DEFENDING THE QUEEN IN CANADA

In this info-packed 20-min excerpt from our Live broadcast this week, we examine the disturbing events in Winnipeg, Manitoba on 1st July Canada Day, when the statue of HM the Queen, and Queen Victoria, were pulled down. We believe that it is good for history to be brought out; but it is not good for it to be taken out of context, mis-represented, and used for the political purpose of trying to overthrow the state.

In this complete segment, we consider the following:

- John A Macdonald, Glaswegian, the first Prime Minister of Canada, in 1867.

- Some people are complaining about the residential schools for native peoples' children, because they say white Europeans should not have tried to integrate them. But what were the options when the two groups met each other?

- Everybody could make up a bad story about boarding schools prior to 1970 – especially in a day and age (19th century and first half of 20th century) of huge infant and child mortality and no welfare state!

- Lots of children from Scotland suffered too – and thousands of Scottish orphans were sent to Canada – so don't try to make your suffering more important than other people's suffering.

- We examine Boris Johnson's utterly inadequate condemnation of the statue vandalism.

- We look at how to respond to any action: condemn, excuse, or cheer – choose one and don't mix your message!

- What a proper condemnation sounds like.

- Do not address your opponents reasoning during your own condemnation because that risks excusing them.

The link to our 1-hour show (7-7-21) is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX-Rl99TqRI

Further reading on John A Macdonald is here:
"The Fight Over Canada's Founding Prime Minister: Attacks on symbols of nationhood are not merely symbolic actions. They strike at the nationhood the symbol represents."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/defense-canada-prime-minister-john-macdonald/619236/

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