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Summary
In this episode, I discuss a new piece written by Anthony Koch in the National Post about the role that Conservatives have played in the establishment of multiculturalism and mass immigration in Canada, and how they have helped the left undermine the West.
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there was another op-ed today published in the National Post that I wanted to talk about
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by Anthony Koch. Most of you are probably unfamiliar with Anthony, but he is a kind of
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CPC operative. He was on Poiliev's leadership team. He was the kind of press secretary, I think,
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during the transition. And then he left to work for the Conservative Party of British Columbia.
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He was their communications director during the provincial election. So he's a pretty,
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he's a young guy, but he's a pretty well-established kind of CPC backroom type of guy. And he published
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an article today to the effect of how conservatives helped the left undermine the West. And he goes
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through and he takes a few international examples of failed right-wing parties in France and in
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Germany. But eventually he does get back to Canada. And I thought this was very interesting
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because this kind of represents an institutional CPC or adopting our talking points. Here it is.
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He goes on to explain that Brian Mulroney and Stephen Harper played a role in the kind of
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establishment of multiculturalism and mass immigration. In Canada, the progressive
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conservatives and later the federal conservative party presided over the codification and expansion
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of official multiculturalism, a policy that under successive liberal and conservative governments
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alike transformed national identity into something shared, into something merely managed. Brian
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Mulroney enshrined multiculturalism into the cornerstone of Canadian political consensus,
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Stephen Harper, though more cautious, did little to challenge its assumptions.
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The conservatives spoke of integration, but funded the same bureaucracies of fragmentation.
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Even in opposition, they supported the immigration policies advanced by the liberal government,
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even though when evidence showed integration was faltering and housing, health care and
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And let it be said plainly, this is not a rejection of immigration, blah, blah, blah.
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He starts, he needs to add his pro-immigration cope at the end, or else it wouldn't get published
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and while this is kind of frustrating because the national post ignores my emails and won't
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publish my articles it is a representation of the shifting overton window we see these
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kind of cpc swamp monsters more and more willing to to adopt our idea and share them through
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canada's biggest kind of ostensibly conservative publication this is a massive development even
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in the last couple of months as the conservative party has been more willing to to criticize
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immigration and multiculturalism they haven't been able to to talk about the role that their
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own party has played in it and they have played an important role they're just as responsible for
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this so-called immigration consensus as the opposition as as the liberal party but this
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willingness of these kind of younger kind of conservative new right folks as they're calling
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themselves to grapple with even the role that they've played in multiculturalism is a promising