Is Canada really a ＂cultural mosaic＂？
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Summary
A country needs a cohesive culture and identity for everyone to rally around. We need shared values, shared aspirations, shared experiences, and all of these things are derivative of shared roots. Canada was founded as a home for the Canadian people, built by settlers and explorers for their descendants.
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This term is often used to describe Canada's identity.
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It's a key way smug intellectuals differentiate Canada from the United States.
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But does this actually describe Canada's historic identity?
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This term was popularized in the 70s during the post-national cultural revolution of Pierre
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It did not describe what was, but rather what they wanted to transform Canada into.
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Canada was not founded as some sort of post-national multicultural economic zone like modern
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Canada was founded as a home for the Canadian people, built by settlers and explorers for
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their descendants. In 1867, upon Confederation, 97% of the population was of Anglo, English,
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Scottish, Irish, or French descent. 80% of that population was born right here,
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direct descendants of those earliest settlers. By 1971, around the time the elites began to
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astroturf the concept of multiculturalism and the cultural mosaic, Canada was 96% European
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and 73% Anglo-French. Canada was not founded as a multicultural society, but rather a bicultural
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one. This is a proud heritage that makes us unique on the global stage, something we should be proud
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of and embrace fully. The reality is that the term cultural mosaic was naively aspirational,
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not descriptive. The unrealistic dream of post-national Marxists desperate to deconstruct
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Canada's colonial identity. A country needs a cohesive culture and identity for everyone to
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rally around. We need shared values, shared aspirations, shared experiences, and all of
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these things are derivative of shared roots. Diversity and multiculturalism are completely
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dysfunctional. And this is only becoming more obvious as more and more people are imported
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from countries that are culturally, religiously, linguistically, and ethnically distant from
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Canada. Trudeau's multicultural revolution was a mistake. We must reverse the transformation
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of our society and reject lies like the cultural mosaic. Long live Canada.