Bloody Tales of the French Traveler
An excerpt from James Pew's book-in-progress “What Happened To Canada?”
This section covers a recent English translation of a 1768 edition of a travel book from a series which first appeared in volumes starting around 1765–1766, called The French Traveler, published by French Priest Joseph Delaporte. A prolific writer and compiler, Abbe Delaporte put together this volume as a compendium of well known travel accounts to Canada long before there existed any prohibitions on terminology. Back in those days, many explorers and settlers simply called things as they saw them. As noted previously, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, not only were there no restrictions on the word “savage,” it was in fact, a very plain and commonly used term to describe uncivilized people wherever they may be found.
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That version of history explains everything.
It explains the housing crisis. It explains the energy restrictions. It explains the immigration pressure. It explains the economic stagnation. It explains why a sitting Deputy Prime Minister stood in front of graduates at an American university and asked, out loud, whether capitalist democracy still works.
None of what is happening to Canada is an accident.
The Present Is the Evidence
To understand how Canada arrived at this moment, you first have to look honestly at what is happening right now.
Across Canadian media and social media, a coordinated narrative has been building around what is being called the problem of empty bedrooms. On the surface it sounds like a housing conversation. Look closer and it is something else entirely. The pressure being applied, particularly on elderly Canadians and grandparents who have lived in their homes for decades, is to downsize. To give up their multi-bedroom homes. To turn their large homes into apartment blocks. ...
