Dominion Society of Canada - August 15, 2025


We know what a Canadian is


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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

217.89194

Word count

246

Sentence count

18

Harmful content

Hate speech

2

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Summary

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What is a Canadian? What does it mean to be a Canadian, and why do we have a nationalism that is not based on bloodlines? What is it about nationalism that makes us proud to live here and stand up for our ancestors and their descendants?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 My question is, how, because as you said, every minority in this country seems to have some kind
00:00:05.500 of an activist group that is lobbying on their behalf. But then you said real Canadians don't 0.98
00:00:11.480 seem to have that. You said real Canadians. What does that mean? Old stock, as Stephen Harper put
00:00:16.000 it once? Yeah, I think old stock's a good way to put it. I usually use heritage Canadians.
00:00:20.020 Right. But these people that have lived here generationally, the people that are the descendants
00:00:24.120 of the people that settled these lands. That's who I mean when I'm talking about heritage Canadians.
00:00:28.420 Yes, there is an ethnic component to what a Canadian is.
00:00:32.140 Now, Pierre Polyev is going around the country saying anyone from anywhere can come here and we have a nationalism that's not about bloodlines and all these things.
00:00:40.300 But it's just not historically accurate.
00:00:42.120 It's just pandering to try and win votes in certain regions around the big cities and stuff, seats that they know they need to win.
00:00:48.460 But it's not historically accurate and it doesn't resonate with people.
00:00:51.600 So we're going to pump the brakes.
00:00:53.660 We're going to point out, no, we know what a Canadian is. 0.92
00:00:55.960 A Canadian's just not someone who hasn't moved here yet from India.
00:00:59.660 Like, that's just not what a Canadian is to me.
00:01:01.660 My family has generations in this country,
00:01:04.460 and we're proud to stand up for our ancestors and for our descendants.