Canadians should not be smug whenever there is pain and death to our south
The Buffalo grocery-store shooter cited the theory in his screed. The white supremacist who killed 51 people in a mosque in Christchurch, N.Z., in 2019 also espoused the same theory.
But white supremacy has also been normalized by populist movements and politicians, including Donald Trump. One of the leaders of Canada’s self-described freedom convoy protests is on record, “The goal is to depopulate the Anglo-Saxon race, because they are the ones with the strongest bloodlines.” Some participants displayed Confederate flags and Nazi swastikas, while Trump-inspired nativist “Make Canada Great Again” banners were flown.
What we choose to normalize with our words and actions have consequences. Canadian politicians have vilified Muslims by upholding laws such as Quebec’s Bill 21, which prohibits the province’s government employees from wearing religious symbols. Canadian police forces often use excessive, sometimes fatal force disproportionately on Black and Indigenous populations, usually without any consequences.
When George Floyd was murdered by a policeman in Minneapolis in 2020, sparking Black Lives Matter protests across the world, people in Canada wondered whether this was purely an American problem (never mind that afound that 70 per cent of people killed by police in fatal shootings of civilians in Toronto were Black. In the aftermath of Mr.
“Diversity is our strength” is a catchy motto that leaders across all levels of government love to quote, but they’re empty words unless we challenge and change racist laws. We have to investigate the rise in hate crimes across Canada, and we have to stop normalizing obvious white supremacist trends disguised under the banner of “freedom.” A good first step on this journey would be to stop using the pain of victims of domestic terrorism in other countries as opportunities to gloat.
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