To paraphrase Isaac Newton’s third law of motion: ‘In politics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction.’ This was clearly etched in the results of the recent U.S. election, where vast swathes of Americans gave a surprisingly strong mandate to president-elect Donald Trump.
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Americans were tired of being patronized, their concerns dismissed by a Washington elite who failed to understand their grassroots concerns. When they worried about the economy and how their earnings had been depleted by inflation, they were told to use the correct pronouns.
The same will happen in Canada, where we see a similar culture of emboldened left-wing elitists sermonizing to the rest of us about what our concerns should be.
In Toronto, an unelected bureaucrat chose the solemn Remembrance Day ceremony — set aside to remember the sacrifice of those who served and those who made the ultimate sacrifice in war — to lecture about our “colonial” past and slavery in a condescending land acknowledgement.
It had no place at that ceremony. If you’re going to speak about slavery, don’t confuse our history with that of the U.S. Get your facts correct. Upper Canada was the first place in the world to limit the slave trade with the Anti-Slavery Act of 1793. Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert — a leader in the abolitionist movement — defended those laws.
Instead of tributes to the brave heroes who defended democracy at Vimy, at Ypres, on the beaches of Normandy and in the airspace over Britain, we got bafflegab about “settlers” and an attempt to shame this country’s past.
In Ottawa, Sir Robert Borden High School chose a Palestinian song as the musical accompaniment to a Remembrance Day slide show.
Principal Aaron Hobbs doubled down on the insult. He was quoted in the National Post as saying the music was chosen to bring diversity to a day that is usually about “a white guy who has done something related to the military.” So they chose music from a repressive, nihilistic culture with no history of democratic freedoms.
That “white guy” and hundreds of thousands of others, including Indigenous Canadians and people of colour, gave their lives because they wanted this country to be free and democratic.
Too bad bureaucrats and high school principals use that freedom to insult their memory.