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Brian Lee Crowley
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Ottawa think tanker, public intellectual, public speaker, author, PhD from LSE. My pronouns are exactly what you think they are.
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A word to those CDNs that are under the misapprehension that “the adults are now in charge in DC”. The Democrats are very far indeed from being in charge. Trump very much remains president and his considerable executive powers (subject to individual confirmation by the courts) remain intact, including tariffs. Moreover the Dems, as enthusiastic and inveterate spenders, are not going to give up Trump’s tariff revenues willingly. The president still wields a veto over any legislation from Congress and the Dems do not have the 2/3 majority to overrule him, nor do they have the 60 votes required to get most legislation through the Senate. Trump, not Congress, controls foreign and trade policy. He has already won the last election he will ever run in. The midterms change almost nothing wrt Canada unless Trump chooses to make it so. We just have to learn to work with him. Get over it. @MLInstitute
I am not Jewish. I am Canadian. And I am a Zionist
I’m not Jewish. I’m Canadian. And I am a Zionist.View quoted post on X
Long may John Cleese speak freely. I have just sent in my renewal of membership in the Judean People’s Front.
Please read Andrew Doyle's piece hereView quoted post on X
I have great respect for him
Rafael Bardajl has a brilliant essay today in @spectator about the consequences for Euope of the #Ceuta invasion by Morocco. The relevant passage for Canada is the following:
“A civilisation can be multiracial. History offers countless examples of societies composed of people of different ethnic origins who nevertheless shared a common language, civic culture, historical memory and political identity.
“What no civilisation has sustained for long is multiculturalism understood not as diversity within a shared public culture, but as the permanent coexistence of parallel communities with no common civic identity. A democracy requires disagreement. A civilisation requires cohesion.
“Without a common civic culture, solidarity gradually weakens, democratic trust erodes and political institutions lose the shared assumptions upon which they depend. This is not an argument against immigration. Nor is it an argument for ethnic homogeneity. It is an argument for cultural integration as the indispensable condition of democratic continuity.”
Integration as the condition of successful multiculturalism? Heresy! I can hear the howls of outrage already!
@MLInstitute , @davidbclinton @maxmako2015 @CopelanPeter @Pagmenzies
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“A civilisation can be multiracial. History offers countless examples of societies composed of people of different ethnic origins who nevertheless shared a common language, civic culture, historical memory and political identity.
“What no civilisation has sustained for long is multiculturalism understood not as diversity within a shared public culture, but as the permanent coexistence of parallel communities with no common civic identity. A democracy requires disagreement. A civilisation requires cohesion.
“Without a common civic culture, solidarity gradually weakens, democratic trust erodes and political institutions lose the shared assumptions upon which they depend. This is not an argument against immigration. Nor is it an argument for ethnic homogeneity. It is an argument for cultural integration as the indispensable condition of democratic continuity.”
Integration as the condition of successful multiculturalism? Heresy! I can hear the howls of outrage already!
@MLInstitute , @davidbclinton @maxmako2015 @CopelanPeter @Pagmenzies
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