I don't think Canada is a perfect country, but I believe it is a good country. What Canada needs is to become more concerned about its internal politics, and less about events going on in other parts of the world that don't concern us. We live in a welfare state that needs a continual influx of new Canadians to pay for things and work for whatever employers want to pay. Housing has become unattainable (for the average Joe) unless you are a boomer who got into the market many years ago. That is primarily an issue of supply and demand, with too much money chasing too few houses. I think most of the people who have come here recently did so to improve their lot in life, and we should let them do so. Deal with the problem children, and then things will work out.
I grew up in the same time period as you and my father also fought for Canada during WW11, but our perspectives of the time differ greatly. There was tangible animosity between French and English as a result of a minority language requirement being imposed on the English majority. High School offered a simple solution to that, just take Latin instead, which I did. Later in life I regretted that option as I travelled extensively in Quebec and was linguistically disadvantaged by my limited language skills. What I don't remember is any significant antisemitism during that time. Canadian and British armed forces liberated the infamous Bergen Belsen concentration camp and went to considerable efforts to save the survivors there, many of whom were Jews. The holocaust did not inspire antisemitism in Canadians it created empathy for their plight. The architects of the holocaust were subjected to justice at the Nuremburg trials many of whom received their just rewards at the end of a rope. Canada was a party to this process. Your suggestion that Canadian institutions are now a hot bed of antisemitism presents an offensive contrast to the contemporary reality of the current genocide being undertaken against Palestinians by the Jewish state. Don't confuse the contempt that many Canadians now feel about the religiously inspired genocide against Palestinians currently being propagated by Israel with hatred of a specific religion even for the purpose of generating sympathy for the Zionist cause. It doesn't fly.
Ordered the book on eugenics. Already have one of the other recommendations.
I don't think Canada is a perfect country, but I believe it is a good country. What Canada needs is to become more concerned about its internal politics, and less about events going on in other parts of the world that don't concern us. We live in a welfare state that needs a continual influx of new Canadians to pay for things and work for whatever employers want to pay. Housing has become unattainable (for the average Joe) unless you are a boomer who got into the market many years ago. That is primarily an issue of supply and demand, with too much money chasing too few houses. I think most of the people who have come here recently did so to improve their lot in life, and we should let them do so. Deal with the problem children, and then things will work out.
I grew up in the same time period as you and my father also fought for Canada during WW11, but our perspectives of the time differ greatly. There was tangible animosity between French and English as a result of a minority language requirement being imposed on the English majority. High School offered a simple solution to that, just take Latin instead, which I did. Later in life I regretted that option as I travelled extensively in Quebec and was linguistically disadvantaged by my limited language skills. What I don't remember is any significant antisemitism during that time. Canadian and British armed forces liberated the infamous Bergen Belsen concentration camp and went to considerable efforts to save the survivors there, many of whom were Jews. The holocaust did not inspire antisemitism in Canadians it created empathy for their plight. The architects of the holocaust were subjected to justice at the Nuremburg trials many of whom received their just rewards at the end of a rope. Canada was a party to this process. Your suggestion that Canadian institutions are now a hot bed of antisemitism presents an offensive contrast to the contemporary reality of the current genocide being undertaken against Palestinians by the Jewish state. Don't confuse the contempt that many Canadians now feel about the religiously inspired genocide against Palestinians currently being propagated by Israel with hatred of a specific religion even for the purpose of generating sympathy for the Zionist cause. It doesn't fly.