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| Fading Canada? |
Ten years ago as some would say our collective innocence was shattered, and in such a gruesome and despicable manner. Words can not relate or explain the real meaning of the 9/11. And before I get into the death of this post, i would like to take a moment to recollect and revive those horrid images and that awful day and make my compassion known to all of the families and all of the victims of 9/11.
Now many of you, may ask yourselves were is this going, how can this post be entitled The Death of Canada and start off in such an odd manner? Well the connection is pretty simple, as we all know in the wake of 9/11 measures were implemented throughout the western hemisphere, measures to make sure that 9/11 would stand an exception in the history of mankind. Measures to fortify our boarders, our cities, and specially fortify our sense of security. At the time it did seem like the "right" thing to do, we needed to feel safe again, and at the time the world was confronted with the unknown wrath of a very obscure organization.
In the wake of 9/11 Canada alike all nations implemented new security measures, put them into law. And they were very controversial at the time and still all. In wake of 9/11 almost everything was accepted out of fear and of animosity. And so the laws rolled out. The liberal government followed the flow.
But through this past decade, question marks did show up here and there throughout our rhetoric, probably the most important was related to the thesis that stood out after the attacks as truth. The thesis that we needed to wage a war on terror, that Islam and "Islamicism" did breed terrorism and radicalism it was just a fact. And ten years down the road, as we look back do we feel safer? Did anything really change?
Probably the question that most frequently arises is the one that we are so scared ourselves to answer did we "win" this fictive war on terror?
For our cherished PM Mr. Harper the answers is somewhere between we "are getting there" and "lets redouble our efforts". Yes our cherished PM supposedly the leader of the Canadian government and of all Canadian citizens, put a new red-hot bulls-eye on the Muslim Canadian community, and so we can say that ten years later another myth of our innocence : Canadian tolerance was shattered. Now Mr. Harper for too long has lived in a parallel universe, in his own world, alike so many other elected officials, Mr. Harper lives in the world of political points and of elections, the world of power. And after almost 6 years of PM Harper we known what he would do to maintain his power, anything. Now I could go on and on about Harper's will to turn Canada into the 51st State, but this argument I am trying to elaborate is way deeper to be merely focused on Mr. Harper, he gets way too much attention anyways in my opinion.
No whats important in this post is to understand that the main pillar of our Canadian society, that being tolerance is being chipped-away by this Conservative ideology.
Going through the article on the Vancover Sun I stumbled on to some very interesting remarks, one went a bit like this "Only Harper tells the truth in Canada". Whats ironic is that to justify this quote the author said that all the other countries in the world were following the same suit. What happened to my Canada? The country that defended human rights tooth and nail, and fought for what it believe was right not what would go down well with the international community. To illustrate this through back in 2004 it was Canadian observers that rang the alarm bell when the European Union form fear of the Russian reaction turn its back on the democratic aspirations of the Ukrainian people and thus validated the Orange Revolution.
Maybe the real question ten years after 9/11 is... what has happened to our Canada?
Canada we stand on guard for thee.
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