Quebec Premier Francois Legault believes Quebec doesn’t have a systemic racism problem and I agree with him – June 8, 2020,
So, in Canada a few things to understand, first of all, our country is different from the United States, being that we have a Governor-General of Canada, which is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II, it shows you that our system of governance and therefore our culture is different from America’s.
In America, there’s still a fierce democratic debate about socialism and big government in their Republic which was founded upon with small government, in Canada, there’s still a debate if we even have a constitution! In America, as an example, they have the data that their government shoots and imprisons more people than any other developed country, in Canada from the federal level we have very strict gun control laws.
In America, they protect their borders with a big military in Canada we’re basically reliant on the U.S military to protect us from invasion. In America the have almost if not more total non-Hispanic Black people than Canada has total people! Black America could literally invade Canada if they wanted too, because I’m sure more Black Americans law-abiding or non-law abiding probably know more about how to shoot a gun than do Canadians.
Americans, white, black, and other in general are more aggressive and will fight for freedom on a micro level than will Canadians. These police shootings protests started in the United States, Canada being the followers that we are, picked up on it and joined our American human family in protest, but this doesn’t mean that Canadians have systematic racism problems, let’s not take this out of proportion.
Although I personally think that Quebec has some racist elements to it, it’s not systematically racist in the manner in which SOME protestors are trying to frame it. When it comes to certain elements of protest, they prefer to move the goal post in how they define racism.
Racism in certain respects is now the equivalent for some leftists as one would define individual emotional insecurity. There is no way a person can debate racism if Leftists start aligning racism with emotional insecurity.
As an example I a few months ago a began getting fat, I’m used to staying in shape, but I was getting fat and felt a bit insecure about it, now imagine if I was allowed to use my obesity to claim that I was a victim of racism? Meaning I went out into the world and every time I saw a person of a different I told myself they were being racists against me, because I didn’t feel confident with myself? That’s how Leftists have been framing racism, they’ve removed themselves from being the problem and now project their personal beliefs on society.
America’s Leftists plead their case by doing a comparative study, with American Leftists, they want America to be more like Western Europe or Canada, whereas the actions of the people in Canada, Australia and other European nations at least for now appear to be that they want their non-U.S countries to be more like America.
What I see from Canadian protestors marching against police brutality is that they imagine that we have as many freedoms and Liberties as Americans do. We don’t and our culture is different, we have a similar culture to the Americans but there’s a different energy when you compare Canada to the United States, for the most part, Canadian black people immigrated to Canada, Black Americans were brought to America as slaves.
It’s also important to remember that America wasn’t always a superpower, Canada which fell under the British was at one point in history imagined as a superpower, our culture is one that has been retreating from liberty and freedom because being a superpower is not easy.
The people living within a super have to fight foreign influence, which will try to impose it’s will on the domestic population. I’ve stated it before and I’ll state it again, what I like about black Americans is when they see tyranny they don’t hesitate to stand up and fight back.
Black Americans gave Canadians and people all across Europe the courage to stand up and protest against BIG GOVERNMENT! Of course, the Democrat Party of the United States is trying to take over the organic nature of the black protest against police brutality, but that’s what a democracy is supposed to be.
When the government gets too big and too intrusive in your life, you protest. The police aren’t your rulers, they’re there to protect your liberties and your freedoms, protecting your property and your rights is very hard without a police force, however, this doesn’t give the police the right to overstep their boundaries.
Now, in Canada, most of our government oversteps their boundaries, we’ve had as an example universal healthcare for 40+ years, there’s little to no protest against it in Canada. In America, that battle rages on because whether you agree with it or not, Univeral Health care is the government overstepping its boundaries, but because Canadians have been taught someone else’s labour is a human right, this topic isn’t even debated in Canada.
Now, Quebec is pretty much a socialist province and once you accept socialism you’re only a few steps away from being a National Socialist province, so I can see where some people can see the comparisons, after all, the Quebec government has used the Canadian political system to grow it’s government to a level that without Federal support it’s public sector would have to default on its debts.
So, Quebec is easing towards a bad place, but I wouldn’t say it’s systematically racist in the way the protestors describe, I’d just say Quebec is economically mismanaged, but I don’t think Quebecers wake up in the morning thinking to themselves ‘hey, what minority can I oppress today’ that sounds ridiculous, the numbers also don’t show that Quebec police are violent, Canadians aren’t Americans, we’re just not, I think some of these protestors simply watch too much television and they love and admire America as it now more than they’ll admit to themselves!
Thousands attend anti-racism, anti-police brutality march in downtown Montreal | globalnews.ca
Interesting times ahead