Peter Menzies: Increasing Numbers of Canadians No Longer Recognize Their Country

Commentary Sure, some of this is natural. As people age, they tend to worry that the values they lived by are no longer being upheld. Civilization, as the saying goes, is thousands of years old but never more than one generation deep—and that becomes more of a concern as people enter the contemplative phase of their lives. But most of what’s going on right now isn’t natural at all—it’s self-inflicted. Fears for the nation’s soul these days are heightened by roving bands of Islamo-leftists and their increasingly violent rhetoric. They freely express viciously anti-Semitic views and unashamedly align themselves with Hamas, a designated terrorist organization most accurately described by former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott at the recent Canada Strong & Free conference as an “apocalyptic death cult.”...