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Conservatives abandon Liberal’s racist census long form
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July 21, 2010
The Census Long Form – a Racist Document – Changes are necessary
By Dick Field
Politicians and the media have very short memories. The Conservatives would not propose canceling the document because a few thousand super-sensitive souls are worried about the government asking how many bathrooms in their home. The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) has a much more important goal in mind. I suspect that goal is to promote the real meaning of being a Canadian citizen.
The separate identity policies of official multiculturalism foisted on Canadians by the manipulative Liberal Party of Canada have almost driven Canadians of the original pre 1968 English-speaking group out of existence. By placating minorities from all over the world and funding their hundreds, if not thousands of ethnic and racial sub-groups they have tied these groups to the Liberal Party for some 40 years. It is their modus operandi.
The Liberal Party is now being driven crazy because Mr. Harper and the CPC have cottoned on to the ethnic racial vote game. The difference is that the CPC respects ethnic minorities and unlike the Liberals does not assume their voting loyalty. Minorities have matured and have come to realize that the Liberals took them for granted to the extent that they assumed they were some kind of unthinking monolithic blocks that only voted by group cultural or racial identity and could thus be forever manipulated.
Think for a moment about the new immigration Study Guide, Discover Canada, that Jason Kenny, our Minister of Immigration and Multiculturalism introduced recently. If you haven’t read it you should. For the first time in 40 plus years a Canadian government has talked about the real culture of Canada that has existed here for over two centuries and is not predominantly French or exclusively multicultural. The Guide encourages new Canadians to learn our history and understand the culture of freedom and democracy under the rule of law that they have joined. It alerts newcomers that certain cultural practices they might bring to Canada are not and never will be acceptable.
This is so radically different to the usual Liberal bafflegab that Canadians must be sensitive to multicultural practices and that the expectations of immigrants and their ways should always be accommodated. Canadians running afoul of that policy have been ordered repetitively to undergo “sensitivity training” and never, until now have they been treated with respect by any government. Race relations committees, university human rights experts and the minions of so-called human rights tribunals (kangaroo courts) have made profitable careers out of destroying the rule of law and suppressing law abiding Canadians.
What has all this to do with the Census Long form? For many census years prior to the 1996 Census the questions that form asked were not so intrusive and personal. In respect to a person’s family background, they were only asked their original country of origin. Nothing wrong with that – it is good demographic information. However, even then the form did not ask if a person was Canadian. You could be a tenth generation Canadian of say Scottish background and you were supposed to say Scottish. There was no place on the form to say you were a Canadian. Canadians did not exist.
A lot of Canadians were offended and wrote in, I am a “Canadian.” On the 1986 Census 69,060 Canadian wrote in that magnificent word. On the 1991 Census 765,095 Canadians wrote in the word “Canadian” (another 267,935 reported “Canadian” in combination with other origins. More and more Canadians were rebelling at the insult.
The Liberal mind-set was revealed when the 1996 Census Long form was announced. For the first time the Long form asked about racial origin and skin colour. Question #19 asked, is this person: White, Chinese, South Asian (East Indian, Pakistani, Punjabi, Sri Lankan etc); Black, Arab; Filipino, South-East Asian, Latin American, Japanese, Korean? Strange, too, for professional statisticians to be so inaccurate since black and white are skin colours and do not designate origins and South Asian could be any of 85 or so races or cultural identities. Again, “Canadian” did not get a mention.
Most culturally offensive to Canadians was all this emphasis on race and skin colour. Most English-speaking Canadians had been brought up to believe that it was impolite and socially unacceptable to ask a person’s race or treat a person differently because of race or original background. Millions of Canadians were grossly offended.
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