C3RF Update, 16 May 2025 – The hard thing
- Russ Cooper
- May 15
- 8 min read
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May is upon us and it’s time to replenish our coffers at C3RF. Last years funding drive was very successful and very generous donors, you know who you are, ponied up to allow us to more than triple our video and civil liberties outreach activities. The results were very positive and included operations that contributed directly to the shelving of draconian Bill C-63 (Online Harms Act). This notorious piece of legislation would have given dystopian government authorities the power to process anonymous charges of “hate speech”, either now or in the possible future, into house arrest, onerous fines and gagging.
Unfortunately, such threats are still with us as our newly minted prime minister, Mark Carney, has promised, as a priority, to censor Canadian access to the internet to quash subjective “hate“ speech and inconvenient “disinformation”. There is little doubt that such threats will become certainties absent pushback by citizens who desire to hand down the same freedoms to their children and grand children that they themselves enjoyed in a once ”strong and free” Canada.
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Runaway train
Recall that last week’s update used the analogy of a steam-driven train straining to overcome the inertia of its own resting mass before reaching speed and turning that same mass into an unstoppable momentum. This analogy was then applied to Canada’s own experience with its Charter of Rights and Freedoms. As with the accelerating locomotive, our Charter would leave the station in 1982 with great promise and fanfare only to become a runaway train speeding away from, not towards, its initial guarantees of enshrining the individual, fundamental rights of each and every Canadian citizen. It would become the “unfreedom” train. By definition, a runaway train might be the result of a mechanical failure or loss of operator control and, in the case of our “unfreedom” train, it would appear that the operator, in the form of a representative democracy, had been totally removed from the controls.
In the case of the Canadian “unfreedom” train, it was postulated that its operator was eased out of the controller’s chair through a gradual, almost imperceptible, process. As the frog is placed in a pot of warm water whose temperature is gradually increased to the boiling point, so it was with Canadians as they went through a process that that ramped up through convincing, cajoling and coercing to eventually command adherence to freedom-crushing initiatives and narratives. The examples are plentiful and include the illegal invocation of martial law to shut down what should have been Charter-sanctioned protests and the floating of an Online Harms Act (Bill C-63) that would have warmed the heart of “Big Brother” in Orwell’s novel, 1984. The former embarrassment stands in stark contrast to a “strong and free” Canada as the same government that invoked the Emergencies Act is unapologetic and is appealing the ruling that it would choose to ignore. Meanwhile the latter initiative is simmering in the background awaiting its inevitable re-tabling by a newly elected Liberal government.
It is interesting to note that there is much evidence that would suggest our “unfreedom” train’s operator, in the form of a representative democracy, was eased out its control cab by an array of internationalized entities. The Canadian exercise in martial law in 2022, for example, can be seen to be downstream of what is now known to be a collusion between the U.S. National Institute of Health and the Wuhan virology laboratory in China. It is now clear that “gain of function” activities gave the world the infamous Wuhan virus that ultimately drove experimental “vaccines” that, in turn, drove Canadian truckers to organize and execute the historic Freedom Convoy 2022 protests. In the case of Bill C-63, this “hate” and “disinformation” speech initiative can be seen to echo similar European legislation that, itself, was prompted by expressions of public angst over massive and reckless immigration policies – policies that flooded the continent with fighting age males from the middle east and North Africa.
Train wreck
It would be one thing if the “unfreedom” train was racing down the tracks towards a promised utopia but real-life outcomes are giving Canadians cause for concern. The ambitious pledge to wrestle climate change to the ground through “net-zero” policies, for example, has proven to be a complete bust. So it was demonstrated in Spain, Portugal and parts of France when power was blacked out for an unprecedented “hourslong” period . This widespread and extremely dangerous situation saw citizens stranded in elevators, airports shut down and critical hospital procedures cancelled out of hand. It came on the heels of Spain proudly announcing it had achieved “net-zero” over the entirety of its energy grid yet, a few days later, it would find itself in darkness dragging Portugal and parts of France into the blackness with it.
It now appears that the drive for “net-zero” resulted in the loss of stabilizing natural gas and nuclear energy supplies. The elimination of these steady sources of power, in turn, created frequency variations that tipped whole grids into shutdown mode. The fact is that renewables, such as solar and wind, are just too variable and lack the compensating “inertia” afforded by more conventional fossil and nuclear energy sources. It is now becoming obvious that energy systems heavily dependant on renewables need “to incorporate frequency and voltage stabilizers in the grid to counteract the loss of inertia” caused by their presence. It would appear that high speed, out of control locomotives, in the form of ideologies that are allowed and encouraged to run roughshod over the tried and tested without challenge, are a great way to induce a train wreck!
When it comes to ideologies creating train wrecks, it’s hard to match the destructive power of the “diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE)” canon. Canadians have come to see the two-faced hypocrisy associated with a diversity that shuns and pillories certain races, an inclusiveness that berates those who hold tight to traditional family values and a sense of equity that displaces merit with equal and undeserved outcomes. Perhaps one of the best examples of all three operating in consonance to destroy a once prized and trusted institution is that of Canada’s own military. Long gone are the days when this force was organized around a meritocracy principle and a culture dedicated to winning wars as social engineering has become the priority. And so it is today as soldiers, sailors and airmen are shoehorned into Marxist-style “struggle sessions” to atone for their “white fragility” even as “whiteness” is linked to extremism and supremacism!
The hard thing
The fact that DIE narratives are killing the institutions of the West, including the U.S. and Canadian militaries, is in the numbers. In the case of the American military, recruitment and retention levels plummeted during the Biden administration with the onset of DIE-driven policies. These new strategies included the lowering of standards and the institution of quotas to better approximate required racial/interest group requirements. These requirements, in turn, have been linked to the creation of “weak leaders” and “a divisiveness that is absolutely damaging to the military as a whole.” Some have argued that DIE is not a problem but a solution that simply needs to be expanded and better understood. The fact remains, however, that drastic improvements in the dire recruitment and retention situation occurred in lockstep with a new Trump administration and its move away from a “woke Marxist social experiment”. Coincidence?
One is left wondering, how is it that the hard thing of breaking the back of wokeism, an ideology that has been cemented into place in the West over many, many decades, could come so quickly in a Trump administration? And its not just about re-installing a war-fighting military, it’s about walking away from climate change, Agenda 2030 as a whole and the World Health Organization – all of the global institutions that have taken over Canada’s decision-making processes over the course of the past ten years. The fact that the Americans have managed to do such a hard thing speaks to an attribute of representative democracy that receives precious little recognition – its ability to auto-correct. It’s little wonder that this aspect of democratic rule falls by the wayside when woke narratives, that are dedicated to finding fault, are left unchallenged. They will bang away on slavery all day long but will never acknowledge the auto-correct that was the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. Meanwhile, the slaves in Mauritania toil away in obscurity.
Doing the hard thing on behalf of those you are sworn to serve comes eventually, but naturally, in a representative democracy. After all and as friend of C3RF, Julius Ruechel, has stated, a society is on the path towards “complete loss of faith” in its leadership once the “threshold of the masses no longer views” their governance systems as fair, timely and impartial. As seen in the American instance, the process that sees the will of the people rising to irresistible levels was aided immeasurably by an ability to exchange ideas and opinions freely. This was accommodated with the opening up of the “Twitter” social media platform, now “X”, by Elon Musk in 2022 – the same year that Freedom Convoy 2022 hit the streets of Ottawa. The “Twitter files” would follow thereafter and the American public would come to know just how aggressively their government had manipulated and censored their impressions of the world around them. It goes without saying that If Canadians are going to accomplish their own hard tasks, they will need to have free speech. And they will need to fight as hard as they can against initiatives, like a revitalized Bill C-63, that would take that speech away.
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Major Russ Cooper (Ret’d)
President and CEO, C3RF
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