OP-ED: Canada is at risk of a hostile takeover – some citizen ideas for the New Year

"Have you noticed how unrecognizable Canada has begun to feel? I have. It is as though the country’s basic cultural integrity is being pulled apart, from within and from without."

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Author: Dr. Arney Lange

Have you noticed how unrecognizable Canada has begun to feel? I have. It is as though the country’s basic cultural integrity is being pulled apart, from within and from without. In that sense, the very existence of the country feels at stake.

Canada today faces domestic and external forces that do not appear to have the best interests of Canadians at heart. What we are witnessing is not one single threat, but a convergence of pressures that together weaken the country and erode confidence in the Canadian project itself.

There are three parts to this problem. First, Canada’s weakening from within. Second, the external threats are now exploiting that weakness. Third, what ordinary citizens might resolve to do in the coming year to restore hope in the Canadian dream.

The Weakening of Canada from Within

Canada is being hollowed out internally in several ways, most notably through separatism, judicial overreach, censorship, the erosion of property rights, and the spread of woke ideology.

Start with Parliament. Canadians have somehow accepted the normalization of separatists holding seats in the national legislature. By definition, this does not advance the national interest, yet it has become routine.

Then there is the Supreme Court, increasingly unaccountable, striking down criminal justice legislation passed by Parliament while declining to hear appeals on issues such as health care reform. Meanwhile, patients, including those of many doctors I know, continue to die while waiting for care. A democracy cannot function when elected lawmakers are overridden without recourse.

Speech is also under threat. In the name of protecting Canadians from “hate,” the government has pursued censorship while failing to address a real increase in arson attacks against religious institutions, particularly churches, over the past five years. It proposes bans on symbols like the National Socialist swastika while refusing to ban the communist hammer and sickle. Free expression, including religious speech, is being treated as a liability rather than a cornerstone of a free society.

Property rights have also been undermined. The prime minister has openly described himself as European rather than Canadian, while his government enacted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In practice, this grants veto power over national projects, pipelines being the obvious example. At the same time, the Crown behaves like an absentee landlord, ceding land without question. The result is a system in which Canadians who did not steal land lose it, while ownership is transferred to collective entities whose members often lack individual title themselves. Private property, once fundamental, is treated as expendable.

Finally, Canada is being reshaped through a cultural revolution driven by woke ideology, often branded as diversity, equity, and inclusion. It has spread through government, academia, the military, schools, and hospitals. Rather than uniting Canadians as individuals judged by character and merit, this ideology divides citizens into competing identity groups. Division is no way to build a country.

Many Canadians no longer recognize the country of their birth. It feels as though the Canadian ship of state is being eaten from within by termites who know only how to destroy. Canada needs workers and builders, not termites.

External Threats and Capture:

Canada’s internal weakness has made it vulnerable to external pressure and capture. Foreign interference, globalist ideology, and a deteriorating trade relationship with the United States all threaten our sovereignty.

Foreign interference is no longer theoretical. The current government’s attempts to induce opposition Members of Parliament to cross the floor raise serious questions about democratic legitimacy. The case of Michael Ma is illustrative. He was elected as a Conservative, not a Liberal, yet crossed over under questionable circumstances. Both he and the prime minister have had dealings with banks and organizations affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, including loans connected to the prime minister’s business interests. Canadians should be alarmed by the risk of foreign leverage over their government.

Globalist ideology compounds the problem. Canada has signed away elements of its sovereignty not only through UNDRIP, but also through climate agreements and immigration frameworks. The prime minister and senior cabinet members have been closely associated with the World Economic Forum, which openly treats Canada as a post-national state. Whether through unachievable climate commitments or the open-borders logic embedded in the Global Compact for Migration, the result is the same: strained hospitals, schools, housing, and rising crime. Meanwhile, demonstrations in Canadian cities have featured flag burning and chants of “death to Canada.”

Finally, Canada’s economic health is threatened by dysfunction in its trade relationship with the United States. At a time when Canada is weakened internally, our largest trading partner has chosen unpredictability over reliability. For a country already struggling to stand, external instability only deepens vulnerability.

Whether parasites from within or predators from without, hostile actors need not agree on their motives. They only need to weaken Canada. The Chinese panda increasingly looks like a tiger.

The American eagle circles for carrion. The Canadian beaver may be less threatening, but it is still alive. Survival will require work, persistence, and rebuilding from our old, crooked timbers.

Some New Year’s Resolutions

What, then, is to be done?

Canada must reaffirm the supremacy of Parliament over the courts in an accountable democracy and use the notwithstanding clause when necessary.

Canada needs national recall legislation so constituents can respond when Members of Parliament betray the voters who elected them.

Canada must focus on self-reliance by eliminating interprovincial trade barriers, building domestic capacity, and exporting to friendly nations instead of blocking our own human and resource potential.

Canada should prioritize trade with like-minded free-market democracies and avoid entanglements with authoritarian regimes. Alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Finally, Canada needs a renewed constitutional foundation, a Canadian Magna Carta grounded in popular sovereignty. Land must not be framed as Crown title versus Indigenous title, but as citizen title that respects private property rights.

And one last resolution: enough tolerance for the hammer and sickle and its godless communism.

Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.