Dominion Day message from Candice Malcolm

Why I call it Dominion Day, how I'm celebrating, what Canada means to me, and why I continue to fight

Hi everyone and Happy Dominion Day!

We’re not doing a show today because I’m hosting a BBQ at my family farm here in rural Ontario, and I wanted to invite my producers to come and enjoy the day off.

Dominion Day 2025 @ the Farm

We’ll be back tomorrow, and we’re also recording a in-person Fireside Chat with Juno News co-Founder Keean Bexte.

For today, tough, I wanted to share my thoughts on this Canada Day, or, as I’ve always preferred to call it, Dominion Day.

Why do we call it Dominion Day?

Canada’s history is intrinsically tied to the British Empire. When the American Revolution broke out and our American cousins became independent, Canada remained cautious and kept our distance.

The Americans were undergoing a radical experiment, and Canadians – prudent, loyal and yes, conservative – were wary. That founding characteristic remains with us today, and it is part of the national DNA.

It reminds me of Chesterton’s Fence, a principle that tells us to slow down and think through a problem before attempting to fix it. The Liberal, the progressive, and yes, in many cases, the American, would see a fence, decide it had no purpose and immediately tear it down. Whereas the prudent and wise conservative will ask what the purpose of the fence was originally, and then try to think through whether it is still needed.

They may end up tearing the fence down, or they may realize it still serves a purpose and decide to keep it. That is the Canadian instinct.

Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada’s first socialist Prime Minister, worked to deliberately erase Canada’s national symbols and institutions. He tore down the fences and tried to rebuild a new utopian system in its place. One of the casualties was Dominion Day, which was renamed Canada Day in 1982 – before I was born.

The British Christened our country The Dominion of Canada, God’s country – a haven of natural beauty and heavenly scenery. Successive 20th Century Liberal leaders stripped Canada of its religious sentiments, and by the time Trudeau I came around, they started stripping its British ties as well.

So calling it Dominion Day is a deliberate act of rebellion – rejecting the Liberal makeover of our country and insisting that our founding institutions still hold a purpose.

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The Liberals spent a decade under Justin Trudeau (Canada’s second socialist Prime Minister) telling Canadians that our country is guilty of heinous crimes like the mass murder of children and even genocide. Our Maple Leaf flag – itself a Liberal invention that erased our national lineage and turned it into a corporate logo – became a symbol of shame to these Liberals. By 2022, the legacy media told us the flag had become a symbol of racism, sexism and misogyny.

Then in 2025, Liberal forces turned on a dime and tried to reclaim Canadian nationalism – in pursuit of pure partisan power.

And it worked. The Liberals worked with the bought-and-paid-for legacy media to convince enough swing voters in Quebec and Ontario to join the faux-team Canada “elbows up” brigade.

It was sickeningly ironic for the crowd of people who destroyed our country with a poisonous tonic of socialism and open borders to be beating the drums of patriotism.

But for those of us whose sense of country is unwavering, who have remained dedicated to Canada – not the beer commercial caricature, but the nation, the Dominion – today is our day.

We celebrate our country: what it was and what is can be.

We certainly have our work cut out for us, but we have a sense of purpose, a clear problem to solve and strength to fight another day.

Thank you for your support of our mission, our journalism and the pursuit of the truth.

Happy Dominion Day, Juno News.

Thank you and God bless.