WEBVTT - Canadian Fascism Eh? Part 1 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.480 That's gonna that's gonna be way too charring to open 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:09.320 an episode. Ware, Well, we already did it, so keep moving. Yeah, 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.320 uh huh. Um, the episode is actually going to start 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.280 with Garrison saying that's way too jarring to open an 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.159 episode with, and the listeners won't know that much. That 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.759 is a much easier opening. Um, alright, so we're doing 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.079 I'm gonna be I'm gonna be reading a thing today 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:26.759 and then we're going to talk about the thing that 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.319 we're reading. Um, and and and who are you? And 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.479 who is here? Oh? Yeah, this is it could happen here, 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:36.360 this is it could happen here. I'm I'm Garrison, I 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:42.239 am our resident Canadian. Yeah, that's Anderson. That's Anderson the 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:43.879 dog in here. We had we had to hire a 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:51.800 Canadian for a diversity quota. You do not anyway, We 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:56.560 have Chris here, Robert Evans as usual. Um, Sophie, So 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.560 we're gonna talk about We're gonna talk a little bit 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:03.720 about about Canada today. So in the in like the 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.840 scripted what if scenarios first positive in the original it 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.200 could happen here. Um. It detailed what it might be 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.000 like to live in the United States during a modern 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.760 civil conflict. And like one of the stories that we 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.039 kind of tell ourselves as a culture is about you know, 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.160 crossing up into the safe haven of Canada whenever stuff 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:24.160 breaks out in the States. Um, whether that be like 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.840 an escape from just the hell that's us politics, um, 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.679 or you know, going up into the cold northern terrain 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.640 better equipped to deal with climate change. Canada is kind 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.640 of just viewed as a bastien of like of liberal 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.600 democracy in North America. Um. You know, I've I've made 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:40.960 jokes in the past about using my Canadian passport to 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.640 escape up into the forest of Alberta when things get 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.399 too dicey here in the States. But this like weird 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.720 utopian view of Canada is not just wrong about Canada's 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.880 current political state, but also assumes that a Canada is 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.000 like immune to the political shifts that the States have 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.400 gone through the past few years. Which is it's it's 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:06.480 very obviously not um so like Canada internationally is and 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.080 specifically in the States, it's it's used as like, you know, Canada, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.919 it's it's used it's like America's little brother, but it's 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.240 you know, it's much more you know, democratic, it's much 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.200 more liberal. It's like it's like this kind of ideal 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.560 scenario for like what the state's could be. And like 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.320 Canadians have a weird view of the States as well. 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:28.480 Like Canadians, they're both like the like they're kind of obsessed, 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.760 Like a lot of Canadians think no more about US 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.880 politics and then they know about Canadian politics, um, but 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.440 almost in like a way that we watch sports. It's 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.919 it's like it's like this thing that we like watch 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.680 as entertainment, like like some kind of like sick reality show. 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:44.880 That's how I think a lot of Canadians really view 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:49.680 US politics, um, because it's just so wacky compared to 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.920 the kind of more like civil parliamentary system that we 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.120 have in Canada. US politics just looks very very bizarre, 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.280 and there's always this notion it's like, no matter how 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.520 bad things can get in Canada, at least we're not 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.040 the States, at least at least we're not at least 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.040 we're not the US. And that is kind of a 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.360 lot of a lot of how a lot of stuff 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:12.520 can get really get can just like surviving Canada longer, 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:17.280 because it's just they view it like at least, at 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.560 least we're not as bad as the other people. So 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.040 that's how you know, it gives them kind of some 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.040 kind of sense of security. But in terms of like 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:26.640 in terms of Canada as a country, you know, we 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.520 we we've said that Canada as a country is basically 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.399 just you know, a few mining companies in a trench coat, 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.119 and the trench coat is healthcare. Um. And that's that's 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.640 really all they are is as as as a country. UM. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:42.320 But today we're gonna be talking about kind of Canada's 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:47.640 slide towards farther right wing politics, UM. Both you know, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.520 historically and then more recently, because a lot of what 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.640 we've seen in the States has happened kind of in 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:57.320 its own weird Canadian way around the same time. UM. 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.160 But before we before we really get started, I think 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.320 could be remiss not to mention how the Canadian government 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.840 has historically treated Indigenous and First Nations people um. Living 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.760 on that land. Of course, it's like not only just 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.120 hundreds of years ago, but a lot more recently as well. 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.320 Just in the past year, there have been thousands and 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.640 thousands of like hidden graves found across the provinces at 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.760 the sites of these residential schools, UM and the process 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.120 of looking for these on Mark Graves has like just 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:26.440 just started. UM. The Canadian Historical Association published a letter 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.280 this past Canada Day Canada Day is like Independence Day 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:33.159 but for Canada, UM, saying that it was abundantly clear 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.640 that Canada is guilty of is guilty of genocide. UM. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.080 I know there's there's a few episodes Behind the Bastards 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.240 UM and I think even worse here that that talk 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:45.840 about residential schools UM and and the genocide of Indigenous Canada. 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.040 So you can you can check those out. And I 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.800 wrote this episode to be more focused on Canada's political 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.000 shifts the past five years. But since we're talking to 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.240 be talking about Canadian fascism, I thought it would be 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.479 irresponsible to not mention this upfront as like a thing 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.719 responsible and very responsible. So I'm gonna try to take 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:08.640 us through aspects of Canadians of Canada's politics chronologically. UM. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.479 You guys can button and kind of ask questions and 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.920 clarifications about stuff. UM. But the first thing that we're 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:15.479 gonna start with is actually going to be on the 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.760 First Nations the side of things, and that that's kind 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.039 of how that that's what mostly Indigenous people are called 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.719 in Canada's First Nations. Um. Even you know, the Indigenous 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.080 people up in Canada most amused that term. So that's 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:26.800 the term I'll be using for some some of this stuff, 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.280 just because that's the one that's used up there. Um. 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:35.280 So the the residential schools program is where I'm gonna 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.320 briefly mention a few things about it, just because of 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.200 how it kind of relates to some of the stuff 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:40.479 that we're gonna be talking with for the rest of 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:44.599 the episode. UM yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna read someone. 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.880 I'm gonna read some words by by Duncan Campbell Scott. 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.280 Who was the department who was who was the Deputy 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:55.000 Superintendent of Indian Affairs. This was like a rank in 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.640 the Canadian government. Um. He served as the Deputy Superintendent 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:02.159 from nineteen thirteen to nineteen thirty two. UM. And he's 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.799 arguably like the main architect of the residential schools program. Um. 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.720 He was. He was also good friends with the first 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:14.160 Prime Minister of Canada, John John John McDonald. So here's 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:19.440 here's here's how this guy the the architect of this program. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.080 This is this is how he kind of talked talked 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.160 about this in letters to both his like his underlings, 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.680 and just like openly quote it is readily acknowledged that 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.080 Indian children lose their natural resistance to illness by habituating 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.520 so close in the residential schools, and that they die 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.880 at a much higher rate than in their villages. But 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.080 this does not justify a change in the policy of 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.960 this department, which is geared towards a final solution for 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.840 our Indian problem. It is quite within the market to 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:46.760 say that fifty percent of children who passed through these 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.200 schools did not live to benefit from the education in 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:53.440 which they had received. So that's that's just what he 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.800 calls it. He he says, the final solution to the 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:59.839 Indian problem. It's very very very clear. What what like, 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.279 that's just the language he uses. And this was like 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:06.480 before Hitler though, like this was this was paying attention 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:08.400 to these Yeah, yeah, like this this is just like 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.559 this is the mindset of all of these same people. 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.840 This is all of all of the same thing. Um. 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:17.480 Another another another quote from this dude is I want 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.200 to get rid of the Indian problem. I do not 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:20.680 think of it as a matter of fact that the 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.360 country ought to continually protect a class of people who 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.120 are able to stand alone. That's my whole point. Our 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.560 objective is to continue until there's not a single Indian 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.280 in Canada that has not been absorbed into the into 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.640 the body politic, and there's no Indian question and no 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.800 Indian department. That is the whole objective of this bill. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:42.119 The bill referring to the residential schools program. So that's 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.080 that's how he talks about these things. Um. There there's 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.840 other letters that he's sent that's like telling his um, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.400 his like agents because he had like agents stationed at 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.760 at Canadian at Canadian reserves to like not let Indians 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.600 do dancing because both that's you know, that's doing their 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.240 cultural practice, but also it'll astract them from learning how 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.320 to do Western farming. Um, Like they weren't allowed to 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.480 go to fairs or exhibitions or anything that you like 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.200 that anything that has like that is reminiscent of like 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:16.280 any kind of cultural tradition that is not white in European. Um. 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.080 So he he is, he is a pretty pretty pretty 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.600 bad dude. He probably deserves his own his own thing 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.160 that this this specific guy. But you can can you 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.040 can kind of see like these like fascist ideas and 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.720 rhetoric are not foreign to Canada. Um. And you know, 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.960 it's been there since its infancy. And now Canadian politics 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.480 is very different in a lot of ways compared to 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.360 American politics. Uh. Canada tries to kind of follow the 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.240 European model, whereas America is very much like the rebel 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.400 state that tries to play on its play by its 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.960 own rules. Um. Kind of the first main difference is 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.679 that Canada isn't a two party system. Um. It's it's 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.079 more like a two party plus system, because yeah, there 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.120 still is the main Liberals in the main Conservatives, but 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.559 there are there are other parties that actually can get elected. Um. 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.720 And it's it's not it's not like a strictly two 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:01.760 party system the same way the States is. So that 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.560 makes things more interesting. Um. And another thing that's really 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.400 interesting about like a cultural politics that's that's different from 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.920 the States. You know. Besides, you know, Canada obviously has 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.600 like a parliament and a prime minister. That's different, but 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:21.240 that Canada view and Canadians view nationalism and patriotism very differently, uh, 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:27.000 compared to to like United States. Um. Citizens patriotism and 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.960 in some ways nationalism have always been kind of more 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.760 of a liberal progressive thing, um, you know, in the 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.240 opposition to the States, where it is not really seen 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.600 as a liberal progressive thing. Um. It's like, even under 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.320 conservative leadership, Canada kind of prides itself as as sort 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.520 of like liberal utopia. And that's where a lot of 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.440 the patriotism and celebration of Canada comes from among its 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.360 you know, mostly liberal and more socially progressive citizens. They 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.760 like celebrate Canada as like this great progressive nation, and 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.160 that's where a lot of the patriotism comes from, is like, 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.439 oh look, look how progressive we are. Um. Then the 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.040 nationalists in part can be a bit more tricky, uh, 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.640 because you first need to understand like the English and 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.600 French divide which within the country, which I barely understand 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.520 that to be honest, I was I was, I was. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.680 I was born in the Prairies. That was you know, 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:17.440 much more of like the Protestant English English settlement. You know, 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.040 I'm not from Quebec, but we'll be talking about Quebec 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:21.640 a lot here because it is very important to how 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.480 nationalism works in Canada. So the divide between the French 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:29.440 and the English make elections really interesting because the English 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.760 majority politicians usually need to court some of the French 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.280 Canadian population and and people in Quebec in order to 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.560 get enough parliamentary seats to have a majority government, because 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:44.040 Canada works on having a majority within the parliament. Um, 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.400 you can have a minority in in in the parliament 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.880 like the Liberals currently have. So even if you know, 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.160 someone doesn't win a plurality of votes, that can still 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.200 be in control of the government in any in a 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.760 minority or usually a majority capacity. We'll get into this 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.360 kind of stuff later. Um. But even though they need 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.040 to get see from Quebec to have you know, a 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.000 decent control of parliament, Quebec kind of likes to act 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.040 like its own special country. Um. They even have their 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.720 own like federal political party, uh the block Kebuqua and 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.640 so like that. That that's a that's a federal party 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:18.640 that operates in forwarding the interests of Quebec. Sometimes it 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.840 functions as like a separatist party, but not really anymore. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:28.160 Um So, although the Blockbuqua is a lot is a 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.520 lot more secular and progressive than basically any any other 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.560 major party outside of the n d P UM but 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.520 despite them being much more like socially progressive, that are 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:41.480 also like one of the biggest nationalist parties UM in Canada. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.640 And you know, the far right parties in Canada have 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.599 had always had their you know brand of ethno nationalism, 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.199 but that was that's that's been much less pronounced than 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.000 the kind of like keep non French Canadians out of 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.400 Quebec and keep Americans out of Canada type of nationalism 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.560 that's common with like liberals UM and specifically you know, 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.839 progressives inside Quebec, which you can't blame them for wanting 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.000 to keep Americans no, yeah, like you can good sense, 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.680 if I could keep Americans out of America, I would 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.560 do it. Yeah. But so that kind of sentiment, you 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.480 can see how that connect, like you know, be used 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.439 to foster some not good things though that that that 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.319 that specific type of thinking of of like keeping nationals, 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.559 like you know, keeping four nationals out of your state. Yeah, 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.960 it's good to not have Americans there, but you know 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:33.560 that's going to get extended towards other people's unfortunate yeah, 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.040 and and like so even though you know, the nationalism 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.240 can be a lot more progressive, that's not to say 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.160 as no nationalism does not come up within these sets 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.360 UM which is going to bring us to UH when 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.360 when a briefly talk about something from the thirties called 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.720 the called the National Unity Party of the National Unity 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.800 Party of Canada. Um, the National Unique Party, National Unity Party. 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.760 That is a weird thing to say. Um was was 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:03.800 originally called the Canadian National Socialist Unity Party. Oh wait, 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:11.240 now that remind national socialism That seems like a term 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.640 with a little bit of baggage. Yeah, remember correctly, yep, 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.880 it sort of does. Um so that this was a 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:22.160 party formed in nineteen thirty four by a little Nazi 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.920 shirt head named Adrian Urkhan. Um. Now that is if 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:27.400 you cannot tell that it's me trying to say a 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.480 French name. So he is from Quebec. This is a 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:34.280 lot of Canadian Nazi stuff originates inside Quebec because it 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:39.520 already has such nationalist tendencies. Um So, our cons introduction 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.880 into nationalism started around the turn of the century amid 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:46.800 fears in Quebec that Chinese immigration would threaten the white 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.400 French Canadian working class. Um. This is still a big 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.680 thing in Canada. Uh. Racism and nationalism against the Chinese 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:56.520 is still a big thing. We will talk about this 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.520 at the very end of this of this, of of 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.200 these episodes, because it's still a thing the Conservative Party 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:06.040 talks about a lot um. So, yeah, his his internnationalism 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.480 was because of fears of Chinese immigration in the early 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.600 nineteen hundreds. Um, the the anti his so his anti 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.600 immigrants upbringing, plus the fact that he attended the Catholic 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.760 school um that there there there was no there was 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.360 no public schools in Quebec until the nineteen sixties. All 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:24.120 of the schools were either Catholic or Protestant. Now, this 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.040 is also part of the cultural divide inside Canada where 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.840 usually the English speakers are Protestant and they're usually further 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.040 west and the and the Catholics are usually you know, 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.120 French Canadians. There's a lot of that inside Quebec. Um, 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.480 so he went to a Catholic school, of which were 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.040 at the time very anti Jewish because what was happening 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:44.840 is the Jewish people in Quebec wanted to make their 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.040 own Jewish schools and the Catholics, like in charge, didn't 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.160 want that because then that'd be less people were inside 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.080 Catholic schools and they weren't you know, learning Catholicism. So 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:54.920 there's a lot, a lot of stuff going on here 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.160 that is kind of extreme contributing. So he was you know, 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.320 already anti immigrant because of the Chinese and then he 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.040 got got exposed to anti Semitism inside its Catholic schools 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.920 UM and that you know, pushed him onto this specific path. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.920 So in nineteen thirty R. Khan made a deal with 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.920 the head of the Conservative Party RB Bennett that in 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.520 exchange for fifteen thousand dollars, which is like two hundred 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.160 and fifty thousand dollars in today's money, Our our con 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.800 would craft a smear campaign UM trying to assist the 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:24.880 Conservatives in basically smearing the Liberals to gain more Conservative 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.240 support inside the province of Quebec, which at the time 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:31.400 was majority liberal leaning. So Our Khan got to work 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.440 and started prepping you like pseudo fascist propaganda for the 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.640 Conservatives UM. And by the nineteen thirty federal election it 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.120 absolutely worked UM Bennett and the Conservatives one they gained 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.600 twenty four parliamentary seats in Quebec, which is a massive success. 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.320 Like before they did not win any seats in Quebec, 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.800 so gaining twenty four seats in for over the course 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.480 of just one election, massive win. UM so after getting 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:57.280 the after getting the Conservatives elected, the Conservative Party dropped 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.680 our Khan because he was you know, a little hashtag 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:04.440 problem matic um uh huh. So after he got dropped 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.720 by the Conservatives short shortly later, our Khan made contact 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.520 with the growing Nationalist Socialist Party in Germany. Um. And 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:13.600 over the next few years he just he started to 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.080 gain more fascist contacts around the world. He would exchange 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.840 letters people from people like people, people from the German 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.480 Nazis would come over and meet with what and come 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.040 over to Canada and see what he was doing. He 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.920 would travel around meeting other other Nazis around the world. Um. 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.080 So it's kind of just like just gaining a lot, 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.880 a lot more contacts. So then in nineteen thirty four 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.320 he formed his own fascist party, which is the Canadian 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.960 National Socialist Unity Party. And within that year, so in 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.600 in the you know, midnighteen thirties, it merged with other 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.960 Canadian nationalist parties that were more based in the west, 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.400 so you know, in the prairies like Alberta, Saskatchewan and BC. 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.640 So he emerged a few other kind of nationalist groups 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.000 and started gaining traction, getting thousands and thousands of members. 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.120 This actually became an actual thing. You can find footage 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.520 of of his rallies and they're just terrifying, just like 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.600 you know, just it's the same thing whenever you see 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:04.159 like the Nazis, you know, rallying in Britain. You know, 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.639 it's it feels different than watching a Nazi rally in 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.960 Germany because you can feel a lot more, you know, 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.320 if it's it's it's the same feeling. But come but 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.800 come home your own countrymen kind of do the same 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.399 thing that you associate with the old footage of dead 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:23.119 people is exactly. Yeah. So he was getting thousand numbers 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.000 across Canada, um you know, mostly in the provinces of 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.719 of Quebec and Alberta. So the two main provinces we're 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:31.920 to talk about are going to be Quebeca and and 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.080 Alberta because that's where a lot of a lot of 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.080 the far right stuff gets started out. Um So in 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.920 ninety eight, so that's like four years after he started this, Uh, 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.520 the Canadian National Socialist Unity Party merged again, this time 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:48.040 with various nationalist group groups and so called swastika clubs 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.280 um in that we're already inside like Ontario and Quebec. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.440 So on the eastern side of Canada. So now he 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.520 he united both the Quebec stuff Eastern Canada and Western Canada. 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.080 And then he called that the nack Sational Unity Party. 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:05.159 Um and Our Khan appointed himself the Canadian fural Gosh. 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:10.280 Yes so, and I'm going to quote from a Time 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:15.360 Time magazine piece from July of ninety eight, Our Cohn 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:19.960 scheduled Canada's first national fascist convention for Kingston, Ontario. The 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.520 mayor and city council did not want a fascist convention 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.679 held in their city and called the police to prevent it. Defiantly, 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.760 Leader Arkhan slipped forty five of his leaders into a 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:32.600 room near police headquarters. It's this old tibe language held 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:37.040 forth unmolested for five and a half hours. Upon emerging, 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.360 Leader Arkhan wired thanks to the mayor for his courtesy 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:43.639 extended and announced the formation of the new National Unity Party. 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.240 A flaming torch will be the new party's emblem Canada 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:50.560 for Canadians, it's slogan and the upraised arm of its 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:56.600 salute for king Country and Christianity. Moving on to Ontario, 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:00.320 Leader Arkhan supported by eighty five of his blue shirts. 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.080 He claims there were eighty thousand members at the time 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.400 held a meeting in Mancy Hall that that was attended 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:10.560 by about eight hundred sympathizers. More impressive, however, there were 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:15.240 three anti fascist counter demonstrations held simultaneously. Two outdoor anti 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:19.000 fascist meetings drew four hundred persons until broken up by 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:22.240 police fearing a clash, but at maple Leaf Gardens the 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.800 Canadian League of Peace and Democracy attracted ten thousand so 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.880 as was the first big fascist rally in Canada. There 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:31.919 was like, you know, ten thousands of these more liberal 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:35.720 people rallying elsewhere and four hundred like anti fascists ready 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.359 to you know, beat up these Nazis. Um what then 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:41.640 the police beat them up. Because history doesn't change times 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:43.440 of flat circle, we're still doing the same thing. Now. 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:47.960 Do you know who won't rally eight hundred Canadian Nazis 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:55.600 called the Blue Shirts to sell you products us promise that, yeah, 0:19:55.760 --> 0:20:02.760 depending depending what Hello Fresh has recently been sending there. 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:05.760 Why do you always pick Hello Fresh? There are so 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:11.159 many worse brands that we can't ignore the fact that 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.440 they've been increasingly building their militant capacity for the last 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:16.920 seven years. Anyway, here's some ads we have too much 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:30.960 to read and we are back talking about the Canadian 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:39.040 Blue shirts. UM, hello fresh, hello shut please continue Blue 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:45.800 aprons arons. Thanks Chris, Thanks Chris for saving the bit. 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.199 All right, thank you. Um. So next year after his 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:52.520 first rally, nine, World War two obviously started to ramp 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:55.480 up and the Canadian government arrested our Cohn for plotting 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.400 to overthrow the state UM and his National Unity Party 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.200 was banned from federal elections. Our Khan was released from 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:04.679 prison after the war, but he continued his political aspirations. UM. 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:07.280 He ran for a federal election twice in Quebec, once 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:09.800 in nineteen forty nine and once in nineteen fifty three. 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.960 Both times he uh he ran under his National Unity 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:15.400 Party banner, despite it being banned from elections. I don't 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:19.760 know how he did that, um, both times. Laws are fake. Yeah. 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:23.520 Both times he placed second with over five and a 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:25.760 half five and a half thousand votes, which was about 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.520 like thirty percent of of of the vote. Um. Actually, 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.080 but the second time he ran as he ran just 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:34.080 under a nationalist banner UM, and he got second as well, 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:36.600 but he got like the vote, so he did a 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.280 slight slightly better just running as a nationalist in Quebec. 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:41.480