The population bomb -- a 75-year-old prediction comes true

Earlier this week, Sp!ked posted an interview with data scientist and demographer Stephen J. Shaw, the director of the documkentary Birth Gap, under the headline "Falling birth rates are the greatest crisis facing humanity – bar none".

Pretty strong language, and we were immediately reminded of The Population Bomb (1968), in which the late Paul Ehrlich warned that "overpopulation" would lead to mass starvation by the 1970s, to American life expectancy plummeting to just 42 by the 1980s. By the year 2000, the book predicted, England would cease to exist. And so on.

Prof. Ehrlich was wrong. Mr Shaw contends that the biggest problem we face a quarter of the way through the 21st century is precisely the opposit. The challenge is dealing with unprecedented demographic collapse in the face of falling birth rates. 

"Wut?!", Walt hears you say. "There are 7 billion people crowding and destroying the earth, especially in my neighbourhood." Maybe Prof. Ehrlich was right after all, just out on his timing!

The answer to conundrum is to be found in a short story written by sci-fi master C.M. Kornbluth in 1951. It's called The Marching Morons. 

The central character is real estate agent and con artist John Barlow, who is placed in suspended animation after a freak accident. He is revived in the distant future, in a confusing world filled with hypersexualized advertisements, vapid entertainment, and people who exhibit erratic, nonsensical behavior. Sounds kind of familiar, doesn't it?

Shortly after being revived, Barlow is introduced to two men, Tinny-Peete and Ryan-Ngana, who inform him that the lamentable state of society is the fault of the "morons", the world's vast population of unintelligent people, who greatly outnumber the much smaller population of intelligent people. 

Ryan-Ngana says, "While you [Barlow] and your kindwere being prudent and foresighted and not having children, the migrant workers, slum dwellers, and tenant farmers were shiftlesslyt and sahort-sightedly having children -- breeding, breeding. My God, how they bred!"

So it is in the "first world" -- North America, Europe and, yes, Japan and China -- today. People of higher intelligence often choose to have few children (or no children at all) for pragmatic reasons, while people of lower intelligence, compelled by their sex drives, have larger families and reproduce in greater numbers. 

So, Tinny-Peete and Ryan-Ngana explain to Barlow, the most urgent crisis of their time is the population problem ("Poprob"). The unbalanced trend has been carried to its logical extreme, with a total world population of five billion morons (with an average IQ of 45) living under the supervision of three million members of an elite, intellectual upper-class who secretly govern world affairs. 

If the simple-minded morons are left to govern themselves, the world will descend into chaos and devastating war. As a result, the elite minority (of which Tinny-Peete and Ryan-Ngana are members) are effectively "enslaved" by the moron majority, working themselves to exhaustion while attempting to maintain global order and stability. 

Controlling the morons' population growth is impractical for several reasons, but unless some corrective action is taken, the inevitable outcome will be the depletion of Earth's dwindling natural resources, followed by the total collapse of human civilization. 

All attempts to solve Poprob have failed, and the elite hope that Barlow, as a man from a different time and with a different perspective on the problem, might be able to offer a novel solution. Barlow has an idea, but he refuses to elaborate until Tinny-Peete and Ryan-Ngana agree to formally name him dictator of the entire world, promising him wealth, power, and fame. 

Taking inspiration from his knowledge of fraudulent real estate deals, propaganda techniques employed by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, and the myth of lemmings drowning themselves in the sea, Barlow devises a plan for the extermination of the moron population. Barlow orchestrates a massive propaganda campaign encouraging the morons to migrate to the planet Venus, which is billed as a tropical paradise.

The overcrowded and inefficient cities in which the morons reside are to be dismantled, their steel used to construct fleets of "spaceships" ostensibly intended to ferry people to Venus; in reality, the spaceships are not capable of making the trip - the best spaceship ever made had crashed on the moon - but they are capable of getting their passengers out of sight of the other morons, to some unspecified location where billions can be killed without damaging Earth's biosphere.

To allay any suspicion, forged postcards are sent from Venusian "colonists" to their families, describing Venus as a lush tropical paradise and encouraging them to follow. The United States Congress, under the control of the elite, promotes the colonization of Venus as an extension of manifest destiny -- this too, sounds familiar in 2026! -- and guarantees Venusian settlers permanent land rights on the planet. 

This sparks widespread nationalistic fervor as the various nations of Earth all adopt similar approaches and race to reach Venus in order to stake their own claims. As more and more morons leave, the ensuing loneliness compels the rest to follow. Barlow's plan is a complete success; Earth is gradually emptied of morons and Poprob is solved!

Sounds like a good plan to me! Of course there's a coda to the story. Once the final solution has been implemented, Barlow becomes surplus to requirement and is included in the "final cleanup". That doesn't matter. The real story here is not the solution but the analysis of the problem. Is it not a challenge for us -- call us "elites" if you like -- not in the future but in the present? Look around you.

Worth viewing: "Canada’s Birth Rate Collapsed (This Is A Disaster)" with Max Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada.

PPC leader Max Bernier asks tough questions about illegal immigration

Contrary to rumours being spread by Canada's controlled media -- not just the state-owned public broadcaster but every major fake newspaper -- the People's Party of Canada is still alive and still fighting for real Canadian values to be reflected in federal government policy.

In particular, they are the only federal party taking a hard line against illegal immigration: third-worlders crossing Canuckistan's porous borders, overstaying student and work visas, and avoiding deportation by crying "refugee". 

Two million "temporary" residence permits are set to expire this year, and almost no-one is talking about what happens next. The plan being quietly advanced by the governing Liberal Party of Marx Carnage is to eliminate the backlog of refugee and asylum claims by a process of "mass regularization". That's Liberal-speak for letting them all stay,  no questions asked.

In this video, PPC leader Maxime Bernier speaks out against this secret plan, and asks whether or not Canada's laws actually mean anything. 

The Plain People of Canada: What abouth yon Parti Québécois, then?

Hey, we said the PPC is the only federal party expressing Canadians' anger about uncontrolled illegal immigration. Things are different at the provincial level, when you get closer to the grass roots. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is at daggers drawn with the federal government, demanding that her province (Canada's version of Texas) have the right to enforce immigration laws and boot out those they don't like.

And in la Belle Province du Québec, at a time when support for Quebec separatism has reached one of the lowest ebbs of the last 50 years, voters seem about to hand the government over to le Parti Québécois, the province's historical standard-bearer for secession, now seen as "the most successful anti-woke party in Canada". That's PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon in the picture, giving The Salute. All good liberals know what that means, eh!

The PQ may simply be the most conspicuous beneficiary of a Canada-wide backlash to high immigration, racial hiring quotas, and the various other trappings of what the French call "wokisme". We don't need to translate, do we?

The party’s official immigration policy pledges to cap new immigrants at 35,000 per year, to place a permanent moratorium on "economic immigration", and to pursue "automation" and "roboticization" to lessen Quebec's dependence on immigrant labour.

M St-Pierre Plamondon has been a heterodox voice on cultural issues ever since becoming PQ leader in 2020. That year, he criticized the Montréal Canadiens' decision (since reveresed) to open home games with the vomit-inducing "Indigenous land acknowledgement", stating that it was inaccurate to characterize Montréal as sitting on top of "unceded" land.

Also in 2020, he was one of the few Canadian politicians to publicly question a federally driven push towards accusing Canadian institutions of "systemic racism". Then prime minister Blackie McBlackface had called "systemic racism...an issue right across the country, in all our institutions, including in all our police forces." But M St-Pierre Plamondon joined Québec Premier François Legault in questioning the claim's core tenet that any differential outcome among races was ipso facto evidence of racism.

In his first press conference after becoming PQ leader, M Plamondon said he wanted specific examples of discriminatory policies, rather than just blanket government declarations that everything was racist, "so we can come up with solutions that are connected to the diagnosis, rather than say it's out there, in the system." He added, "there is no doubt in my mind that the concept of systemic racism should not be taught in our secondary schools."

The Laurentian elites may be tut-tutting and crying "racisme", but pure-laine Canadiens are listening, and flocking to the Parti Québécois.  Suddenly, M St-Pierre Plamondon’s more heterodox positions suddenly aren't all that controversial. In late 2024, he publicly denounced the very idea of wokeism. He defined wokeism it as a political strategy of using guilt and disinformation in order to impose a political agenda through brute force. 

On "Tout le monde en parle", Québec's most-watched talk show, he said that one signature technique of the wokesters is "the use of the words 'racist', 'intolerance', and 'phobe' to silence opponents." But, he said, "We can serve justice and we can serve equity without insulting and intimidating others."

Canada needs more political leaders like Max Bernier, Danielle Smith and Paul St-Pierre Plamondon. Let those who are afraid to speak out strongly for fear of being called "racist" etc take note.

A meme for Canadians deciding how to vote

Regular readers know that we run a lot of memes from the Memesters Union at the Patriot Post. Today we have something from north of the World's Longest Partially Defended Border (TM), which we're sure expresses the feelings of a great many Canadians.

You're not likely to see this in the Canuck social media though. It's not "social" enough for the oh-so-polite frost-backs. More like ANTI-social, the lamestream media say. Thanks to all at Blazing Cat Fur.

VIDEO: People's Party of Canada promises an end to DEI, wokeism

DEI is a joke. Even in Canada, where people are too polite to diss that ideology, at least in public, they make jokes about it in private. "DEI = DIE", "diversity is our strength (NOT)", that kind of thing. 

Absurd though wokeism is, not one of the three major Canadian political parties has the cojones to challenge the DEI ideology promoted by the liberal elites, the loonie left, the academia nuts and their lickspittle media. You might as well call the Liberals, NDP and Cuckservatives the "Uniparty" because, when it comes to political correctness, they're all the same.

The only party to stand up against wokeism and DEI is the People's Party of Canada, whose leader, Maxime Bernier, made his party's stand clear today, in this video. (Cliquer ici pour voir la version française.)

M Bernier was speaking in support of Patricia Conlin, the PPC candidate in the upcoming by-election in the Ontario riding of Durham. Click here to learn more about Ms Conlin and her campaign. Walt wishes her and "Mad Max" all the best.

VIDEO: How many sexes are there in Canada? Mad Max answers

Even Canada's lickspittle media couldn't ignore the "Million March for Children", held in cities across Canuckistan yesterday. 1000s of concerned Canadian parents, kids, and others -- including religious Catholics, Protestants and (yes!) Muslims -- showed up to protest LGBT indoctrination in the schools of the Great Woke North.

In the capital city, crowds of protesters and counter-protesters, believed to be in the hundreds on each side, yelled and chanted at each other from across Wellington Street, a large demonstration opposed to teaching LGBTQ2S+ issues in schools took over Parliament Hill. 

Yes, we have video! Maxime Bernier, erstwhile leader of the People's Party of Canada (Yes, he and they are still fighting the good fight!) answers the headline question. 

You'd think the answer would be obvious, but "Mad Max" is the only leader of a Canadian political party with the intestinal fortitude to say it out loud!

The stated goal of the protesters is to make schools -- Canadian school boards, particularly the Toronto District School Board, are notoriously "woke" -- stop teaching children about gay, lesbian and trans people, which the protesters claim runs counter to their rights as parents to control their children's moral and social upbringing. 

Protesters held signs with slogans that included "leave the kids alone" and "pride comes before destruction". Some people at the protest called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign, as the ever-popular "Fuck Trudeau" flags, first seen during the Freedom Convoy, fluttered in the wind.

The protesters complained about "intrusive elements of sexual orientation and gender ideology" (read: pro-queer agenda) in the school system. They said they don't hate the LGBTQ2S+ community, but they oppose the school systems promoting queer issues in ways that they believe go against the values and beliefs they want to raise their children with. 

The march comes on the heels of months of cultural battles in Canada as well as the US of A over "gay rights", particularly involving transgender people and "gender-affirming care" -- e.g. body mutilation -- for minors. 

Besides cutting off various appendages, "medical interventions" can include puberty blockers, and hormone treatments. Other parts of "gender-affirming care" (read: grooming!) can include accepting the use of a different name or preferred pronouns or dressing as the preferred gender, which we used to call "transvestism" (a psychological abnormality or perversion) or simply "cross-dressing".

The governments of the provinces of Saskatchewan and New Brunswick have tabled legislation that would require that educators obtain parental consent if a child wishes to use a different name at school or be addressed by different pronouns. Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Education Minister Stephen Lecce have discussed similar ideas but, so far, no legislation has been announced in Ontario.

The issue has also  raised its bewigged head in federal politics. At the recent Conservative Party of Canada convention, delegates voted in favour of a future Conservative government prohibiting "life-altering" medical and surgical interventions for "gender-diverse and transgender people" under the age of 18. But the new Tory leader, Pierre Poilievre, said that delegates can vote as they like, but he's the leader and willl go along with the liberals if that's what it takes to get elected.

Canadians should hope that, as Max Bernier said, common sense will prevail. But don't count on it.

Further reading: "Nation Torn Between Party That Openly Supports Perversion And Party That Only Secretly Supports Perversion", Babylon Bee (of course) 21/9/23.

VIDEO: PPC's Max Bernier will give it another shot

In spite of the ruination of their country "progressing" day after day of the Trudeau dicktatorship, the sheeple of Canuckistan don't think much about politics in May. Hey, the Stanley Cup playoff are on. But it's now officially spring, because the Leafs are out. So Canadians can now turn their attention to getting rid of the smarmy, smug and loathsome Blackie McBlackface.

The next federal election is not due until 2025, although it could come earlier if the pinko "New" Democratic Party gets tired of its role as Trudeau's bitch. However, there is a vacancy in the riding of Portage-Lisgar, a Manitoba seat previously held by Conservative Candice Bergen, who resigned in February. That means a byelection must be held not later than August. Yesterday, Maxime Bernier, erstwhile leader of the People's Party of Canada, became the first to throw his chapeau in the ring. Click here to watch the presser in which he announced his candidacy.

"Mad Max" (as he is known affectionately, and Walt means that sincerely), says the vote in Portage-Lisgar will be a choice between him and what he called a "fake conservative". He told supporters in Portage la Prairie, that the area reminds him of his home riding, and urged them to make history by electing the first member of Parliament representing his party to "open the floodgates." "This byelection" he said "is the starting of a major turning point in Canadian politics!"

  

Portage-Lisgar, in rural Manitoba, is definitely conservative territory. In the last federal election, the PPC candidate there got 22% of the vote, a much better result than in most other ridings. The people of that area want a true conservative, M Bernier said, comparing his party to the former Reform Party. He has learned from that party's mistakes in previous elections, he said, and has no plans to merge with the federal Conservatives Cuckservatives. 

M Bernier urged supporters to join a political revolution and took shots at the Liberals, the NDP and especially the Conservatives, whom he accused of only caring about voters during elections. He also said Canada has changed dramatically for the worse in recent years, railing against what he called "the woke cult" and "moral and cultural degeneracy." He claimed that Canadian society has been overtaken by evil and "those who reject it are silenced and smeared as intolerant, racist and transphobic."

Canada badly needs a truly conservative voice in its politics and its Parliament. Walt wishes "Mad Max" all the best. 

Whither the People's Party of Canada?

As reported here last Sunday, the self-styled Conservative Party of Canada, having failed under two "moderate" leaders -- Andrew Scheep and Erin O'Tool -- to distinguish itself from the ruling Liberals, has now chosen a new and (they hope) better leader, Pierre Poilievre.

The lickspittle media long ago labelled M Poilievre as a "right wing populist" and "the Canuck version of to Donald Trump". Hardly. Populist he may be, but, as I told you way back in April in "The problem with Poilievre", he is no social conservative, let alone a turn-back-the-clock right-winger. He reminds me not so much of The Donald as of a nasty, bilingual version of Ronald Reagan.

Earlier this week, the new Tory leader [Canadians have stopped using that word. Ed.] announced his new leadership team on Tuesday. Left on the outside looking in was Leslyn Lewis, MP, seen here at the Freedom Rally in Ottawa last February.

Dr Lewis, who has a perfect rating on issues pertaining to life and family. Despite presenting a strong pro-life, pro-faith message, she finished third in the CPC leadership race. 

But there's no room in Pierre Poilievre's coterie for such as she. The press release included an image of "My inflation-busting leadership team", standing together in front of those same Parliament buildings.

One of PP's team is Melissa Lantsman, a proud lesbian Member of Parliament. Another is Ontario MP Eric Duncan, an openly homosexual man, who was appointed to party-caucus liaison,

Another notable absent from the team was former party leader Erin O'Tool, who was ousted quickly after he took a squishy stance on February's Freedom Convoy. M Poilievre's choice of MPs with anti-life and pro-LGBT voting records are not surprising, considering he himself has been given a failing grade by Campaign Life Coalition due to his pro-abortion voting record.

Where will the Conservative Party's more traditionalist and libertarian members, like Andrew Scheer, go now? Will they sit on the back bench, behind PP (on the left, wearing the pink tie) or will they join Canada's only truly conservative party, the People's Party of Canada, led by Maxime Bernier, on the right. (Geddit?)

The choice will be difficult, if not impossible, even for Dr Lewis, for the simple reason that the PPC seems destined for the ashheap of Canadian political history. They have been languishing at 4-5 per cent in public opinion polls, which is remarkable for a party founded only recently. 

But they have no seats in Parliament -- "Mad Max" failed for the second time to win his own riding of Beauce -- and are in grave danger of being crushed by the stampede of conservatives hurrying to get aboard the CPC bandwagon, since M Poilievre looks certain to beat the socks of Just In Trudeau whenever the latter dares to call an election.

Walt's headline question, then, might better be: Wither the People's Party of Canada? It's sad.

Worth watching: "Individuality and Autonomy: Maxime Bernier and the PPC", recorded by Dr Jordan B. Peterson on The JBP Podcast, exactly a year ago.

Further reading (added 17/9/22): "The Trudeau factor in Pierre Poilievre's big win", by good ole Rex Murphy in the National Post. Subhead: "Conservative chief's leadership campaign was greatly helped by the Liberals' increasingly embarrassing feats of incompetence"

VIDEO: Trending up! "Mad Max" Bernier fact-checks two years of lies

February was a turbulent time in Canadian politics, what with the Freedom Convoy leading the charge against the tyranny of the Trudeau Liberal government. The world's second-coldest capital city was occupied. Border crossings were shut down. And ordinary citizens fighting for freedom were bullied, arrested, and deprived of access to their bank accounts.

Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface claimed that the protesters and their supporters were just a "small fringe minority" of racists, neo-Nazis yada yada yada who held "unacceptable views". In fact there are millions of Canadians who agree with the truckers, and the growing popularity of this "populist fringe" has been duly noted by the elites, who are starting to run scared... scared of the people!

They might well be scared. Nanos Research numbers, reported by CTV in mid-February, show a continuing rise in "accessible voters" for the People's Party of Canada -- a trend that began during the run-up to last year's federal election.

On the latest episode of Trend Line, Nanos Research's Nik Nanos said that the percentage of Canadians polled who would consider voting for the People's Party of Canada (PPC) usually sits at around 10 per cent. But as of Feb. 16, that number has gone up to 16 per cent, which Nanos calls a "material increase."

   

On the ballot question, when it comes to how many Canadians would actually vote for the party as their first-ranked choice, the PPC is polling at seven per cent nationally, ahead of the Green party and on par with the Bloc Québécois. (It should be noted, however, that the BQ only runs candidates in Québec, so its support is only in la Belle Province, whereas the PPC appeals to Canucks from sea to sea.)

Nick Nanos said, "What's clear is that over the last number of weeks, an increasing number of Canadians have put them on the political menu as an option."

Indeed. And it will be part of the PPC strategy to keep its leader, "Mad Max" Bernier, front and centre during the popular uprising against woke authoritarianism and Just In Trudeau's Liberals, as well as the CINOs (Conservatives in Name Only -- sometimes called "Red Tories") who, in this time of crisis, want to keep their asses not on the front lines but on the fence!

In this video, from the PPC channel on Rumble, M Bernier tells the truth about the Covid dempanic and the elites' vaccine mandates, the real purpose of which is total control of the bodies and minds of the people.  

The PPC recently started "Mad Max Live", a video town hall in which M Bernier gives good answers (not just "talking points") to the very good questions Canadians have about what's happening to the Not-so-great Not-so-white North. Episode 2 appeared on YouTube yesterday. Running time 70 minutes. Click here to check it out!

VIDEO: Max Bernier at the Ottawa Rally for Freedom

 "Freedom is the fundamental value that unites us! That's why we're here!"

The lickspittle Canuck media have been trying to give the impression that the Ottawa protest is fizzling out. Not true! (Are ya surprised?) Two items to note:

Emperor Trudeau II said yesterday that he would not order the use of troops to supress the protest... unless of course the province of Ontario or the City of Ottawa absolutely demanded it. The truth is that he is afraid to order the army to attack the protesters, for fear that the soldiers won't obey.

The Ottawa police have been imploring towing companies for miles around to help them by hooking up the "illegal parked" trucks, but have found no-one willing to do so. The truth is that the tow truck drivers are virtually unanimous in support of the Freedom Rally.

And one more thing. [No reference to Vince Offer? Ed.] As I write, I am hearing reports that 100s of trucks and tractors are encircling Toronto's Queen's Park, the pink palace which is the seat of the Ontario government. That's right... tractors! Big John Deeres! Driven by fed-up farmers. Should be an interesting weekend in Toronto the Not-so-good.

VIDEO: Canuck truckers' Freedom Rally - raw footage

Here's a couple of minutes of footage posted on the Ottawa Citizen website. Lots of flags and signs saying what Canadians would like to do to Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface. The protesters don't look like "fascists" to me. They do look cold, though. Well, maybe not the blonde in the bikini top!

   

Seems the Mounties are taking the "Fuck Trudeau" signs seriously. It is reported that Mr Socks and his family have been moved from Rideau Cottage to an undisclosed location, for their safety. 

Maxime Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada, is there. "Where," he asks, "is 'Conservative' leader O'Tool? He should be with the people!"

Note from Ed.: Was that Poor Len Canayen dancin' up a (snow)storm?!

VIDEOS: Fed-up Canuck truckers' protest rolls on to Ottawa

It usually takes a hockey-related controversy to get the Canadian sheeple off  their duffs and into the streets, especially in the dead of winter. That happens about once in a generation. But this past weekend, the phlegmatic Canucks apparently reached the boiling point -- fed up with rising gas prices, inflation, Wuhan flu lockdowns, and, above all, vaccine mandates.

Worldwide Freedom day normally passes unnoticed in Canuckistan, but this year was different. The sixth edition of the Worldwide Rally for Freedom saw 1000s of people gathered at Parc Lafontaine in Montréal, in -30 C weather to march for freedom. We have video.  

 

Walt hopes you noticed, at about 4:00, the flag being waved by some marchers. It is the flag of Le Vieux de `37, aka Le Patriote, whose image you will find elsewhere on WWW. That flag is to Canadians -- French-Canadians at least -- what the Gadsden flag is to patriotic Americans.

In Toronto the Good, other flags were being waved, notably the Maple Leaf Flag (sometimes held upside down, the universal signal of distress) and banners reading "Fuck Trudeau", at a similar rally which began at Queen's Park. Again, we have video.

No mainstream politicians were sufficiently in favour of freedom to turn out, but our old friend Maxime Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada, joined the demonstrators in Toronto. Heeeeeere's Max!

But wait (as Vince Offer used to say), there's more. Much more! Last weekend saw the beginning in Canada's west of an "On to Ottawa" motorcade of Canadian truck drivers, incensed by the Trudeau Liberals' latest control freakery -- a mandate that all truckers entering or re-entering Canada, regardless of citizenship, be tested for the Kung flu. Without exception. And this in spite of the dire economic implications of further restrictions on cross-border traffic.

The Freedom Convoy [Walt made that up! Ed.] gathered steam [diesel, surely. Ed.] as it rolled eastward through the prairie provinces, but really made the libtard pols (including those in the the Cuckservative Party) sit up and whine when it hit Ontario yesterday. 

With the main group passing through Thunder Bay and heading across northern Ontario to the nation's capital, another group geared up [Geddit? Ed.] in southern Ontario, like a snowball starting in Windsor and gaining more and more participants as it headed east through the Niagara Region into the so-called Golden Horseshoe. Here's more video.

At first the lickspittle media (which includes all the print and broadcast media with the possible exception of the Post newspapers) poo-pooed the truckers' demonstration, claiming that they represented only a small fraction of those employed in the industry. 

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface went in front of the cameras to say that the demonstrators and the 1000s of supporters now lining highways and overpasses to show their support, don't represent the way most Canadians feel, but are just a "fringe minority" who hold "unacceptable views". No kidding. Watch this.

  

The nerve of it! The sheer unmitigated gall! But the truth will out. So scared is Mr Socks of this "finge minority" that he annouonced today that he had "been in contact" with someone who might have the dreaded virus that -- even though he had not tested positive -- he thought it better to isolate himself in his little cottage in the shadow of Rideau Hall, for the next five days.

That means that His Excellency -- loathed by Canadians even more than was his father -- will not be on hand to meet or listen to the truckers when they arrive on Saturday. Imagine that. But Max will be there!

If you're a fed-up frostback -- vaccinated or unvaxxed -- and can get to Ennui-on-the-Rideau this weekend, you're welcome to join the fringe. Masks will not be required. Bring your own flag. 

An alternative to mass immigration?

Note from Ed.: This is for our Canadian readers, although we know many of our American (and Australian and British and French etc etc) would welcome this kind of initiative in their own countries. 

A poll by the well-known (and non-partisan!) Angus Reid Institute, published on the CityNews website six months ago, showed that a plurality of Canadians would like less immigration. 

The Liberal government of Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface plans to accept more than 400,000 newcomers in 2022. While there is some divide based on political stripes, 39% of those polled say the target is too high. A little more than a third believe that 411,000 is a good number and 13 per cent say Canada should welcome more people looking to immigrate. 

More people who voted NDP and Liberal in the past -- 43% and 47% respectively -- believed that Canada's target was appropriate. Residents of Alberta and Saskatchewan -- 50% and 54% -- were more likely to say the target should be scaled back. 

This opinion was also more common among people who've voted for Conservative in the past, 64% of whom disagreed with the target. Less than a quarter who voted Tory previously supported the Liberal plan to admit hundreds of thousands of new Liberal voters. 

Yet in the fall election, Erin O'Tool's CINO (Conservative In Name Only) Party did not raise, let alone oppose, the immigration issue. The only party to call for fewer (and better!) immigrants was Maxime Bernier's People's Party of Canada. See "Reducing Overall Levels and Prioritizing Skilled Immigrants", in the "Platform" pages of the PPC website.

Dear Canadian reader: If you would like to address the issue of mass immigration of people who cannot and will not be assimilated into Canadian society, consider joining Opportunities for Canadians -- a coalition against anti-Canadian bias in employment. Tell `em Walt sent ya!

Walt explains Canadian politics: 50 shades of red

One thing Americans can be thankful for today is the two-party system which has been the norm in US politics for most of the country's 240 (give or take) years. With only two parties to choose from, you have a clear choice. You know where they stand. You know where you stand. Do what you think is right.

The downside of having just two parties -- right (ish) and left (ish) -- is that those two parties have to accommodate a wide range of right(ish) and left(ish) opinions and policies with their "big tents". The Republicans have to deal with the raving right, including (some say), the alt-right. The Democrats have to pander to the growing numbers of looney lefties, including the likes of the Squad.

The result is a lot of division, or divisiveness, or, dare we say it, polarization. There's a lot of rancor in the air these days. You can even see it. The way things are now, even the colour of your hat makes a political statement. It's no longer white hats vs black hats, like in the old westerns, but Red Hats vs Blue Hats. 

How the Republicans wound up being officially Red, and the Democrats Blue, is a mystery. In the rest of the world, blue is the colour of the right -- Britain's Conservatives, for example -- and red is the colour of the left, from Britain's Labour Party to (of course) the Communists, everywhere. 

It's the same in Canada. Blue is the official colour of the so-called Conservative Party of Canada, and red is that of the Natural Governing Party, which is what Canada's Liberals call themselves. But there are other parties -- four others, unless you work for the CBC (Canadian Propaganda Corporation), in which case you recognize only three.

The only truly conservative party in Canada is Maxime Bernier's People's Party of Canada. That's the one the CBC wouldn't recognize until they started to poll  higher than the Greens. Their official colour is purple, which is the colour of PPC members' faces whenever Liberal Prime Minister Just In Trudeau is mentioned.

The other five parties -- counting only those with over 2% of the popular vote in Canada's last federal election -- are all liberal. Their official colous don't disguise the fact that their policies range in hue from pale red to deep red.

Just slightly in the red (policy-wise) are the aforementioned Conservatives, who, under leader Erin O'Tool, moved well to the left of centre to attract "progressive" voters who don't care for Mr Socks. All they managed to do was alienate their conservative base, which is why they lost the election. 

All Blackie McBlackface had to do to win was to remind people he that he's the liberal Liberal. Colour him Red.

Farther to the left are Canada's "New" Democrats, founded 60 years ago, hence the quote marks around "New". Their colour is orange, to match one of their leader's turbans. Their whole campaign pitch was that their social democratic (or democratic socialist) policies would ruin the country even faster than the Trudeau Liberals. Didn't work, and having a Sikh at the helm didn't help them much outside of the "little Khalistans" of Toronto and Vancouver.

The official colour of the Bloc Québécois is powder blue. The colour of their policies is pink, but not quite as pink as those of the NDP. Most Canadians don't know what the BQ stands for, since they only field candidates in Québec, and explain themselves only in French. 

That brings us the sixth and last party, the darling of the controlled media but dead last in the hearts and minds of Canadians -- the Green Party. Their official colour is... well, you already figured that out. But their policies are the reddest of red, so much so that their last leader upset the party members who chose her by not being sufficiently anti-Israel.

The last Green leader was Enemy [Annamie, shurely! Ed.] Paul, a black Jewish woman -- ticking three boxes right there -- who finished a distant fourth in her own riding. The party managed to elect just two Members of Parliament, the same as in the last House. One of those won by default after the Liberal candidate in his riding got MeTooed.

Ms Paul resigned before she could be fired, but not without trying for a green parachute and blaming her troubles on racism and sexism... and maybe anti-Semitism too. No surprises there. Anyway, she's gone, and the Greens have now chosen an interim leader, in the person of  Amita Kuttner -- pictured at left. [Geddit? Ed.] Kuttner describes herself as a "nonbinary astrophysicist" and "an expert in black holes". Seriously. You can look it up on the CBC website.

At the tender age of 30, Kuttner will be the youngest person as well as the first trans person to lead a federal political party. In a statement, Kuttner said they were "honoured to have been selected ... during this time of transition and renewal."

What? "Kuttner said they were honoured..."? Referring to whom? Ah... pronoun problems. Since Kuttner is "trans", no-one, including the CBC knows whether to say "xim", "xe", "xer","xis" or... whatever. 

Similarly, we don't know which honorific to use. [Maybe "Mr/s" or "Ms/r"? Ed.] All the same, Kuttner, like her predecessor-but-one, the tired and over-refreshed Elizabeth May, will be the darling of the lamestream media, as if "they" were head of a real party. And "they" will be the butt of the same old joke, "Kuttner? Party of one?"

Canada's fake "Conservatives" admit liberal policies cost them votes which went to Max Bernier's People's Party of Canada

When will conservatives ever learn that you can't win elections by trying to beat liberals at their own game, when millions of voters want real conservatives to run the country?

I didn't use capital letters there because the lesson is one that needs to be learned by politicians in all countries, not just Canada's "Conservatives", who, under the "leadership" of Erin O'Tool, managed to lose the September election that was theirs for the taking. How did they do it? By trying to be almost as liberal as the Liberals, led by Tofino Trudeau.

When it came to policies on the economy, carbon taxes, immigration and other things Canucks care about, there was essentially no difference between the Liberal platform -- "Vote for more of the same!" -- and that of the "Conservatives" -- "Vote for more of the same, only with a blue tie instead of red!"

Canadian voters, millions of `em, wanted a real choice, and so -- as predicted here (lifetime pct .991) -- conservative voters jumped to Max Bernier's People's Party of Canada.

Throughout the campaign, the Conservatives pooh-poohed my (and others') suggestion that O'Tool's pivot to the left would drive people to the PPC. Perhaps they were lulled into a false sense of security by the controlled media's deplatforming of "Mad Max". But they were wrong! As Nelson Muntz would say, HA-ha!

Even on the night of the election, as one Tory candidate after another lost to a Gliberal by a few hundred votes, Conservative "strategists" remained unconvinced of the "threat from the right". After all, the PPC didn't win any seats, not even M Bernier's own.

It didn't take long though, for the vote tallies to reveal that, indeed, the Conservatives could have won, but for the impact of the much increased support for the People's Party. As reported here not two days later, an analysis by former Conservative MP Inky Mark showed that no fewer than 22 seats were won by the Libs (or the even more pinkish NDP) by less than the number of votes cast for the PPC!

Now, a month after the Conservatives snatched defeat from the jaws of victory [Did you make that up? Ed.], the former MP leading the review into the party's election performance says it will examine how the Tories lost votes to the People's Party. How about that....

The Globe and Mail reports that James Cumming, an Alberta representative who lost his seat to the Liberals’ Randy Boissonnault, says he will begin reaching out to candidates and campaign teams this week. Mr O'Tool asked Mr Cumming to review the party's campaign after it was defeated by the Liberals and won two fewer seats than it did in the 2019 federal vote. 

In addition to probing his party's campaign strategy, its ground game and the data it used, etc, Mr Cumming says he will be looking at the role the PPC played in their failure to defeat Mr Socks. "Anywhere that we've had bleed of vote," said Mr Cumming, "I think that that's important that we study and understand what the factors were, so the PPC would represent some of that."

What's to study? Millions of Canadian voters, from coast to coast to coast (as the saying does) wanted a real conservatives, not "red Tories", to represent them in Parliament and halt the disintegration of the Great No-longer-white North. That's not so hard to understand... unless you're the leader of the "Conservative" Party.

Further reading: "How Erin O’Toole Has Walked The CPC Into A Trap" by Spencer Fernando, 5/10/21.

New blog interviews PPC leader Max Bernier

Ed. here. Walt is on his way to a corner of the forest where there is [gasp!] no Internet. We don't want to leave you with nothing to read while you wait for Walt to return, so today we present this link to an interview with Maxime Bernier, the indefatigable leader of the People's Party of Canada, which appeared yesterday in The Counter Signal. 

Their lede: Having risen from obscurity to overshadow the Green Party, the PPC has shown itself to be the first genuinely Right-wing alternative that might go somewhere. Now the question on many people's minds is "What's next for the PPC?" and how will they keep up the momentum they built during their campaign.... The Counter Signal sat down with PPC Leader Maxime Bernier to find out.

The Counter Signal is a new blog, at least new to us. It looks like it originates in western Canada, where the real conservatives roam. Good luck to the bloggers, and thanks to our friends at Blazing Cat Fur for sharing the link.

Canadian election: Impact of the People's Party of Canada

In yesterday's analysis of the pointless and inconclusive Canadian election, I wrote (in the first footnote) that Maxime Bernier's People's Party of Canada had drawn enough votes away from the so-called Conservative Party to cause them to lost "seven or eight" ridings.

A former Conservative Member of Parliament with the improbable name of Inky Mark has done a more careful analysis, and finds that the actual number of seats the Cons could have won, had they had the votes cast for the PPC, is... wait for it... 22! Here's his list.

That should provide some food for thought for "Conservative" strategists when they conduct their review of leader pro tem  Erin O'Tool's clever (?) plan to make the CPC resemble the Gliberals in all but name (and party colour, of course).

Footnote: As of this morning, there are 17 ridings in which the result of in-person voting is close enough that the mail-in ballots could overturn the provisional result. I'll post the final seat count after the Liberal appointees at Elections Canada get through manipulating it, but if you bet Blackie McBlackface would lose... pay up!

Further reading: "The Problem With Canada", by David Solway on PJ Media, 22/9/21.

The pointless Canadian election - no clear winners, only one clear loser

Yesterday's Canadian federal election, which promised to be interesting, turned out to be a big fat nothing-burger. 36 days and $600,000,000 ($480 million in real money) later, Canuckistan will once again be governed by the Liberal Party of Canada and its super-woke leader, Blackie McBlackface, aka Justin Trudeau, pictured at right. [Should be on the left, shurely! Ed.]

The composition of the House of Commons (analogous to the US House of Representatives) remains virtually unchanged. When the last Parliament was dissolved, the Gliberals held 155 seats, the self-styled Conservatives (really the alt-Liberals) had 119, le Bloc Québécois 32, the New Democrats (celebrating their 60th anniversary) 24, and the Green Party 2. There were 5 independents and 1 seat was vacant.

When the sun rose over Parliament Hill this morning, the Liberals were elected or leading in 157 ridings (+2), the Red Tories 119 (unchanged), the BQ 34 (+2), NDP 25 (+1), and the Soylent Greens 2 (unchanged). One MP who was fired by the Liberals two days before the election under suspicion of sexual misconduct will have to sit as an independent.

The People's Party of Canada, led by Maxime Bernier and endorsed by YVT, had no seats in the last parliament and will have no seats in the new one, as "Mad Max" failed to win his home riding of Beauce.

Canadian Conservatives can make the same claim as they did in 2019 and the US Dumbocrats did in 2016, that they are the real winners because they won more of the popular vote -- 34% to the Liberals' 32.5% -- but too bad for them, the systems of both countries are similar in that you can win the popular vote and still lose the election. 

Now let's take a look at the party leaders, to see who were the winners and who the losers.

Justin Trudeau called the election, in the middle of the kung flu pandemic, for no reason other than his egomaniacal desire to win a third term with a majority. He didn't. So we can say he lost. But he's still Prime Minister of Canuckistan this morning, so he also won.

The leader of the alleged Conservatives, Erin O'Toole, lost an election that was his to win. Mr Socks is the most loathed prime minister in Canadian history -- and that's saying something! -- and could have been beaten, had the Cons offered a real alternative. That they didn't is on Mr O'Tool, who deliberately dragged his party from the centre to the left, in hopes of appealing to "progressive" voters. Mr O'Tool will likely face a fight to continue in his role as leader. Still, he can say that his party increased its share of the popular vote, so in that sense he's a "winner", just like Hellery Clinton.  

Yves-François Blanchet's Bloc Québécois gained two seats, which makes M Blanchet a winner, except that, in spite of finishing in third place, they don't hold the balance of power in the minority government, since Mr Socks can count on the support of the NDP to do whatever they like to Canada, including Québec, which is all M Blanchet cares about anyway. [Walt! What have I told you about run-on sentences?! Ed.]

The socialist NDP, led by Jagmeet Singh, is down one seat, which makes Mr Singh a loser, since they should have been able to do better with liberals fed up with M Trudeau. Still, they are the real holders of the balance of power and can bring down the Liberals if they choose. But that's Strike Two for Mr Singh and he won't be in any hurry to step up to the plate a third time.

Annamie Paul was the first black, Jewish woman to lead a "national Party", although to call the Green Party "national" is being charitable, since it ran candidates in only two-thirds of the ridings. She finished a distant fourth in her own riding of Toronto Centre, and her party was lucky to win two seats, the same total (but not the same seats) as last time. Even before the election, the Green Party brass was trying to oust her, and she will likely step down after a decent interval.

Finally, let us consider the fate of Maxime Bernier, erstwhile leader of the People's Party of Canada, which he founded just four years ago. He lost his own riding by a margin of more than 2 to 1. But under his leadership, and as a result of his tireless campaigning right across the huge empty country, the PPC's share of the vote increased from 1.6% in 2019 to nearly 6% at last count. 

The analysts, pundits, etc agree: The PPC is real, and here to stay! IMHO, that makes "Mad Max" a winner!

FOOTNOTE: Where the PPC did make a difference was in seven or eight ridings where the PPC drew just enough votes, mainly from the Conservatives, to let the Liberal candidate win. That should be a lesson for the Conservatives about the perils of alienating the real conservatives just to appease the "moderates".

ANOTHER FOOTNOTE: Early this morning, the Campaign Life Coalition issued a news release saying it was disappointed but not surprised by the election result. "The Conservatives would've done much better," they said, "if O'Toole had not alienated the party’s socially conservative base with his shameless support for abortion, LGBT ideology, oppressive lockdowns and liberty-destroying vaccine passports." [My emphasis. Walt]

VIDEO: Canadian election: Dr Jordan Peterson talks with Max Bernier

Right from the day Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface called the totally unnecessary general election to be held on September 20th, the Canadian media -- bought and paid for by the Liberal government -- have pretended that Maxime Bernier and his People's Party of Canada don't exist. So also with the pollsters and, as reported here, the "non-partisan" (HA!) Leaders' Debate Commission. 

There was, and still is, a rather obvious conspiracy to silence any voices not subscribing to the liberal orthodoxy. It has become impossible, just this week, for the elites and their controlled media to ignore "Mad Max" and the PPC any longer. Just today a poll by the liberal Nick Nanos showed the PPC with over 7% support nationwide, compared with the 2% of the popular vote which they garnered in the 2019 election. 

The so-called (but not really) Conservatives, and their leader Erin O'Toole, are quaking in their boots, fearing that the PPC will bleed off just enough of their support to ensure a win for the loathsome Liberals. 

Dr Jordan Peterson, well known as a voice of conservative reason in a loony liberal world, invited both M Bernier and Mr O'Tool to discuss their positions, and the future of conservatism in Canada. Mr O'Tool declined. So now we have Dr Peterson's wide-ranging interview with M Bernier, recorded yesterday. If you have yet to hear M Bernier explain himself and his aims, here's your chance.

 

Further viewing: "The Great Non-Debate - Part 3", WWW 10/9/21 -- Lauren Chen debriefs Max Bernier and David Freiheit, the PPC candidate in the riding of Montréal-Westmount.

Now, for the last time: Walt's advice for conservative Canucks, and everyone else who's sick of Just In Trudeau and all his pomps and wokeness: 

If you live in a riding where the Conservative candidate is in a close race with the Liberals or NDP, hold your nose and vote for him/her. 

If you're in a Québec riding where the Cons have little chance, vote for the PPC if they have a decent chance of winning, otherwise for the Bloc. 

In all other circumstances, cast your ballot for the only party that offers a real conservative alternative -- Maxime Bernier's People's Party of Canada.

Unless something really astounding happens this weekend, this will likely be my last post until Tuesday. I am planning to be somewhere north of the World's Longest Undefended Border to watch the returns come in on Monday. It promises to be a long and interesting night.

VIDEO: Canadian Election: The Great Non-Debate - Part 3

Further to Walt's two earlier posts, here's a discussion of last night's debate farce. Lauren Chen talks with David Freiheit, creator of the Viva PPC YouTube channel, and Maxime Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada.

 

Max was lucky, IMHO, to have been excluded from this week's gong show. And now he's doubly lucky to have this opportunity to answer, without interruption, the arguments, calumnies and outright lies of the lickspittle media. Thanks to all those involved.

Canadian election: Rigged Leaders' Debates over, now what? - Part 1

Subhead seen on the CBC News website report on Wednesday night's "Débat des Chefs": "The five main party leaders will meet again on Thursday for the English debate." Did you catch that? "five main party leaders"! Ha ha! It is to laugh! The Liberal (and liberal) bias of the so-called "non-partisan" Leaders' Debate Commission was on full display, along with blatant rigging to silence any conservative voices, as Walt's question of August 28th was answered in the negative. 

In spite of polling ahead of both the Bloc Québécois and the ultrawoke Green Party, People's Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier -- the man without the mask -- was excluded. Thus the "debates" amounted to nothing more than a liberal love-in, as the four leaders who aren't Just In Trudeau tripped all over themselves to say that they agreed with his "progressive" policies -- including "vaccine mandates" and carbon taxes -- the only issue being who should be Prime Minister come September 21st. 

What did voters want to hear about? A poll conducted exclusively for True North revealed that the two most important issues for hapless Canucks were getting through the kung flu pandemic (36%) and climate change (30%). High-profile issues like foreign affairs and terrorism (read: China and Afghanistan) and "indigenous reconciliation" (read: hand out more money to the victims industry) were the least of respondents' concerns, at 2% and 7% respectively.

So which issues did the alleged journalists and pundits asking the questions focus on? You guessed it. Reconciliation got about 18% of the airtime on Thursday night, and the proceedings both nights started with the now obligatory "land acknowledgment ceremony" in which the emcee said how grateful everyone was that the People Formerly Known As Indians were allowing the debates to be held on land that had been stolen from them.

The official topics for Wednesday night's French-language debate were climate change, the cost of living, "cultural identity" (which skirted the reconciliation non-issue), the pandemic and mandatory vaccines, justice and foreign policy. All five of the participants were pretty much in agreement on those things, so the four who aim to replace Blackie McBlackface threw in "trust and integrity", and whether this election is even necessary. 

In his first exchange with M Trudeau, Erin O'Tool, leader of the Mildly Conservative Party, asked, "Why did you call an election in the middle of a pandemic?... This isn't the time to be dividing people." Jugmeat Singh, leader of the Few Democrats chimed in, "The only reason to call an election is a selfish one. To gain more power. That was not the right thing to do." 

Mr Socks' lame response was that Canadians deserve a say on how the country gets out of the pandemic. Mr Singh countered that there was no real choice, since the two main parties -- and there are only those two -- were like Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber. (He didn't use that phrase. It's mine!)

With no real disagreements on the issues, what amounted to a liberal love-in droned on for two house, the only sparks coming when M Trudeau engaged his drama queen gear. When Yves-François Blanchet (leader of the Bloc Québécois) said he was the only one standing up for the rights of Québec and Québécois, M Trudeau got all huffy and said he was just as much a Québecker as M Blanchet. In fact thatès not true, as Just In's mother, née Margaret Sinclair, was from the western province of Saskatchewan, and never bothered to learn French or otherwise become part of the "Québec nation".

That reminds me of a story I heard recently about the wife of Emperor Trudeau I. She was always something of an airhead, an earlier version of Princess Di, who married a much older man for reasons known only to her. She may also have had a problem with, errr, substance abuse. (It was all the rage in the disco era.) Anyhoo, she took to hanging out with the celebs at New York's Studio 54, and was photographed "going commando", showing a type of Canadian beaver not seen on the nickel. When asked to comment, Pierre (le père de Just In) allegedly said, "I hope Teddy Kennedy drives her home!" 

But I digress. [Indeed. Can you just wrap up Wednesday night and we'll leave Thursday for the next post? Ed.] OK! Election debates always come with high expectations, to which they rarely live up. Wednesday night's debate was no exception. It did, however, signal that the languid pace of this summer campaign is over now. 

 The leaders' messaging, their efforts to stand apart from their opponents, the occasional lame barbs they traded back and forth, all amounted to an acknowledgement by the party leaders that the public opinion polls they profess to ignore are right. This race is close. A majority government appears out of reach for the two frontrunners. That means it's time for strategic voting.

Walt's advice for conservative Canucks, and everyone else who's sick of Just In Trudeau and all his pomps and wokeness: If you live in a riding where the Conservative candidate is in a close race, hold your nose and vote for him/her. If you're in a Québec riding where the Cons have little chance, vote for the PPC if they have a decent chance of winning, otherwise for the Bloc.

In all other circumstances, cast your ballot for the only party that offers a real conservative alternative -- Maxime Bernier's People's Party of Canada. The PPC is sitting at around 8%, nation-wide, in the latest polls. It would be wonderful, and good for Canada, to see them win not just Mad Max's seat (Beauce) but one or two besides.

Note from Ed.: Once Walt gets the bit between it's teeth, it's hard to stop him. Part 2 of his report on the Leaders' Debates follows momentarily.