Counter-Currents
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 625
Canada Edition
Counter-Currents Radio
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Endeavour hosted this edition of Counter-Currents Radio with special guests Fortissax and John Carter. It is now available to download or listen to online.
Topics include:
2:14 – Introducing Fortissax and John Carter
5:09 – The United States plays the lead role in astroturfing so-called globohomo
8:03 – Does John think Trump’s win is a positive or a negative?
13:42 – The panel shares their thoughts on Trump’s tariffs and US-Canada relations
23:29 – How does China play into all this?
27:35 – Canada as the model “Davos country”
40:23 – Why the post-national Canada won’t work
50:32 – Canada’s housing crisis
58:15 – Canadians shouldn’t want to be an American state
1:11:20 – How DEI has made the Canadian military an embarrassment
1:24:40 – On Trudeau’s surprising reversal on immigration
1:37:33 – The future of Canada’s main political parties
2:07:20 – How the woke regime requires constant censorship
2:12:45 – Final thoughts
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4 comments
Alberta should separate from Canada or continue to get screwed over by the East.
Pierre Trudeau was the most evil man in Canadian history.
I take strong issue with what the commentators said about Canada not being comfortable or at home with libertarianism. They said that Canada (by which they mean Eastern Canada, ie Ontario and Quebec) was ruled mainly by authoritarian oligarchies and that libertarianism was not present in any meaningful way. I suppose this is so they can distinguish themselves from American society. Fair enough, for them. However, though there is some truth in their claim, it only holds true for Eastern Canada, not Western Canada, and DEFINITELY NOT Alberta (God bless Alberta!).
Western Canada, particularly Alberta, has always been home to what we may call “libertarianism”, which is really just short hand for the defining characteristics of Albertan society, which more accurately are defined as “pioneerism”, “localism”, “populism”, “Christian fundamentalism” and of course a sense of distance and separation from the centres of power (in this case, Ottawa). Outside Quebec, Alberta has always had a significant separatist movement and at any given time since the 1970’s, at least 25% of Albertans favour separation from the rest of Canada. That percentage is often higher.
Alberta was also the North American pioneer of the twentieth century ideology known as social credit. Alberta elected strong Social Credit governments which initially wanted to severely challenge the banking system and proposed many strong critiques of the financial system. Early Albertan Social Credit had a significant anti Semitic tone to it. One could even say that the So Cred government of Bible Bill Aberhart was proto fascistic. Indeed, Alberta possesses the only state owned bank in Canada, the Alberta Treasury Branch.
The commentators clearly only possess an eastern understanding of what Canada is, which makes sense I guess given their backgrounds. It’s just the arrogant and ignorant preconception that easterners think that their understanding of Canada is applicable for the entire country, which it clearly is not. It in fact only represents a very Ontario centric understanding of Confederation, and anglo Quebeckers I guess, if there are even any left.
Alberta has always had much more in common with Saskatchewan, northern/interior BC and American states like Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas and Texas. Simply put, Western Canada, especially Alberta, is a separate nation from eastern Canada, which if you listened to these commentators solely you wouldn’t know that. Alberta from its inception always had strong American roots, as well as its later British, European and Canadian roots.
I recommend people read the following books if they want to gain a proper understanding of Alberta’s history and identity:
-“Whoop Up Country” by Paul F. Sharp
-“The Range Men” by Leroy Victor Kelly
“A History of Alberta” by James MacGregor
-“God’s Province: Evangelical Christianity, Political Thought and Conservatism in Alberta” by Clark Banack
*BTW, I am not a libertarian, I merely wanted to show how the historical and cultural roots of Alberta diverge strongly with Eastern Canada, which history clearly demonstrates is the case.
If you guys at CC are going to talk about Canada, I wish you would invite French Canadians to speak. We are separatists and know what’s going on more than these guys seem to. I am listening to this and the speakers are wondering why it costs more to fly in Canada than to Europe (it’s because Canada operates under a north-south axis and not east-west, here in Québec, we trade with the USA and not Canada, hence there is no great exchange between east and west and it costs more to travel). Also, Canada has no culture. All of their symbols are ours (maple syrup, maple flag, national anthem, beaver, the voyageurs, the word “Canada” means the French Canandians who founded towns along the Saint Lawrence…). Canada is something like 10 times more great-replaced than here in Québec (and Montréal is pretty bad). But, at least they seem to know what the Laurentian elite is.
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