Canada and the West Become States of Unfreedom

Canada and the West Become States of Unfreedom
Parliament Hill is seen below a Canada flag in Gatineau, Quebec, on Sept. 18, 2020. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Michael Rectenwald
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Commentary
The dismantling of the Canadian trucker convoy protest by Trudeau and his henchmen has exposed the agenda of the Western elite. What we are witnessing in Canada is emblematic of the sociopolitical and economic condition of the United States and the West more generally. The abrogation of natural and legal rights, the “legal” prohibition of dissent, the cancellation of small, independent producers (to the benefit of monopolies), the increasing penetration of state and corporate surveillance, the implicitly approved hacking of the names and addresses of dissenters and their supporters, the exposure of dissidents by the press and social media, the confiscation of the property of those who hold “unacceptable views”—these are not only facts in Canada; they are the near future, if not the present, in the United States and beyond. Together, these represent the Chinese state model writ large and rolled out across the world, a model engineered, unwittingly or not, by Western elites in the first place.
Michael Rectenwald
Michael Rectenwald
Author
Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., is a former professor at New York University and a distinguished fellow at Hillsdale College. He is the author of twelve books, including “The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty” (2022), “Thought Criminal” (2020), “Beyond Woke” (2020), “Google Archipelago” (2019), “Springtime for Snowflakes” (2018), and “Nineteenth-Century British Secularism” (2016).
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