{"id":995,"date":"2017-07-17T19:15:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T19:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2017-07-17T19:15:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T19:15:39","slug":"995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a Canadian and This Is My Story<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Take a look at a sample of the “Canadians” who made to the CBC hit parade, and you will get a flavour of what I am talking about:\u00a0http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/2017\/whatsyourstory<\/a><\/p>\n

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It is abundantly evident that the CBC was not celebrating \u201cCanada\u201d Day, but Immigrant Day. July 1st<\/sup>\u00a0is all about the deification of the immigrant, coupled with constant reminders of our shameful treatment of indigenous peoplle<\/p>\n

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In the run-up to Dominion Day (now \u201cCanada\u201d Day) you may have come across a series of short video vignettes submitted by \u201cCanadians\u201d to the CBC,\u00a0\u00a0which had encouraged them to \u201ctell your story.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0And so they did, in droves.<\/p>\n

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But curiously it seemed that only \u201cNew \u201c Canadians were so inclined.\u00a0\u00a0White home-grown, old-stock Canadians who wreaked of normality,\u00a0\u00a0heterosexuality or \u2018privilege\u2019 were conspicuous in their absence.\u00a0\u00a0I wonder why?<\/p>\n

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The truth is, the CBC is not interested in ordinary Canadians, but extraordinary Canadians. Poster boys for the first post-national state. That is, they\u00a0\u00a0want to showcase the Canadians who cut the politically correct mustard or pass the ideological litmus test.\u00a0\u00a0Only tolerant and enlightened Canadians need apply.\u00a0\u00a0Friends of the CBC, in other words. They do not want\u00a0\u00a0to \u201creflect\u201d the image of present day Canada as much as depict the image of the Canada they want to see unfold, the Canada of the future, the Canada they are trying to engineer.ople, just in case we forgot that we too are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, and as such have no moral authority to restrict further immigration.<\/p>\n

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The message was clear.\u00a0\u00a0Canada is a nation of immigrants.\u00a0\u00a0Immigration is what defines this country.\u00a0\u00a0Perpetual immigration on a grand scale therefore is necessary to validate that contention.\u00a0\u00a0So move over, make way, park your gripes, shut up and smile.<\/p>\n

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Thus, CBC viewers were subjected to a parade of immigrants \u201cof colour\u201d and an assortment of the fashionably oppressed.\u00a0\u00a0Members of almost every certified victim group.\u00a0\u00a0They told us of their heroic journey to a wonderful \u2018welcoming\u2019 country where they could be free to be themselves. They concluded their tales with the same punch line. \u201cThis is my story and this is\u00a0my<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Canada.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Indeed it is.<\/p>\n

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But Canadians of European ancestry have stories to tell too.\u00a0\u00a0The CBC just doesn\u2019t want us to hear them. So in the interest of fair play and \u201cinclusion\u201d, I thought I might post the submissions of the excluded.\u00a0\u00a0The bigoted\u00a0\u00a0\u2018basket of deplorables\u2019 whom the CBC deems unworthy of notice and unfit to speak. Stories like these:<\/p>\n

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My name is Tracy Bennett and I was raped by a Somali taxi cab driver in Edmonton, the city I once knew.\u00a0\u00a0After being shafted by diversity,\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0\u00a0long\u00a0\u00a0to return to the safety\u00a0\u00a0of a Canada that is long past.\u00a0\u00a0A past that I am told was \u201cwhite and boring\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If only I could be bored again. If only I could be bored by less congested\u00a0\u00a0streets, less gridlock, lower rents, affordable housing, fewer ethnic gangs, unlocked doors and social cohesion. I feel unsafe, insecure and disconnected.\u00a0\u00a0This is my story and this is\u00a0their\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Canada.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHalt mass immigration\u201d<\/p>\n

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My name is Mike Byers.\u00a0\u00a0I grew up in Vancouver, became a journey carpenter and through hard work and dedication,\u00a0\u00a0I eventually established my own home construction company.\u00a0\u00a0At one point there were 20 people in my crew, all paid at union rates.\u00a0\u00a0Then my bids were undercut by Indo Canadian and Chinese contractors who employed untrained foreign born workers , many of them illegal, at cut-rate wages.\u00a0\u00a0My business folded and now I am selling cars in Kamloops.\u00a0\u00a0This is my story and this is now\u00a0their\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Canada.<\/p>\n

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My name is Shelly Peterson.\u00a0\u00a0I once had a dream that I could raise a family and own my own home here in Greater Vancouver, as my parents did.\u00a0\u00a0But even with advanced degrees and well paid professional jobs my partner Mike and I have trouble paying the rent, never mind find the money for a down payment on a small condo unit.\u00a0\u00a0Having kids is out of the question. Mass immigration and laundered Chinese money have sent the city\u2019s real estate prices into the stratosphere, and many of the friends I went to school with have fled the city to find a life elsewhere.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If they do, they often have to settle for work unrelated to their skills or training.\u00a0\u00a0It seems that I will be forced to follow their path.\u00a0\u00a0This is my story and this is now\u00a0their\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Canada.<\/p>\n

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My name is Craig Muller.\u00a0\u00a0I spent most of my life working in the woods as a logger, and I made some good money back in those days.\u00a0\u00a0But after I was injured, and the Workers Compensation Board turned down my claim, I couldn\u2019t put food on table.\u00a0\u00a0I lost my livelihood and my marriage.\u00a0\u00a0Since then I\u2019ve been living on the streets, most of the time.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s funny that the government finds money for Syrian refugees but not enough for people like me.\u00a0\u00a0They say they are going to build more social housing units but it will be a drop in the bucket.\u00a0\u00a0I thought maybe that I could stay at the Welcoming Centre but it seems that I am not welcome.\u00a0\u00a0I am not an undocumented immigrant.\u00a0\u00a0No one seems to be able to afford housing in this city and when you look around you can see why.\u00a0\u00a0Too many people are coming in, and most of them are coming in from you know where.\u00a0\u00a0This is my story and this now\u00a0their<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Canada.<\/p>\n

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My name is Barbara Turnbull. Ever since I was a girl, I dreamed of becoming a school teacher.\u00a0\u00a0Nothing in life seemed to be so rewarding.\u00a0\u00a0So when I entered university,\u00a0\u00a0I enrolled in the \u201cProfessional Development Program\u201d,\u00a0\u00a0and completed my teacher training.\u00a0\u00a0I sent in applications to school boards across the province, but I could only find an opening in Vancouver.\u00a0\u00a0I found the job more challenging than I ever imagined.\u00a0\u00a0It was not that the class sizes were too high—they were\u2014but that there were so many students who could not speak English adequately.\u00a0\u00a0I was overwhelmed.\u00a0\u00a0Instead of job satisfaction, I experienced frustration, stress and exhaustion.\u00a0\u00a0And I am not alone.\u00a0\u00a0Many other teachers have suffered the same fate.\u00a0\u00a0But whenever we complain to city politicians, they tell us that their hands are tied. The federal government is not providing them with the money and resources to cope with massive numbers of immigrants.\u00a0\u00a0They say that they are not in charge of immigration policy.\u00a0\u00a0But I notice that none of them\u00a0\u00a0lobby to cut immigration intakes.\u00a0\u00a0I can\u2019t take it anymore.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I am looking for another line of work. This is my story and this is now\u00a0their\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Canada.<\/p>\n

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My name is Michael Renwick.\u00a0\u00a0I grew up in Richmond B.C. when it was covered with the best farmland in Canada.\u00a0\u00a0In my youth, nature was close at hand in every corner of the Lower Mainland.\u00a0\u00a0It was a paradise for kids.\u00a0\u00a0We built forts in the woods,\u00a0\u00a0played on vacant lots, fished on the river and cycled on the dykes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As an adult I became a passionate bird watcher, hiker and conservationist.\u00a0\u00a0However, mass immigration changed everything.\u00a0\u00a0Fighting against development, densification, sprawl,\u00a0\u00a0and destruction of local habitats was a losing battle.\u00a0\u00a0Worst of all, the environmental movement let us down.\u00a0\u00a0Instead of targeting the source of the problem—mass immigration-driven population growth—-they attacked symptoms.\u00a0\u00a0They hacked at the branches of evil rather than cut its root.\u00a0\u00a0The Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley I know and loved is gone, replaced by strip malls, big box stores, high rises, condos and subdivisions.\u00a0\u00a0Its population is three times as large as the Healey report of 1997 said was ecologically sustainable.\u00a0\u00a0Saddened\u00a0\u00a0by what transpired,\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0\u00a0left the city to seek a quite haven\u00a0\u00a0in northern BC.\u00a0\u00a0Another urban refugee.\u00a0\u00a0This is my story and this is\u00a0their<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Canada.<\/p>\n

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My name is Tim Murray.\u00a0\u00a0You know my story.\u00a0\u00a0And you know that this is not my Canada.<\/p>\n

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Disclaimer:\u00a0\u00a0The people above are fictional but their experiences are real enough to the many who have lived through them.\u00a0\u00a0In this case fiction, as Stephen King said, is the truth inside the lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a Canadian and This Is My Story Take a look at a sample of the “Canadians” who made to the CBC hit parade, and you will get a flavour of what I am talking about:\u00a0http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/2017\/whatsyourstory   It is abundantly evident that the CBC was not celebrating \u201cCanada\u201d Day, but Immigrant Day. July 1st\u00a0is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[765,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}