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Will Canada Become the 51st American State?
PM Carney says No. He announced he was inviting King Charles III to Canada to tell Mr. Trump that Canada is a special part of an international conglomeration of former British colonies under the sovereignty of an English king and certainly could not be part of any other union.
The King gave that formal speech yesterday from a grand throne, but he went far off script, indicating that he was not the sovereign over Canada, and that Canada wasn’t really a nation at all.
“I would like to acknowledge,” he said, “that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people…it is my great hope that in each of your communities, and collectively as a country, a path is found toward truth and reconciliation, in both word and deed.”
Robert Spencer summarizes: “Charles is woke. Charles was just affirming that he was a standard-issue 21st-century leftist, full of guilt for colonialism and likely for white supremacy as well, despite never actually having indulged in either one.
“Charles was paying what he likely thought to be meaningless lip service to the fashionable notions of the day, one of which is that people of European descent are illegitimate occupiers of land that is rightly owned by brown people, who are sinless victims, sacrificially bearing the sins of the white man. The fact that those brown people themselves violently seized the land from others is of no concern to those who purvey this particular mythology.
“The king, however, is not some leftist college professor standing in a sparsely filled auditorium to give a lecture on racism to bored and thoroughly indoctrinated blue-haired students. When he makes a declaration of sovereignty, it matters, and his land acknowledgment before the Canadian parliament was exactly that. The ostensible sovereign of the land was actually saying that he was not the sovereign and that the land belonged to the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people.”
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
