Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff says we should stop putting so much value in our relations with our cousins in the U.S. on the solid basis that in Canada “there is no right to bear arms” like the U.S.. That’s actually what he said.
There’s nothing I value less or which sinks my Canadian patriotism and builds my love for America more than an über elitist liberal-left Canadian politician — who has spent most of his adult life living outside of Canada, much of it in the U.S. — blithely condescending to Canadians and telling Canadians that we should be more patriotic; and who repeats the Canadian liberal-left mantra of liking the U.S. less—in this case to be “less U.S.-oriented”. And glibly—if also falsely—telling us what our rights are. And theirs.
And I hasten to add this every chance I get: it took me, a regular Canadian conservative—to think of registering the obvious internet name ProudToBeCanadian. No liberal even thought of doing it apparently. But now I am to bow at the foot of Michael Ignatieff who instructs me to be more patriotic. And to not like Americans so much. For no particular reason.
“America and Canada are both free nations,” Ignatieff writes. “But our freedom is different: there is no right to bear arms north of the 49th parallel and no capital punishment either; we believe in collective rights to language and land, and, in our rights culture, these can trump individual rights. Not so, south of the border. Rights that are still being fought for south of the border—public health care, for example—have been ours for a generation.”
He of course sounds like a socialist. It’s the new Liberal. He’s “progressive”.
Apparently the liberal suckup media is uninterested in how he triangulated that ridiculous fallacy of logic and lack of understanding of Canada and of “rights”. In the mind of the incurious, unquestioning liberal media, it is completely acceptable that their liberal-in-chief Ignatieff offers no explanation as to how he dreamed-up who has what rights.
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For example, the U.S. Constitution does explicitly provide Americans with the right to bear arms, while ours doesn’t, or at least not as explicitly, much to our detriment. But Ignatieff takes the position that so many on the left take —those people who believe we should be big-government-adoring subservients: he pretends or actually believes that our rights as people are derived from government, which has dominion over “we”, the stupid people —rather than the other way around. Instead of the American “We the people…”, his personal constitution’s preamble begins “We the government…of which I hope to assume leadership of… possibly by way of a CBC reporter-cum-Liberal-appointed leader of all the land Michaelle Jean making that decision and somewhat ironically appointing me to be the government leader…”.
To his way of thinking or lack thereof, our only rights are those that are defined in the Constitution by politicians and as “interpreted” or “read into” (as, say, gay “marriage”) by liberal-left appointed judges in law courts which are now stacked from top to bottom with appointed ideological liberal-leftists. That is of course exactly wrong, and nothing to do with right or rights. Ignatieff takes the lack of explicit right written into our Constitution as to mean that we therefore don’t have that right. There is, he says, “no right to bear arms in Canada”, and yet nothing in our Constitution prohibits our right to bear arms —only idiotic laws and policies and regulations enacted by liberal-leftists prohibiting their ownership with the ultimate goal of confiscating them. His national view of what are and aren’t our rights is that of big governments and politicians, which deem what rights we have, instead of God or we the people deciding what rights we have, and which ones we choose to give up.
He should actually re-read our Constitution, and its infamous Charter of Rights, which begins with this preamble: “Whereas Canada is founded upon the principles that recognize the supremacy of God…”
The U.S. Constitution says nothing about “public health care” or the right of American citizens to a government that provides them with that; and yet Ignatieff deems that to be their “right”. Well that’s odd. It’s a right just like here, he says, where actually, it also isn’t in fact anything like a “right”, but rather a liberal-left big-government social engineering policy, and a terrible, failed one at that.
This is “rights” as determined by politics, and what the liberal-left politicians deem to be “rights”, at their political whim. And it’s inherently wrong.
Buy some tea. Plan a party.
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