Canadians Of All Backgrounds Protest Mass Immigration

July 1^st 2024, Canada Day, while most Canadians were doing their best to get into a celebratory spirit for a nation with seemingly little to celebrate this year, we at Take Back Canada were busy organizing our first protests against government corruption and mass immigration.

We are a new movement, founded this past May, and none of us have any experience participating in protests – let alone organizing them.  We started with an idea to call for Canada-wide protests against our government’s corrupt mass immigration policies. We didn’t know what to expect, and we didn’t know how to get the word out.

We caught a lucky break on June 17^th, when Harrison Faulkner from True North offered to interview me on his aptly named “The Faulkner Show”. The interview was very well received, and quickly racked up over 60,000 views. Suddenly, we had some wind in our sails, and we were seeing the registered attendees on our website go from dozens to hundreds.

When the day finally came, we were met with a mix of successes and failures, which we expected for our first effort and with so little time to prepare. However, the turnout in Toronto was something to behold.  Key to our vision for Take Back Canada is our goal to unite Canadians of all backgrounds and ideologies in a shared mission to save our country and reclaim our future for the next generation of Canadians. We know that without unity, we have no chance of affecting real change in Canada.  In a society that has been so systematically divided by the ruling class, unity is a seemingly unobtainable political superpower.

The protest at Queen’s Park was attended by some of the people you would expect to come out against mass immigration, such as the F*** Trudeau crowd and people with a more broadly anti-immigration agenda. However, outnumbering those folks were dozens of second and even first generation immigrant Canadians from all over the world (yes, Indian-Canadians too). As the rally commenced, the entire crowd applauded together for cherished Canadians values like freedom, safety for women and the gay community, the need to prioritize Indigenous issues in Canada, and for assertions that there is no place for hate in our movement.

Even more inspiring, however, was what happened when we went on the march. As we marched from Queen’s Park down to Nathan Phillip’s Square and back, we were met with supportive honks, the occasional cheer, and even a few onlookers joining the march. One of the most touching moments for me was when an older Chinese or Korean man approached us, while recording with his phone, to thank us for our efforts and excitedly proclaim his support.

We weren’t surprised by the crowd we drew, as everything we were seeing online was telling us that non-white immigrant Canadians are just as focused on the problems caused by mass immigration – and much more willing to speak up about the topic than white Canadians.  Nonetheless, it a sight to behold: immigrants marching and conversing with nationalists and indigenous Canadians, left-leaning Canadians marching with right-leaning Canadians, and even communists marching alongside anti-communists. The whole day was a confirmation of our belief that if you can convince Canadians to come together for a single common cause, they will find out that they are not so divided after all, and perhaps even learn from one another.

What did surprise me was the overwhelmingly positive reception we got from the general public. All the supportive messages we received online also came with plenty of criticism and cynicism directed at us. We saw the predictable accusations of hate and racism, as well as people asserting that protesting is a waste of time, and that even in a democracy as phony as ours the only solution is to vote when the time comes and hope for the best (in addition to a healthy amount of complaining on the internet). What we saw on the march indicates to me that most of those who have criticized us online are merely the typical vocal minority of bizarre ideological zealots who believe that no type or amount of immigration could ever be harmful, and that we are obligated to share Canada with anyone and everyone who wishes to come here.

I will say in response to the cynicism regarding the efficacy of protesting, that holding demonstrations is not about directly forcing policy changes; it’s about spreading a message and proving a point. I believe that is exactly what we achieved on July 1^st. At roughly 150 participants in the Toronto protest, the impact was limited – but it’s a start. Our movement has already made a bigger impact on the national conversation than the equivalent effort put into arguing and complaining on the internet. Even if we never protest again, the impact will continue to grow.

However, we are protesting again – on July 27^th. We are just focusing on Toronto this time, although we plan to continue efforts in other cities when we’ve got more experience and are better prepared to ensure a healthy turnout and proper organization. We will be gathering at Queen’s Park again at 1pm, and holding another rally and march.

Although it may not feel like it, we are living through the most consequential moment in Canada’s history since Confederation, and the drastically different futures and irreversible changes we face are proof. Canada never voted to bring in over a million people each year, or for an asylum system that likely brings in more phonies than legitimately vulnerable people. We never voted for lowering the standards to become a Canadian citizen, or for prioritizing headline economic figures over individual economic outcomes, quality of life, access to healthcare, and safe communities. 

We had a working and exceptionally generous immigration system that allowed over 200,000 hard-working, value-driven immigrants to come to Canada each year. Canadians never voted to allow entitled foreigners to buy their way into Canada, only to refuse to adapt to our way of life and run immigration schemes to bring their like-minded friends and relatives over.

We understand that our corrupt policy makers and the corporate and investor interests that they collude with are the ones to blame. We understand that not all of today’s immigrants are criminals or bad people, and that very many of them are victims of the immigration fraud industry which makes false promises to hopeful immigrants who end up as wage slaves. However, we cannot let everyone in the world who is struggling be our burden. Canada was, and to some extent and in some places, still is a lovely society and a great and safe place to live.

There is still a Canada left to save, and it belongs to Canadians. No matter how much those in power try to cheapen it for profit and for votes, being Canadian means more than having a piece of paper that claims such. That is not to say that if you were not born here, you are not Canadian. You must, however, learn to be Canadian – and you must commit to being Canadian above any other nationality. Being Canadian is not a Costco membership. It is not something you “qualify” for or purchase outright. 

We have an identity, we have a history, we have a shared set of values that are objectively fairer and more just than the values that many now come into our country with, and which we would not be truly Canadian without. If this is no longer the case, then Canada is no longer a country or a society with a shared history or destiny – it is just a corporatist geopolitical entity; a soulless machine which serves the rich and survives in whatever form necessary so long as it can continue to be profited from.

I and the team around me will never give in, we will never give up, we will never be deterred by failure or criticism. We will fight for what’s right, in whatever way is most prudent, for as long as is necessary.