YNET – A group of over 100 Canadian politicians and business leaders from Ontario arrive in Israel to strengthen the Israel-Canada relationship. The Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario, Kathleen Wynne, arrived in Israel at the head of a delegation of over 100 Canadian politicians and business leaders on Sunday.
I lived in Canada for 16 years. I knew Canadians as super-sensitive on racial issues. Indeed, any hint of “intolerance” — Canadian code for racism — would get you fired from your (probable) government job. Yet Canadian politicians kowtow to the apartheid state of Israel all the time.
I am a Canadian and can attest that the biggest slurs to be tossed at one include: racist, anti semitic and homophobe. No one actually knows the definitions of these words really. To say something about a transgender is translated into homophobe…. totally different situations melted under the same cultural Marxist “melting pot”.
When I grew up in Toronto in the 1950’s there were “areas” where people chose to live amongst their own kind but then they usually worked elsewhere in the city where everyone spoke English. There was the Hungarian area, the Polish area, the Portuguese, Hungarian, Jewish, Italian, Greek, West Indian areas. There was a “little India” grew up in later years. And three Chinese areas. A common bank sign would boast that one could be served in up to 90 languages of one’s choice. That is how I lived. Everyone was satisfied that they could walk down their street and greet their old Babushkas in their mother tongue and enjoy the smells of good home cooking that was familiar to them. The city was safe and very clean, “Toronto the good”.
NO ONE SPOKE OF RACE. It wasn’t an issue. As in Kensington Market, Over the decades it was inhabited by various populations of immigrants who started there then moved up and out only to be replaced by another culture. But then, these were primarily European cultures with something in common ~ Christianity. (Except for the Jews of course)
Most people had a sense of humour and accepted the status quo. All in all, I suppose Toronto was a model for “integration”.
Then things changed and immigration began to bring in many more third worlders. I saw some pristine areas where they were congregated deteriorate. Within years an entire set of apartment complexes became disgustingly littered, messy, unkempt over the years. These folks would come and they did not share Western values of respect for their surroundings. I watched this immigration take place over the years. Now many of these people, including a family I was involved with, they integrated fully into Canadian life and moved out into new homes as quickly as possible and done beautifully here in our country. But they are the minority. And they do not mix with other races in matters of the flesh.
I left Toronto in a case of what is now known as “white flight” 35 years ago… not knowing that is what it was to be. But clearly it was because I wanted to raise my babies in an environment I understood and was comfortable in. Someone once said to me … in a derogatory tone… “Well you raised them White”….. as if it was a bad thing! If one does not speak GLOWINGLY of racial integration in Canada now, now matter what the mix, you are racist. Sorta like, if you even QUESTION a transgender’s right to paid surgeries over someone’s need for hip surgery, you are a homophobe.
Canadians are Communist and haven’t got a clue ….. Trudeau was never supposed to be any more hopey changey than Obama was. He rode in on the immigration/gender dysphoria/marijuana vote.