Our MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION.

Today is Sunday, a day of reflection. It is also July 2nd, the day after Canada Day. If you celebrated it, did you think about what it is about Canada that was worthy of celebration?

HOW WOULD YOUR LIFE BE DIFFERENT if Canada’s governments were 10% smaller in size, cost and scope of authority than today? How about 25% smaller? 50% smaller?

A friend says he celebrates his “country” on Canada. I asked him to define “country”.

My idea of “country” is likely very different than his. To me, our notions of “country” has been so heavily shaped and manipulated by politicians, public officials and legacy media that I no longer know what it might have become if the influence of those political centres of power had not become so dominant during my lifetime, especially in recent years.

In addition, if the largest city in Canada chooses Olivia Chow as its mayor (?!), that outcome tells me that many of my so-called “fellow Canadians” have a very different vision for the role of government that I? Can you blame me for my disappointment?

WHEN is TOO MUCH enough?

I have run in nine elections (as a Libertarian candidate) NOT TO GET ELECTED, but to offer the LESS GOVERNMENT option on the voters’ ballot in every election. By doing so, it is my hope that at least some voters will think about what life would be like if lower & fewer taxes and rules defined life in their “country”.

Each Canadian possesses an imagination. We dream of a better life for ourselves and our loved ones. Can anyone really claim to dream for the same thing for 40 million Canadians they have never met? Is a nation-wide, group love-in the message that Canada Day officials wish to convey about our citizens? Is it true? Do you love those 40 million strangers as much as your family, friends and colleagues?

A time for serious reflection.

Why not make Canada’s Day a time for serious reflection about what “country” means to you rather than buy into the official narrative that tens of millions of us are peacefully sharing a vast tract of land and are doing so while working, living and playing together under a common set of values and social governance.

I have witnessed growing divisiveness and “tribalism” between diverse groups of Canadians who hold different views about race, gender, faith & morality, political ideology, victimhood & social justice, wealth gaps and much more. All of this has occurred while people way their Canadian flag and sing ‘Oh Canada’.

I wonder how many citizens lost their sense of national pride after witnessing the treatment of Canadian truckers by federal, provincial and municipal thugs in Ottawa last year?

Who can forget the horse-mounted policemen who trampled innocent citizens - people simply exercising their constitutional rights to protest an undemocratic public policy?

I won’t forget.

To me, Canada Day is annual theatre full of propaganda which is used by the feds to attempt to white wash their sins. Those elites don’t seek atonement. Instead, they simply contrive a big, national party to lull us into compliance with their next wave of authoritarian edicts (aka Acts of Parliament).

The picture below is my reminder of what Canadians get when they vote to assign too much power and authority to governments. Think about it and stop it before it gets much worse!