Courage, Conviction and Conservatism
Our mind-numbing, tax-crazy, abortion-euthanasia-climate-gender-sex-obsessed, debt-and-deficit-be-damned embarrassment of a government just gets worse by the day. And, although I am not one for posting privately filmed videos, if a public figure is going to admit something in public about what they do while ‘working’ on the public dime, I will make an exception. So here is Catherine McKenna, Liberal Minister of the Environment and ‘Climate Change’, in a pub in St. John’s, Newfoundland, admitting that if you shout something loud and often enough, it will somehow become the truth. The clip has to be seen to be believed, for it signifies what sort of people, and their mindset, who are running our nation. Where, oh, where are the men? And, by that, I don’t mean those simply with an XY genotype.
And what are we to say of the Conservatives under Andrew Scheer, whose ‘conservativism’ seems limited to light economic policies, as in, balancing the budget in five years instead of two?
You may recall the video of Mr. Scheer being interviewed by some radical feminist or other in a pub – the aptly named ‘Big Crow’, for that was what he seemed to be eating – and I could almost feel his pain, the very sweat on his finely-honed political brow, in his attempt to be agreeable, to smile that smile, and say nothing remotely offensive, or that even may be construed as such. (I would put that more vividly, but not in this forum). About abortion, he claims that ‘political parties’ should not be the ‘agent of change’ in this area. By that, I presume he means the government, which apparently now has no obligation to defend the life of the most defenseless? Has he read Evangelium Vitae, particularly paragraphs 70 or so and onwards, where Pope John Paul exhorts in the most vigorous terms the obligation we have to instantiate laws protecting life? When asked whether he’s a ‘feminist’, our future possible Conservative Prime Minister replies with a vigorous ‘Absolutely!’, adding that ‘nothing should be closed to women’, including, I may presume, such things as front-line combat. What of women transitioning to ‘men’?
Would that Mr. Scheer shouts as loudly as Ms. Mckenna what he really thinks, or what I hope he really thinks.
What we need is a revolution, at least in a metaphorical sense, to turn the whole ship around, for where we’re headed, it’s looking to be a lot worse than the wreckage of that fateful night of April 15th, 1912.
People are fed up with the comfortable status quo, scarcely distinguishable politicians droning on – or, as Ms. McKenna advocates, shouting – in platitudes until they pick up their life-long golden goose egg pensions and perks. As the debacle of the Tory and Labour parties in the United Kingdom just demonstrated, the masses – like lost sheep without a shepherd – are itching for change, the former receiving its worst electoral drubbing since 1687, and the latter its worst in over a century. They are gone and goner.
But where do we turn in Canada, where almost everyone is zombified by the bland, socialist, marshmallow education system, from K-1 to grad school, walking lock-step reciting the same mindless mantras as Ms. McKenna?
We need to wake up, gird our loins, and prepare for the fight to save what remains. As Christ promises, the Holy Spirit will bring us into ‘all the truth’, and for that truth, we must live and, yes, even in some sense, be willing to die. Cowardice and complaisance are no longer options, dear reader, but rather courage and conviction.
They have it, so why can’t we?
Carney’s Amoral Majority
After five defections – euphemistically described as ‘crossing the floor’ – and three by-elections, Mark Carney and his Liberals how have their coveted majority. One wonders what bowls of pottage were offered in back-room deals. In the archaic monarchical system that is the Dominion of Canada, this majority allows the newly-minted Prime Minister to rule[…]Continue reading→
Saint Kateri , Canada’s Protectress
This was the title given to Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, by Pope Benedict XVI, when he canonized her on October 28th, 2012, along with six others, in Saint Peter’ Square (she had been beatified by Pope John Paul II back in 1980). With Saint Joseph as our protector, along with the Canadian martyrs, we seem to[…]Continue reading→
A Closed, Unsustainable, Descending Loop
As a follow-up to my thoughts on Payette’s payout, here be a stark image of where are here in Canada. As the graph shows in, well, graphic terms, since 2025, the public sector has contributed to 95.5% of economic growth. The private sector – which funds the public sector, or is supposed to – has[…]Continue reading→
A Tale of Two Benedicts
A grace-filled Holy Week to all our readers! As we await and prepare for the Resurrection about to dawn upon us, we might keep in mind two Benedicts: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, requiescat in pace, elected on this day in 2005; and today’s commemoration of the mystic pilgrim, Benedict Joseph Labre, who died on this[…]Continue reading→
My Name is Bernadette
April 16th is a propitious day, for besides the anniversary of Father de Valk’s death, who founded Catholic Insight in its print form decades ago, and the commemoration of the ‘two Benedicts’, mentioned in accompanying posts, today we also recall Saint Bernadette Soubirous, the young visionary to whom the Virgin Mary appeared numerous times at[…]Continue reading→
Presidential Pardon of Weronika Krawczyk
As a good news, follow-up to our story from Poland, of the persecution of Weronika Krawczyk for her pro-life views, we heard that she has been granted a presidential pardon. One might still wonder why one needs a presidential pardon for simply holding the long-held belief that the child within the womb is a child,[…]Continue reading→
Saint Lydwina of Schiedam and Suffering Joyfully
Saint Lydwina of Schiedam (1380 – 1433) was one of the countless and glorious ‘victim souls’ in the history of the Church, those whose lives are filled with suffering, often of an unimaginable intensity, but who suffer joyfully. She was a fifteen-year old Dutch girl, out skating one day, when she fell and broke one[…]Continue reading→
The Glorious Martyrdoms of Martin and Maximus
As we enter into Eastertide, we recall on this 13th of April Pope Saint Martin I (+655), one of the noblest, if most tragic, of the successors of Saint Peter. Born in Umbria, Italy, he was of noble lineage, with great intelligence combined with charity and love of the poor and the Church. While still[…]Continue reading→
Pope Leo and a Rosary for Peace
Pope Leo XIV has asked Catholics across the world to join him in a Rosary for peace today, at 18:00 Rome time (6 pm), which would be noon from where I write (EST). If you are able, whether at that time or another, and in whatever way you pray, to join in intercession with the[…]Continue reading→
Payette’s Payout
I was glancing through some headlines, and noticed a mention of Julie Payette – engineer and astronaut and sometime the Queen’s representative in Canada – which brought back vague memories. She was appointed Governor-General by Justin Trudeau in 2017. Ms. Payette resigned in 2021, amidst claims that she created a ‘toxic work environment’, with allegations[…]Continue reading→