Best-Selling Author and Retired U.N.B. Professor Ricardo Duchesne Guest Commentary

 

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The evidence is indisputable: Canada was built from the ground up by indigeneous EuroCanadians with next to 0 immigration from nonwhite world. I. The claim that Canada is a "nation of diverse immigrants" is a willful act of deception intended to justify the ethnocide of Euro-Canadians. Most of the men and women who built Canada were INDIGENOUS to this nation, and the ones who came from outside were overwhelmingly French, Irish, British, Scottish and European until the 1970s. II. In 1867, 79% percent of Canadian residents had been born in Canada. Before Confederation, there were only "two quite limited periods" of substantial immigration: from 1783 to 1812, and from 1830 to 1850. In these two periods, immigrants came primarily from the British Isles. From 1871 to 1891, a high fertility rate allowed the population of Canada to grow from 3.7 to 4.8 million. . III. The Quebecois and the Acadians were a people created through the fecundity of the women, not immigration. Immigration contributed only about one seventh (1/7) to the total population growth of New France from its beginnings to its conquest in 1763. The French-speaking population numbered about 90,000 by the 1770s, and thereafter, until the late 1800s, the population expanded rapidly because women were having 5.65 surviving children on average. The increase in population in Quebec during the 1800s was also a result of the continuing high birth rate. By 1950, the Quebec population was almost 4 million, and this increase was primarily a result of the continuing high fertility rates. Only in the 1970s did Montreal start to see an increasing inflow of non-European immigrants. IV. The estimated 50,000 Loyalists who came to Canada were not immigrants, but settlers native to the soils of British North America: they moved from American lands that were thoroughly British to Canadian lands that were also British. V. Between 1896 and 1914, Canada did experience high immigration levels with 2.5 to 3 million arriving within this period. However, the ethnic composition of the nation remained 84 percent British and Quebecois, while the European component rose to 9 percent. VI. Between 1941 and 1962 the population of Canada increased from 11.5 million to 18.5 million largely as a result of "extremely high domestic birth rates". It was only after the imposition of multiculturalism in 1971 that immigrants from outside the West started to arrive in large numbers. In 1971, over 96% of the Canadian population was White. VII. Therefore: Canada was created by native Euro-Canadians. All the institutions, legal system, educational curriculum, transformation of wilderness into productive farms, all the cities, the parliamentary traditions, the churches, the entire infrastructure of railways, ports, shipping industries, and highways, were created by hardworking Euro-Canadians."