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Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, wants to make the world a better place. The former high school teacher is a real Good Guy, calls himself a “social activist”, and speaks with perky gentility; he is famous for politeness. His virtuous impulses have been visible everywhere from his big-hearted approach to refugees (a policy of welcoming tens of thousands of unvetted immigrants per year from countries with documented connections to terrorism) to his zest for apologising to the point of nationally-enforced self-flagellation for Canada’s racist past, especially its treatment of indigenous Canadians.
So far, so par for the contemporary progressive course, whether that’s Trudeau’s Liberals, the new guard of the American Democrats or Britain’s Labour Party, which was ruined under Corbyn. Indeed, reading about the mounting pile of horrors in Canada under the cherubic Trudeau, it is hard not to see a similar fate looming for Britain under Sir Keir Starmer. Unlike Trudeau, Starmer’s animating force is a bit opaque; he’s less of a die-hard activist than Trudeau, but his record of flip flopping, and being jerked around by the truly terrifying elements of his party, suggests he could unwittingly lead us towards a hell under, if not of, his making. Just like Trudeau has done in Canada.
Canada, once a pleasant backwater largely beneath international notice, has become a useful warning to countries poised to elect leftists in the present era of mass migration, gender madness and the obsession with race. Under Trudeau’s woke watch, Canada has begun to economically founder under the extreme shock of the 1.3 million migrants given permanent status in Canada since 2016. In his haste to condemn xenophobia by adopting an extremely liberal approach to migration, but with no regard for skills or management, Trudeau has caused overcrowding of healthcare and public facilities, soaring cost of services and above all soaring housing costs in certain areas. The former is widely agreed to have contributed to the country’s highest rate of inflation in 18 years.
Socially and culturally, the results of the country’s Liberal leadership have been dire. This former paradise of snow and woods has become something of a dystopia in which – under its new Gender Identity Bill C-16, using the “wrong” pronoun could, some argue, constitute a crime. This means men can call themselves women and everyone has to agree or they could face jail.
More pressingly – there has been a pathetic pandering to Islamist anti-Semitism for fear of appearing “racist”. The day after Hamas’s October 7th massacre, Canada was among the first countries in the West to play host to mass rallies of appreciation for the terrorist army’s butchery of innocent Israeli Jews. Soon after, the shootings at Jewish schools began, with two in Montreal in November (for which one Abdirazak Mahdi Ahmed, 20, has been charged), and three last week (at the time of writing), one in Toronto, one in Montreal and one in Vancouver. Yet for suggesting that such shootings were at least linked to unfettered immigration, Ontario Premier Doug Ford was immediately accused of “fighting hate with hate” with opposition leaders shrieking they were “appalled by the… racist remarks”.
Jews inevitably pay the price for antiracist grandstanding and policies. In Canada anti-Semitism has soared in the last few years. According to the B’nai Brith Annual Audit of Antisemitism, there were 5,800 incidents of Jew hate in 2023.
“This escalating violence against our community is intolerable,” said Michael Levitt, president and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center. “For months and months, we’ve been seeing on our streets and university campuses the open promotion and glorification of violence against Jews. History has taught us that what starts with words often leads to violence, and that’s the dark reality Jews in Canada are facing today. How many more attacks do Jewish communities have to suffer before there are tragic consequences?” It’s a question Trudeau seems unable to answer.
Of the school shootings, Eta Yudin, vice president for the Quebec branch of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, further highlighted the disgusting and terrifying new culture facing Jews in Trudeau’s Canada. “The stress and anxiety it caused the Jewish community since then cannot be underestimated, as we have had to endure intimidation after intimidation, as well as serial violence and anti-Semitism.”
Meanwhile, the opioid crisis has intensified, institutional wokeness has reached new extremes, and euthanasia and cannabis have both been legalised. In a desire to be that Good Guy, and to please his hard leftist party, Trudeau appears to a great many people to have utterly destroyed Canada.
The road to hell is certainly paved with good intentions. I listened to Trudeau expound on his policies and beliefs in a lengthy interview on a podcast recently. He sounded pretty good to me. Switched on, intelligent, in pursuit of happiness for all. Except that’s not how contemporary leftist politics unfolds; Trudeau’s desire to reform has translated to destruction of what was good and its replacement with fear and violence. Monstrous elements in once moderate left-wing parties now run the show; Canada’s and, I fear, soon ours.
Regardless of his good intentions, Starmer wobbles over whether to pacify the grim reapers of his party – the Israel-hating brigade, the woke maniacs, the Green fanatics, the Remain obsessives. In doing so, he is already giving them the whip hand, and once he’s elected, the results could be truly terrifying.
Justin Trudeau’s woke tyranny offers a warning of Britain under Starmer
Monstrous elements in once moderate left-wing parties now run the show; Canada’s and, I fear, soon ours