I have never heard such an empty, idiotic or meaningless phase as “our strength lies in our diversity”.





What on earth is that supposed to mean?





If a politician can’t speak to me in readily understandable English, he or she is overpaid and useless.





Millions of us have connections with forebears from foreign lands and the ethnic, religious, social and historical baggage that comes with it. We try our best to understand and naturally try to draw from the best of our heritage to maintain and preserve amongst those who share our ancestry. That is how our ethnic association have formed.





Battle of Quebec during the Seven Years War

The English-speaking old-line Ontarians and French speaking Quebecers have little to share with us. They are solidly stuck in the Empire Loyalist and French habitat inheritances that have never been able to treat one another as equals. These inbred idiots are still fighting the seven years war that ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763, two hundred and fifty-six years ago!





We have no hope of rational leadership from anyone connected to this group of self-styled competing elitists. Their world and ours are not even on polite nodding terms.





Out in the hinterlands, primarily western Canada, we have spent over a century dealing with practical matters. We were settled with a polyglot of ethnic backgrounds and heritages all suspicious of one another. We were also dependant on one another. We gave substance to the notion that “no man is an island”.





When a neighbour suffered catastrophe, fire, flood, tornado, accident, illness or other cause we rallied to assist, knowing we could be next. Tensions between ethic communities relaxed as we got to know one another and how much we shared in standards and values.





What followed was a deeper respect for ethnic heritage. Husbands and wives came to understand and respect the heritages of their in-laws.





Lost in all this was the exodus of Ontarians and Quebecers to developing western Canada. They were all fleeing the entrenched rigidities of central Canada, yearning for the opportunity to ‘live free’. They came and contributed to the development of western Canada.





Central Canadian elitists are oblivious to the reality that if the western provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan succeed, thousands of their residents will leave for the west to escape their oppressive rule.

People will flock to new beginnings, new hope and new opportunities.





The pioneering spirit of our ancestors has not been entirely erased. We are tired of being treated as lesser beings of little consequence by elitist politicians and their corporate cronies.





They will soon find themselves big frogs in a rapidly diminishing puddle of influence.









John Feldsted

Political Consultant & Strategist