A Canada First blueprint for dealing with terrorism
9/29/01
CFIRC -- the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee -- has consistently argued that government strategy and policy must put Canada and Canadians first. All too often, our policymakers have put foreign or domestic minorities first. As we come to grips with the most serious act of war in America since the War of 1812 -- never has the American mainland been so devastated by alien forces -- we must realize that the world has changed. We are, as President George Bush as said, at war. On September 11, as terrorist-hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, Islamist radicals, with a passionate hatred of democracy and the West, brought their terror to the very heartland of America with deadly effect. As we look ahead, we now know that there are terrorist cells in both Canada and the U.S. The technologically savvy terrorists, utterly prepared to sacrifice their own lives, may now turn to chemical and biological mayhem.
We take no satisfaction from saying, "We told you so." Years of a porous border, totally lax screening of immigrants and permitting hordes of utterly unscreened people, many without documents, to gain admission to Canada by saying "I'm a refugee" have resulted in Canada and the U.S. being laced with a variety of terrorists. CSIS spokesman Chantal Lapalme "said the agency knows of 50 terrorist or front groups in Canada, including Hezbollah and other Shiite Islamic terrorist organizations; Hamas and other Sunni Islamic extremist groups with ties to Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Lebanon and Iran; the provisional IRA; the Tamil Tigers, the Kurdistan Workers' Party; all of the world's major Sikh terrorist groups; and groups linked to financier Osama bin Laden. The agency is also targeting 350 people as possibly terrorists or with links to terrorists in Canada." (Vancouver Sun, September 18, 2001) The 350 figure may be wildly low. A terrorist like Ahmed Ressam, part of a Bin Laden cell in Montreal, had slipped beneath CSIS's radar and was apprehended in December 1999 by U.S. authorities as he was headed to L.A. to bomb the airport. Every one of the dead killers, it must be noted, had entered the U.S. from abroad, many as legitimate immigrants and visitors.
In the unmerciful, never ending smoke belching from the fiery ruins of the WTC was a nonsensical illusion going up in smoke -- multiculturalism. This destructive doctrine held that all cultures are equal and equally valuable and that newcomers and their cultures should be welcomed as enriching us. It is now clear that the culture and beliefs of some who have come here decrees that they hate and despise us, our way of life and democracy. So, what can be done?
HUNT DOWN AND PUNISH THE TERRORISTS -- Those who have declared war on the West must be found and dealt with. The killers must either be killed in battle or brought to justice before competent courts. Canada must jail or deport the terrorists in our midst. Terrorist funding must be interdicted. Politicians like Paul Martin and Maria Minna who hobnobbed with a Tamil Tiger front group deserve to be driven from public life as unworthy to hold office.
IMMIGRATION REFORM -- Now, more than ever, we need a five year moratorium on all immigration to Canada. A year ago, we'd have said this breather would allow the assimilation of some of those already here and a time to soak up the 7.2 per cent of the Canadian workforce now unemployed. Now, there's a more pressing reason. Canadian police and intelligence authorities need a long stretch of time to carefully winnow through the huge numbers of newcomers, Moslems at first, but Tamils and Sikhs, as well, to weed out the terrorists, those who have committed crimes in Canada or those who are here illegally and immediately deport them. Our very survival may depend on how well they do their job.
Should we decide that we need immigrants again, they will have to be screened, not just for the obvious health, criminal record, skills, and language ability, but for cultural suitability; that is, if they come from a culture/religion that hates us and our society, they are not welcome. REPEAL MULTICULTURALISM -- This suicidal doctrine must go. Canada must repeal its self-definition as a multicultural country. Canada is a democracy, Christian in its roots, British in its political traditions and European in its culture. Only people who can fit in and pledge allegiance to this Dominion with these characteristics should be welcome. Those with different traditions or beliefs are tolerated but, where there's a conflict -- turbans in the armed forces, opposition to Christian prayer in the schools -- they must yield.
NEUTRALITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- A Canada First foreign policy must promote Canada's interests first and those are not necessarily the same as those promoted by selfish ethnic lobbies. Canada and America even more so has followed a wildly pro-Israeli foreign policy. Canada has no vested interest in supporting Israel. Zionism is a serious irritant in the Middle East. It has created millions of angry, despairing refugees -- a potent source of recruits for terrorists. We have no interest in courting the anger of these people. Zionism says that a people who have not lived in Palestine for nearly 2,000 years have the right to come and displace the current population, Christian and Moslem. Canada was always foolish to support such a policy.
Taking sides in the Middle East is a cause, certainly not the only one, of Islamist militancy. Therefore, Canada should adopt a policy of strict neutrality in the Middle East: trade with all; aid to none. Further, we should call for an end to the air war and economic boycott of Iraq. Almost a million children have died of illness or starvation over the past decade because of this blockade.
Let us show Moslems of all stripes that we don't wish to meddle in their world but, by God, they'd better not meddle in ours!