Editorial

Canada in degeneration

The maxim of secularists, human rightists, unionists and feminists that Christians have no business in the affairs of the nation, has been carried into effect with deadly efficiency. Their simultaneous assault on our educational system, our judiciary, our morality, our political institutions, our traditional values and the Christian faith, has produced and witnessed the result of such relentless attack: the gradual disintegration of our Judeo-Christian values upon which Canada was founded. We have witnessed the sexualization of our school curricula, the Liberal achievement of no-fault divorce, abortion on demand, the loss of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom of association, particularly in our universities and our human-rightist regulated and controlled environment, the creation of special rights and privileges for various special-interest groups resulting in a two-tiered Canada, one law for members of such special interest groups and another law for members of the silent majority. It is a pattern that has become tragically prevalent on university campuses: From the cancellation of a speech by Ann Coulter at the University of Ottawa in March this year, to the riot by activist Muslims at the Concordia University in 2002, to cancellation by York University of an event in support of Canadian Values for fear of leftist and Muslim violence, termination of functions on a number of campuses of conservative American speakers, and the display of violence and threats against pro-life booths. Canadian campuses including both professors and activist students have become the most intolerant of all microcosms of our communities across this land. The elitist human rightists have become the dominant assassins of our Constitutional rights and the principal grantors of special rights to members of special interest groups, while denying the silent majority basic rights such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, due process, and equality before and under the law. We have provincial and federal tribunals/commissions with a total budget of about $200-million, the function of which is to act as Spanish inquisition tribunals or commonly known as the “kangaroo courts”. The accused have no right to due process or legal aid or evidential protection, while the complainants have all those rights and more. The historical human right is to protect individuals from the state. With the “kangaroo court”, the state with its power and unlimited resources is interfering in the conduct, speech, mind and emotions of the individuals, no matter how trivial the complaints are.  A telling case is the complaint of a lesbian customer of a comedy club in BC who invokes the wrath of the BC “Human Rights” commission against a comedian and the club owner, alleging that she was offended by the comedian’s joke about lesbians. However, the comedian countered that the joke was in response to obnoxious heckling from the complainant and her comrades. The triviality of this case does make one think twice about the arrival of Orwell’s “1984” in Canada. What about the owner of a fitness club in St. Catharine, Ontario who was taken before the Ontario “kangaroo court” by a prospective member who claimed the right to use the club’s women’s locker room before “gender reassignment” surgery? The utter absence of common sense in this complaint is to say the least, distressing. The case was later dropped. There was no apology, no compensation, no redress and no sense of fairness in the total deprivation of traditional Canadian values. The running amok of special interest groups’ regulatory and authoritarian despotism is painfully and devastatingly evident in Ontario. What happened to the human rights, property rights and Charter rights of the citizens in Caledonia, Ontario, who have endured years of unlawful blockade and siege, indignity and loss of legal and Constitutional rights arising from the local aboriginal gangs, while being shamelessly abandoned by the Ontario government? No wonder that some of us are wondering whether we are living in a quasi-Marxist mist where the “elites” govern and the rest of us are subjugated untouchables. The silent majority have watched Canada acquiesce to the dictatorial high-handedness of unionists, aboriginals, feminists and political correctists, Canada’s appeasement of vocal special interest groups, including polygamists, drug addicts and various abnormal sexual practitioners, propel our country into a rudderless society the direction of which depends on the commands of these anything-goes special interest groups. On their agenda are the legalization of euthanasia, abortion at any time with government assistance, teaching of relativism, sexualization of education, soft on crime and drugs, unsustainable health care, “safe injection” sites, new reproductive technologies, all abnormal and unnatural sexual practices, environmentalism, severe restriction of Christians from the public square, unrestricted immigration, unlimited multiculturalism and religionalization and promotion of secularism, humanism and atheism. These special interest groups consider that the biggest obstacle to achieving their goals is Christianity. Their first step to implement their agenda is to exclude Christians from having a voice by expounding the specious doctrine of “separation of church and state” knowing full well that there is no such thing as “separation of church and state” here in Canada. Even in the United States, it only means that the State cannot establish a state religion. The basic principles of democracy in the Western world are liberty and equality. Therefore, giving privilege to some groups of citizens or to one religion is inconsistent with those principles. There must be freedom of religion not freedom from religion. It has been argued that politicians must act in accordance with the wishes of their constituents. This is only partly true. A politician with conscience and principles would try his/her utmost to lead the voters along a principled path. In the event, the path chosen by the voters becomes inconsistent with a politician’s principle; the correct approach is to resign rather than acting as a soulless-mouthpiece-robot of the voters. Apart from being inflicted with schizophrenia, it would be extremely difficult if not impossible for a politician to split his id (the bad side of his personality) or ego (his independent mind so to speak) from his superego (the good influence). In other words, a personality is a personality with both the good and the bad sides intermingled and merged into one. If a politician with a healthy mind is a genuine Christian, he or she will not or should not or ought not to believe in one thing and at the same time act contrary to his/her faith (e.g. vote for “same-sex marriage”). To do so is nothing more than hypocritical. As a matter of fact, the morality of religion plays an important part in the public square as well as in all human endeavours, because it helps to enable the social-ethical-values issues being driven into a moral focus without which the moral fabric of our country will eventually and completely collapse and disintegrate similar to the Roman Empire. Further examples of Canada-in-degeneration abound: in 1985 Air India bombing case which cost hundreds of passengers’ lives because of RCMP and CSIS’ ridiculous failure to prevent such tragedy which could have been prevented, the Dziekanski case exposed lies of RCMP officers in their attempts to conceal the truth which has earned RCMP the name of a police force in denial, Gordon Compbell’s Liberal government in B.C. has achieved the notoriety of being an incorrigible liar in (among other things) the enactment of HST. (B.C. Independent MLA Vicky Huntington poignantly said, about HST, “Scariest of all, it was built on economic pixie dust – the vague, long-term promise of trickle-down prosperity. Eventually our happy and prosperous industries will gleefully share their future largesse with consumer. Well, as the old saying goes, rub a lamp.”), and the BC Campbell government’s reckless expansion of gambling through lies and deceit. It is a disturbing and pathetic spectacle of a politician hoist with his own petard, and not to be outdone, BC’s Children and Family Development under Minister Mary Polak has exhibited countless lawlessness, scandals, bungling and floundering in causing tragedy to the Baynes (interested readers could access materials on the Baynes on our website). Over 70% of B.C. residents oppose the HST but at the same time, they still remember vividly the “Ten Year Disaster” under the previous NDP government. So BC residents have to steer their ship through the sludge between the Scylla of Pinocchio (the legendary liar) and the Charybdis of disaster. How sad. What it takes to rescue Canada is the regeneration of traditional values: moral fibre, ethics, faith, fairness, integrity, freedom of speech, religion and association, judicial decency and intolerance of crime and drugs, the concept of small government, low taxes and as little state interference as possible. We desperately need genuine conservative majority governments, both federally and provincially if Canada is to be salvaged. As President Ronald Reagan famously said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” Substitute Canada for United States, the above quote becomes profoundly relevant and soul-searching.