Many conservatives were (rightly) agitated when they saw that the document which provides the basis for the creation of the new Conservative Party of Canada states that the new party will support ‘progressive’ social policies. I fully understand this as, in leftist circles, ‘progressive’ is generally a code word for ‘perverted’. However, what I found equally alarming within the document was its casual affirmation that the new party would support the tyrannical and monstrous policy of bilingualism which has been forced upon us by the Federal Government and enshrined in the Constitution which is the hideous legacy of Pierre Elliot Trudeau. It is absurd that in a free and democratic society I and others should have a foreign language forced upon me, especially when the speakers of that language fail to show any respect for my language in the Province that they control. A principled party of the right should commit itself both to repealing official bilingualism and salting the fields from which such a repellent idea sprang.

Bilingualism is about more than just policy. It is a symbol which goes very deeply to the meaning of Canada. Official bilingualism is a method of constantly indoctrinating the public with the erroneous notion that it is desirable that the English and French traditions play an equal role in Canada.

The roots of pretty much everything that is wrong with Canada can be traced to Quebec. I looked upon with pride as the United States, Great Britain, and Australia liberated Iraq from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. The members of the Anglosphere, that special part of the West which contains the greatest civilization and the best people in the history of the world: the defenders of mankind, the great defenders of the heritage of liberty which now belongs to the children of England. Canada should have been there too, for we are also born of that heritage. We were not because of the Continental tainting of our country which we have allowed to occur. Our government today is more French than English and that is why I, and many others, could never consent to serve it in any way.

As long as we ignored Quebec and allowed it to live on as an isolated backwater, we were fine. It was when we sought to make Quebec- the same Quebec which sought to sabotage our efforts in two World Wars- a full partner in our nation that we destroyed it. With Quebec came the horrible doctrines of the modern left. From Quebec came Trudeau and rest of his crew, the discarding of our old morality. Our nation has been Francofied.

We in English Canada have consented to be ruled by Quebec for too long- we have allowed their ideas to ooze into our own patterns of thought and corrupt us. One of the main reasons that Ontarians has, in recent years, elected so many Liberals is that they are afraid of upsetting their French neighbours. We of English Canada live today as though we are a conquered nation. We cater to Quebec and ship them our tax dollars in tribute. We consent to having the French language forcibly placed upon all of our consumer products while they arrest bakers for using too much English on their signs. They made us haul down the Red Ensign because the Union Jack offends them so. Was it Montcalm who won on the Plains of Abraham? The Quebeckers are the conquered, and they should have been made to live in a fashion consistent with that status.

I’ve long said that I would like to run as a candidate of the Bloc Québécois here in British Columbia. Certainly, the Bloc is a motley crew of socialists and other losers, but we agree on at least one big issue, which is more than I can say about my relations with the rest of Canada’s political parties. On the stump I would have but one things to say, “The Bloc wants Quebec out of Canada- and so do I.�

But that, of course, is a fantasy. Like it or not, we’re stuck with Quebec for the time being. But that doesn’t mean that we have to be nice to them. If a the Conservative Party thinks that its going to be able to win any number of seats in Quebec without losing seats in the West, then they’ve been acting as though Jean Chrétien’s new pot law has already been enacted. A fight for conservatism and the West must, by definition, be a fight against the disproportionate influence enjoyed by Quebec on the national stage. Any rise in Western power must be accompanied by a decrease in the power of Quebec. Let us begin by seeking to obliterate the tyranny of bilingualism.