Unify Action - He WARNED Us… Canada’s Founders Saw This Coming

00:00:00.000 in an increasingly dangerous and divided world where have i heard that one

00:00:04.800 oh that sounds like every press release from our current government in canada these days

00:00:10.880 but they're actually admitting something really important there that i know that they're talking

00:00:15.840 about the entire world and of course they're trying to portray it as donald trump bad orange

00:00:20.800 man bad but they're actually talking about this country too when they say in an increasingly

00:00:26.560 dangerous and divided world. They're admitting something very important here, that we don't have

00:00:32.320 a unified vision, we don't have shared values in this country. And I know a lot of people are going

00:00:36.640 to come at me for that. I've said this actually quite a few times now, that we don't have a shared

00:00:41.400 purpose in this country. And this is something that's really been bugging me for quite a long

00:00:46.860 time, that we don't have this common goal and this common culture in Canada. And I've been actually

00:00:52.940 doing quite a lot of research on this. And this is something that the whole team and I are on a

00:00:57.900 journey here. We're trying to figure out what is Canada's culture and what should we be. And we

00:01:04.120 come across something really interesting. And the whole idea of what is Canada's culture, who we are

00:01:09.660 as a country, that has actually been a problem for a really long time. Like, as soon as we were

00:01:15.560 found and we had this problem. And I can prove it. All right. And shout out to my editor for

00:01:23.120 coming up with this. But in my hands right now, I have a very old book. This here was not only

00:01:30.540 written, but also printed in about the 1890s. So this is well over a hundred years old. And

00:01:36.700 it was written about our first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. And it is titled Canada's

00:01:43.020 Patriot Statesman, The Life and Career of the Right Honorable Sir John A. Macdonald.

00:01:48.600 And believe it or not, this actually paints a very favorable view of our first Prime Minister. And

00:01:55.080 oh my goodness, that is quite a shocking thing that anyone would have that sort of opinion of

00:02:00.120 him, but he was quite loved. And this was printed shortly after his death. And it details his life.

00:02:06.100 It's an extremely interesting book. The introduction is even more interesting. So I'm

00:02:12.840 going to read you a few bits. And this is obviously complicated language. This is the 1890s. So

00:02:19.160 this is a lot more complicated and a lot smarter sounding than we typically write today. But I'll

00:02:24.520 try and explain it all for you. Okay. So see if this rings any bells. Nationality, we know,

00:02:31.800 is more a sentiment than anything else. And in these days of leveling democracy,

00:02:36.620 predilections of sentiment are bound to manifest themselves. So what that's saying there is that

00:02:42.180 patriotism, nationality, or love for a country is a feeling, and that as they're drawing out of the

00:02:49.920 founding era, out of the beginning of confederation, they're going to see the beginnings, the inklings

00:02:56.220 of patriotism or nationalism, but they're not seeing it yet. So this is decades after

00:03:02.360 the Confederation has happened. This is after the death of John A. MacDonald. We're like 30 years

00:03:08.340 into this experiment, and they still haven't seen nationalism come up, but they're hoping that it

00:03:13.760 will. One thing is clear, that a nation, an established nation, a sovereign nation, in all

00:03:20.480 things has the advantage over a colony. Why Canada remains, in theory, a colony while she has all but

00:03:28.120 the status of a nation is one of those puzzles hard to make out. Confederation was a step,

00:03:34.000 but not an ultimate one, in the evolution of a nation. What prevents Canada from taking the

00:03:40.120 ultimate step? The most manifest evil of the colonial state is the repression of national

00:03:45.800 sentiment. So Canada, yes, we attained nation status in 1867, but even here in 1890, they're

00:03:53.720 still saying we're basically a colony. We basically were attached to Great Britain for a really,

00:03:58.280 really long time. Even up to like World War I, we still had this great attachment, and that

00:04:04.040 continued for a little bit longer, and then we kind of sort of detached ourselves a little bit more.

00:04:09.480 But we still had that colonial sentiment. So what this is saying is that when you were a colony,

00:04:15.480 you, that sort of patriotism is repressed, okay? And the lack of national sentiment in Canada,

00:04:22.920 with all the indifference that marks its absence, we hold to be one of the anti-national faces of

00:04:28.440 confederation. There is plenty of British sentiment, and in a section of the Dominion,

00:04:34.440 perhaps more Gaelic sentiment than the country is well aware of." So right there, that is the

00:04:39.480 marker of multiculturalism. So we have the British sentiment, we have Gaelic sentiment, but we don't,

00:04:43.800 we don't see a Canadian sentiment, and that is what he's marking here. And it's interesting

00:04:49.580 because right now that's something that's continued in Canada. We have everyone in their

00:04:54.840 little slots. We have the Germans, we have the Italians, we have the Serbians, we have 0.96

00:04:59.160 the Indians, we have Native Americans. Everyone is in their little slot, and we're really

00:05:04.560 we're holding on to our own individual cultures, but not sharing an actual national culture.

00:05:09.760 So that was still, I was, that started back in this time and it is continued till today.

00:05:16.400 But of an ardent and widespread Canadian sentiment, there is what we fear a little. In its place,

00:05:22.780 we have an ever active sectional feeling and a tightening of provincial boundary lines,

00:05:28.660 which overstepped at all are overstepped on the way of the Dominion treasury.

00:05:33.080 Now, this is talking about federal funds, okay? Widely extended, as are the provinces of the

00:05:41.740 dominion, and is yet but sparsely and poorly populated, it is perhaps to be expected that

00:05:47.080 the connection of the extremities with the heart of the country shall be one that seeks the sources

00:05:52.220 of life. This explains that. Nourishment for the enfeebled no one will withhold. So that's welfare

00:06:00.360 for someone who cannot better himself. No one will withhold that. But let us be sure that the

00:06:07.180 dole of the treasury, this is talking about the federal treasury, so federal funds, goes to the

00:06:13.600 enfeebled and not to the wanton and the prodigal. So this is saying that our federal funds, our

00:06:20.360 welfare should go to those who desperately need it, not to the wanton, so those who don't want to

00:06:26.780 work and not to the prodigal, those who waste away their living. All right. So self-reliance 0.97

00:06:34.620 will come with self-sustenance. And with the latter, doubtless, a vigorous life and a more

00:06:42.240 pronounced nationalism. Now I've got to stop there. Okay. That is basically an epiphany.

00:06:48.420 So what this is saying here is that when someone is self-reliant and sustaining themselves,

00:06:55.380 They will have a much stronger feeling of independence, and with that, a much stronger

00:06:59.920 feeling of patriotism. Recently, we were in Alberta, and this is something that I noticed out there.

00:07:05.760 There's a lot more independence, a lot more self-reliance, and a lot deeper of a culture.

00:07:10.760 It's literally living proof that this statement is true, that when someone builds something and

00:07:17.080 truly pours their everything into something, they're going to have a deeper appreciation for

00:07:23.040 that thing. So that holds true for a country. That if a country is full of people that work

00:07:30.760 really hard to build that country and to make it successful, those very people will have a deeper

00:07:36.180 appreciation for their country and a greater love for it. And that's where that nationalism comes

00:07:42.220 from. So that's why we see that in Alberta. That's why there's an independence movement. And actually

00:07:46.480 So this gets to that sort of feeling of independence, and it's super interesting, and we'll get

00:07:53.180 to that.

00:07:54.180 But the reason that Alberta has such a deeper culture than much of the rest of Canada is

00:07:59.800 because they have that sort of self-reliance and that independence.

00:08:03.300 We don't see that sort of feeling in Ontario where we are, especially right now.

00:08:07.120 There is not that deep connection to the land and that deep desire to improve it.

00:08:12.740 we see that sort of deep connection in places like Alberta and Newfoundland and a few smaller

00:08:18.020 communities, but not widespread throughout our country. And as a result, we don't have that

00:08:22.020 national pride. And when the current government says, oh, it's a dangerous and divided world,

00:08:29.140 they're admitting that we don't have this deep unified culture. They're admitting it,

00:08:35.380 even though they say that we do have some sort of Canadian patriotism. But that really makes me

00:08:40.020 think that this whole elbows up movement is really in fact a fake, a fake patriotism. There is no real

00:08:48.900 love for this country. There is no real desire to improve it. I will just repeat this statement

00:08:53.860 because it is so good. Self-reliance will come with self-sustenance and with the latter self-sustenance

00:09:00.900 doubtless a vigorous life and a more pronounced nationalism. Self-sustenance however may breed

00:09:08.340 self-sufficiency, and this again, if our rulers are not careful, may bring in its train disaffection

00:09:15.240 and finally secession. If the confederation is to be proof against this, it will be by assiduous

00:09:22.580 inculcation of national sentiment and by the diffusion of a spirit of patriotism,

00:09:28.100 which can only come of fervent nationality and a full-bodied national life. So what this is saying

00:09:34.600 is that self-sufficiency. If it's not cared for, if it's not drawn into a full-fledged patriotism

00:09:41.760 for the entire country, if it's just allocated to one area or one section, then that section,

00:09:47.740 that self-sufficient area will be prone to seceding. And guess what? Wake Up Call, that's

00:09:54.040 exactly what we're seeing. We're seeing places like Alberta, Newfoundland, and Quebec. They

00:09:59.800 they want to be self-sufficient, fully self-sufficient. And in the case of Alberta,

00:10:05.680 they are. And they don't have a sort of patriotism that draws them to love the entire country.

00:10:11.360 They just have that patriotism to love that area and want to save and preserve that area. And I

00:10:17.160 understand that. I completely understand that. But it's because the rest of the country doesn't

00:10:21.800 have that sort of deep rooted self-sufficiency that we're seeing this problem. So the cure here

00:10:27.920 is not to get rid of self-sufficiency, is not to push down freedom. The whole cure is to give

00:10:34.320 everyone else a freedom and a self-sufficiency and a love for the country. That's the cure,

00:10:40.520 but that's not what we're seeing right now. Among other untoward aspects of the present

00:10:45.460 experiment in government is the attitude we have hinted at of certain provinces looking now and

00:10:50.920 again to the federal treasury for better terms. So, wanting more handouts. If the only real union

00:10:59.400 we are to have is one that gathers around the office of the minister of finance and plays

00:11:04.940 snapdragon from the federal chest, then the confederation is confessed a failure and the

00:11:11.100 end is not far off. So, if certain parts of this country decide that all they want from the federal

00:11:19.140 government is welfare and more handouts, then Confederation, the end of it, is not far off.

00:11:27.720 So guess what? We're seeing that as well. This is like, I swear, this feels prophetic. The fact that

00:11:33.860 he's saying that if a part of the country gets to the point where it wants more money,

00:11:42.180 then the rest of the country is going to have to pay for it and that's going to drive so much

00:11:49.860 sinister so much ill will that the end of confederation will not be far off and everything

00:11:56.960 will fall apart the exigencies of party have made this game playing an expensive sport to the

00:12:03.620 country and its most sinister aspects are seen in the case of the sister province of quebec

00:12:09.120 where burdensome grants have been made to its bankruptcy on the plea of recouping it for

00:12:14.940 railways built and afterwards sold to the dominion the money being wrung from the federal treasury

00:12:20.860 as the price of the sectional party vote aggressive raids of this kind with the political

00:12:27.760 immortality that brands them are bound to have a disastrous effect on the confederation

00:12:33.740 Now, this is talking about Quebec, and even back then, Quebec is asking for more money.

00:12:40.520 And it gets into why Quebec is so aggressive.

00:12:45.340 And the whole hostility between Quebec and the rest of the English-speaking parts of

00:12:50.860 Canada, it's very old, it's a very old grievance, and it's going on here, and this talks about

00:12:57.180 it. In the case of Quebec, the evil is aggravated by racial jealousy, by religious cleavage,

00:13:04.200 and sexual hostility and isolation. So a lot of it is the fact that we just haven't joined hands

00:13:10.460 with Quebec, and that there is just no way to reconcile the difference between the English

00:13:16.040 and the French. And that sort of racial jealousy and that ill feeling has been carried on to this

00:13:21.920 day. And I know the religious part is no longer a part of it, but they're still religiously French 0.98

00:13:27.680 in a way. And I don't want to make this sound like this is attacking the French in any way,

00:13:33.720 but this is like, there has been no effort to draw the French and the English-speaking parts

00:13:39.980 of this country together in any meaningful way. All we've done is made compromises to make the

00:13:45.420 rest of Canada bilingual, and that is the only thing that has really brought this country together

00:13:50.580 it and kept it together in any way, but that has obviously not been enough. And there's always been

00:13:55.880 this separatist movement and it has been due to isolation and sectional hostility, hostility to

00:14:03.600 the rest of Canada. The unifying process can scarcely go on while these things are permitted

00:14:10.340 and the consolidation of the dominion must yet be a long way off. If the recent movement among

00:14:17.600 the national societies of Quebec and giving encouragement to the colonial schemes of old

00:14:22.560 France means anything more than the arrogance and self-assertion of race, then more distant still

00:14:28.880 must be the unification of the dominion." So what this is saying is that if Quebec continues to be

00:14:36.400 hostile to the rest of the country, then the unification of this country of Canada

00:14:42.400 will be even farther along and will take forever. And that's what we've seen. So essentially,

00:14:49.320 Canada has never gotten over as petty squabbles, and we're seeing them still play out. To contend

00:14:54.660 against the separating forces in confederation, we want, as we have said, the infusion of patriotic

00:15:01.260 feeling and the diffusion of national sentiment. Through no influence more potent than literature

00:15:08.680 and the literary spirit can this nationalization of the dominion effectively operate? What he's

00:15:15.760 saying here is that what we need in this country is a development of culture, and one of those

00:15:25.080 things is literature. When we have Canadian authors, right, but we spend more time consuming

00:15:33.220 American culture, American literature than anything else. I mean, this is a Canadian book,

00:15:39.100 but when's the last time that you have read a Canadian book on Canadian history? I mean,

00:15:42.980 there hardly is any. We just, we haven't developed that sort of Canadian literature to the extent

00:15:48.680 that we should have. I'm not saying that we should throw the United States at the window.

00:15:53.780 Like we've, we're so closely aligned with the United States. We have very, very similar cultures.

00:15:59.060 No, not identical, but similar cultures. So I'm not saying that we should throw the United States

00:16:04.600 out or elbows up or anything like that, but we need a Canadian culture. And part of that

00:16:10.140 is Canadian literature. And I wouldn't say that this is like pouring huge amounts of money into

00:16:16.820 Canadian content creators or Canadian literature or Canadian art in any way. There needs to be a

00:16:23.020 way that we can sort of fuel Canadian love, and part of that is Canadian literature, is what he's

00:16:29.800 saying here. Nothing will better contribute to the welding process or be more potent in bringing

00:16:35.380 about homogeneity and the consolidating influences the country so urgently needs than a healthy

00:16:41.400 native literature and an ardent national sentiment. With these, and due encouragement given to their

00:16:48.420 exercises, we may see that the various provinces of the dominion knit more closely together in the

00:16:54.580 common bonds of nationality, and sectionalism and disruptive influences dispelled as things

00:17:00.460 alien. So he's really speaking to the need for national literature, which is interesting.

00:17:07.600 Some difficult questions, no doubt, will remain to be faced, and not a few tendencies to be checked

00:17:13.340 that look in quarter or another separation. But time and destiny are likely to work in our favor

00:17:19.920 and tact and good judgment may be trusted to do the rest. With an added million or two to our

00:17:24.980 population, in the meantime, if we do not swap ourselves with debt, the national outlook will

00:17:30.580 be less grave and there will be more room for hope. So what he's saying is that back then in

00:17:37.600 the 1890s. There was not a very large Canadian population. So earlier on in a section that I did

00:17:43.900 not read, he was talking about how the United States, although I think he missed the full

00:17:48.300 picture, he was talking about how the United States, with their larger population, was able to

00:17:52.140 get more people and attract more immigrants, and as a result, get more developed quickly.

00:17:58.180 And he thought that Canada needed that, and that the sort of colonial state and the lack of

00:18:03.360 nationalism was actually preventing people from coming to the country. Although I do think there

00:18:07.880 are actually a lot of things that made the United States more attractive than Canada. That could

00:18:13.320 have been one of them, I'm not totally sure. But he's saying that adding more people, making it a

00:18:19.480 more prosperous and economically active country, and not piling on the debt could create a much

00:18:26.280 better nationalist, more patriotic society. And for a while that seemed to work. We slowly pulled

00:18:33.640 away from Great Britain, but we didn't have a lot of time to truly build a national sentiment

00:18:39.720 before Pierre Trudeau came along. And I really want to highlight the things that he did, because

00:18:48.120 it was basically the destruction of the development of Canadian culture.

00:18:53.400 his, his prime ministership especially really destroyed Canada as far as culture. And if you're

00:19:00.400 in the comments section and you live through Trudeau's reign, the first Trudeau, then, and you

00:19:07.000 kind of, you remember the policies that he enacted, please write them down in the comments. Let me know

00:19:12.100 how you think that Canada changed, whether our culture actually changed, or if things went

00:19:16.800 backward, let me know. I'll be interested to know, and I will read those comments. Okay.

00:19:22.680 Pierre Trudeau, as Prime Minister of Canada, introduced official multiculturalism as a

00:19:28.200 federal policy in October 8th, 1971, making Canada the first country in the world to adopt

00:19:33.860 multiculturalism as an official government policy. He announced it in a statement to the

00:19:38.100 House of Commons as multiculturalism within a bilingual framework, deliberately combining it

00:19:43.420 the existing Official Languages Act, which established English and French as Canada's

00:19:48.140 official two languages. Trudeau emphasized that while there were two official languages,

00:19:53.100 there was no official culture, and no ethnic group took precedence over another."

00:19:58.860 Okay, now that is interesting, but that was basically the end of any development of culture,

00:20:05.260 and clearly there wasn't a strong enough Canadian culture at that time to really be highlighted,

00:20:11.260 And if there was, maybe, obviously, if you're in the comments, again, I ask you, write down what

00:20:16.240 you think about this. But clearly, there was nothing very strong to prevent this sort of

00:20:22.540 multiculturalism being pushed on our country. And I believe this has really prevented us from 1.00

00:20:27.660 growing and building a culture, a uniquely Canadian culture. And for decades now, it is all

00:20:34.900 canada has been has been oh we're not american that's who we are and that's why elbows up that's

00:20:42.660 why anti-american sentiment has been so strong that it was it was strong in the days of brian

00:20:47.300 mal rooney and is strong now that's why the political left is so strong in the polls right

00:20:51.700 now is because they have this sort of sway and being oh anti-american and elbows up and there's

00:20:58.900 such a large chunk of Canada that truly believes that sort of thing. So I really found this book

00:21:08.180 extremely enlightening, especially that introduction, because if we look back at what

00:21:13.860 this is saying and what history has told us, there have been a lot of things that have played into

00:21:18.500 Canada not having this strong culture. One of them, of course, is the division between Quebec

00:21:23.860 and the English-speaking parts of Canada. That is a hugely complicated mess, and to resolve it is

00:21:29.540 just beyond me. I have no idea how we would do that, but that has prevented the sort of unification

00:21:35.940 and development of a strong Canadian culture. Another thing is the slow progress from being

00:21:41.540 a colony to being a full nation sovereign nation, and we're still technically connected to Great

00:21:47.060 Britain, and that has prevented a lot of this culture from being introduced and from growing.

00:21:53.460 Another thing is really strong government. Canada has always had a strong government,

00:21:58.100 although right now it is obviously a lot stronger. But we have always had this strong government.

00:22:03.700 When our government was set up, it was set up to be strong and central. And a lot of that was

00:22:11.140 because they looked at the United States and said, oh, they failed. The Civil War, you know,

00:22:14.580 was when Canada was founded. And they looked at the United States and said, oh, well, that's a

00:22:18.740 a complete failure. We're not going to give as much power to the provinces. No way. So as a

00:22:24.020 result, they set up a strong central government. And as our welfare system developed, we have

00:22:30.400 been prevented basically from developing that sort of self-sufficiency that this is talking about

00:22:35.980 and the development of a national sentiment. So all those things play together. And that's why

00:22:42.360 we don't have a strong Canadian culture. That's why we're divided. And that's why we have so many

00:22:47.740 separatist movements in this country right now. And I fully understand the people that want to

00:22:52.680 separate. I fully do. But it's coming from them having a sense of independence and the rest of

00:23:01.000 the country not having any understanding, not understanding what they're going through and

00:23:06.860 not caring. So I fully understand it. But if we break up now, then Canada is basically over the

00:23:15.900 dream of Canada's patriot statesman, the dream of Sir Donna MacDonald, if we break up now,

00:23:21.760 that dream is over. And if you look at his life's work, if you look at the things that he worked

00:23:28.220 towards, he was extremely unifying. He brought together, even for a short period of time,

00:23:34.840 he brought together the English and the French speaking parts of Canada into a dream. He had a

00:23:39.840 vision and that was never fully executed because that division sprang up and it has continued for

00:23:45.820 so long. But for a short period of time, he did unify the French-speaking and the English-speaking

00:23:51.180 parts of Canada, and it was a beautiful thing. And that was due in part to some outside forces,

00:23:57.340 but he was an incredible man. And I really, I don't care what the woke media says about him,

00:24:04.220 he was amazing in the things that he was able to do. And having visited his childhood home

00:24:14.140 in Kingston and the home that he lived in for the greater part of his life. Having visited that,

00:24:19.420 I am ashamed at how we portray him nowadays. There is not one good thing that you will hear

00:24:25.100 about Sir John A. Macdonald by visiting his house. And this is obviously a rant, this is an aside, but

00:24:32.860 if we separate now as a country, then his life's work is done. Canada as a country is done,

00:24:41.660 and we are stronger together if canada separates now i cannot imagine the outside forces that are

00:24:48.140 going to attack us and slowly take us over and assimilate us that my part of it might be the

00:24:53.740 united states and a greater part might be china so i understand the separatist movements i truly do

00:25:01.980 but if we separate now it's over so the only way to truly build a strong and unified country

00:25:11.660 is to rebuild a sense of freedom and independence and self-sufficiency and that is going to take

00:25:20.600 reform in our government not just by one election but by a lot of really hard work and part of that

00:25:26.600 is going to need someone with a strong nation building vision someone like sir john and

00:25:32.220 mcdonald that's someone we need right now and you know what he's up there somewhere and we're

00:25:38.320 going to find them. All right, so thank you so much for watching this video. That will do it for me.

00:25:43.260 I am Sarah. Please like, subscribe, and comment. That will really help this channel out. And leave

00:25:48.580 your thoughts down below. Let me know what you think of this whole subject. I think it's truly

00:25:52.240 interesting, and I would love to have a rousing debate with you in the comments. All right, bye.

Unify Action - February 16, 2026

He WARNED Us… Canada’s Founders Saw This Coming

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