Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass.--Isaiah 48:4

Much has been made of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's 2015 declaration that Canada was the first of the “post-national” states that would comprise a new world order. As a nation with “ no core identity” or “mainstream ”, Canada had officially embarked on a journey to become a model global citizen striving to fully comply with globalist diktats like the UN's Agenda 2030. 

It mattered not that the journey would entail the deep-sixing of its own resource-based economy. After all, there were climate dragons to be slayed on the way to saving the world and they would be slain come hell or high water. The sacrifices made to keep the world from boiling would not be the only ones forced on Canadians by the Agenda. There would also be the need to promote social justice and equity on a worldwide scale by collapsing national borders and accommodating the free flow of humanity from the Third World to Canada's formally first-world shores. Between Paris Agreement de-carbonization targets, agreed to by the Conservative Party in 2015 , and the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, agreed to by the Liberal Party in 2018 , the “post-national” state die had been cast.

Unfortunately, the die that was cast with Canada's, and the world's, fawning acquiescence of climate change action, as detailed by the Paris Agreement, would entail the deconstruction of modern, carbon-based societies by drawing down a life-sustaining green house gas, in the form of CO2, from the atmosphere. The approach was less than thoughtful as it failed to consider the risks associated with such measures even as more effective adaptation protocols were paid scant attention . The adverse impacts of the Paris approach should have been evident from the get-go as the replacement of cheap and efficient worldwide carbon-based energy systems with preferred renewable sources, like wind and solar, threatened to tank the economies of newly-minted “post-national” states. The proof was in the pudding as a former economic juggernaut, Germany, attempted an “ elective energy heart transplant ” only to suffer an economic cardiac arrest.

Blackouts and runs on capital investment, German economy besieged by climate action?

The stepping away from cheap and plentiful energy sources that make the planet “ liveable ” is one thing but the concomitant push to replace free market economic systems with command-driven variants as we do so is quite another. Such centralized control of market forces will be required to implement both economic punishments and rewards as cheap, fossil energy sources are displaced by uncompetitive and unreliable renewables. It is intended that this transition will take place within an Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) framework that seeks to replace profit-based investment systems with “ values-based ” schemes. Forget about consumer choice while operating within a competitive market environment to determine prices and optimize reliability as technocrats and ideologues, who know better, are paving the way for energy shortages . One wonders, how can a country that enshrines the right of individuals to make their own choices, as codified in its own Charter, stay true to such principles even as it props up a command-driven economy?

Does the evolving Canadian climate change-friendly command economy align with Charter principles?

Post-Charter Canada

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. Galatians 5:13

Justin Trudeau's remarks that Canada had entered a new post-national phase can be seen to be a mis-characterization. Indeed, given the need to walk away from the principles that formerly buttressed its “rule of law” society, as declared in the Charter's own “ preamble ”, would it not be more accurate to say that Canada has entered a new “post-Charter” era? 

This emerging reality is even more evident given the undemocratic decision to declare diversity as a national strength and actively seek to overwhelm the nation with reckless and unsustainable immigration. All this in line with the aforementioned Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular migration. It is more than interesting note that, while Prime Minister Carney champions a new net-zero, command-driven economy, his new Governor General, Louise Arbour, served as the UN Special Representative for International Migration and played a pivotal leadership role in drafting and advocating for that same Global Compact on migration.

Governor General Louise Arbor, champion of a borderless Canada?

The advent of diversity as a national strength would, in turn, justify a decades worth of immigration that, more than arguably, decimated the country's economic prospects while creating multiple crises in its housing, health, crime and security sectors. In the areas of housing and health, the onset of diversity as a national priority would displace proven laws of supply and demand as millions of newcomers scrambled to put roofs over their heads and access already strained health care resources. Concurrently, crime rates would soar as diasporas brought with them hardened transnational criminals and ideologues through leaky and even non-existent vetting processes . The resulting use of Canada as a cash cow for triad, cartel and transnational criminal operations has not gone unnoticed by our neighbors south of the border . Indeed, the US would alleviate that the out-of-control security situation in Canada presented a real risk to its own security and justified related tariffs on Canadian exports . And there you have it! A Canadian economy on the verge of disintegration all thanks to “diversity”!

Secretary of State Rubio, “lightly vetted” Canadian newcomers are a threat to American security!

Unfortunately, the need to honor diversity as a national priority impacts more than crime rates, housing availability and economic performance. The need to accommodate the cultural proclivities of newcomers, rather than expect them to adjust to those of the host nation they have chosen, demands the careful curating of speech that they may find objectionable. 

It matters not that the newcomer has no such expectation of having their cultural sensitivities soothed. After all, most are just happy to be in a land that honors their freedom to live as they please and even offers guarantees in the form of Canada's stated founding principles - “ the supremacy of God and the rule of law ”. 

Canadian legislation moving to mirror UK laws that criminalize the causing of anxiety and stress to another?

No, rather than this it is the nation's preening and moralizing mandarin class that insists on diluting related fundamental rights, like free speech, to make way for communications models that, as already codified in the UK, criminalize speech that may cause “ annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety to another ”.

Constitutional crisis

And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Revelation 13:16-17

The perceived need to crush individual rights, that are actually codified in the Canadian constitution as “fundamental”, can be seen to be supported by another constitutional concept in the form of “peace, order and good government” (POGG). Enacting laws in accordance with POGG is a federal prerogative meant to cover off matters that are not within the enumerated provincial wheelhouse (section 92 of the Constitution Act of 1982) and are of national concern, respond to emergencies or fill in gaps in the division of legislative powers . The supremacy of the POGG approach to legislation has taken firm hold in post-Charter Canada as global fears and related diktats, generally based on Agenda 2030 Sustainability Development Goals, are allowed to override heretofore sacred individual rights. Indeed, and most surprisingly for a former Supreme Court of Canada Justice, our new Governor General would actually misrepresent the Charter to support the need for POGG to ride herd over these same liberties.

In her recent acceptance speech, Louise Arbor would mangle the Section 1 limitations clause of the Charter as she made reference to the “ peaceful management of our differences ”. Rather than note that the Charter guarantees our cherished individual rights subject only to reasonable limits that could be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society, she would intone that fundamental rights could be overturned in the name of “life in a free and peaceful democracy”. The switch-up is a stunning one and speaks to a deliberate decision by the highest levels of the federal government to eradicate any inconvenience that may arise from the importation of dueling cultures . Seen in this light, the recent fire hosing of Canadians with legislation dedicated to suppressing their ability to complain (Charter Section 2) and elect those who would do so on their behalf ( Charter Section 3 ) makes total sense. It matters not that the Charter is meant to be supreme and serve as a “ check on federal legislative power ”; POGG, as it did in Canada's colonial days , reigns supreme!

Culture shock adversely impacting mission readiness in a new "diverse" Canadian military?

As Canada dispenses with the Charter to legislate in accordance with colonial notions of peace, order and good government, a few prognostications can easily be made. For one, the Supreme Court of Canada will agree to review the Freedom Convoy 2022 case. Recall that two previous reviews of the case found that the declaration of the Emergencies Act was unconstitutional and refuted any POGG-based claim that “ threats to public order ” merited the implementation of martial law. Secondly, POGG concerns will open the way for Artificial Intelligence (AI) to drain the last vestiges of a citizen's civil liberties in the name of the “public good”.

Will post-Charter Canada allow the future of AI and its impact on civil liberties to be discussed? Let alone debated?

This as C3RF member in good standing, John (not his real name), has come to realize through his high-level scientific dealings that AI logic is demonstrating a capacity to connect dots in ways that are unforeseen and unmanageable by its human managers. One wonders, will Canadians even be allowed to express such concerns in a post-Charter Canada?

Culture shock adversely impacting mission readiness in a new "diverse" Canadian military?

Russ Cooper——Bio and Archives

Major Russ Cooper (Ret’d), Founding Member, Board Chair, President and CEO of Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights and Freedoms (C3RF).
Russ Cooper is retired from both the Royal Canadian Air Force and Air Canada. In his military career, he was a decorated CF18 combat pilot and served in several staff positions as a Director of major capital acquisition projects. In the civilian aviation sector, he complimented service as an international airliner pilot with national responsibilities in the field of post 9/11 civil aviation security. He is published internationally in this latter area.

Now fully retired from his follow-on career as a Human Factors Engineer and a Transport Canada Flight Test Pilot delegate, he is pursuing an abiding interest in the preservation of fundamental Canadian Charter rights. This latter pursuit has been prompted by his sense that these rights, hard-won by the sacrifice of Canadians past, are under attack and on the verge of being lost.