{"id":360909,"date":"2018-05-12T20:56:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T19:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/white-identity-politics-is-enshrined-in-canadas-constitution\/"},"modified":"2018-05-12T20:56:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T19:56:57","slug":"white-identity-politics-is-enshrined-in-canadas-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/white-identity-politics-is-enshrined-in-canadas-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"White Identity Politics Is Enshrined in Canada&#8217;s Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Richardo Duchesne, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurocanadian.ca\/2018\/05\/white-identity-politics-enshrined-in-canadas-constitution.html\" target=\"_blank\">Council of European Canadians<\/a>, 10 May 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let them deceive you. Canada&#8217;s Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982) and the Multiculturalism Act of 1988 encourages Euro-Canadians to &#8220;preserve&#8221; and &#8220;enhance&#8221; their cultural heritage and ethnic identity. Section 27 of the Charter clearly states that the &#8220;Charter shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with the preservation and enhancement&#8221; of the culture of all ethnic groups in Canada, including Euro-Canadians. The Multiculturalism Act clearly states that &#8220;all citizens,&#8221; including Euro-Canadians, &#8220;are equal and have the freedom to preserve, enhance and share their cultural heritage.&#8221; The racial identity of Euro-Canadians is part of this cultural heritage since this heritage was built by them.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian law recognizes the fundamental right of Euro-Canadians to advocate for a Canada that remains majority European in its ethnic and cultural character.<\/p>\n<p>It may seem contradictory to be encouraging White identity politics through the employment of multicultural principles that were intended in their inception to encourage the dominant majority Anglo-European people to &#8220;respect&#8221; the &#8220;human need&#8221; of non-European minority groups to cherish and enhance their ethnic and religious identities within the framework of Canada&#8217;s political system. Is not multiculturalism a call upon the government to provide extra funding for minority cultural programs as well as &#8220;special&#8221; rights for non-European groups against past&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/white-identity-politics-is-enshrined-in-canadas-constitution\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richardo Duchesne, Council of European Canadians, 10 May 2018 Don&#8217;t let them deceive you. Canada&#8217;s Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982) and the Multiculturalism Act of 1988 encourages Euro-Canadians to &#8220;preserve&#8221; and &#8220;enhance&#8221; their cultural heritage and ethnic identity. Section 27 of the Charter clearly states that the &#8220;Charter shall be interpreted in a manner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}