In the long run, western propaganda’s inversion of reality would attain total reversal in Canada, where in light of Canada’s foreign policy towards Israel, twenty-two Parliamentarians attempted to re-define opposition to discriminatory nature of the Israeli Occupation as anti-Semitism, (democracy at work). The ultimate fulfillment of this re-definition would be to have it fall under the existing Canadian legal definition of a hate crime (witness the breathtaking piece of circular logic that accomplishes this by imposing the definition of a Jewish state conjoined with the implication that any opposition to its nature of existence (while simultaneously imposing it is “Jewish” by definition) -is by definition evil), a bald attempt at criminalizing legitimate opposition on student campuses. The inherent nature of soft power and the inherently necessary intervention in Canadian affairs to secure its resources makes it very vulnerable to gross distortions of its national identity, leading to an exacerbation of its national failings, that are in the main completely in contravention of the desires of the majority of the populace. The portent of this danger completely altering and subverting the country was just as clear then as now through the prism of clarity that threw into relief western oblivion and injustice in one part of the world.
It was subsequent to their state of collective unsettlement concerning Kanehsatake that their grandmother bestowed them with The Fight for Canada by David Orchard, a prairie farmer, about the dangers of the Free Trade Agreement that had just been enacted with the United States. The children were too young to have voted on this crucial matter when it became an election issue in 1988, and their father refused to ever vote, considering the system too hijacked by vested powerful interests for anyone to be worth voting for, besides being a theocrat. Only those who catered to those with money ever made it to the top, and only when they compromised too much. The system had reached the point of being self-regulating. At any rate, being overseas they missed most of the Free Trade debate, and the media was not really treating it as if it needed to be debated about, but rather espousing how good it was.
This only reached a level of alarm in Rahab’s perception when adroitly counterpointed with Joyce Nelson’s Sultans of Sleaze, which suffice to say she only caught up with a few years later. It amply demonstrated the level of national manipulation that went into the 1988 “Free Trade” election, which might have been more adequately dubbed Canada’s baptism of fire in PR manipulated elections. This was thanks to the introduction of polling to gauge public opinion and so immediately modulate the campaign’s message (something like autotune), methods orchestrated by the head of Reagan’s California campaign for Governor, as well as his first election campaign for President. It was a US unit that helmed Brian Mulroney’s re-election. When it comes to interference in Canadian national affairs during re-election for the desired result (s) (including unprecedented homogenization with American political climate (bringing “lickspittle” into the political vernacular), the formula appears not to have changed much. Frankly you can read enough investigation of this by one individual to glaze over, enough to make you really question that conservative majority win in the previous election, especially exasperating when the proportion of Canadians who actually vote (a reflection of a sense of overall helplessness and disgust) is along these lines.) Suppression is the desired result, in combination with unbelievable BS f***whittery servicing the total betrayal of the nation. Oh, wait…