Why the Silence from Our Leaders on These Topics?
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 05:11PM A Shock Sheet on Canada
from
William D. Gairdner, The Trouble with Canada ... Still! (Key Porter Books, 2010).
Note to Readers: This book offers a careful and thorough treatment of every topic addressed, and lots of suggested solutions. What follows is a selection of questions, facts, and opinions aimed at generating national discussion.]
* Why Are Taxes So High? For the 45 years from 1961 to 2007, we had the following increases: Food, 505%; clothing, 455%; Consumer Price Index, 610%; Shelter, 1,063%; Cash Income, 1,023%. But the increase in taxation in that same period was 1,704%! (p. 65).
* Why Is Our National Debt So High? Despite decades of high taxation, we have a huge national debt. But all government debt is really a form of deferred taxation. So this means we are robbing future generations to pay for current consumption. As of 2009, Canada’s Direct Debt, plus Unfunded Liabilities, was $150,200 for every Man Woman and Child in Canada (p. 19). Canada’s federal debt alone, is piling up at the rate of $135 million per day! Go to www.debtclock.ca to see for yourself.
* Why Are They Coming? More than one-sixth of all immigrants to Canada return to their native countries for good within a year, and one-third within twenty years. About 40 percent of all professional male immigrants leave Canada for good within a decade of arrival (p.414-15). Statistics Canada reports that the earnings of immigrants are lower than those of Canadian citizens, and “continue to deteriorate.” (p.414).
* Why Do We Tolerate Terrorist Organizations in Canada? “There are more international terrorist groups active in Canada than in any other country in the world” [except perhaps the USA] (p. 416).
* Why Do We Give Foreign Aid to Militaristic Nations? The amount of aid money given by Canada to 24 selected nations in 2006-7, was $730.6 million (Canadian dollars). But the amount spent by these very same nations on military operations and weapons of war, that very same year, was US$131.8 billion! (p.231).
* What About the Scandal of Our Aboriginals? The social reality of aboriginal life is horrific; worse than that of many of the poorest nations on earth. For example: although aboriginals constitute only 3.8% of the Canadian population, they commit 23% of all homicides in Canada, and 39% of all cases of assault (p.234). The vast majority of these crimes are by aboriginal men (really, only 1.9% of Canadians).
* How Did Feminism Get Hijacked by Radicals? Since 1973, Canadians have forked over almost $1.5 billion taxpayer dollars for feminist programs (p.239), almost all for radical causes the majority of Canadian women have never supported.
* Why Do We Tolerate Endless Talk of Quebec Separation? Our own Supreme Court has correctly stated that “There is no right under the Constitution, or at international law, to unilateral secession” (p.467). Nor is there any “democratic” right to secede from a federal system, for such a right would then allow the dismemberment of each seceding part - until there was no country left.
* Why Are We the Only Country in the World with No Law Against Abortion? A Canadian woman can abort her perfectly healthy baby at any time, even a full-term baby, moments prior to birth, if she so chooses, without breaking the law – because Canada has no law of any kind against abortion. This is so even though the Canadian people have never supported unlimited abortion on demand. Read how this abdication of duty to protect the most vulnerable happened (p. 274).
* Why Have We Trashed Marriage? “We should eliminate ‘no-fault’ divorce on the grounds that no-fault means no-responsibility, and no-responsibility means we have removed the contractual basis of the marital union” (p.283).
* Why Do We Allow Politicians to Control Our Health Care? Sick Canadians are like sick pets: their political masters decide, through funding control and triage, how much care they will, or will not receive, and how long they will have to wait. Canada’s Supreme Court has recently warned: “in some serious cases, patients die as a result of waiting lists for public health care” (p.303).
* Why Do We Have a Hug-A-Thug Mentality? According to UN international comparisons, Canada has a rate of police-reported criminal incidents among the highest in the world – almost double the US rate (p.330). “In the 33-year period from 1975 to 2008, some 508 criminals released from our prisons murdered a total of 557 innocent Canadians” (p.373).
* Why Do We Subsidize Ethnic Tribalism? “Canadian multiculturalism is an official multi-racial doctrine” (p.392). It is a form of internal colonialism that condemns hundreds of ethnicities to house arrest in their own skins.
* Where Are the Illegal Immigrants? “In May of 2008 Canada’s Auditor General reported that there were 41,000 warrants of arrest outstanding on illegal immigrants in Canada“(p. 412). No one knows where they are (p.412).
*Why the Folly of Official Bilingualism? Costs of this program have been estimated at between $1.6 and $1.8 Billion annually. Exactly 63% of the federal government’s 71,290 “bilingual positions” are held by those whose first language is French (p.444). But Francophones constitute only 23% of Canada. This suggests that Canada has instituted a form of national linguistic discrimination against Anglophones seeking government employment.
* Why Are Judges Making Laws? Since the advent of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, Canada has changed from a nation ruled by parliamentary sovereignty, to a nation too often ruled by Judicial sovereignty. Parliament is supposed to make the laws, judges to apply them. But our judges often make laws themselves, without consent of Parliament (p.465ff).Our
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