Got up at 6 o’clock this morning and made it to the airport. Sitting here waiting for our plane to take off. trying to contemplate what my “New Year’s resolution” should be. Seems like the thing to do. 😂
First thing is I’m going to get a DSLR for streaming. I think I need a better camera. Not sure I need all the bells and whistles that other streamers have on the screen while live, but a sharper image with a nice depth of field would be value added.
In the new year, I would like to do more in-person interviews. The whole “systems are better than goals” is always in the back of my mind. So I need to figure out what the system would be… reach out to at least 2 people a week as a system would be good, and that should start rolling smoothly after a bit.
I am going to commit to daily posts with observations / thoughts on Locals. Law, politics, life. Like a diary of reflection and community interaction, above and beyond the daily live stream after party.
Today’s observation: Canada as I knew it is finished. It’s a nonjudgmental observation: Canada as I knew it is just over. Every time I come back, it feels like visiting someone who is aging, and with every visit, the changes with age become even more noticeable.
It is obvious that Canada is using immigration for cheap labor, and to create basically indentured servant voters.
I went to a Tim Hortons. It was run by two folks from India. Nice, polite, good natured. But clearly not originally from Canada. Clearly being exploited by the Tim Hortons corporation presumably because of cheap labor / government subsidies. And totally incapable of running the operation. The coffee was repulsive. The food literally looked like prison gruel. I couldn’t even finish it. They could barely speak French. It was a quiet January 1, 8 o’clock in the morning, and they could barely handle the five people who were ordering.
I go to a gas station, it was so sketchy I didn’t want to get out of the car so I drove to another gas station.
At that gas station, the individual working behind the counter also appeared to be a foreigner. Spoke French with a heavy accent.
When we returned the rental car, the men working there were from India or Pakistan. A nice guy who mentioned his name was Mohammed, and that my kid reminded him of his brother back home.
The driver of the shuttle bus did not speak English, and spoke broken in French.
Admittedly this is an industrial area on the morning of January 1. But the demographic shift in Canada is undeniable. in Quebec it’s even more noticeable simply because immigration tends to favor people who come from French speaking countries other than France.
I communicated this observation to someone, and they humorously said “you mean it’s multicultural”. Humorously suggesting the observation is immoral / racist.
The morality of the statement is totally irrelevant in comparison to its objective accuracy. For good or for bad, whether you like it or not, the demographic of the country has changed so radically - native-born Canadians who speak the languages are clearly decreasing in comparison to those who are coming in via Canada’s effectively open border policies.
Whether or not it works in the long run, to be determined. But if the present is any indicator, it’s not working. And it won’t work out.
If the idea is that Canada is open to the world, then Canada no longer exists for Canadians. The country has been given to the world, and needs of Canadians - regardless of their race, religion or creed - were the sacrifice.
The government is clearly saying to the citizens “anyone and everyone in the world is just as Canadian as you if we let them in. so shut up and pay more taxes, because someone’s gotta pay for your involuntary sacrifice”.
Prices are ridiculous. It’s like cartoon money. Taxes are ridiculous. It’s like government robbery.
And those are my thoughts.
P.S. also potential New Year’s resolution is to stop swearing on the Internet.
And to try and get my OCD behaviors under control. But that is not so much a decision as an impulse. So perhaps the system is to try some form of meditation or cognitive behavioral therapy.
We’ll see.
Godspeed, God bless, and happy new year!
