Merry Christmas Canada.
If I may be so bold. Proclaiming any allegiance to Christianity can be a dangerous thing in Canada. Just remember how US evangelist Sean Feucht was persecuted from coast to coast when he tried to proclaim the Gospel to Canadians.
Not so in America.
In his first term of office, President Donald Trump encouraged Americans to wish each other a “Merry Christmas” and not to use the cop out phrase “Happy Holidays” that allegedly more "inclusive" and avoids being too clear that this is a Christian celebration and should be so identified.
In his second term, Trump has continued to fight for traditional family values. During his inauguration address he emphatically stated that there were only two genders and promised to stamp out the Diversity Equity and Inclusion policies that had infected governments and corporations in America. He has recently proposed new laws to ban gender mutilation on children. This invasive, vicious and barbaric process has been marketed as “gender-affirming care,” one of the most Orwellian euphemisms ever promulgated by the woke left. Trump has continued to pursue a pragmatic and democratic approach to abortion where states can decide whether this procedure is truly “heath care” or the murder of the unborn.
But in Canada, it is actually illegal and considered “hate speech” to “misidentify” a transgendered person by referring to the individual’s biological sex. This was just the beginning of the Liberal regime’s assault on free speech that has continued unabated for the last decade under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and now with even more ferocity under Prime Minister Mark Carney. We’ll get to the current wave of surveillance and censorship laws a little later.
But nothing has defined Canada’s moral chaos more profoundly than the complete absence of an abortion law. The Supreme Court of Canada struck down Canada’s existing abortion law in 1988 and the government of the day under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was unsuccessful in passing legislation to replace it.
No successive government – either Liberal or Conservative – has even attempted to pass a law governing abortion to the point that today Canada has unrestricted access to abortion on demand up to the point of birth. The Conservative Party of Canada has many pro-life Members of Parliament but when they declare their opposition to abortion they are only speaking for themselves and their consciences because the party has steadfastly refused to take a position on abortion.
Liberal cabinet ministers routinely stand in the House of Commons to pronounce abortion to be a foundational right in Canada that essentially defines the country’s democratic values. Democrats in the US once spoke of abortion as needing to be “safe, legal and rare.” Liberals in Canada can’t get enough of the ghastly procedure, choosing to live in abject denial that an abortion is a hugely traumatic experience even for women who say it was their choice to make.
But if abortion has become an odd, cumbersome and untenable celebration of death, Canada’s euthanasia program that exists under the euphemism of Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAID, has turned Canada into a cult of death. Canada has literally become the suicide capital of the world as people actually come to the country for the sole purpose of having a doctor administer suicide rites.
People are actually being offered MAiD while they are waiting for operations that come too late under Canada’s socialized medicine. So if you require surgery for cancer, your wait time might exceed your expected lifetime so in the meantime, why not consider assisted suicide. The Liberal government was poised to expand the “eligibility” for MAiD to the mentally ill, drug addicts and children but pushback from some psychiatrists resulted in the health minister of the time putting this proposal on hold.
But the priests of the cult of death are only biding their time.
Another cornerstone of the Judeo-Christian heritage that was once foundational to Canada is free speech. Like the US, Canada has always nurtured, respected and protected freedom of speech because it was a democratic right inherited from Great Britain going back to the proclamation of the Magna Carta in 1517. But Canada is so awash in hate speech laws – the toxic notion of “hate crimes” was introduced into the criminal code in the 1970s – that it might soon be mirroring not the historic Britain of free speech but the contemporary United Kingdom that imprisons “keyboard warriors” for daring to question the accepted narrative on a variety of issues from mass immigration to the war in Ukraine.
Canada unleashed internet suppression during the Trudeau years and came very close to passing the Online Harms Act, a grotesque bill that sought life imprisonment for “hateful expression” and envisioned the prosecution of thought crimes through house arrest. Someone merely had to suspect you of harboring hateful sentiments for the police to be at your door. This is already happening in the UK, where the police – 11 officers in total and 10 of them male – recently entered a woman’s bathroom where she sat nude in the tub, to arrest her under the Malicious Communications Act. What’s most galling about this incident is that Elizabeth Kinney used the offensive speech in a private text message – which the police had obviously been monitoring.
The Online Harms Act, which will probably be renamed the Online Safety Act, is set to be reintroduced in Parliament when the House resumes sitting in February. Bill C-9, which hasn’t even been given a proper name, could be passed early in the New Year and targets a plethora of “hate speech” and “hate symbols.” If you thought hate speech was open to vast interpretation, how about hate symbols?
So as Canada edges closer to the abyss of authoritarian government, there may be only two choices: mass prayer and national repentance or the submergence into a tyranny that will provoke a longing and demand for freedom again.
Merry Christmas Canada. While we can still say it.
