Roundup: Trading in NWO conspiracies

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On Saturday, Conservative MP and former minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay retweeted a shitpost put up by a QAnon follower that contained a video of a pre-politics Chrystia Freeland interviewing George Soros, and worried that Soros was trying to get China on board with the New World Order – a particularly pervasive conspiracy theory which goes back to the anti-Semitic tropes of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” Findlay’s quote-tweet – since deleted – had her proclaiming that Freeland was “listening carefully to him like a student to teacher. The closeness of these two should alarm every Canadian.” When called out, Findlay insisted that it was “about economics,” before she finally deleted her tweet, apparently after Liberal MP Anthony Housefather (who is Jewish) reached out to her to explain why the Soros/NWO conspiracy theories are inherently anti-Semitic. Findlay then made a qualified apology, claiming she “thoughtlessly shared content” and that she doesn’t endorse hateful rhetoric, but didn’t explain her won statement about why Freeland interviewing Soros should be “alarming.”

Why does this matter? Because other Conservatives including Pierre Poilievre were retweeting Findlay uncritically, which means that this kind of conspiracy theorism and anti-Semitism is getting more normalized. And then there’s the fact that Andrew Scheer spent his farewell speech promoting sites like True North and The Post Millennial which also trade in these kinds of narratives, and was touting them as credible and “objective,” when they are not. What this is saying about where the Conservative party is at in terms of what kind of narratives they trade in should be alarming, especially when you think of the fact that fourteen percent of the party voted for Derek Sloan’s outright parroting of Trump talking points, which includes the racism, misogyny and homophobia.

Over the rest of the weekend, Erin O’Toole was silent on the tweet, as were the other Conservatives who retweeted Findlay. That should also be concerning, especially because it means they are either ignorant of the anti-Semitic tropes they were trading in, or they were complicit in them. That’s not a direction that we want Canadian politics to be heading down, and Findlay owed an explanation of why it was “alarming” that Freeland interviewed Soros as a journalist, and O’Toole owes an explanation for his silence in not shutting this down when it happened.

Good reads:

  • The Conservatives have been demanding that WE turn over more documents, even though the committee is officially dissolved; WE’s lawyers aren’t biting.
  • The RCMP Civilian Review and Complaints Commission says they will publish all of their investigation summaries going forward in a bid to increase transparency.
  • Two Canadian Forces members tested positive for COVID-19 on their return from the Middle East training mission.
  • Liberals on the public safety committee are unhappy that their study on systemic racism in policing got sidelined by the prorogation.
  • The Star provides us with our first behind-the-scenes look at Erin O’Toole’s successful leadership campaign.
  • The National Post looks into O’Toole’s successful Quebec strategy, though it’s unlikely that could be of any use in a general election.
  • Here is an attempt to divine what O’Toole’s pandemic recovery plan might look like.
  • Paul Wells rips into the incompetence of Bill Blair ignoring the problems faced by the panel trying to reform solitary confinement until it was too late.
  • Heather Scoffield invokes R.B. Bennett while putting some context around the income replacement aid that the government sent out during the pandemic.
  • Susan Delacourt wonders why everyone is talking about a possible fall election (though she doesn’t give the obvious answer of everyone looking at polls).
  • Chantal Hébert surveys the Quebec electoral landscape and sees only ruin for O’Toole, where his leadership win won’t translate to an election.

Odds and ends:

Here’s a longread about the Satanic Panic of the 1980s (which has since morphed into QAnon conspiracies), whose spread began in Victoria, BC.

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3 thoughts on “Roundup: Trading in NWO conspiracies”

  1. CPC stands for Conspiracy Party of Canada. QAnon has already made it into the U.S. Congress where GOP candidates are actually winning primaries running on a strictly QAnon platform. The GOP’s Canadian branch plant is irredeemable now that this delusion has infected it too. The “friendly sausage maker” who had intent to go full Oswald on Justin Trudeau was a QAnon believer. The crackpots at the anti-mask protest with Bernier were QAnon believers, carrying signs and chanting slogans calling for Trudeau and other Liberals to be “hanged for treason.” Poilievre was at that yellow vest event last February where a senator called on the participants to “roll over every Liberal in the country.” He tweeted last week a coded anti-Semitic “pun” about Telford’s husband saying “Liberals rob money, rob gold and rob silver.” So this is the swamp he dwells in too.

    The crank who shouted obscenities into McKenna’s office intercom was uttering QAnon conspiracies about the Liberal party covering for “pedophiles”. Scheer promulgated that Internet smear campaign about Trudeau’s teaching career during last year’s campaign, which feeds into this. He also winked at Pizzagate (which, along with Soros/NWO conspiracies has been enveloped into QAnon) during a (heavily restricted) town-hall event last year. There’s no both-sides here. This is 100% entirely on the Conservative Party. They’re a hate group masquerading as a political party and need to be disbanded.

    I believe the FBI has designated QAnon to be a domestic terrorist movement. Authorities in Canada would do well to do the same. “Partisanship” be damned; if this filth is solely the domain of the CPC and its provincial offshoots then it’s the Cons’ responsibility to figure out why. Not the RCMP or the hopeless media (which won’t cover this at all until it’s too late) to tiptoe around “balance,” while tinfoil cranks foaming at the mouth about Jews controlling the world, and Justin Trudeau using WE Day events as rock concerts to have unfettered access to underage groupies, pose an existential threat to Canadians. It’s all fun and games until one of Ballingall’s fanboys takes aim at Trudeau from a grassy knoll.

  2. What caught my attention this weekend was the violent incident in Montreal and the lack of comment by PM JT. Left it to his minister of Heritage Guilbault to issue a woke agenda statement. Sad situation.

    • I guess you missed this morning’s press conference, then. Instead of tweeting out virtue-signaling outrage for data mining about “erasing history,” he gave a balanced yet firm statement that it’s important to evaluate and reevaluate the legacy of Canadian leaders, but as a country of laws, vandalism isn’t OK in Canada either. He even said go ahead and ask questions and have debates about Pierre’s legacy. But don’t destroy property, period.

      At the same time, however, he did not close the door to the possibility of a referendum or some other democratic push to have these statues removed in an orderly fashion. *That* is what O’Toole doesn’t want. He’s no better than the Republicans defending Confederate generals, because what they really want is to keep these monuments to hate in the public square as a testament to who “owns” it. If a lack of statues meant history being erased, I guess Germany, where statues of Hitler are against the law, must have forgotten he ever existed or something.

      O’Toole won’t condemn his radical caucus and supporters who are fomenting hatred against living people, because they’re more concerned about statues of dead people. Including the Virgin Mary, apparently. Funny that, didn’t the nice boy from Nazareth say something about not venerating false idols in the first place? Wonder what he’d say about so-called Christians fomenting conspiracy theories about other Jews?

      Also, “woke agenda”? How about the alt-right agenda? Where was O’Toole’s statement when another QAnon cultist dumped black paint all over a Pierre Trudeau statue and spraypainted the word “pedo” on it? Doesn’t matter, I guess, because Pierre was a Liberal and the party fundraises off anti-Trudeau hate. Also, Johnny Mac was a brutal Indian killer. Wouldn’t want to alienate the white-nationalist base who thrives off fetishizing the purveyors of genocide.

      Sad situation indeed.

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