Canada's elite Zionist consensus Part 1
On June 27, I was reading my hard copy of Le Devoir (as one does) when I came across a full-page ad calling on the federal government to denounce antisemitism. The letter explains, “This campaign was created and generated by an ad hoc, non-partisan group of Non Jewish Canadian business leaders.” They call for “decisive action” against antisemitism. They want stricter law enforcement and sentencing, and to ensure that “terrorist organizations, their proxies, and adherents do not operate here and are not funded by any sources, public or private,” and something they call, “Discipline in public discourse.”
Mark Carney responded publicly to the call on Twitter the following day:
If you were looking for a list of Canada’s wealthiest men, most responsible for the myriad crises we face in Canada right now, well, they published it for you in several national newspapers under the banner of pretending to care about antisemitism. The letter is signed by 91 people, most on behalf of companies that make some of Canada’s biggest profits.
Collectively, the companies on this list make much more than $82,356,600,000.00 as this number is only from the 36 groups on this list that report their profits publicly. Nine companies are private and don’t report their profits and four (KPMG, EY, PwC and Barclays) only report their global profits (which are mindblowingly high). Five of the signatories come from families that are among the 13 wealthiest in Canada (Weston, Desmarais, Pattison, Rogers, Richardson.) There are three hospitals and one university on the list too.
There are only five women among the 91 who are there as a result of their own positions. Two others are the daughters of other signatories on the list and one is the wife of another signatory on the list. There are only seven racialized people, all men, including one father-son duo. For some reason, banker Geoffrey Belsher signed the letter twice.
Eighty-two billion dollars IN PROFIT. That is an insane sum of money. That equals just under what Canada spends total on all public education. This money is stolen from workers’ unpaid wages and transferred to a lucky few shareholders so they can purchase gated communities, yachts, summer homes, apartments in Paris and London, etc. Notably, there is one company on the list that is not making profits (though only one), and that’s Postmedia.
And, there are a few politicians who signed the letter too: noted Christian Zionist and racism amplifier Stephen “Barbaric Cultural Practices Hotline” Harper, Brian Tobin for some reason and Scott Brison, plus Kevin Lynch, formerly Canada’s top bureaucrat. There are also five banks, three construction companies, three food companies, seven law firms, ten oil, gas and mining companies and sixteen insurance and investment firms. Beacons in the fight against hatred (lol. Lmao even).
The divide between the rich and the poor has never been larger in Canada’s history. The wealthiest one percent hold as much wealth as the bottom 80% of Canadians. This, while one-quarter of Canadians experience food insecurity and 300,000 people have nowhere to live.
The companies on this list make their profits off of the social conditions that enable Canada’s affordability and housing crises. Stephen Harper chipped away at Canada’s tax base, defunding important social programs while handing huge sums of money to his friends. Trudeau and Carney have made the problem even worse.
Any overtures these (mostly) men make pretending to care about antisemitism are laughable — they need antisemitism, just like they need racism, Islamophobia and other forms of hatred, to help maintain their social status and their money. They also need antisemitism to scare people to boost support for Israel, as a large number of the signatories are directly implicated in funding or profiting off of Israel’s economy.
When social solidarity is destroyed by vulture capitalism, there is an increase in hatred. Of course, this letter stops short of condemning any other kind of hate. Violent antisemitism is usually espoused in the same breath as other kinds of hatreds — think of the soldiers who participated in the Hide n Stalk club, Neo-nazi fight clubs, Second Sons/Remigration shitheads, and so on. These leaders don’t denounce violent misogyny (which murders a woman every few days), or homophobia or transphobia. They don’t denounce Islamophobia or other kinds of racial hatred that harm and have killed people in Canada (where were they on January 30, 2017?). Nor do they identify anti-Black racism or violent colonialism. You can tell that they aren’t actually concerned about antisemitism as they downplay Canada’s violently antisemitic past: “Antisemitism is at a historic level in Canada,” an ironic statement as a list of businesses similar to this published eighty years ago, would have included companies where Jews were prohibited from holding the highest leadership positions.
This letter is a proxy to defend Israel, nothing more. If they cared about antisemitism, the signatories would have looked in the mirror to see how their own companies are reshaping Canada to be a more brutal place, where everything operates in the service of profit, using hatred and division to keep the masses preoccupied while they grind us even further into the dirt. What’s worse, they’re hiding behind antisemitism to call on our government to police us harder, restrict our speech further and give cover for them to maintain their business ties with the pariah nation, and for our government to continue arming Israel’s war crimes against Gaza and Lebanon.
We don’t need a great conspiracy theory to explain why Canadian elites are so supportive of Israel. Just as average people are more likely to support oppressed people, the elites identify with their fellow oppressors. While the modes of oppression may be different, the similarities are strong enough to keep class united with class. It isn’t by accident that the United States’ first two free trade agreements were with Canada and Israel. Our countries are inextricably linked, especially at the level with the most power: the moneyed elites who have transformed Canada through their profiteering.
To read about the companies that the signatories work for, click here.
So vital to expose this! Thank you for the proof that the Zio propaganda machine continues to churn.
As one does: exactly. Funds that should be invested in decaying infrastructure, service organizations and the pursuit reconciliation in the broadest sense, that increase social coherence at home and elsewhere, are being directed to militarization and them that profit from it. Write on, Nora! Yr work is urgently needed, now. Thank you.