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Yes, Canada Day Is Worth Celebrating…

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Submitted by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Canada Day commemorates an event that produced one of the most successful and enduring liberal democracies in human history.

And at 156 years old, there is still much to celebrate.

Canada remains a nation where the circumstances of birth do not determine one’s life outcomes. Long before freedom of religion, thought and expression were enshrined in our Charter, they were embedded in our national DNA. Canada was founded on notions of individual liberty that, while rooted in the British liberal tradition, are bequeathed to every Canadian, regardless of origin.

Today, that inheritance is undercut by an activist class that seeks to delegitimize Canada’s political traditions and vilify its history.

MLI defends Canada’s political tradition. 

As the City of Montreal debated what to do with Sir John A. Macdonald’s statue after a mob attacked it, MLI reminded Canadians that our first Prime Minister was a progressive for his time. While local governments caved to the madness of crowds, preemptively removing Macdonald statues and renaming schools bearing his name, we highlighted Macdonald’s outsized contribution to our nation.

When Egerton Ryerson’s statue was toppled by protestors, MLI Senior Fellow, Patrice Dutilwork, defended Ryerson’s record as a friend of the Indigenous people and an advocate for minority rights.

When the City of Toronto claimed Henry Dundas delayed abolition, MLI corrected the record, noting Dundas was a leading abolitionist whose amendment to the 1792 resolution led to the very first statement against slavery.

Sadly, Canadians can no longer rely on their media, academics, or even elected representatives to demand a fair hearing when Canada’s history, founding figures and fundamental values come under attack. Whether captured by progressive orthodoxy, or simply cowardly in the face of controversy, most sacrifice truth to political ends.

MLI speaks out with courage and credibility when others are silent.

The truth is that Canada is well worth celebrating. No nation is without historical wrongdoing, but few have done more than Canada to reconcile with the past and build a better future. Toppling statues, spending millions to rename public infrastructure, and cultivating collective shame is not the path to meaningful reconciliation. Indigenous communities deserve our attention focused on clean water and prosperity building instead.

As MLI Fellow Melissa Mbarki noted when the City of Calgary cancelled Canada Day fireworks in the name of reconciliation, such symbolic declarations are often made without the consent of, or even consultation with, Indigenous people. Shortly after Mbarki’s piece was published, Calgary City Council reversed its decision.

When Canadians stand up together, activist policymakers back down. Watch a video of Melissa’s story below!

As proud Canadians, MLI will always stand on guard for our legacy and defend the traditions that keep us strong and free.

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How USAID Assisted the Corporate Takeover of Ukrainian Agriculture

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From the Brownstone Institute

By john-klarJohn Klar  

A recent essay titled “The Real Purpose of Net Zero” by Jefferey Jaxon posited that Europe’s current war against farmers in the name of preventing climate change is ultimately designed to inflict famine. Jaxon is not speculating on globalist motives; he is warning humanity of a rapidly unfolding reality that is observable in the perverse lies against cows, denigration of European farmers as enemies of the Earth, and calls by the WHO, WEF, and UN for a plant-based diet dependent entirely on GMOs, synthetic fertilizers, and agrichemicals.

Revelations about the evil doings of the Orwellian-monikered “United States Agency of International Development” (USAID) reveal a roadmap to totalitarian control unwittingly funded by America’s taxpaying proles. USAID’s clandestine machinations have long focused on controlling local and global food supplies as “soft colonization” by multinational chemical, agricultural, and financial corporations. European farmers revolting against climate, wildlife, and animal rights policies are harbingers of this tightening globalist noose.

The roots of the current globalist plan to “save humanity from climate change” link directly to the infamous Kissinger Report, which called to control world food supplies and agriculture as part of a globalist collaboration between nation-states and NGOs to advance US national security interests and “save the world” from human overpopulation using “fertility reduction technologies.” Kissinger’s 1974 Report was created by USAID, the CIA, and various federal agencies, including the USDA.

Fast forward to 2003, the Iraq War justified using fear-mongering propaganda about weapons of mass destruction and neo-conservative malarky about rescuing the Iraqi people. The US-led occupation of Iraq became a rapacious profiteering smorgasbord for colonizing corporations husbanded by USAID. Iraq is heir to the birthplace of human civilization, made possible by early Mesopotamian agriculture: many of the grains, fruits, and vegetables that now feed the world were developed there. Iraq’s farmers saved back 97% of their seed stocks from their own harvests before the US invasion. Under Paul Bremer, Rule 81 (never fully implemented) sought to institute GMO cropping and patented seed varieties, as Cargill, Monsanto, and other corporations descended upon the war-ravaged nation using American tax dollars and USAID.

That playbook was more quietly implemented during the Ukraine War, once again orchestrated by USAID. Before the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, Ukraine was the breadbasket of Europe, prohibiting GMO technologies and restricting land ownership to Ukrainians. Within months of US intervention, USAID assisted in the dismantling of these protections in the name of “land reforms,” free markets, financial support, improved agricultural efficiency, and rescuing the Ukrainian people. In just two years, over half of Ukraine’s farmland became the property of foreign investors. GMO seeds and drone technology were “donated” by Bayer Corporation, and companies such as GMO seed-seller Syngenta and German chemical manufacturer BASF became the dominant agricultural “stakeholders” in war-torn Ukraine. Russia may withdraw, but Ukraine’s foreign debts, soil degradation, and soft colonization will remain.

The UN, WTO, WHO, and WEF all conspire to peddle a false narrative that cows and peasant farmers are destroying the planet, and that chemical-dependent GMO monocropping, synthetic fertilizers, and patented fake meats and bug burgers must be implemented post haste (by force if necessary) to rescue humanity. The argument that pesticides and synthetic fertilizers (manufactured from natural gas, aka methane) are salvific is patently false. They are, however, highly profitable for chemical companies like Bayer, Dow, and BASF.

Jefferey Jaxon is exactly correct. The Netherlands committed to robust agricultural development following a Nazi embargo that deliberately inflicted mass famine following their collaboration with Allied Forces in Operation Market Garden. France boasts the highest cow population in all of Europe. Ireland’s culture is tightly linked to farming as part of its trauma during the (British-assisted) Irish Potato Famine. The corporate/NGO cabal now uprooting and targeting farmers in these nations and across the EU in the name of staving off climate change and preserving wildlife is a direct outcropping of Kissinger’s grand dystopian scheme launched through USAID in 1974.

Americans watch European farmer protests from afar, largely oblivious that most all of US agriculture was absorbed by the Big Ag Borg generations ago. Currency control linked to a (political, environmental, and economic) social credit scorecard promises the fruition of Kissinger’s demonic plan: “Control the food, control the people.”

Modern humans suffer a double hubris that blinds them to the contemplation of the truth of Jaxon’s hypothesis: a cultish trust in technology, coupled with an irrational faith in their self-perceived moral superiority to past civilizations (Wendell Berry calls this “historical pride”). Yet, as long as mankind has had the capacity to harm another for personal gain, humans have devised ways to control food for power or profit. Siege warfare generally depended on starving defenders of castle walls into submission.

Even if globalist food control proposals are well-intentioned, a monolithic, monocultured, industrial-dependent worldwide food system is a lurking humanitarian disaster. Berry observed:

In a highly centralized and industrialized food-supply system there can be no small disaster. Whether it be a production “error” or a corn blight, the disaster is not foreseen until it exists; it is not recognized until it is widespread.

The current push to dominate global food production using industrial systems is the cornerstone of complete globalist dominion over all of humanity. The “Mark of the Beast” without which no American will buy or sell goods – including guns, bullets, or factory-grown hamburgers and cricket patties – is mere steps away. Mr. Jaxon is correct that these leaders “know these basic historical and current facts,” and that “[f]armers are becoming endangered because of government [climate] policy … and it’s being allowed to happen.” USAID has been actively seeding and watering this dystopia for decades.

Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates are as fully cognizant of this fundamental truth as Henry Kissinger was in 1974. USAID has aided all three. Having lost almost all of their small farms over the last century, Americans are well ahead of Europeans in their near-complete dependence on industrial food.

That’s the plan.

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    John Klar is an attorney, farmer, food rights activist, and author from Vermont. John is a staff writer for Liberty Nation News and Door to Freedom. His substack is Small Farm Republic.

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Migrants Won’t Be Putting Their Feet Up At One NYC Hotel Much Longer

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