The perennial temptation of every columnist is to articulate a manifesto. For years, I have resisted this inexorable draw, as it often leads to crankism and generally being written off by the rest of the reading public. But then COVID-19 proved in reality, beyond a shadow of a doubt, what had been dismissed out of hand in theory by every “serious” person or camp: the complete, rapid, non-violent transformation of our sanctimonious, banal country is still possible.
Before proceeding, some points. First, a thesis and process will be offered here, but how we got here, what the virus has revealed, and detailed prescriptions requires multiple entries - I ask for patience. Second, none of this is to be interpreted as advocating violent regime change. Lastly, I am unilingual in speech as well as ideology: look up Stuart Parker and Paul Strickland for reliable, alternative viewpoints as well as comments on my themes, such as “technocracy.”
My thesis is that thanks to Canada’s heritage, until 1967, our country was once ruled by French Catholic subsidiarity, English Common Law, and fiscal Scotish pragmatism. Then, due to the Quiet Revolution, a technocratic class began to develop, eventually imposing itself upon all of Canada via the Pearson-Trudeau consensus. This class and its methods are antithetical to meaningful local government, any innovation in policy, and the traditional civil liberties of citizens.
Our process is simple: the administrative, managerial, regulatory, and therapeutic state as well as its operating class is the foe that must be permanently defeated without resorting to violence of any kind. Until the ‘Rona, this was an unsolvable riddle - how does one achieve a bloodless revolution? Turns out our oligarchs' are such cowards, they’ll foolishly sacrifice their omnipotence to save their own skin. All we simple plebs must do is lean into this gap posthaste.
The open highway has not resulted in Road Warrior, proving the MVA as enforced by the Queen’s Cowboys is 98 per cent harassment. CERB though a pathetic pittance must be preserved, its successor a single means tested UBI that combines all other entitlements. Digital classrooms are good news for families, as it ensures the option to turn off indoctrination. Non-clinical senior staff fled our hospitals during the pandemic - may their salaries go to the frontline as a reward.
Indeed the proletariat ought to be praised eternally - without them, everyone would have starved. Our Dear Leader in Ottawa has given us a perfect counter-example that encapsulates how the technocratic class always acts: after telling everyone to stay home for Easter, he got in a car to visit the wife and kids in Quebec. What is to be inferred other than they don’t care about us and they honestly believe that the rules don’t apply to them?
Some talk of returning to normal - I cannot think of a more hellish fate. Our own CRA confessed its system was too complicated to expect people to file on time. Apparently, ICBC was always able to free us from onerous protocols - I’m looking forward to it closing forever once we start live streaming driving tests. Ditto for BC Assessment, which once tried to tax my family farm’s empty pasture one mile from the nearest road or utility as “lakeside residential.”
This is more than a litany of grievances - it's just a drop in the ocean of pain everyone pays taxes to endure. There is now undeniable proof that our leaders right and left were lying when they declared these problems inalterable; it took about fifteen minutes to change policies and a month to get them working. Again I say, lean in, as the technocratic class has preached to us for decades - they deserve a taste of their own medicine. That response is only right and just.
But aren’t these our brothers and sisters too? Certainly, and there is a place for them in confederation, at a modern DeHavilland or BC Rail. Just not on our lawns or on our tax dollars.
