadian society, and how bilingualism has became a...
"...central and defining part of our identity and an official policy. Right across this country, Trudeau says, "we speak French and English, as well as hundreds of other languages."Back in English:
And so, diversity has always been at the very core of Canada over the centuries. It's the foundation upon which our country was built. We may be of every color and creed, from every corner of the world. We may live in British Columbia, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia or Newfoundland and Labrador, we embrace that diversity while knowing in our hearts that we are all Canadian.Etc.
But at this point while listing all the provinces and territories, Trudeau forgot Alberta. It was quite funny really (and I didn't notice, as probably didn't thousands of others - except of course for Albertans), a gaffe anyone could make while not reading off a list during an impassioned speech. The news media narrowed in on that gaffe.
But not on Trudeau's aggressive promotion of now cliched and failed multicultural experiment that keeps on unraveling as the "...central and defining part of our identity."
If even the French and English in Canada couldn't get along, how can he expect people who speak "hundreds of other languages" to do so?
And why in a country so "proud" to be bilingual do we need translators at every official speech?
Thank you Mr. Prime Minister Trudeau, for clouding the realty and playing with our emotions. Your words will be on the record in Canada's history books (should there be such a country).
Full speech here.
Canada 150 Special Edition: Thank You Sandra Oh
Sandra Oh
From the poster for the film Catfight (2016)
Thank you Sandra Oh for your multicultural/artist's presence at the Parliament Hill Canada 150 Celebration. But you don't even live in Canada so I don't know how you got onto that stage.
Thank you Sandra, for giving us such wonderful films, the only one which anyone might remembers being Under the Tuscan Sun where she played a lesbian (thank you for giving Canadians the chance to say: "Oh yes she's Canadian!"). This was surely a career move since her Grey's Anatomy role was leaving her stuck on television as someone who acts in a night-time soap opera.
And her entrance into the film world was in an "Indie" playing the daughter of Chinese immigrants whom she leaves for a white boyfriend (no matter that Oh herself is Korean but the Chinese screen writer couldn't find a suitable Chinese-Canadian actress to play her autobiographical character, I guess).
Oh's back again with another film. This time a "fight club" for housewives, and with at Turkish American as director (although he was born in Taylorsville, North Carolina).
Says Onur Tukel about his flm Catfight - starring Oh:
I wrote [a script ] in 2013 called Catfight. It was about women in their twenties fighting over a guy.And more:
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When I reread my original script, I hated it. I didn’t want to make a movie about young women fighting over a guy. The culture has shifted. I wanted to make something more relevant. I rewrote the script with more experienced actresses in mind, fighting over something radically different than a guy.[Source]
...a rivalry is revived, old wounds are torn open, and a Manhattan stairwell becomes home to a woman-on-woman brawl the likes of which are seldom seen outside of martial-arts epics. And now the gloves are off. Over the course of five years and three bloody, bone-crushing rounds, Catfight's formidable adversaries will lose everything they cherish, and rail furiously as their fortunes are subject to wild reversals."The culture has shifted." Says Tukel. "I wanted to make something more relevant."
Yes. Women bashing each other up in a movie which even men would walk out on.
Canada 150 Special Edition: Thank You Indigenous Peoples™
Thank you Indigenous Peoples™, for letting us use your territory to celebrate our 150th anniversary.
Friday, June 30, 2017
Thursday, June 29, 2017
150 Year Old Canada Experiencing Highest Levels of Immigration
Update on Comments
I wrote the followng response to the comment on the article 150 Year Old Canada Experiencing Highest Levels of Immigration Ever , by Ricardo Duchesne on the website Council of European Canadians (I've also posted the article here):
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Jakob Scheffer • 20 hours ago
We should not use free-standing figures, but put them in perspective. In a link you gave, it is revealed that the total net cost of non-Western immigrants in Denmark is 33 billion kroner. That is 6.6 billion CAD, or about 1,200 CAD per capita. Better is to see what this 33 billion kroner is as a percentage of Danish GDP expressed in kroner. Denmark's GDP is about 2 trillion kroner, so those 33 billion kroner are 1.65% of Danish GDP. That is not a very high percentage.
A Swedish economist said it best when he stated that immigration has not brought any net economic benefits to Sweden, but that it hasn't been an economic calamity either. The problem of course is that it will become a calamity if it continues undiminished.
Regards. JS
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Kidist Paulos Asrat Jakob Scheffer • 16 minutes ago
It is people like you who make wonderful pro and con pronouncements sitting from, no doubt, a comfortable perch, who haven't the God-given human (and humane) common sense to extrapolate on the consequences. These immigrants are not stupid. They know they cannot kill the goose which lays the golden eggs. Instead they cleverly cull and accumulate what they would need when THEIR time comes.
Of course they can do this because the structures are sound and solid and whites still continue to make the big and important societal (science, art, technology, medicine, community, etc. etc.) contributions.
But go to certain locations, both in the US and in Canada, and you will see what happens, and much sooner than you think.
Immigration has been sugar-coated by elitist intellectual language for so long now that these elitist intellectuals actually BELIEVE what they say.
Have some grit and take a stand. I challenge you.
Kidist Paulos Asrat
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MoxNix Kidist Paulos Asrat • 8 hours ago
"They know they cannot kill the goose which lays the golden eggs."
Could've fooled me.
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Kidist Paulos Asrat MoxNix • 5 hours ago
LOL. I meant to say that the intelligent ones know that. But eventually they have to destroy (are destroying) in order to set up their worlds.
By the way, Steve Paikin of The Agenda has a fascinating program this evening on diversity and multiculturalism. It will be on his website by the end of the day. Please watch.
The language of multiculturalism has entered fully into our language. It is astonishing.
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Jakob Scheffer • 20 hours ago
We should not use free-standing figures, but put them in perspective. In a link you gave, it is revealed that the total net cost of non-Western immigrants in Denmark is 33 billion kroner. That is 6.6 billion CAD, or about 1,200 CAD per capita. Better is to see what this 33 billion kroner is as a percentage of Danish GDP expressed in kroner. Denmark's GDP is about 2 trillion kroner, so those 33 billion kroner are 1.65% of Danish GDP. That is not a very high percentage.
A Swedish economist said it best when he stated that immigration has not brought any net economic benefits to Sweden, but that it hasn't been an economic calamity either. The problem of course is that it will become a calamity if it continues undiminished.
Regards. JS
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Kidist Paulos Asrat Jakob Scheffer • 16 minutes ago
It is people like you who make wonderful pro and con pronouncements sitting from, no doubt, a comfortable perch, who haven't the God-given human (and humane) common sense to extrapolate on the consequences. These immigrants are not stupid. They know they cannot kill the goose which lays the golden eggs. Instead they cleverly cull and accumulate what they would need when THEIR time comes.
Of course they can do this because the structures are sound and solid and whites still continue to make the big and important societal (science, art, technology, medicine, community, etc. etc.) contributions.
But go to certain locations, both in the US and in Canada, and you will see what happens, and much sooner than you think.
Immigration has been sugar-coated by elitist intellectual language for so long now that these elitist intellectuals actually BELIEVE what they say.
Have some grit and take a stand. I challenge you.
Kidist Paulos Asrat
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MoxNix Kidist Paulos Asrat • 8 hours ago
"They know they cannot kill the goose which lays the golden eggs."
Could've fooled me.
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Kidist Paulos Asrat MoxNix • 5 hours ago
LOL. I meant to say that the intelligent ones know that. But eventually they have to destroy (are destroying) in order to set up their worlds.
By the way, Steve Paikin of The Agenda has a fascinating program this evening on diversity and multiculturalism. It will be on his website by the end of the day. Please watch.
The language of multiculturalism has entered fully into our language. It is astonishing.
150 Year Old Canada Experiencing Highest Levels of Immigration Ever
by Ricardo Duchesne
The dishonest Canadian establishment wants us to believe that the incredibly high levels of immigration we have been experiencing since the early 1990s, ranging from 225-000 to 320,000 immigrants per year, are not historically unprecedented but part of a normal pattern in our "nation of immigrants." Century Initiative says:
Historically, Canada has successfully supported very high levels of immigration. In 1913, 400,000 immigrants arrived in Canada, representing over 5.2% of the population at the time.On the surface this may seem like an honest statistic. Stats Canada is even more emphatic that "record numbers of immigrants were admitted in the early 1900s...The highest number ever recorded was in 1913, when more than 400,000 immigrants arrived."
Ethnic Composition of Immigrants Today Is Fundamentally Different
Over the 400 years before Confederation, there were only "two quite limited periods" of substantial arrivals of immigrants: from 1783 to 1812, and from 1830 to 1850. In these two periods, the immigrants were "overwhelmingly of British origin." [...] Between 1896 and 1914, Canada experienced high immigration levels with more than 3 million arriving within this period. However, the ethnic composition of the nation remained 84 percent of British and French origin, while the European component rose to 9 percent. Between 1900 and 1915, the high mark in "Asian immigration" before the 1960s, 50,000 immigrants of Japanese, East Indian and Chinese descent arrived, but this number comprised less than 2 percent of the total immigration flow. In contrast, in 1914, there were nearly 400,000 Germans in Canada, the largest ethnic group apart from the British (which includes the Irish and Scots) and French.Facing these facts, the personnel of Century Initiative, and the academic establishment which has an inherent incapacity for critical thinking, would likely reply that their point has nothing to do with race but with the numbers of immigrants, as well as how "successfully" Canada integrated these high numbers in the past.
But this is a simplistic reply. For it matters a lot that the Canada that accepted high numbers in the early 1900s was a Canada determined to maintain the Anglo-European character of the nation. Ninety percent of the immigrants who came to Canada before 1961 were from Britain. In stark contrast, the top three sources countries for immigration in the last 10 years have been China, India, and the Philippines.
It is rather lazy to extrapolate that our current majority non-Western immigrants are bound to be "successfully" integrated because the Anglo-European immigrants before 1961 were so integrated. There is abundant research showing that Europeans are more individualistic in their values, whereas non-Europeans are more collectivist. Due to complex historical reasons, Whites have a greater inclination to value the individuality and rights of each person, whereas Asians, and non-Whites generally, have a stronger inclination to think in terms of the interests of their ethnic in-group members.
Here are some links to studies corroborating the individualist values of Europeans versus the collectivist values of non-Europeans:
- Individualism vs. Collectivism in Different Cultures: A Cross-cultural Study
- Collectivist Value Orientations Among Four Ethnic Groups: Collectivism in the New Zealand Context(PDF)
- Understanding the Individualism—Collectivism Cleavage and its Effects: Lessons from Cultural Psychology (PDF)
- http://web.uri.edu/iaics/files/07-Catherine-Konsky-Mariko-Eguchi-Janet-Blue-Suraj-Kapoor.pdf (PDF)
- http://gsappweb.rutgers.edu/cstudents/readings/Summer/Summer/Kelly_Diversity/Coon%202001%20individualism%20and%20collectivism.pdf (PDF)
History is also showing that the ever more diversified nations of the West are now experiencing continuous terrorist attracts, massive welfare expenditures for immigrants, and systematic raping of White girls by members of collectivist cultures.
Historically Highest Number of Immigrants Since Early 1990s
In contrast, only for the singular years of 1907, 1908, and 1911 to 1914, that is a mere 4 years, did the number of immigrants to Canada stood above 200,000, whereas since the early 1990s, the number has remained at an average of approximately 235,000 new immigrants per year. We have everything reason to mistrust the "experts" who tell us with a smug attitude that Canada had higher levels in the early 1900s. Let them know that during the last 25 years or so we have been experiencing the highest levels of immigration.
The Century Initiative plan to bring 450,000 per year until the end of this century has no parallels whatsoever in the history of any nation since the origins of humans. It is a malicious act of deception, therefore, to justify current immigration levels by referring to the "historically" high levels of immigration of the early 1900s.
Immigration numbers today are fast destroying the ethnic and cultural identity of the founding peoples of Canada. The prediction is that by the end of this century White Canadians will constituted only 20 percent of the population inside a nation controlled by 80 percent non-Whites lusting to eliminate what they will happily identify as the "White trash" leftovers.
If you don't want your children to live in this impending dystopia, support CEC.
Research the anti-Canadian Century Initiative.
Small Town Delicacies and Canada's 150 Birthday
Canada 150th and Port Stanley's Shawarma
The Chordekars via Israel and India
CTV News had yesterday a "Canada 150 success story" (150 years of Canada's confederation) about a family that came from Tel Aviv to Port Stanley, a town on the shores of Lake Eerie. They are touted as immigrants who shunned the big city lights of Toronto and got themselves to a smaller town instead. Well they were in Toronto for several years before they made it to Port Stanley, so they are not the Third-World-Country-to-Small-Town-Canada type at all. Their move is really not much different from immigrants who slowly move their way out of congested cities to other more pleasant locations, which they once again exit to other more secluded, pleasant small towns.
Below is the television story:
So, they opened up a "shwarma" place in this pretty town. Not some fancy French restaurant, or a lively Irish pub, or a menu-rich American Diner.
No. It's just another meat-wrapped-in-a-pita place. That is, a Middle Eastern fast-food joint.
And modesty runs shallow as they talk about opening another place:
The Chordekars are working on plans to expand their business and hire locals to work at their restaurantsays the eulogizing CTV reporter.
Of course all this money comes from government subsidized new business (and immigrant business) start-up funds, which means the ordinary Canadian tax payer is invested in yet another corner shop "venture" whether he wants to or not.
They appear to be professional re-locators. They stress their Tel Aviv connection (they lived there eight years ago) but they originally came from India (Mumbai, as Bombay is now called). They give no concrete reason for why they left India or Israel. The Israeli relocation seems more for financial reasons than personal safety, as does their move to Canada. The CTV news narrator says cryptically:
Living in Tel Aviv, Mumbai before that, the family longed for a country where safety wasn't a concern. Canada promised good education and opportunity. Eight years ago they moved...They met in Israel where:
Gabriel had experience in the Hotel industry in Eilat, a resort city on the Red Sea with hotels and beaches packed with thousands of tourists from around the world, where Gabriel and Doris Chordekar met and married in Israel before emigrating to Canada.I believe that the ultimate goal for both of them has always been to get to North America (Canada, the United States, it's all the same). Like most Third World immigrants, they will have a plethora of connections on both sides of the border which they will use constantly - for travel for business an even for future re-locations.
Here is a 2017 reprt which describes their business thus:
Shebaz’s Shawarma & Falafel is owned and operated by Gabriel and Doris Chordekar. Gabriel and Doris had previously resided in the Greater Toronto Area and settled in Port Stanley in 2012. They arrived in Port Stanley armed with a master’s degree in business, training in Middle Eastern Cuisine, and a passion for customer service. It was not long before they decided to follow their dream and open a Middle Eastern themed take-out restaurant. The local community quickly embraced this venture and continues to support the business. The Elgin Business Resource Centre and the County of Elgin Economic Development team are proud to have supported these entrepreneurs through the planning and launch phases of their business. Not only have the Chordekars enhanced the culinary landscape of Port Stanley but their young family has been a great addition to the community.Well they made it.
If you listen to them talking, it is clear that they are not destitute refugees who might have genuine reasons for running across the globe. They clearly come from some kind reasonably secure segment of their native society where, among other things, they have learned to speak good English and procured an MBA between them.
William Road in Port Stanley:
From left to right:
- Shebaz Shwarma and Falafel "[has] delicious Middle Eastern flavours awaiting you, just minutes away from the main beach."
- Succs On The Beach "is all about showcasing succulents in natural and/or reclaimed vessels, put together with skill and love."
- Sushi Punk "is a hip new sushi/noodle bar & coffee house located in Port Stanley. There's a lounge for you to kick back in with a latte, bubble tea or smoothie and dig the vibes." (Sushi Punk is more an "eclectic" place run by what looks like a former punkrocker-type who is now into food, coffee and antiques). No Japanese there.
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Sushi Punk
Emily Sheeler from Sushi Punk
From an ad for a cooking (sushi) presentation at Pepper Tree Spice Co.,this past May.
NEW! SUSHI WORKSHOPSheeler is clearly an expert. But she doesn't just stop there. Her vintage furniture bring some history into this shopping block, and "Canada 150" would do well to visit her collections.
Thurs. May. 18th , 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, $60
We are positively thrilled to have Sushi Punk join us in Port and we want to share! Welcome Emily Sheerer from Sushi Punk to our kitchen as she leads you in this fun sushi workshop. Prepare to roll up your sleeves and learn the secret to making perfect Sushi Rice, Futomaki (Sushi rolls with multiple fillings, seaweed on the outside),
Uramaki (Inside out sushi rolls, seaweed on the outside), Nigiri (individual hand formed sushi pieces) and finally Chirashi, scattered sushi. In addition you will all be taking home your own Sushi making tool kit ($20 Value). Vegetarian & Vegan options are a cinch to create once you have the basics.
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Succs on the Beach
Elgin County Tourism:
[Succs on the Beach]...is a magical nature filled Artisan Gift Shop, abundant with locally handmade crafts and an array of beautiful Succulent arrangements.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Identity
Blue Nile Falls
This is an email I sent to a correspondent:
My cousin...was here the other day with her children as well as her brother and his wife.Interestingly, the last part I said, "Ethiopia, and Ethiopians and specially the Amhara, is resilient," is almost a direct quote from what her father said to them as they started their journey across the desert, which she discusses in her interview with the CBC. I hadn't listened to this part of the interview until today.
It is interesting. She stopped her memoir as she entered Canada. I was right about her reticence to write about her Canadian "experience."
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She told me she is [now] writing a "fiction.
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She brought up "identity" as part of her concern in her book...
I told her that "identity" in Canada was always going to be an issue for her (and people like her, although didn't say that).
"Ethiopia is going through some kind of renaissance. Why don't you and your family figure out a way to return? To go 'back home?' You came here through the most difficult way possible (they crossed deserts and countries before reaching Djibouti and finally coming to Canada as "refugees.")
Don't worry about culture and language. Both, especially for Ethiopians who live the culture daily, are easy to regain. Your children (they don't speak Amharic but understand it) will easily pick it up.
A country is a big thing. Everyone needs one."
She (and her brother) were listening to me intently.
I am glad I attended the dinner. I was curious to see what she would do after her "memoir."
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I also said that in general that people like my father, important people ("big people" in the Amharic literal translation) could set an example and make the exodus back home. My parents have bought two houses from the inheritance house (which they sold at a fantastic price to high-rise developers) in Addis Abeba. They go back now every few months. They have invited me again in November but I have declined the invitation.
They could set an example for all these destitute, culturally bereft Ethiopians by returning (to Ethiopia). A courageous exodus.
Ethiopia is undergoing a "renaissance," I told them at the dinner. "After famines, revolutions, communist governments, ethnic wars, it still stands. Ethiopia, and Ethiopians and specially the Amhara, is resilient. It has withstood incursions and invasions through the centuries. The Amhara are still Amhara. Ethiopia is still Ethiopia. You could be part of this renaissance."
My father was quiet but I could see that he was stunned. He didn't expect me to say these things openly, although he knows my views.
I didn't plan this either. It was as though I HAD to do this. And I'm glad I followed this direction.
My cousins left without rancor or ill-feelings. I have told the truth, and they know it.
She says about her father (my father's now deceased brother):
He grew up hearing about Ethiopians defeating a common enemy and keeping Ethiopia independent for centuries. Ethiopians were very proud people then and I'm sure they still are. So he has that in him. This desert wasn't going to defeat him. He's done it. His ancestors have done it before. And that kept us very strong, because he was 100 per cent sure we would make it.I am simply telling her to make that journey in reverse, so much easier now that they have so much more than those clothes on their backs when they crossed that desert.
Then they can be Ethiopians once again.
"Stay Classy, Toronto"
This is a re-post from Steve Paikin's TVO program The Agenda from June 7, 2013.
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"Stay Classy, Toronto"
Steve Paikin hosting the program The Agenda
Video can be viewed here
TVO's Steve Paikin has another one of his stellar programs. The June 7 program was on the urban/inner suburbs differences. The term inner suburbs is used for low-income neighborhoods within urban areas, which are usually located in the peripheries of the urban areas, and closer to urban areas than suburban ones. The urban and inner suburb areas rarely meet, mingle or use the same services. The inner suburbs are usually populated by government-dependent, poor, often unemployed or under-employed groups. The majority of the inner suburb population is of immigrant origin. Urban communities are wealthier than the inner urban groups. They are mostly white.
This new "class" division that is occurring in Toronto, and apparently in other Canadian cities from the information in the video above, has been acerbated by the high level of immigrants that Toronto has been accepting over the last thirty years. It is clearly a class issue, but it is primarily an immigration issue, which is turning into a racial issue.
The discussion below barely touches on immigration, and if the panelists do bring it up, it is a word buried amidst a forest of others, or it is alluded to. For example, the inner urban areas such as Scarborough and North York which have the highest population of poor, social assistance-dependent groups are the areas with dense immigrant groups, from Third World countries.
Paikin tries to bring this out in the open, and asks for solutions to the problem. But each time, the panelists blame the problem on evil politicians who don't dish out enough money to improve these conditions by providing the necessary social infrastructures, or social assistance funds.
In the end, all Paikin could do was to thank the panelists. I think his problem is that partly he is a nice guy, and partly he has to toe the line to keep his job at the leftist TVO. But, at least he brought the panel together, and gave us plenty of information to think about. I would think that he would be called a "white wine-sipping elite" by these two women, and by others. He lives a few blocks away from the TVO station, in an elite neighborhood called Forest Hill. How long before he takes insult?
This will be the phenomenon of the upcoming decades. People with values, abilities, religions and cultural and social structures very different from the original Canada (which is still being maintained by the "white wine-sipping elites" as they are now being disparagingly labeled) are populating the country. The net effect will be a society more inferior than the one that existed before they arrived (how can we expect more, since the societies they left were of inferior standards, which they will be replicating here thanks to the leniency of multiculturalism?). There will be other dangerous elements to contend with, one of which is the Muslim aggression which will precipitate Jihadist/terrorist behavior, and make the country less safe for all its inhabitants.
Below is a transcript of the video from between the 25 - 36 minutes point, where the immigration issue, in conjunction with poverty (clearly referring to the poor immigrants that are populating these inner subarbs) is subtly explored.
This is not wishful thinking, or a myopic view of the situation. I think she really believes this. What could be better than to have a city full of vibrancy? Toronto, and its "white wine-sipping elites," and all those other whites, can only gain from a city full of "ethnics" with charming accents, exotic restaurants, colorful holidays, and wise and wonderful ways.
Yet, when we go to the areas most densely populated by these "ethnics" all we see are deteriorating restaurants and dull, colorless houses. So much for vibrancy. Even those areas where reasonably well-to-do (these days they are "Asians" - i.e. Chinese, Koreans and Filipinos, and the South Asians - i.e. Indians and Pakistani) immigrants reside, we find generally inferior homes, with no landscaping or maintenance of the surroundings. Dull and lusterless places.
Stinz of course, being the "white wine sipping elite," lives in the affluent Forest Hill, where she has her ward, where she also resides. There are no photos of her home, but she has posted some scenery of beautiful houses surrounded by lush greenery.
Steve Paikin was kind and generous towards her. He should have simply demolished her illogical ramblings with devastating logic. He could have set a precedent for other journalists.
Left: A home in a woody cul-de-sac in Stinz's affluent Forest Hill ward
Middle: A housing complex in Scarborough's West Hill
Right: A detached pre-fabricated house with a bare lawn in West Hill Scarborough
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"Stay Classy, Toronto"
Steve Paikin hosting the program The Agenda
Video can be viewed here
TVO's Steve Paikin has another one of his stellar programs. The June 7 program was on the urban/inner suburbs differences. The term inner suburbs is used for low-income neighborhoods within urban areas, which are usually located in the peripheries of the urban areas, and closer to urban areas than suburban ones. The urban and inner suburb areas rarely meet, mingle or use the same services. The inner suburbs are usually populated by government-dependent, poor, often unemployed or under-employed groups. The majority of the inner suburb population is of immigrant origin. Urban communities are wealthier than the inner urban groups. They are mostly white.
This new "class" division that is occurring in Toronto, and apparently in other Canadian cities from the information in the video above, has been acerbated by the high level of immigrants that Toronto has been accepting over the last thirty years. It is clearly a class issue, but it is primarily an immigration issue, which is turning into a racial issue.
The discussion below barely touches on immigration, and if the panelists do bring it up, it is a word buried amidst a forest of others, or it is alluded to. For example, the inner urban areas such as Scarborough and North York which have the highest population of poor, social assistance-dependent groups are the areas with dense immigrant groups, from Third World countries.
Paikin tries to bring this out in the open, and asks for solutions to the problem. But each time, the panelists blame the problem on evil politicians who don't dish out enough money to improve these conditions by providing the necessary social infrastructures, or social assistance funds.
In the end, all Paikin could do was to thank the panelists. I think his problem is that partly he is a nice guy, and partly he has to toe the line to keep his job at the leftist TVO. But, at least he brought the panel together, and gave us plenty of information to think about. I would think that he would be called a "white wine-sipping elite" by these two women, and by others. He lives a few blocks away from the TVO station, in an elite neighborhood called Forest Hill. How long before he takes insult?
This will be the phenomenon of the upcoming decades. People with values, abilities, religions and cultural and social structures very different from the original Canada (which is still being maintained by the "white wine-sipping elites" as they are now being disparagingly labeled) are populating the country. The net effect will be a society more inferior than the one that existed before they arrived (how can we expect more, since the societies they left were of inferior standards, which they will be replicating here thanks to the leniency of multiculturalism?). There will be other dangerous elements to contend with, one of which is the Muslim aggression which will precipitate Jihadist/terrorist behavior, and make the country less safe for all its inhabitants.
Below is a transcript of the video from between the 25 - 36 minutes point, where the immigration issue, in conjunction with poverty (clearly referring to the poor immigrants that are populating these inner subarbs) is subtly explored.
Karen StintzStintz says: "But in terms of a city that works, as to a city that works, absolutely I think that we work."
Chair, Toronto Transit Commission:
25:38 - 26:24
There's no question Toronto is growing and that's presenting challenges. But I think it's also important to recognize the reason we're growing and the rate that we are is because we are the largest city in Canada, because we have a diverse population, because Toronto is home to many people. And people who come to Toronto and chose it, I don;t think they're choosing North York, Scarborough or Etobicoke. They're choosing the city of Toronto. And when we think about the fastest growing city, I think about the fastest growing city I think we're now fourth in North America, we're hosting the Pan Am Games. We've got so many attributes that big cities can brag about, we've an arts community, the medical community, the universities that are now connected by mass transit. There's so many things we have going for us by virtue of the fact that we're such a big city, but we just have to consider ourselves that big city.
Steve Paikin
Host of The Agenda:
26:35 - 26:40
They used to call Toronto (thirty years ago] the city that works. And I don't hear people saying that as much anymore. Does the city still work given how big and clunky it is?
Stintz:
26:41 - 27:13
Yeah! Every day 1.7 million people use the TTC [Toronto Transit]. There's pressures on our system no question. But with the budget that we have, we provide a lot of services, from water to roads to sewers to snow clearing to snow plowing to leaf collection to parks and rec[reations], camps, the zoo. You know, there's the question that are we doing too much. I think that's a legitimate question. Are we doing the core things that we should be doing as well as we could be doing, I think those are legitimate question that the public has of us. But in terms of a city that works, as to a city that works, absolutely I think that we work.
Paikin:
28:10 - 28:30
But again I keep hearing this, that the values of the people who live in the Old City of Toronto the legacy city of Toronto, and the values of city of Toronto, Old Toronto, and the values of the people who live in the inner suburbs, Etobicoke, Scarborough, North York, East York, York, as they then were called, are different. And it's too hard to shoe-horn everybody into one shoe nowadays. That's what you hear.
Paikin:
30:40 - 30:45
The needs and desires of those living in Scarborough and Etobicoke are really different from those living downtown [Toronto]
Paikin:
31:30 - 31:46
What you would hear was...The people in the inner city, they get the subway because they are the white wine-sipping elites, and you folks living in Scarborough, you know, a street car is good enough for you. You're not entitled to a subway. I mean that kind of class warfare was played out on a daily basis when the city debated that, right?
Stintz:
32:50 - 33:00
There's lots of messages that resonate with people who again are not well-served by transit, who are feeling that they're paying more because they tend to be in the outer areas of the city because they're economically disadvantaged...
Paikin:
33:08 - 33:15
To the extent that those cleavages existed, do you think they are much worse now that Mayor Ford has been mayor for the last, almost, three years?
Stintz:
36:31 - 36:35
I don't think we're divided as the current administration would like us to believe.
This is not wishful thinking, or a myopic view of the situation. I think she really believes this. What could be better than to have a city full of vibrancy? Toronto, and its "white wine-sipping elites," and all those other whites, can only gain from a city full of "ethnics" with charming accents, exotic restaurants, colorful holidays, and wise and wonderful ways.
Yet, when we go to the areas most densely populated by these "ethnics" all we see are deteriorating restaurants and dull, colorless houses. So much for vibrancy. Even those areas where reasonably well-to-do (these days they are "Asians" - i.e. Chinese, Koreans and Filipinos, and the South Asians - i.e. Indians and Pakistani) immigrants reside, we find generally inferior homes, with no landscaping or maintenance of the surroundings. Dull and lusterless places.
Stinz of course, being the "white wine sipping elite," lives in the affluent Forest Hill, where she has her ward, where she also resides. There are no photos of her home, but she has posted some scenery of beautiful houses surrounded by lush greenery.
Steve Paikin was kind and generous towards her. He should have simply demolished her illogical ramblings with devastating logic. He could have set a precedent for other journalists.
Left: A home in a woody cul-de-sac in Stinz's affluent Forest Hill ward
Middle: A housing complex in Scarborough's West Hill
Right: A detached pre-fabricated house with a bare lawn in West Hill Scarborough
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Update: "You Stupid Man"
Prashant Ajmera:
Indian immigration Attorney
with specialisation in foreign investment
and related masters
Facebook page screenshot
I looked up the lawyer (or lawyer candidate in Canada via Canada's multicultural immigration policy) that I mentioned in my previous post (originally from a 2012 Camera Lucida post - my pre-Reclaimaing Beauty commentary blog) and here s what found (short story I was right).
Prashant Ajmera has since started his own law office in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Qebec, but also runs an office in Gujarat, India (his home town).
Here is what he says about his firm's services:
Ajmera Law is an official web site of Indian law office of Prashant Ajmera & Associates which is a boutique law firm in India providing unique legal services to businessmen in India and outside India.Nothing in this man page about the firm's Canadan services.
Our law firm was established in 1984 and as an Indian law firm pioneered in providing services in the area of immigration and visa services since 1993 to professionals and businessmen from India and around world.
Over the years, firms have developed association with law firms around the world and has specialize in the services of assisting businessman from any country in the world to other country in the world in making investment for residency and citizenship. This are of practice of the firm brought new opportunity to the firm in the area of international trade and investment which firm is capable of providing thought their in house lawyers and professionals.
But in the middle of "professional" information about the firm and its employees (and founder), here is what we have:
An Indian lawyer (Gujarat Bar Association), Canadian citizen and a NRI since 1988, with more than 18 years of experience in international immigration and visa matters, including several years of experience in corporate migration law and international trade. Started law practice as an Assistant Advocate in the High Court of Gujarat, Ahmedabad, India, in the Office of the Additional Central Government Standing Council (Federal Government Attorney).So Canadian citizenship is not exclusive to one's "nationality." An "Indian Lawyer" can also be without any equivocation a Canadian citizen! There you have it!
And true to his Indian Nationality, Ajmera's major work at his law firm concerning Canadian issues is...drum roll...:
Indian Immigration, Work Visa, Residency and Sponsorship.
If your are interested in going to India to work (a great opportunity for all the Indian Diaspora), all the details are here.
If you are a wealthy ndan you can also get asssantce from Mrl .... to:
Invest...in foreign country [i.e. Canada for the purpose of obtaining residency and citizenshipThere you have it. Your one-stop-shop to make it out here.
His Facebook page is more direct. He identifies himself as an EB-5 Visa Consultant.
More on the EB-5 visa.
The EB-5 visa, employment-based fifth preference category or EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program, created in 1990 by the Immigration Act of 1990, provides a method for eligible Immigrant Investors to become lawful permanent residents - informally known as "green card" holders - by investing at least $1,000,000 to finance a business in the United States that will employ at least 10 American workers." Most immigrant investors who use the EB-5 program invest in a targeted employment area (TEA): - a rural area or area with high unemployment - which lowers the investment threshold to $500,000. The EB-5 program is intended to encourage both "foreign investments and economic growth." The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program is one of five employment-based (EB) preference programs in the United States. [Source]
And just follow the global enterprise:
"You Stupid Man"
Post from 2012 at Camera Lucida, my blog before (and including) Reclaiming Beauty:
An Indian immigrant in Canada, with wife and child.
Eventually, this family will grow considerably.
And the "Canadian-born" children will pine after
a country - Indian - which they never knew, but
which they cannot separate themselves from.
Such is the multicultural invasion that is
occurring in Canada.
The story behind this photo is here.
The story behind this photo is here.
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I've written before about a changing Canada, a really transforming Canada, where almost everyone I walk by in the streets, in the malls, in the restaurants, is a non-white, Chinese or Indian (there are actually very few blacks in the major city centers, since most blacks stay in their neighborhoods either in the northern part of the city or in the Scarborough township of the Greater Toronto Area. Plus, there are much fewer blacks compared to other non-whites in Canada).
Yesterday, I was in my local Walmart. I like Walmart. It is a store established for cheaper goods, and even has a reasonably good grocery. Many of the products are Chinese made, but right now we have to survive, and boycotting Chinese goods will come with time (I can assure you).
I notice that these Chinese and Indian immigrants have no real etiquette. They talk really loudly, walk around in large groups taking up whole sidewalks, have no consideration for "side walk" etiquette of moving aside as someone comes towards them. And the men have no courtesy toward women.
Yesterday, I refused to cede my "path" to an approaching Indian man, as usual. He walked right into me. I just kept walking on.
The man ran after me with, "You stupid woman!" He had a distinct Indian accent. I turned around and said, automatically, "You stupid man!" He was red-hot furious, and lunged towards me as though to attack me. I was standing in line by then, and just turned around away from him.
In a flash, he realized what he was doing. Did he really want a scuffle in Walmart? I was clearly standing there ready for his confrontation. He skidded into a halt, stood for half a second watching me, then went about his way.
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I've said before that we are going to have to do a lot of fighting as we figure out what to do with this invasion of Indians and Chinese "immigrants" who have no intention of assimilating, and are working now decidedly to change the country and culture to their advantage.
One obvious strategy is of course to reduce all immigration into Canada, including the so-called "education" and "economic" immigration, where candidates are accepted by the amount of financial investment they bring with them, and the level of education they have acquired. This should be strictly kept with Asian immigrants (Indian and Chinese), who seem to be the highest applicants for this kind of immigration, and less so for European immigrants (British, and even Polish and Russian). Refugees from Africa and Latin America can be accommodated in nearby countries (Somali refugees in Kenya or Ethiopia for example), and eventually returned to their countries of origin when war and other crisis situations have subsided.
How about the ones already here? And not only the ones already here, but their offspring who now call themselves "Canadian"?
One proposal I've made is to find incentives to send these immigrants and especially their "Canadian" children back to their original countries, either through monetary gifts, or by inter-governmental arrangements through employment centers and universities. And to make their stay in those countries permanent. In other words, once they accept these incentives, they cannot return back to Canada without a formal re-application for immigration. The acceptance of re-applying immigrants can be fine-tuned to reduce the re-acceptance level to a minimum, and preferably to zero.
The other strategy is to phase out and eventually remove "multiculturalism" in Canada, both legally and culturally. The Canadian documents which profess Canada to be a multicultural country should be revised, and state the Western, British nature of the country. All multicultural programs, whether on television or in other media institutions, schools, employment centers, and even business areas like shopping centers and restaurants, should be phased out. If a business wants to go "multicultural" as in a French restaurant wanting to be "French," then it is up to the business to make that happen, and not some special government fund.
This true Canadianness will either be accepted or rejected by these immigrants, and their descendants. I would say that the majority of non-whites will reject it. This unwelcoming environment will eventually become difficult for them. And with the combination of strategies provided above, they will start to leave on their own. Already, Chinese and Indian immigrant off-spring are "re-acquainting" themselves with their ancestral countries by traveling there for vists, and some are staying and re-establishing their lives there.
The alternative is that there will be a confrontation between immigrants (this is now a generic word I will use for all non-white immigrants - first, second, third, etc. generation) and whites. Immigrants will refuse the white, European and Western nature of Canada, and will fight to have it resemble their own conditions. Whites are now beginning to realize what they've lost, or are losing, and will begin to start to reclaim their land and culture, since especially after their decades-long acceptance of these others, all they are getting is epithets of "racist" and "prejudiced" by these same immigrants.
This may take some time, but with incremental changes, and a combination of all the strategies and scenarios above, it may be sooner than we think.
An Indian immigrant in Canada, with wife and child.
Eventually, this family will grow considerably.
And the "Canadian-born" children will pine after
a country - Indian - which they never knew, but
which they cannot separate themselves from.
Such is the multicultural invasion that is
occurring in Canada.
The story behind this photo is here.
The story behind this photo is here.
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I've written before about a changing Canada, a really transforming Canada, where almost everyone I walk by in the streets, in the malls, in the restaurants, is a non-white, Chinese or Indian (there are actually very few blacks in the major city centers, since most blacks stay in their neighborhoods either in the northern part of the city or in the Scarborough township of the Greater Toronto Area. Plus, there are much fewer blacks compared to other non-whites in Canada).
Yesterday, I was in my local Walmart. I like Walmart. It is a store established for cheaper goods, and even has a reasonably good grocery. Many of the products are Chinese made, but right now we have to survive, and boycotting Chinese goods will come with time (I can assure you).
I notice that these Chinese and Indian immigrants have no real etiquette. They talk really loudly, walk around in large groups taking up whole sidewalks, have no consideration for "side walk" etiquette of moving aside as someone comes towards them. And the men have no courtesy toward women.
Yesterday, I refused to cede my "path" to an approaching Indian man, as usual. He walked right into me. I just kept walking on.
The man ran after me with, "You stupid woman!" He had a distinct Indian accent. I turned around and said, automatically, "You stupid man!" He was red-hot furious, and lunged towards me as though to attack me. I was standing in line by then, and just turned around away from him.
In a flash, he realized what he was doing. Did he really want a scuffle in Walmart? I was clearly standing there ready for his confrontation. He skidded into a halt, stood for half a second watching me, then went about his way.
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I've said before that we are going to have to do a lot of fighting as we figure out what to do with this invasion of Indians and Chinese "immigrants" who have no intention of assimilating, and are working now decidedly to change the country and culture to their advantage.
One obvious strategy is of course to reduce all immigration into Canada, including the so-called "education" and "economic" immigration, where candidates are accepted by the amount of financial investment they bring with them, and the level of education they have acquired. This should be strictly kept with Asian immigrants (Indian and Chinese), who seem to be the highest applicants for this kind of immigration, and less so for European immigrants (British, and even Polish and Russian). Refugees from Africa and Latin America can be accommodated in nearby countries (Somali refugees in Kenya or Ethiopia for example), and eventually returned to their countries of origin when war and other crisis situations have subsided.
How about the ones already here? And not only the ones already here, but their offspring who now call themselves "Canadian"?
One proposal I've made is to find incentives to send these immigrants and especially their "Canadian" children back to their original countries, either through monetary gifts, or by inter-governmental arrangements through employment centers and universities. And to make their stay in those countries permanent. In other words, once they accept these incentives, they cannot return back to Canada without a formal re-application for immigration. The acceptance of re-applying immigrants can be fine-tuned to reduce the re-acceptance level to a minimum, and preferably to zero.
The other strategy is to phase out and eventually remove "multiculturalism" in Canada, both legally and culturally. The Canadian documents which profess Canada to be a multicultural country should be revised, and state the Western, British nature of the country. All multicultural programs, whether on television or in other media institutions, schools, employment centers, and even business areas like shopping centers and restaurants, should be phased out. If a business wants to go "multicultural" as in a French restaurant wanting to be "French," then it is up to the business to make that happen, and not some special government fund.
This true Canadianness will either be accepted or rejected by these immigrants, and their descendants. I would say that the majority of non-whites will reject it. This unwelcoming environment will eventually become difficult for them. And with the combination of strategies provided above, they will start to leave on their own. Already, Chinese and Indian immigrant off-spring are "re-acquainting" themselves with their ancestral countries by traveling there for vists, and some are staying and re-establishing their lives there.
The alternative is that there will be a confrontation between immigrants (this is now a generic word I will use for all non-white immigrants - first, second, third, etc. generation) and whites. Immigrants will refuse the white, European and Western nature of Canada, and will fight to have it resemble their own conditions. Whites are now beginning to realize what they've lost, or are losing, and will begin to start to reclaim their land and culture, since especially after their decades-long acceptance of these others, all they are getting is epithets of "racist" and "prejudiced" by these same immigrants.
This may take some time, but with incremental changes, and a combination of all the strategies and scenarios above, it may be sooner than we think.
Can Canada Become Canada Again?
From Laura Wood's The Thinking Housewife blog: January 2, 2013.
My arguments and the ensuing comments.
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AT Camera Lucida, Kidist Paulos Asrat, who lives in Toronto, offers a plan for reversing the mass influx of Asian immigrants that has culturally transformed Canada:
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Michael S. writes:
My arguments and the ensuing comments.
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AT Camera Lucida, Kidist Paulos Asrat, who lives in Toronto, offers a plan for reversing the mass influx of Asian immigrants that has culturally transformed Canada:
I’ve said before that we are going to have to do a lot of fighting as we figure out what to do with this invasion of Indians and Chinese “immigrants” who have no intention of assimilating, and are working now decidedly to change the country and culture to their advantage.One obvious strategy is of course to reduce all immigration into Canada, including the so-called “education” and “economic” immigration, where candidates are accepted by the amount of financial investment they bring with them, and the level of education they have acquired.
This should be strictly kept with Asian immigrants (Indian and Chinese), who seem to be the highest applicants for this kind of immigration, and less so for European immigrants (British, and even Polish and Russian). Refugees from Africa and Latin America can be accommodated in nearby countries (Somali refugees in Kenya or Ethiopia for example), and eventually returned to their countries of origin when war and other crisis situations have subsided.How about the ones already here? And not only the ones already here, but their offspring who now call themselves “Canadian”?
One proposal I’ve made is to find incentives to send these immigrants and especially their “Canadian” children back to their original countries, either through monetary gifts, or by inter-governmental arrangements through employment centers and universities. And to make their stay in those countries permanent. In other words, once they accept these incentives, they cannot return back to Canada without a formal re-application for immigration. The acceptance of re-applying immigrants can be fine-tuned to reduce the re-acceptance level to a minimum, and preferably to zero.
The other strategy is to phase out and eventually remove “multiculturalism” in Canada, both legally and culturally. The Canadian documents which profess Canada to be a multicultural country should be revised, and state the Western, British nature of the country. All multicultural programs, whether on television or in other media institutions, schools, employment centers, and even business areas like shopping centers and restaurants, should be phased out. If a business wants to go “multicultural” as in a French restaurant wanting to be “French,” then it is up to the business to make that happen, and not some special government fund.
This true Canadianness will either be accepted or rejected by these immigrants, and their descendants. I would say that the majority of non-whites will reject it. This unwelcoming environment will eventually become difficult for them. And with the combination of strategies provided above, they will start to leave on their own. Already, Chinese and Indian immigrant off-spring are “re-acquainting” themselves with their ancestral countries by traveling there for vists, and some are staying and re-establishing their lives there.
The alternative is that there will be a confrontation between immigrants (this is now a generic word I will use for all non-white immigrants – first, second, third, etc. generation) and whites. Immigrants will refuse the white, European and Western nature of Canada, and will fight to have it resemble their own conditions. Whites are now beginning to realize what they’ve lost, or are losing, and will begin to start to reclaim their land and culture, since especially after their decades-long acceptance of these others, all they are getting is epithets of “racist” and “prejudiced” by these same immigrants.
This may take some time, but with incremental changes, and a combination of all the strategies and scenarios above, it may be sooner than we think.
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Michael S. writes:
“Immigrants will refuse the white, European and Western nature of Canada, and will fight to have it resemble their own conditions.”S. Li writes:
Then why do they immigrate, if they just want to make their new place like their old place? What’s the point?
I’ve heard enough Puerto Ricans gush about how lovely Puerto Rico is. Couldn’t have been THAT lovely, if you live in the Bronx. Just sayin’.
Ireland is beautiful, too, but I can see why my ancestors left.
I never thought of writing to you until I read this post, “Can Canada Become Canada Again?” today. I thought that I might have a few words to add.Laura writes:
I am Chinese and I have been reading your blog for quite a while. Previously I tried to learn English from CNN/NYT, then I gradually found them boring and spiritually and intellectually suffocating. After finding your blog, I have made your blog my daily/weekly read instead. I like your blog design and picture choices in the first place, which are really pleasant for reading. I like your posts about English literature, which are nourishing for the soul. I like your posts about traditional Christian values, which I believe are the real foundation that made the West great. (I wish the West had exported more of traditional Christian readings to China such as C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton, and I never regretted when Chinese government banned ‘artists’ such as Lady Gaga etc., or art such as most ‘Hollywood movies’).
In China, we call Chinese born in Canada/U.S. “Banana” (yellow outside, white inside) as very obviously they are culturally Western in our eyes. (Second-generation Chinese immigrants usually speak English even while they visit China, as they either do not speak Chinese well or do not bother to speak Chinese, and they almost always like to remind us that “I am American/Canadian, not Chinese” upon introduction). And we can easily spot that they are different from local Chinese by their appearance (maybe due to more dairy consumption), and because their knowledge of Chinese classics is close to none. It would be a blessing if they could spell their grandparents’ names in Chinese. I find it hard to believe that they could ever possibly “culturally transform Canada.”
Let us take Jeremy Lin, the NBA basketball player and a Chinese American, for example, even though he might look like Yao Ming (Chinese basketball player who also played in NBA previously), we Chinese do not find anything similar with regards to the ways they talk, think and act. Even though they both look Chinese by skin color, we can almost spot Jeremy Lin as “not from China” at first eyesight. The same is true to for Patrick Chan, the Canadian figure skater.
Also, I find the example Ms. Asrat used to support her “Chinese and Indian immigrants have no real etiquette” comment a little naive. We can easily substitute her “rude Indian” story to another “rude non-Asian” story, plus Ms. Asrat was not without fault (at least inconsiderate) at the confrontation.
Ironically, I found it hard to believe that Miss Asrat put her own picture along her post, as she looks Asian to me. Is the post or the picture a joke?
Thank you for writing. Your command of English is good. I made a few grammatical corrections, but not many.
I understand that Chinese immigrants to the West are not fully Chinese in the cultural sense and have many Western mannerisms. However, that does not mean that they fully identify with the West or consider themselves Canadians in the sense that those whose ancestors came from Britain do. Many Chinese Canadians probably consider themselves a distinctive combination of East and West. In other posts, Kidist has more fully described what she sees as the differences between Asian immigrants and white Canadians. For some Asians, Canada is more a place to get ahead than a place to feel fully at home. When Kidist, who is Ethiopian, speaks of Asians culturally transforming Canada, I don’t think she means they are making it exactly like China or India. That could never be. Nevertheless, the influx of Asians into Canada has been enormous and however much prominent Asian Americans or Canadians may seem Westernized, there is no question that Canada is changed by the presence of large numbers of Asians and their distinctive characteristics, just as China would be transformed if millions of white Canadians settled in its major cities, even if those Canadians adopted many of the local customs and spoke the language.
Re post: Indians Will Be Indians
Bad Eagle, ancestor of David Yeagley
(Original post: My Time with the Indians, December, 16 2016)
Below is a forum discussion on the late David Yeagley's Bad Eagle website. Yeagley would write articles or commentaries and leave it up to a registered group of commentators (many of whom became friends) to "trash out" their arguments. I was part of that group. Yeagley was lenient, but he would occasionally ban hecklers. More often than not, we all came out a little wiser.
The comments section is especially entertaining - and serious - which is a good combination to keep discussions lively. Again this was thanks to Yeagley's vision. But he never convinced me of his vision of the "question of Indians," American or Canadian.
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From: The Best on Bad Eagle
By: David Yeagley
August 31 2009
BadEagle.com was recently noted by an Ethiopian artist on her website, Camera Lucinda [sic]. Her remarks about BadEagle.com are a milestone, and deserve serious consideration. Why?
Kidist Paulos Asrat, known as “She Designs,” is a highly educated and elegant woman, who expresses herself beautifully in words, as well as in textiles, graphic arts, film, and photography.
Kidist Paulos Asrat,
woman of the world.
[My reaction later in the discussion:
I am a Canadian citizen, not a “woman of the world.”]
Asrat is a native of Ethiopia, but was educated in Canada, and has lived most of her life there. She studied textile design at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and also studied drawing and painting under Toronto artist Michael Jenzen and botanical artist Leslie Staple. She studied film and photography at Ryerson University under two of Canada’s most renowned artists, Bruce Elder, an experimental filmmaker, and Don Snyder, a photographer.
Asrat’s films and photographs have been exhibited in Toronto, Montreal, Prague and Lille (France). She has served on the Board of Directors for Trinity Square Video, a non-profit video art organization.
As a young child, Asrat was trained in ballet and piano. More recently, she has been a performing member in several dance groups, including a modern dance ensemble. She has also given many public piano performances.
Kidist Asrat was attracted to BadEagle.com.
That in itself bespeaks her sense of adventure, experimentation, and creativity. Not that every conversation on BadEagle.com was something worthy of her interest, but Asrat’s view of the American Indian patriot website is most worthy of our interest.
She says, in “Indians Will Be Indians,” that BadEagle.com has failed to work the magic it professes. She admits that, in her fascination with the scope of the site, she often forgot that it was in fact an “Indian” site. When considering the purpose of BadEagle.com, American Patriotism, she reflects:
“Is there really an Indian who is at peace with America and willing to swallow the bitter pills of defeat? I thought so for a while at Bad Eagle, but I think I was asking for a superhuman feat.”
“Despite a professed love for America, I think David, naturally, loves Indians first—and best. So he has to find ways to incorporate the defeat of his people with their uncomfortable and humiliating lives in modern America. Hence, his strange and constant discussions of the subliminal effects of Indians on America, and even the world.”
Asrat, as indeed the world, sees Indians as a defeated people. However, she is not a liberal, so she doesn’t see Indians as victims. Rather, she sees in Indians the failure to respond to the modern world. She sees my attempts at reinterpreting these present circumstances as a failure to address the problem. BadEagle.com works no ‘medicine’ for Indian people, therefore.
Asrat, as indeed the world, sees Indians as a defeated people. However, she is not a liberal, so she doesn’t see Indians as victims. Rather, she sees in Indians the failure to respond to the modern world. She sees my attempts at reinterpreting these present circumstances as a failure to address the problem. BadEagle.com works no ‘medicine’ for Indian people, therefore.
“I’m afraid that David, cleverly and sincerely, is using psychological tactics to give Indians the importance they don’t have. We have some magical properties, we can heal your ills, he says.”
Yet, BadEagle.com doesn’t spend time addressing the obvious problems Indians have.
“Unfortunately, David seems more interested in giving Indians a false sense of their position in the world based on feelings and emotions rather than provide recourse for actual achievements. He is acting like any other (leftist) Indian in this case, who professes magical, spiritual qualities, which unfortunately have not been proven yet.”
Unfortunately, perhaps, Asrat does not understand the value of being Indian, to an Indian. Indians chose to be Indian, rather than adapt to a new culture they did not value. In a sense, Indians are the one people whom America has never and will never defeat, psychologically. To make this Indian mind set applicable to the modern world is the point of BadEagle.com. Ethnicity and nationhood are one, in the Indian. Indians cherish our nationhood. The problem in much of the world today is the fact that ethnicities do not value their nations.
The leftist craze for immigration, integration, and intermarriage is precisely what Indians eschewed, historically, and why Indians still exist as Indians today—beleaguered as we are by white leftists and leftist-trained Indians. I am ever the opposite of a leftist.
Now, the issue of the treaties is related, but only as the historical foundation of the blood-bought right to be separate, or, to be Indian, forever.
But I can’t really expect any non-Indian to understand this. The only thing that really singes me about Kidist is the fact that she trashes Ilana Mercer! Ilana was the first noted writer to take the Bad Eagle Interview. But Kidist sees things I don’t see. Therefore, I take note when she “sees” BadEagle.com.
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The comments, lively and insightful, start here.
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Friday, June 16, 2017
Culture Watch: Burning Down Western Culture
I have started a new topic I've titled "Culture Watch."
Nafiseh Emadmostofi
Do it Yourself: Coffins II, 81cm x 101cm
Oil on Canvass
Art is one of the first ways that we get indications of the directions a culture is taking. That is because it is hard to lie with art. Your authenticity is revealed firstly through your technical dexterity. And having invested so much time learning the techniques and processes, what you present becomes a labor of love. You do the very best that you can do.
And images are more primal than words. One can mask meanings and intentions with words, but pictures are more direct.
We have now in Canada (and specifically in Mississauga) artists who have gone through - so far - the exemplary schools that the region have to offer. Even in this era of postmodernism, there are first class traditional schools of painting and drawing available to anyone who wants to attend. Many are at very low cost or even free. Public secondary and post secondary school systems in Ontario have them in their curricula, with skilled art teachers on their staff.
Many times these artists are second generation immigrants who may have been born in Canada or came to the country as very young children. They maneuver through "Canadian" culture with expertise, speak fluent English, and often also their own languages.
They go through the usual rigorous screening systems, first for admissions into these post secondary schools and even secondary schools. For example The Etobcoke School of the Arts is highly selective in admitting its high school students.
Then, as they complete their studies, these artists start their rounds of galleries and museums to submit their works for exhibitions. Some venture out into the commercial world, but that comes much later.
The fascinating thing is the themes they chose to represent. Without fail (view work by students and alumni of Chinese or other ethnic backgrounds at the Ontario College of Art and Design here, or here at the University of Toronto ), their works reference their own cultures. Often there is a sense of alienation in their works. And where these works intersect with other cultures, and specifically with white, western culture, there is an amorphous sense of doom. This may be representative of the postmodern era of doom and gloom in art, but this doom and gloom is specifically Chinese, or Indian, or some other ethnic group's where the artists pull from their own cultural vocabularies to represent such worlds through their art.
Multiculturalism has really brought out their unique demons.
But there is another interesting layer. While each culture represents its imagery, in its own way, with unapologetic references to its "identity," whites are not allowed to do so. For if they do, then they are channeling into their "oppressor" history, their legacy of "racism" where they prevented the ancestors of these non-whites (some only as far back as 1/2 a generation ago) from participating and fully living in this land. Whites cannot be genuine artists because of the crimes that have been allocated to them. They will only make more of the same art, "alienating" and "oppressive."
What could be further from the truth!
But all these "ethnics" cannot be true artists either, for their inauthentic methods of "copying" their oppressors.
So where does that leave us in the world of art?
We get to watch the burning of the Western tradition, painted in the immaculate tradition of Western art.
Nafiseh Emadmostofi channels back to this tradition, having nothing else to emulate. Yet her deepest desire is to see it go up in flames, to vanish, so that she can once again return to her true, authentic self, her true authentic art.
The Art Gallery of Mississauga will exhibit Emadmostofi's works in the XIT-RM from June 29-August 27 2017 under the title Burning Desire. She will also participate in an "Artist Talk" on June 29, the opening night.
What is Emadmostofi's burning desire? I have answered that question above: "...her deepest desire is to see [this Western culture] go up in flames, to vanish, so that she can once again return to her true, authentic self, her true authentic art."
The gallery's communication describes Emadmostofi's work thus:
There is nothing more exhilarating than utopian visions.
Nafiseh Emadmostofi
Do it Yourself: Coffins II, 81cm x 101cm
Oil on Canvass
Art is one of the first ways that we get indications of the directions a culture is taking. That is because it is hard to lie with art. Your authenticity is revealed firstly through your technical dexterity. And having invested so much time learning the techniques and processes, what you present becomes a labor of love. You do the very best that you can do.
And images are more primal than words. One can mask meanings and intentions with words, but pictures are more direct.
We have now in Canada (and specifically in Mississauga) artists who have gone through - so far - the exemplary schools that the region have to offer. Even in this era of postmodernism, there are first class traditional schools of painting and drawing available to anyone who wants to attend. Many are at very low cost or even free. Public secondary and post secondary school systems in Ontario have them in their curricula, with skilled art teachers on their staff.
Many times these artists are second generation immigrants who may have been born in Canada or came to the country as very young children. They maneuver through "Canadian" culture with expertise, speak fluent English, and often also their own languages.
They go through the usual rigorous screening systems, first for admissions into these post secondary schools and even secondary schools. For example The Etobcoke School of the Arts is highly selective in admitting its high school students.
Then, as they complete their studies, these artists start their rounds of galleries and museums to submit their works for exhibitions. Some venture out into the commercial world, but that comes much later.
The fascinating thing is the themes they chose to represent. Without fail (view work by students and alumni of Chinese or other ethnic backgrounds at the Ontario College of Art and Design here, or here at the University of Toronto ), their works reference their own cultures. Often there is a sense of alienation in their works. And where these works intersect with other cultures, and specifically with white, western culture, there is an amorphous sense of doom. This may be representative of the postmodern era of doom and gloom in art, but this doom and gloom is specifically Chinese, or Indian, or some other ethnic group's where the artists pull from their own cultural vocabularies to represent such worlds through their art.
Multiculturalism has really brought out their unique demons.
But there is another interesting layer. While each culture represents its imagery, in its own way, with unapologetic references to its "identity," whites are not allowed to do so. For if they do, then they are channeling into their "oppressor" history, their legacy of "racism" where they prevented the ancestors of these non-whites (some only as far back as 1/2 a generation ago) from participating and fully living in this land. Whites cannot be genuine artists because of the crimes that have been allocated to them. They will only make more of the same art, "alienating" and "oppressive."
What could be further from the truth!
But all these "ethnics" cannot be true artists either, for their inauthentic methods of "copying" their oppressors.
So where does that leave us in the world of art?
We get to watch the burning of the Western tradition, painted in the immaculate tradition of Western art.
Nafiseh Emadmostofi channels back to this tradition, having nothing else to emulate. Yet her deepest desire is to see it go up in flames, to vanish, so that she can once again return to her true, authentic self, her true authentic art.
The Art Gallery of Mississauga will exhibit Emadmostofi's works in the XIT-RM from June 29-August 27 2017 under the title Burning Desire. She will also participate in an "Artist Talk" on June 29, the opening night.
What is Emadmostofi's burning desire? I have answered that question above: "...her deepest desire is to see [this Western culture] go up in flames, to vanish, so that she can once again return to her true, authentic self, her true authentic art."
The gallery's communication describes Emadmostofi's work thus:
Nafiseh Emadmostofi’s bold figural paintings offer up representative and allegorical examinations of ideological conflict, and the power of art to inspire protest, incite censure, and yet also speak to a collective (and contested) desire to envision a better world.And we get this "better world" after we get rid of the "old" and "corrupt" one.
There is nothing more exhilarating than utopian visions.
Thursday, June 15, 2017
More on the Prime Minister
In Above His Head
Along with Steve Paikin, host of TVO's The Agenda, Don Martin on his CTV flagship political program Power Play tells us like it is.
Martin's most recent episode discussed Trudeau's "Appointments paralysis [as] internal dysfunction."
He elaborates on his blog:
...this PMO is failing miserably at filling important positions with strong people in a timely manner.He jokes that it might be time to get Sophie Trudeau to pillow-talk her husband into assigning appointments. But that is probably happening already and perhaps one of the reasons for this paralysis.
[...]
But the most pressing and perplexing is this government’s appointment paralysis.
Judicial appointments are glacial, commission chairs are empty, boards like the CBC, Canada Post and Export Development Canada are depleted while top jobs at the RCMP, CRTC and Elections Canada are on the verge of being vacated.
[...]
The efficiency of a government, even one with a friendly face, should be judged by the way it staffs itself and treats its people.
There are clear symptoms of internal dysfunction by Liberals failing to get that basic job done.
The main reason is of course, as many quietly and some clearly, including myself, have observed: Trudeau is in above his head with his new role as leader of this country.
He must be asking himself by now: "When will this dream-job-turned-nightmare end?!"