Of course fewer Canadians say they are “very proud” to be Canadian. Who wants to boast about being part of a genocidal state built on colonialism, discrimination and systemic racism with no core identity.
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Those are all ways that Justin Trudeau our illustrious prime minister has described Canada over the years, some of those comments are quite recent. It’s hard to have pride in your country when it is constantly being trashed by our leaders and kids in school are taught that there is nothing to be proud of in Canada’s past.
So, the latest survey from the Angus Reid Institute should be disturbing, but not surprising.
In a report issued Friday, Angus Reid showed that in 1985, 78% of Canadians said they felt “very proud” to be Canadian. That figure dropped to 71% in 1994, 68% in 2003 and 52% in 2016.
Now, just 34% told the Angus Reid Institute that they feel “very proud” to be Canadian.
What is driving this change in mood, this massive drop in patriotism?
The old saying is that the fish rots from the head down. Our prime minister, ostensibly the head of our country, has been trash talking Canada for years both before he became PM and after.
“There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada,” Trudeau famously told the New York Times in late 2015 shortly after being elected prime minister.
That’s a good starting point, isn’t it. State that the country that you are leading has no core identity.
Of course, just a few years earlier, Trudeau had flirted with leaving Canada after the 2011 election win by Stephen Harper that gave the Conservatives a majority. He also mused about backing separatism for Quebec while Harper was PM because he didn’t think the country, run by an Alberta MP, was the kind of country he wanted.
“Maybe I would think about wanting to make Quebec a country. Oh yes. Absolutely,” Trudeau said in February 2012.
He couldn’t stand the idea of Stephen Harper running Canada it seems, and he would rather break up the country. Somehow this man became prime minister and then told the New York Times that we had no core identity.
That’s a statement most Canadians would disagree with Trudeau on, at least those who didn’t graduate from school recently under a constant barrage of being told how evil Canada is.
“There are many institutions that we have in this country, including that big building right across the street from us, Parliament … built around a system of colonialism, of discrimination, of systemic racism,” Trudeau said in March of 2021.
This was less than two years after Trudeau said that Canada had committed a genocide against Indigenous people in this country. Based on his recent statements about Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu being accused of genocide, you might think that means Trudeau should face trial at the International Criminal Court of Justice, but as with all things Trudeau, victims experience things differently with him.
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Canadians used to feel pride in their country. New immigrants felt a source of pride in coming to this country and beginning a new life in a country that was a beacon of hope and opportunity.
After nine years of Justin Trudeau leading Canada, that is no longer the case.
Neither those born and raised here nor those who chose to more recently make Canada their home are feeling the pride of country they once did. It isn’t a partisan comment to say that Trudeau bears much of the responsibility for this, it’s a fact when you look at his long record of comments.
He doesn’t see value in this country unless it mirrors his progressive view exactly and increasingly, Canadians are done with Trudeau’s take on the world and Canada.
Perhaps it’s time for him to follow through on his desire, expressed back in 2012, for Trudeau to move to New York, London, Paris or Geneva. He could become unburdened by what has been in Canada, and we could be done with his constant trash talking of this great country.