Why I Do Not Celebrate Canada Day
This post endeavors to further deconstruct and illuminate the true nature of the religion of Statism
As you may have gathered if you have read my book or listened to my most recent segment in the Mounsey Minute series on Media Monarchy I am not into the flag waving celebrations as I have come to realize that statism is a scam and I see government itself as being inherently immoral.
Some people might say “but Gavin, I do not celebrate Canada Day because I support the government, I do it because I love this country”.
Okay, lets unpack that a bit shall we?
What exactly is a country? and how did the entity called “Canada” attain such a status?
In short, every country in North America (and every country elsewhere as far as I am aware) is essentially an area drawn within lines on a map within which a certain band of imperialistic thugs has managed to murder, oppress, trick, lie, steal and gaslight their way into taking land from a diverse group of indigenous peoples (by force used in combination with various types of fraud and other chicanery) and they now claim to have the right to tell people what they are and are not allowed to do with their lives and their money (within that geographic region of stolen land).
Within that region of land (that a group of specific thugs masquerading as noble individuals has declared they own through violence and force) those particular organized criminals claim to have the “authority” to extract money from anyone that is born in that region (whether you like it or not, and if you resist, they will assault you with armed thugs, steal your possessions, kidnap you and lock you in a cold dark room).
The land that is now called “Canada” has only been called that for less than two centuries and those that already lived here when the people that created the entity called “Canada” arrived had their own names for this land.
Thus, if it is the land and the people that now live here which you love and want to celebrate, it is illogical to do so under the waving flag of a nation state and governance structure that is built on mass murder of innocents, lying, stealing, ecological devastation, pillaging and fraud. I love the land that most people now refer to as “Canada” deeply, but I do not erroneously conflate that love and admiration with a relatively new involuntary governance structure and some arbitrary lines that were drawn in the sand by well organized thugs.
Larken Rose, elaborates on the realities I described in the paragraphs above (which most people are either unaware of, or vehemently refuse to accept as they contradict a lifetime of indoctrination) in his book titled “The Most Dangerous Superstition” which I will share some excerpts from below for context.
(I may not have the same view of the word “civilization” and “civilized” as Larken Rose does but aside from that, I agree with everything he says in the excerpts I shared above and will share below)
I used to celebrate Canada Day loyally, I would declare this nation as the best one on Earth, wave flags and sing the national anthem enthusiastically. That was the result of a lifetime of indoctrination into the religion of Statism.
Some people (especially Athiests) will say that it is Religion (or some even say the simple choice to believe in God) is the main cause for war but what they fail to understand, is that the institutions (that they place on the same pedestal as devout religious followers place their ideas about God) represent an even more dangerous type of dogmatic belief system.
“The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The Individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” - Gandhi
When the Italian Mafia tells you they are going to provide you with “protection services” (and then if you do not pay up they beat you down, take your stuff and maybe make you disappear) that is called “Pizzo”. When your government does that same thing, it is called “taxation”.
The military industrial (and now also the big pharma/big tech industrial) complex uses its influence over nation states to pass laws and influence policy in combination with the multigenerational racketeering operation known as ‘taxation’ in order to take your money from you (under threat of violence and kidnapping) to spend on GMO seeds from Bayer, bullets, guns, bombs, landmines, drones, “vaccines” and other chemical/biological weapons.
I do not subscribe to any sort of dogmatic religious belief system (and especially not one where I am commanded to place my faith in an “authority” called “government”, which is run by a group of humans that are just as, if not more likely to have the same flaws and susceptibility to being corrupted as myself or anyone else).
When the followers of the religion of government are convinced that their savior figure wants them to do something irresponsible, lacking compassion, dangerous or even malicious, they will do so "for the greater good".
I refuse to pledge loyalty to a band of glorified thugs that proclaim the right to take my money, and use it to prop up big pharma, clearcut the old growth forests, carve into the bones of the Earth and poison her sacred waters to get lithium for “sustainable” e-vehicles, instigate and perpetuate wars for profit and pay for subsidizing GMO agriculture.
Rather, I seek to forge my own unique path to come to know the Divine and trust my intuition as I learn more about my place in the universe. I swear allegiance to and loyalty to the Creator, Creation (including the living Earth), those beings close to be that I share my life with and humanity (not some multi-generational racketeering entity that coerces me to pay it’s minions using the threat of violence).
In truth the entity called Canada represents 157 years of Colonialism... Pillaging... Eugenics... Assimilation... Ecological Degeneration... Disenfranchisement... Criminal Dispossession... Forced Labor (aka slavery), Lying... Mass Murder, Anthropocentrism and Involuntary Governance.
The Government of Canada after stealing the Indigenous people's land used coercion, bullying, violence, kidnapping, forced sterilization and murder to try to force the Indigenous people into submission and assimilation.
If I felt any identification with the nation state I happened to be born in (which I do not) I would feel shame and disgrace today.
This is a country in which government funded operations were created with the express intent of assaulting, lying, stealing land, kidnapping, torturing, psychologically abusing, assimilating and/or the mass murder of children.
Think the residential schools are some kind of isolated incident?
I have friends with heritage rooted in several different First Nation cultures. Some are old enough where they remember when the government agents and RCMP came for them and their siblings to kidnap them and drag them off to to the residential "schools". https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Survivors_Speak_English_Web.pdf Some eluded their would be captors and had to live a life on the run as young adults, some were not so lucky and the stories they tell me about the atrocities that were perpetrated upon innocent children there (in Government sponsored facilities run by priests and nuns) are so disturbing that hearing them would bring tears to your eyes and make you sick to your stomach. Torture and Mass Murder of innocent children took place in those facilities all over Canada. These facilities were engaging in the forced sterilization of indigenous girls up until the year 2000 in some provinces.
Another example (less extreme though also appalling) is when the government of Canada seized the property of thousands of Japanese Canadian Citizens, forced them into camps to be used as slave labor, sold their possessions and then either forced them to leave Canada or move east. Here in Ontario there is a town where David Suzuki and his family were forced to move to from their home out west in BC (where they had been detained and held in concentration type government camps simply because of the fact that they are Japanese).
The colonial imperialistic conquest (that began with a greed an arrogance driven pillaging of the First Nation people's and their lands) continues in northwestern British Columbia where Canadian authorities are invading Wet’suwet’en indigenous lands for the construction of a gas pipeline, violating both Canadian and international law. Protests have erupted across Canada in support of the Wet'suwet'en people who are fighting for their rights.
As if the colonialism (past and present) and pillaging of the land (and the people who called this place home before the Europeans came) was not enough, over the past 3 decades the Canadian government has worked closely with corporations that are attempting to colonize the very genetic fabric of our food sources with the creation and proliferation of GMO crops (transgenic organisms created via rDNA gene splicing tech). These nutritionally deficient highly toxic food crops have resulted in the devastation of our soils, waters, diverse ecosystems and the degradation of human health.
Little else aside from war and Canada Day elicits as much flag waving as the Olympics, but that too is nothing more than an extension of the same violent oppression, fraud and thievery that this nation state is built upon.
When Vancouver got the Olympic bid for the 2010 winter Olympics (a modern day “Circus Maximus” that exudes Anthropocentrism and hubris) the statist bureaucrats in Canada immediately began planning how they would steal more of unceded lands of indigenous peoples and pillaging the Earth in order to build the Olympic facilities and event grounds.
As early as 2007, indigenous people, the poor, the homeless and those who live on the land were experiencing the ripple effects of the imperialistic colonialism of the Olympic Games. The vast destruction of mountains, old growth forests, streams, hunting and fishing grounds and delicate ecosystems in which are relied on by Indigenous people; the closures of social housing and low income hotels; the high and increasing rate of homelessness; and the criminalization of Indigenous people and the poor are all part of the lead up to the 2010 Olympics.
Indigenous communities in the interior and the coast of British Columbia including the Secwepemc people of Skelkwek’welt, the St’at’imc of Sutikalh, the Pilalt of Cheam along with people from all colors and creeds were resisting the objectives and activities of the 2010 Olympics since 2003.
Those who stood up to defend their lands were criminalized by the Canadian state. There were hundreds of arrests of Indigenous people (with an emphasis on Indigenous youth and Elders) who protested Olympics 2010 and its objectives.
The Vancouver government appointed the Vancouver Olympic Committee to organize and plan the Winter Games. The Vancouver Olympic Committee, the British Columbian government, and the Canadian government began planning to build the venues for the games. After choosing the venue locations, the International Olympic Committee realized that the land belonged to indigenous people, and was in fact un-ceded land. Un-ceded indigenous land can be classified as land that is not under the protection of a signed treaty, but requires the permission of the First Nations government before being developed. This decision was not released to the public, and construction started without the permission of the First Nations peoples. This outraged First Nations groups in British Columbia, Canada, prompting them to start the campaign known as “No Olympics on Stolen Native Land”.
In response the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (VANOC) allocated $175 million dollars of tax payer money to militarize RCMP units to crush any resistance (they ended up spending over $400 million by 2008 and by the end of February 2009, it was finally acknowledged that the security bill would be over a billion dollars). Much of the security planning was driven by threat assessments conducted by the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre, a branch of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (or CSIS which is Canada’s version of the FBI).
What were those tax dollars used for? Well to crush dissenting voices and silence indigenous elders who spoke out about their land being stolen (so that fancy Olympic athletes could prance around on stages for camera crews) of course!
The militarized police units set up designated “free speech zones” in Whistler and Vancouver (which were chain link fenced in areas out of sight from the main events) and were the only places that people were allowed to protest. When they refused to be hidden away in ‘protest pens’ and protested near olympic events, police brutality ensued. This resulted in several deaths, including the death of indigenous elder Harriet Nahanee, aged 71, after being sent to jail. She died because she was sent to Surrey Pretrial Centre, a prison for men and a noted hell-hole for women in poor health.
Needless to say, over a billion dollars worth of tax payer money later (spent on militarized police units to crush and silence dissent) the olympic corporations marched onward to steal their land, pillage the sea to sky corridor and set up their modern day Circus Maximus (built on the stolen lands of indigenous peoples and tainted by the blood of their peaceful elders that dared to ask that their traditional lands and the wildlife that lived there be respected).
For more info on the corrupt and degenerative corporate Olympic industry see:
“THE OLYMPIC INDUSTRY: MYTH AND REALITY” : https://web.archive.org/web/20211031161826/http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/anti-2010_booklet.pdf
and "The International Indigenous Network Statement “No Olympics on Stolen Unceded Native Land”: https://web.archive.org/web/20190907165009/https://noii-van.resist.ca/indigenous-support/no-olympics-on-stolen-native-land/
Next up in the seemingly perpetual expressions of Corporate colonialism (assisted by corrupt governments and police) the year is 2013. This time the Canadian government and their corporate bosses want to pillage the Mi'kmaq lands in New Brunswick by building a Petroleum Fracking operation.
When the indigenous peoples refused to hand over their land to the Fracking corporations, RCMP were again militarized to crush dissent and clear the way for more colonial theft.
The Canadian military also used its counter-intelligence unit to monitor the Mi’kmaq Warrior Society-led anti-fracking camp.
Peaceful protests were attacked when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) brought in snipers dressed in camouflage and armored riot police who attacked protesters with pepper spray, physically assaulting those who stood in the way of violations of treaty rights and the destruction of their land.
The image below is an artists rendition of an actual photograph of those events.
For more information about the colonial imperialism that has been imposed on the Mi'kmaq peoples for over 300 years: https://web.archive.org/web/20131024005224/http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/elsipogtog-clashes-300-years-making/19357
The blood thirsty corporations and their statist friends continued their colonial pillaging northward in 2019-2020 when the Canadian government and corporations (TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) / Coastal GasLink’s) initiated a violent invasion into the Unceded territory of the Wet'suwet'en Nation.
Militarized RCMP were again sent in to act as enforcers for corporations, assaulting and arresting peaceful indigenous people to make the way for the bulldozers to annihilate the land. The national police force frequently sends members of a specialized division with a reputation of using excessive force against peaceful protestors. Known as the Community-Industry Response Group, or C-IRG, the roving unit draws RCMP officers from far-flung areas of Canada to break up protest camps that form in opposition to fracking operations, pipelines, strip mining projects and old growth logging operations. These are corporate mercenaries with fancy titles, nothing more.
Many brave satyagrahi are still (even now) resisting the imperialistic fascistic conquest and pillaging of Mother Earth and theft of the Unceded sovereign territory of the Wet'suwet'en Nation.
For more information on the current situation :
Wet'suwet'en Explained: https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/wetsuweten-explained
MILITARIZATION OF WET’SUWET’EN LANDS
AND CANADA’S ONGOING VIOLATIONS: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c51ebf73e2d0957ca117eb5/t/620058664c6ee459921ddd70/1644189799141/Expert+Mechanism+on+the+Rights+of+Indigenous+Peoples+Wet%27suwet%27en+Submission+Jan+2022.pdf
Now here we are present day. Colonialism has taken on new forms such as the colonization of the minds of people of all colors and creeds through governments and corporations using social media and AI Chat bots as a weapon or colonization of the genetic fabric of life (through biopiracy racketeering operations that use corrupt laws to patent seeds and other organisms and synthetic mRNA injections that contaminate the human genome) yet in many ways its ravenous lust to steal the lands of indigenous peoples and pillage the body of the Earth remains the same yet it is presented with new slogans such as “sustainable development” and “renewable energy”.
These are just a few examples from the past and not isolated incidents.
I am all for celebrating my love for the land and the good people I share this land with, but knowing what the nation state called Canada really is, how it came to be, and what it is about today, I personally would never go about celebrating those things by waving a flag and supporting statism.
If you love the land, express your love and gratitude for the place where you live in a way that the living Earth can sense and receive. Plant a Regenerative Garden, plant a tree, give your attention and time to get to know some of the more than human co-inhabitants of your local community and plant seeds in the living Earth.
If you love the people you share this land with, take time to share seeds, stories, nutritious meals (using locally sourced produce) and culturally enriching experiences that involve reciprocity and nurturing gift economics with those in your local community. Become an exemplar in your community and begin to plant the seeds for SOCs (Self Organizing Communities) that embark upon an ethnoecologcally defined ethnogenesis that leaves Statism and involuntary governance behind to leave this world a little bit more beautiful than it was when we got here for those that will call this land home after we are gone.
We can engage in this sacred process in the garden, in the forest and in our dealings with both human and non-human beings within “civilization”.
Thank you for reading and thank you to those of you that already express your love for the land and your fellow beings in these ways (whether you live within the organized crime syndicate territory called “Canada” or not).
I love this land (that was once called part of Turtle Island by it's inhabitants) however, this entity that some are celebrating today (called Canada) is (IMO) hardly something worthy of saluting... its history is stained with the blood of those who stood in the way of the profits and genocidal delusions of government authorities (and their corporate puppet masters).
It is a nation state that is not on a path guided by compassion, nor humility, nor valor, nor courage, nor freedom. It is a country where the majority have allowed themselves to become mentally enslaved, subservient to an unelected plutocratic constellation of criminal corporations (and their puppets in government) and that is nothing to be proud of.
Considering all I have shared above, I now humbly and with genuine curiosity ask those of you that celebrate Canada Day, what is it exactly that you are celebrating?
I would like to thank anyone in advance that takes the time to honestly consider that question with an open mind and post a response in the comments section.
May the seeds you sow in hearts through acts of kindness return to you in a harvest of joy, comradery and peace.. May the seeds you sow in minds with courage, persistence, honesty and humility return to you in a harvest of worthy allies and old friends you can trust and rely on and may the seeds you sow in the rich Earth return to you in a harvest of food for the soul and longevity for your body.
Years ago Kirkpatrick Sale suggested loyalty be directed towards the watershed where one resides. The nation state is an envelope which serves the purpose of enforcing ruling class dominance over the great majority of toilers who are educated from childhood to loyally serve their own oppression including lending their bodies to fight the rich men’s wars.
If all believed and behaved as you do, the war machine / greedy bloodthirsty war lords, would be extinct - not the First Peoples & their way of life.