In this episode, I speak with the President of the Dominion Society, a group dedicated to advocating for the interests of heritage Canadians. We discuss what the group is all about, why it exists, and what it's trying to do.
00:00:00.000When you launched the Dominion Society, it was clear that the group was going to be working and advocating for the interests of heritage Canadians.
00:00:08.280I know that people have asked you this before, but how would you define a heritage Canadian?
00:00:12.780So we live in this age, this very post-national country.
00:00:16.300Justin Trudeau said that back in 2015, and I think it was so offensive, not because he was wrong, but because he was very much right.
00:00:35.360And by definition, a nation is a group of people with a shared history, culture and identity.
00:00:40.560And in Canada's context, we're not a country that's just 200 years old, as a lot of people try and push.
00:00:45.860Our people have been on this continent for hundreds of years.
00:00:48.700Canada was founded by European settlers, specifically the English, French, Scottish and Irish.
00:00:54.280There were later waves of settlers, but it's those four kind of core groups that made up the basis of Canadian identity, and many of which went through an ethnogenesis to form unique ethnic groups that are only found in Canada.
00:01:06.220We see a political landscape where foreign ethnic groups are organized and have outsized influence over our politics.
00:01:12.340There's not that similar home for heritage Canadians.
00:01:14.780So that's what we set out to build with the Dominion Society.
00:01:17.760We're taking a lot of inspiration from the way the left has been organizing, the way that foreign ethnic groups have been organizing.
00:01:23.220we want to build that kind of counterbalance for the true Canadian people.