Dominion Society of Canada - September 05, 2026


The Death of Canadian Multiculturalism & the Rise of True Nationalism ｜ Fortissax at DOMCON26


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00:00:00.000 Our next speaker was born and raised
00:00:03.300 in the cradle of Canadian industry and production,
00:00:06.060 the heart of Canada's industrial revolution,
00:00:08.540 in the borough of Lachine, Montreal,
00:00:10.880 red-pilled by life, a collective experience.
00:00:13.800 By watching the breakdown of Pierre Trudeau's cultural mosaic
00:00:16.640 in the early 2000s with his own eyes,
00:00:19.240 self-segregation of different ethnic groups in the lunchroom,
00:00:22.200 foreign languages being cast up and down the hallways,
00:00:24.920 and the feeling of alienation in the place that he calls home.
00:00:28.440 Inspired by the spirit of his ancestors,
00:00:30.480 our next speaker is dedicated to bringing a sense
00:00:32.820 of national consciousness and identitarian pride
00:00:35.660 back into the hearts and minds of the Canadian people.
00:00:38.260 Please give a warm welcome to Fortisax.
00:00:58.440 Chairman Tyree, Ken Jones, Dimes, Matt, Crystal and everyone else who put in the work to making this possible, I want to thank you.
00:01:14.440 But above all, I want to thank the members who actually made it here.
00:01:19.440 Because the members are the bravest people in this room.
00:01:23.440 You were among the first Canadians in three generations to develop ideas that are heretical to Liberal Canada.
00:01:30.320 And you did that knowing exactly what happens when someone begins questioning assumptions that our institutions have spent decades declaring beyond discussion.
00:01:40.040 And after everything that has happened over the last few days, you still showed up.
00:01:44.740 Hamilton police publicly acknowledged that the Dominion Society was searching for a venue.
00:01:49.360 They acknowledged that an earlier booking had already been cancelled.
00:01:52.420 They encouraged other venues to consider the effect our presence and our message
00:01:56.440 might have on the community. And then they asked members of the public with
00:02:00.280 information about a possible August 28th booking to contact police. There was no
00:02:05.680 finding in that statement that this conference was illegal. There was no
00:02:09.760 criminal charge against this gathering. The stated objection was that the message
00:02:16.000 associated with the Dominion Society was divisive and exclusionary. The mayor had
00:02:21.700 already made it clear that the city property would not be made available and
00:02:24.820 had involved themselves in whether private businesses should host us. Martin
00:02:28.840 Sellner was unable to enter the country after his electronic travel
00:02:32.380 authorization was not granted on time. Lawyers funded by the Justice Center of
00:02:37.000 Constitutional Freedoms subsequently sent a legal warning to both the city and
00:02:41.320 Hamilton police over their efforts surrounding this conference and yet here
00:02:56.380 we are and there is something deeply Canadian about that. A spirit is rising.
00:03:06.220 It is the spirit of the St. Lawrence River, a spirit of ancient stone, creeping red moss,
00:03:18.640 cold waters and frigid winters.
00:03:21.880 It is the spirit of the Fils du Roi, the soldiers of the Carignan Saliar, the loyalists and
00:03:27.720 the confederation stock.
00:03:30.340 For the first time in three generations since the end of the Diefenbaker period and the
00:03:34.520 the beginning of the Cultural Revolution unleashed by Blyster Pearson in 1963,
00:03:39.520 true Canadian nationalism has returned.
00:03:55.520 Sixty-three years, three generations,
00:03:59.520 And for most of our lives we were taught to assume that the argument had already been
00:04:03.640 settled.
00:04:05.040 The old Canada was gone.
00:04:07.400 History had rendered its judgment.
00:04:10.400 Our only remaining responsibility was to administer whatever came afterward.
00:04:16.040 We reject that judgment.
00:04:19.600 The transformation did not begin with Justin Trudeau.
00:04:23.160 It did not even begin with Pierre Trudeau.
00:04:26.220 Its machinery was built earlier.
00:04:29.140 The Second World War created an enormous federal bureaucracy in Ottawa.
00:04:34.340 Men such as C.D. Howe had demonstrated what a centralized administrative state could accomplish
00:04:39.920 with its coordinated industry, capital, labor and production on a national scale.
00:04:46.160 And at the same time, Canada was being drawn more tightly into continental economic and
00:04:51.400 defense systems centered on the United States.
00:04:55.160 The Ogdensburg Agreement and Hyde Park Declaration integrated Canadian defence and industrial
00:05:00.280 production increasingly closely with Franklin Roosevelt's American project.
00:05:06.400 The war ended, the machinery remained, and what followed was the construction of the
00:05:11.800 Canadian post-war consensus.
00:05:14.980 The enemy.
00:05:18.060 That wartime bureaucracy hardened into a managerial state.
00:05:22.140 continentalism deepened. Political power became increasingly concentrated in
00:05:26.580 institutions whose conception of Canada was moving further and further away from
00:05:30.460 the country that had created them. And the transformation was gradual and that
00:05:36.360 is precisely why it succeeded. In 1947 Mackenzie King's government announced a
00:05:43.640 major immigration policy. Jack Pickersgill then gave one of Mackenzie King's
00:05:48.540 closest advisors, was deeply involved in drafting and redrafting the statement.
00:05:54.300 The Canada of that period could still openly say that immigration policy should preserve
00:05:58.800 the existing character of the Canadian population, and that assumption would steadily disappear.
00:06:06.980 Within the federal bureaucracy, another language was already emerging.
00:06:11.420 A year later, in 1948, senior civil servant Hugh Keenleyside described Canada as a nation
00:06:17.220 of immigrants. And today that phrase sounds completely ordinary, but it wasn't ordinary
00:06:24.220 then. Canada had understood itself as a historical nation settled by settlers and colonists
00:06:32.220 and pioneers that had received immigrants, were not defined by immigrants. And that
00:06:38.540 conceptual reversal matters. Bakersgill would later become the Minister of Citizenship
00:06:43.820 immigration and it would become an important figure in expanding that
00:06:47.240 federal machinery but the decisive political moment comes in 1963 Lester
00:06:54.920 Pearson takes office for us 1963 is year zero the beginning of the political
00:07:03.940 order that would ultimately attempt to replace the historic Canada was
00:07:06.900 something else and perhaps nothing symbolizes that rupture more clearly
00:07:11.580 than the flag the Canadian red ensign represented our continuity it flew from
00:07:24.460 federal buildings Canadians fought bled and died beneath its symbols and at its
00:07:30.720 center was the Canadian coat of arms the arms of Canada represented a Canadian
00:07:37.080 people. English, Scottish, Irish and French. The historic peoples from whom
00:07:45.180 Canada had emerged. Pearson wanted that historical symbolism removed. On May 17th
00:07:53.340 of 1964 he went before the Royal Canadian Legion convention in Winnipeg
00:07:57.660 and he told thousands of Canadian veterans that the country needed a new
00:08:01.440 flag centered upon the maple leaf he spoke of the new canada and the veterans booed him
00:08:08.640 and they hissed at him and they heckled him these were men who had actually fought
00:08:13.440 bled and died for canada and many had crossed the atlantic beneath the symbols pearson now wanted
00:08:19.040 removed because the flag change in canadian history was not some spontaneous moment when
00:08:25.680 the Canadian people unanimously decided to discard an obsolete relic. The country was bitterly divided.
00:08:34.800 John Diefenbaker fought that change relentlessly.
00:08:40.720 He demanded that the historical symbols of Canada remain represented.
00:08:44.880 He supported putting the question directly to the Canadian people through a plebiscite.
00:08:49.200 The parliamentary argument continued for months. Hundreds of speeches were delivered.
00:08:53.520 eventually the Pearson government invoked a closure and terminated the debate
00:08:57.900 only then did the house vote the new flag passed 163 votes to 78 and it was legally enacted through
00:09:07.460 parliament but it was forced through against fierce opposition from a substantial part of
00:09:14.200 historical Canada Pearson's own language tells us when the change represented the new Canada
00:09:19.520 Canada.
00:09:20.520 The phrase contains an entire revolution in and of itself, because the flag was the only
00:09:24.760 visible symbol.
00:09:26.520 The deeper transformation was happening elsewhere.
00:09:29.520 The Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism begins on that same year of 1963.
00:09:34.300 Its very premise acknowledged something that the present political order increasingly
00:09:37.520 struggles even to articulate.
00:09:43.880 Canada contained two founding people, British and French.
00:09:50.880 French Canada was experiencing the Quiet Revolution, Quebec demanding recognition.
00:09:56.920 The constitutional relationship between Anglo and French Canada required a new settlement.
00:10:02.140 The Commission's mandate explicitly spoke of an equal partnership between the two founding
00:10:05.440 peoples.
00:10:08.700 Formal bilingualism and biculturalism that did not exist, if not informally.
00:10:13.500 that moment would produce a new confederation. Some might even say an
00:10:17.200 angevin empire. Instead that foundation was discarded. The flag changes in 65.
00:10:29.620 Immigration policy continues to liberalize. The universal point system
00:10:33.960 arrives in 1967. Official bilingualism follows in 1969 while the potential of a
00:10:39.540 truly angevin Canada, a union of British and French inheritance, is tossed aside
00:10:43.440 side. And then comes betrayal. French Canadians had demanded recognition as a founding people.
00:10:50.080 The Royal Commission had been created around biculturalism, but within eight years, biculturalism
00:10:53.900 was dead. In 1971, Pierre Trudeau announces official multiculturalism. Conservative Senator
00:11:02.020 Paul Youssef and advocates of the so-called Third Force had already argued that British
00:11:06.420 and French biculturalism gave insufficient recognition to other communities. The Trudeau
00:11:11.100 government accepted the underlying argument. British and French Canada ceased to form the
00:11:15.740 cultural foundation of the state and they had become linguistic categories under something
00:11:20.220 far larger. The two founding people became two official language communities that existed
00:11:25.440 inside a multicultural state. We are not here to celebrate diversity. We are not here to
00:11:32.400 celebrate pluralism. We are not asking for the liberal state to manage multiculturalism
00:11:39.120 more competently. Unlike the Conservatives, whose idea of conservation has largely meant
00:11:45.360 preserving Pierre Trudeau's liberal settlement and failing even at that, we have no nostalgia
00:11:49.900 for a slightly more restrained version of the same system.
00:12:07.260 Our position is that the political and cultural order constructed after 1963 represents a
00:12:12.360 rupture in the legitimate and historic Canada.
00:12:15.800 The Canada that we recognize as the country that understood itself as the political expression
00:12:20.320 of British and French civilization in North America.
00:12:25.320 An old world culture in the new world.
00:12:27.800 The most European countries outside of Europe.
00:12:32.660 And the crossroads between the British and French worlds.
00:12:35.760 a country created by particular peoples, a country possessing an inheritance, a country
00:12:41.860 whose institutions emerged from history, and a country that existed before the Charter
00:12:46.520 of Rights and Freedoms.
00:12:52.560 The Canadian Multiculturalism Act then follows in 1988.
00:12:56.420 The immigration system becomes progressively more global.
00:12:59.500 The demographic constraints previous governments had had considered normal disappeared.
00:13:04.600 And under governments of both major parties, mass immigration became embedded inside our
00:13:07.940 economic model.
00:13:09.600 And then came the 90s, the quiet acceleration, and then the 2000s.
00:13:14.220 Temporary migration expands, universities increasingly become immigration pipelines,
00:13:19.180 labor policy becomes population policy, housing policy becomes inseparable from immigration
00:13:24.260 policy, and then comes Justin Trudeau.
00:13:29.180 And the scale exploded.
00:13:32.380 But Justin Trudeau did not create the system.
00:13:38.340 He accelerated it, he vulgarized it, he removed whatever lingering caution remained, but he
00:13:45.040 did not invent that ideological order.
00:13:49.960 The order is older than he is.
00:13:53.660 Call it by its name, the postwar consensus, the managerial state, continental economic
00:14:01.520 integration the Pearson revolution official multiculturalism and through
00:14:08.920 every stage Canadians were told that that represented progress the old flag
00:14:13.520 was backward the old nationality exclusionary the founding peoples
00:14:18.560 obsolete the old institutions colonial the old history was embarrassing the
00:14:25.360 old conception of Canada had to disappear so that a new Canada could
00:14:28.400 emerge. We reject every part of that judgment.
00:14:50.560 Canadian nationalism begins with a simple premise. Canada is a people, not a proposition.
00:14:57.560 it is more than an economy it is more than a gdp more than the charter more than a labor market
00:15:12.540 more than a collection of individuals temporarily occupying the same territory more than a
00:15:17.700 collection of government programs more than a geographic area north of the 49th parallel
00:15:21.960 A nation exists through inheritance, through memory, language, loyalty,
00:15:28.440 institutions, landscape, ancestry, sacrifice, through continuity between the
00:15:34.260 dead and the living and those yet still to come. Canada did not fall out of the
00:15:38.100 sky in 1982 with the patriation of the Constitution and Pierre Trudeau. We have
00:15:43.620 ancestors.
00:16:01.620 Canada has graves, it has battlefields, it has churches, it has parishes, it has townships
00:16:08.520 and farms, factories and ports, railways and regiments, it has neighbourhoods of families
00:16:16.340 whose histories stretch back for centuries.
00:16:21.480 We are the sons and daughters of the Fide du Roi, the sons and daughters of the Carignan
00:16:26.140 Saliar Regiment, the sons and daughters of the Loyalists, the sons and daughters of the
00:16:31.280 Confederation stock.
00:16:33.620 We inherit new France and British North America.
00:16:36.740 We inherit the habitants and the voyageurs.
00:16:40.040 We inherit the signories and the loyalist townships.
00:16:43.240 We inherit French parishes and British regiments.
00:16:46.320 We inherit the Scots who built our banks and railways.
00:16:49.520 The Irish who built our canals and cities.
00:16:52.360 The French Canadians who preserved their civilization through conquest, war, industrialization,
00:16:57.780 and enormous pressure to assimilate.
00:17:00.180 We inherit English Canada who built institutions across the continent.
00:17:05.580 India itself has a family tree, it has a genealogy, a nation has ancestors, it has a memory,
00:17:13.780 it has particular places and particular institutions.
00:17:17.960 A nation possesses historical continuity that cannot simply be manufactured anywhere else.
00:17:24.260 And that is why our position remains the position we recognize and our old Prime Minister Robert
00:17:30.200 Borden.
00:17:32.620 We wish to see this country remain British and French, and preserve the best elements
00:17:37.220 of both.
00:17:51.220 Borden said in the House of Commons on March 22nd, 1905, any man who has not some feeling
00:17:57.620 of pride in his ancestry who does not honour the traditions of the people of which he sprung
00:18:03.060 cannot be a good Canadian and it is well for the future of this country and it is well for the
00:18:08.100 future of our people as a whole that there should be in the two great races which dominate this
00:18:12.720 country a feeling on either side of attachment to language and the pride of nation.
00:18:27.620 Two days ago something funny happened, a 15-second video that I had posted on X, 15 seconds,
00:18:39.220 clean streets, order, national pride, innovation, confidence, heritage, ingenuity, Canada.
00:18:50.320 And somehow those 15 seconds sparked a national conversation, thousands of people cheered,
00:18:57.400 were desperate to see a positive vision of Canada. A beautiful country. A confident country.
00:19:04.380 A country that was safe, orderly, prosperous, technologically advanced, and proud of itself.
00:19:10.860 And other people absolutely hated it. Why? There was nothing radical about those images.
00:19:21.340 And that's precisely what made that reaction so revealing. Because the implication disturbed them.
00:19:27.400 The implication was that Canada once possessed a particular character worth preserving
00:19:31.280 and that our ancestors had built something meaningful
00:19:33.820 and that they had done things correctly.
00:19:38.800 A Canadian history before the present day was something more than a catalogue of sins
00:19:42.520 demanding permanent apology.
00:19:48.120 People still need belonging.
00:19:50.260 They still need history.
00:19:51.800 They still want somewhere that feels like home.
00:19:54.640 And our generation is beginning to understand that the supposedly permanent settlement of the 20th century was never permanent.
00:20:00.440 We grew up hearing the story that that history had ended.
00:20:03.800 The great ideological conflicts were defeated.
00:20:06.920 Fascism was defeated.
00:20:07.960 Communism was defeated.
00:20:09.640 Civil rights had been secured.
00:20:11.060 Feminism had triumphed.
00:20:11.980 Liberal democracy and global capitalism had won.
00:20:15.160 And the struggle of our generation would apparently be boredom.
00:20:18.700 The NUE of the last man, a 9-to-5 office job,
00:20:22.520 a detached suburban house, a wife and kids, a stable pension.
00:20:29.220 Infinite consumer choice.
00:20:32.220 A lifetime spent pursuing private happiness inside permanent material abundance until death.
00:20:38.440 But then housing became increasingly unreachable.
00:20:42.600 Family formation became more difficult.
00:20:45.780 Birth rates collapsed.
00:20:47.640 The global economy became unstable.
00:20:51.200 National sovereignty weakened, geopolitics returned.
00:20:56.400 Whether the Canadian people who inherited this country will remain sufficiently coherent to hand a recognizable country to their descendants remains yet to be seen.
00:21:04.800 But that struggle touches every level of national life.
00:21:08.260 Political, economic, cultural, spiritual.
00:21:11.520 Ken pointed out earlier, the spiritual aspect of that.
00:21:14.700 And that's why our position in the Dominion Society on immigration goes beyond next year's intake.
00:21:23.700 Our position is that re-migration is necessary, and we use that word deliberately.
00:21:29.700 The Dominion Society has published an actual program under that name, a moratorium on permanent immigration,
00:21:35.700 the abolition of the temporary foreign workers program, an international mobility program,
00:21:40.700 Voluntary repatriation, the removal of people who no longer possess a lawful basis to remain
00:21:45.320 in Canada, a reconsideration of citizenship law, the repeal of the Canadian Multiculturalism
00:21:50.660 Act. People can attack those proposals. They may attack the Dominion Society. They may
00:21:55.480 attack us, we expect them to.
00:22:11.200 But what we reject is the claim that the underlying question itself is forbidden.
00:22:16.100 What happens when immigration has already occurred at levels of historical population
00:22:19.620 believes are excessive?
00:22:23.380 What happens when governments alter the demographic character of a country without ever securing
00:22:26.960 explicit demographic consent for the scale of that transformation?
00:22:31.760 What obligation do Canadians have towards generations not yet born?
00:22:35.620 Well, those are political questions, national questions, and they're going to be asked.
00:22:42.720 Hamilton police cannot make those questions disappear.
00:22:46.180 A mayor cannot make them disappear.
00:22:48.660 A newspaper cannot make them disappear.
00:22:50.900 a university, a bureaucracy, and calling the people who ask them names will not make them
00:22:55.300 disappear.
00:22:56.780 The Canadian people have every right to ask what happens to Canada.
00:23:14.780 Martin Sellner spoke a lot about continuity.
00:23:18.160 We want French Canadians to remain French Canadian.
00:23:21.300 We want Anglo-Canada to remember that it exists.
00:23:25.080 We want our descendants to inherit more than real estate surrounded by Canadian branding
00:23:29.380 and a post-national economic zone built on stolen land named Turtle Island.
00:23:42.920 We want them to inherit a nation, a country that they can recognize, a history that they
00:23:49.420 can understand and a people to whom they belong, a future in which their own continuity is
00:23:54.500 regarded as something good, something noble.
00:24:00.020 And that brings us back to the people in this room.
00:24:04.120 We come here in spirit that we associate with Isaac Brock.
00:24:08.860 We could never ask other people to stand somewhere that we would refuse to stand ourselves.
00:24:13.420 And that is why we are here, and that's why all of you being here matters.
00:24:18.620 The post-war order has roughly had three generations to tell Canadians that the old country was
00:24:22.820 dead, and three generations to tell a history that moved beyond it, and three generations
00:24:27.380 to tell us that attachment to ancestry was embarrassing, and that national particularity
00:24:32.380 was suspicious and that the founding peoples were merely categories and a consensus.
00:24:38.920 That demographic transformation was simply the price of admission to modernity in the
00:24:42.900 minds of those people, that there was no alternative.
00:24:46.500 And after 63 years, we're still here.
00:24:49.680 The St. Lawrence River still flows, Quebec is still Quebec, the French parishes stand
00:24:56.040 tall, the churches stand tall, the regiments stand tall, the monuments stand tall, the
00:25:01.160 The old neighbourhoods are still there, the old family names are still visible, and the
00:25:05.640 memory is still there, and most importantly, the Canadian people are still here.
00:25:11.580 But like an ancient hero has promised in the old legends, Canadian nationalism has returned.
00:25:31.060 Canada now, Canada forever.
00:25:34.060 Thank you.