Below is my post on Remembrance Day 2015, when I attended the event at the Mississauga Civic Centre. I will add the rest of the 2015 post in a follow up article.
Bagpiper: Firefighter Joel Glaude
I attended the November 11 Remembrance Day event at Celebration Square. I went with some trepidation, since these public events always end up disappointing me. I was not, in my lack of expectations, disappointed.
We had just recently finished Canada's elections, where the country chose a "lisping liberal" as I describe Justin Trudeau, the forty-something "young" Prime Minster, who nonetheless is not the youngest PM of the country. That label goes to Joe Clark, who was still a thirty-something 39 when he assumed office. And, he was a conservative, to boot.
I wrote to a friend, which I've recorded in the podcast posted below the excerpt:
Trudeau, the lisping liberal, won the federal elections. He is married to a French-speaking Quebec woman, and I wonder what language they speak at home? I think it is French. Poor English Canada, with enemies from all sides. It was a depressing outcome, but then again, we will now have up front everything that the liberals want (or dream of). One of which is to advance the agendas of the "new" Canadians, by which they mean the Third World ethnic Canadians.
Harper, in one of his speeches, used "Old Stock" Canadians, by which he meant the English, Scottish, Irish, and even French (Quebec) conservative Canadians. I don't think it was a slip, and he meant it as a contrast to what we're seeing now, which is an ethnic, non-white, liberal population.
Harper, in one of his speeches, used "Old Stock" Canadians, by which he meant the English, Scottish, Irish, and even French (Quebec) conservative Canadians. I don't think it was a slip, and he meant it as a contrast to what we're seeing now, which is an ethnic, non-white, liberal population.
This actually goes some ways to prove my thesis that Mississauga has become a Third World enclave, a part of which is Muslim.
I said recently that we should look for the next suicide bomber/jihadi in Canada to come from Mississauga.
My work is cut out for me. Now, I know I am really separate, from my family and "friends."
I expect there will be a further exodus of whites away from here into the surrounding small towns (those racist towns...), and let Mississauga, etc. deteriorate as would a Third World city. Already, in my building, the majority, I should really say ALL, the residents are Indians or Chinese. And appliances, elevators, the cardboard wall separating rooms, are showing wear and tear, despite the building being relatively new. I see a few elderly whites who were lured here as an ideal place for retirees. They always look bewildered, and are uncharacteristically silent in the elevators, where it is Canadian manners to at least say hello. I think they are also beginning to leave, as other whites also left in droves.
The full podcast is
here.
What was striking about this Remembrance Day memorial was the crowd that came to the event. It was a replica, a demonstration, of the government and the country which Trudeau is building. Starting with the city's officials, we had a smorgasbord of ethnics, from Chinese to Hindu (and Sikh, one mustn't forget the fine details of ethnic identity), who all came in honor of those brave Canadian soldiers, who fought and died for King and Country.
Among this illustrious group is
Omar Alghabra, Member of Parliament for Mississauga Centre, who:
- has condemned CanWest newspapers for labelling groups like Hamas and Hizbollah "terrorist" groups
- has welcomed al-Jazeera to Canada and railed against any restrictions on it, but condemned the CRTC for allowing the "abusive" Fox News Channel in[to Canada
- who, in the wake of the Arab riots at Concordia [University] that shut down a speech by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had the temerity to blame Jewish students for silencing campus discussions, and supported an Arab conference on campus whose stated mission was the elimination of Israel
- who has called for the total abolition of Canada's anti-terrorism laws; and
- who was stopped at the U.S. border and searched and fingerprinted—whether that was by reason of demographic profiling, or because he was on a watch list is uncertain.
[Source: Ezra Levant at the Western Standard] [Note: Since this 2018 post I have distanced myself from Levant’s views on Jews. Kidist Paulos Asrat: Nov 10, 2023]
Levant continues:
What is certain is that Alghabra turned it into an opportunity to gain media face time, Maher Arar-style, as an anti-American, anti-security mouthpiece.
Omar Alghabra after placing his poppy on a wreath (this placing one's poppy on a wreath has become a Canadian tradition)
Other members of the Canadian government who were present:
Navdeep Bains, standing to Alghabra's left in the photo below:
Iqra Khalid, the Indian woman in the red coat:
The woman in the black attire (in mourning?) is the poet laureate of Mississauga, Anna Yin, who read the traditional poem,
In Flanders Fields.
Muslim audience for the Muslim MP
Chinese audience for the Chinese Poet Laureate
Who is there he for? Perhaps for the old veteran, who came to talk about his war experiences.
Veteran soldier is Major (Retr'd) Bob Holliday presenting at the event
Below is the poem Major Holliday recited (full presentation in the podcast below), of a young boy who grows up to be a young man, ready to go to war. It could have been written for this young boy, in Mississauga in 2015, who was watching and listening attentively, and seriously. And he is wearing a poppy.
Please Wear A Poppy
By Don Crawford
"Please wear a poppy," the lady said
And held one forth, but I shook my head.
Then I stopped and watched as she offered them there,
And her face was old and lined with care;
But beneath the scars the years had made
There remained a smile that refused to fade.
A boy came whistling down the street,
Bouncing along on care-free feet.
His smile was full of joy and fun,
"Lady," said he, "may I have one?"
When she'd pinned it on he turned to say,
"Why do we wear a poppy today?"
The lady smiled in her wistful way
And answered, "This is Remembrance Day,
And the poppy there is the symbol for
The gallant men who died in war.
And because they did, you and I are free -
That's why we wear a poppy, you see."
"I had a boy about your size,
With golden hair and big blue eyes.
He loved to play and jump and shout,
Free as a bird he would race about.
As the years went by he learned and grew
and became a man - as you will, too."
"He was fine and strong, with a boyish smile,
But he'd seemed with us such a little while
When war broke out and he went away.
I still remember his face that day
When he smiled at me and said, Goodbye,
I'll be back soon, Mom, so please don't cry."
"But the war went on and he had to stay,
And all I could do was wait and pray.
His letters told of the awful fight,
(I can see it still in my dreams at night),
With the tanks and guns and cruel barbed wire,
And the mines and bullets, the bombs and fire."
"Till at last, at last, the war was won -
And that's why we wear a poppy son."
The small boy turned as if to go,
Then said, "Thanks, lady, I'm glad to know.
That sure did sound like an awful fight,
But your son - did he come back all right?"
A tear rolled down each faded check;
She shook her head, but didn't speak.
I slunk away in a sort of shame,
And if you were me you'd have done the same;
For our thanks, in giving, if oft delayed,
Thought our freedom was bought - and thousands paid!
And so when we see a poppy worn,
Let us reflect on the burden borne,
By those who gave their very all
When asked to answer their country's call
That we at home in peace might live.
Then wear a poppy! Remember - and give!
Major Holliday, half way through the poem, at the part: "Goodbye, I'll be back soon, Mom, so please don't cry," started to tear up, and wiped his eyes, fully feeling the horror the young man in the poem would live through, as he had done.
Podcast of veteran soldier Major (Retr'd) Bob Holliday reciting "Please Wear A Poppy."
How may Sikh or Muslim or Chinese young children will grow up to fight a future Hitler? Will the Middle Eastern Canadian soldiers really go out to war to fight the Iranians? Will a Sikh march off to war with Indians (perhaps that is not such a stretch, since inter-ethnic rivalries do end up on the war field in that country)? Will the Chinese confront his Chinese ancestors back in his homeland when called to the Canadian army?
But such aggressions may be sooner than we expect, and even on our own soil.
Here is a photograph of the young boy, and the people surrounding him:
And why wasn't he chosen to lay a wreath? Why was it, if we pursue this thought, that both were girls? Why not boys, or one boy and one girl? And why were both non-white?
Two representatives of Mississauga's youth laying a wreath, costumed in black
This young boy was strangely alone. I couldn't see any father, mother, or sibling next to him. He was like an apparition, watching, observing, figuring things out.
His jacket also looks like some kind of army camouflage.
Yin has arrived at the pinnacle of the West's equality cult. She has all the requisites: woman, immigrant, non-white - or "ethnic" - and relatively young (I assume Yin isn't forty yet).
The two girls, a Chinese and an Indian, in the photograph above, who were given the honor of laying a wreath, are from the region's school. Both girls were wearing black tops and pants, like the Poet Laureate. Did they coordinate their mourning attire with Yin's? Yin is
going around schools "promoting" poetry, so I wouldn't be surprised if they planned to "dress" like her. Isn't the blood-red of the poppy enough symbolism? It is the strange nihilism of non-whites I see all the time, where color and decoration are discarded, as though there is nothing to choose from. Even a Remembrance Day does not warrant such nihilistic, false mourning. After all, the poem does say:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
It is a poem about war, and death, but above all about the insistence of life.
Anna Yin in black
Canadian Men's Chorus singing In Flanders Fields
Bagpiper: Firefighter Joel Glaude
Captain Paul Simpson of the City of Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services Honour Guard salutes in honor of the soldiers:
A Soldier's Salute
Major (Retr'd) Bob Holliday
[All Photos by KPA]
