Talking about Canada "tacking back to the right" in 2019 is somewhat disingenuous when you consider the reality that all the mainstream Canadian political parties have been in lockstep adherence to the Globalist Progressive consensus for many years (yes, even the Conservatives.) Indeed, I would hazard to guess that Canada is the sole country on the planet that has given itself over to the Narrative 100%.
How this came about has much to deal with the eternal struggle among Canadians to define what, exactly constitutes a Canadian identity. There's a somewhat clichéd phrase that I hear that says that Canada, and Canadians, are defined more by what we're
not than what we are.
We're not British.
We're not French.
We're
definitely not Americans.
At least other countries affected by the globalists have recognizable ethnic-majoritarian identities they can fall back on, like the four nations of Britain, or the Swedish, or the Australians. The Americans have (at least, up until now) their "melting pot" and strong assimilationist culture. We have none of that at all.
This lack of unifying ethnic identity is in large part due to the fact that Canada's history is the history of the latent struggle between its English and French-speaking peoples. If the countries of Europe today are divided by ethnicity, and the US historically divided by race, our latent divide is by language. Multiple governments in the past have tried to weld together a unified Canadian identity, only to see each attempt fail repeatedly.
It all changed once Pierre Trudeau came into power in the 70s and decided the best way to disempower the surging Quebec nationalist movement was by a) establishing official Bilingualism and b) instituting multiculturalism as an official government policy to, in effect, render the French-speaking people of Quebec not one of the three founding peoples, but merely one amongst many others.
What this has resulted in is Canada essentially creating an identity for itself as the utopia of Globalist Progressivism, and as the base blueprint for its ideologues to impose upon all the other nations of the world. Our governments now buy into all its essential ideals; feminism, multicultural diversity, gay acceptance, and unfettered social justice warriorism combined with mass immigration, economic financialization and free-trade.
Quote:Quote:
“We know in our bones that Canada was built by people from all corners of the world who worship every faith, who belong to every culture, who speak every language. We believe in our hearts that this country’s unique diversity is a blessing.”
-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in his election victory speech, 19 October 2015
So how does this relate back to the Conservatives?
Simple - the Conservative Party of Canada is a party of neocons through and through.
-Harper actively suppressed social conservatives during his time as PM because of his obsession with making sure that the Liberals could not claim a "hidden agenda" on his part to roll back abortion rights. He undermined any and all attempts by members of the Conservative caucus to introduce or even discuss a law to limit or regulation abortion (of which Canada, unique among Western democracies, has none.) Perhaps the one scrap he did give them was a managed stage-play of allowing a free-vote on repealing gay marriage that he knew he would lose - then declaring the issue permanently settled.
-The Conservatives declared themselves all-in on mass immigration, to the point where they managed to out-do the Liberals in pandering to newcomers (the vast majority of whom are non-European.)
-Conservative foreign policy under Harper was little more than lock-step adherence to the militaristic adventurism of the United States under both Bush and Obama, with a specific blend of blind acceptance of Israeli foreign policy under Benjamin Netanyahu and a willingness to shove gay acceptance down the throats of non-Western nations. Had Harper been in power in 2003, we would have found ourselves deep in the quagmire of Iraq. As it were, he was happy to limit himself to Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria/Iraq 2.0.
I seriously considered not voting last election because, quite frankly, the power of the Narrative in this country means that there's little real difference between the two parties. Consider what interim leader Rona Ambrose has to say about Donald Trump:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/...brose.html