The latest high-profile claim that our problems emanate from the rise of the radical right wing came from American late-night TV talk host Stephen Colbert during his softball visit with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week.
It was supposedly a warning to us all about the popularity of the Conservatives, specifically their leader Pierre Poilievre, who leads massively in the polls.
Naturally, that claim went unchallenged by Trudeau.
We do have a problem with radicals, but let’s review.
A number of people, including Trudeau, made loud and anguished claims that hundreds of bodies had been found in mass graves near former residential schools. Supposedly, those are the bodies of children who were forced — due to a racist policy — to be students at those schools.
Perhaps they are but, as of now, no bodies have been recovered.
What has happened, Blacklock’s Reporter tells us, is that “cabinet confirms hundreds of church burnings nationwide.”
Those churches are torched by the radical left wing.
Violence takes place in our schools daily, with teachers reporting students tipping over desks, disrespecting and at times attacking a teacher, with the teacher powerless to stop it. Meanwhile, learning by the rest of the students — and common sense — takes a seat at the back of the class due to policies enacted and carried out by the left, not the right.
Community police in the schools were removed despite most parents and students, of all races, wanting them to remain.
That was done by the left.
In Toronto teachers who have been referred to by the minister of education as “radical” had fooled parents in order to use children as young as eight as pawns in their attack on Israel, with at least one teacher telling non-Indigenous students to wear blue to out themselves as “settlers,” a racist term.
Again — the left.
Across Canada, as in other parts of the world, students, public unions and other leftist radicals march under transparently false concern for Palestinians, but do so in Jewish neighbourhoods and at Jewish places of worship, often shouting, “From the river to the sea,” a Hamas call for the extermination of the Jews.
Certainly, history provides many examples of right-wing attacks on the Jewish population of the world, but today’s Canadian haters are from the left.
The streets and public parks of cities and large towns in Canada teem with the human tragedy of a drug crisis.
What is our response? To facilitate the massive destruction of viciously addictive drugs by supplying the drugs and a place to consume them. Enabling, as opposed to caring.
The problem gets worse — not better — under these policies.
The drugs the sites supply flow from the addict to the street, as hardcore users trade them for fentanyl, selling the “safe supply” to young people who are just starting their descent into oblivion.
Who pushes society into acting as the pushers? (Hint: Not the supposedly radical Pierre Poilievre and those on the right.)
When activists attacked and set alight cities like Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington, Waukesha, Wisconsin and, to a lesser but still dangerous degree, Hamilton, Ont., right-wingers seemed quite thin on the ground.
No one I know argues that right-wing radicalism doesn’t exist. We would be foolish to do so.
Why so many fools on the left?