Our Canadian Journey
by Darshan Maharaja
As the saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun. For the things that take place in Canada, there are often historical precedents from other places & other times. Knowing more about those precedents helps us to make better choices in the present.Through my experiences in different countries, I have intimate knowledge of some of these precedents. It is my hope that by bringing them to public debate in Canada, I will have helped you see our issues in clearer light.
Episodes
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Elevator Chat: Episode 39 - Minister Miller's Chutzpah
Despite being on record as saying that international students undergo a criminal background check, Minister Miller is claiming that he did not say that. The media & CPC have failed to hold him to account for this. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy…
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Building 4 million homes? Not so fast.
The messaging that 4 million homes will be built by 2031 ignores one vital factor: the availability of the financial resources required to do so. The push to build more may end becoming counterproductive. CMHC link:...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 37 - CPC's Next Challenge
Now that it is possible to talk openly about high immigration, we are seeing ideas being expressed that are on the more extreme side. CPC must distance itself from these ideas and people. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the…
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Elevator Chat: Episode 36 - How Extreme Leftism Boosts Racism
The Liberals’ policy of mass immigration has created an environment where the tiny minority of racists in Canada are emboldened to come out of the woodworks. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current…
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Elevator Chat: Episode 35 – ‘Diversity’ shouldn’t mean ‘more Indians’
Over-reliance on India for recruiting international students & TFW’s has created an imbalance in society that could lead to strife. In the guise of increasing diversity, we are actually reducing it. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice…
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Elevator Chat: Episode 34 - Post-secondary Education & Housing Unaffordability
It is argued that we need a high number of international students in order to save the post-secondary education sector for Canadian kids. But that high number has made housing unattainable for the same Canadian kids. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am…
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Elevator Chat: Episode 33 - Are Conservatives For Mass Immigration?
Forget words. Federally & in Ontario, the actions of Conservatives point to supporting mass immigration. As the popular saying goes, “We need to talk.” *** (Link to Motion M-44: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/89339/motions/11528727) Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 32 - Does This College Even Exist?
As the issue of international students and visa-mill colleges roils on, more & more unpleasant questions are coming to the fore, throwing yet more doubt on the worth of the whole policy. Questions such as, Does this college even exist? *** Independent voices are more important than ever in…
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Elevator Chat: Episode 31 - How The Israel-Hamas War Became a Canadian Battle
Many immigrants bring battles from their country of origin to Canada. These battles become Canadian ones because many other Canadians embrace these battles with eager enthusiasm. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 30 - Jagmeet Singh’s Confused Economics
The man who believes that all usage of fossil fuels should be carbon-taxed also offered the view that GST should not apply to fossil fuel usage for heating, because heating is ‘essential’. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 29 - International Students & Food Banks
Many international students abuse food banks. Many Canadians are too naïve to accept that we are being had. Meanwhile, the people raking in the moolah via study permits don’t care. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 28 - Perfidious Pretext
Some people always hated Jews. Being ‘pro-Palestine’ only gives them a pretext to act out their hatred in public. Sadly, in today’s Canada, they face no consequences for their actions & words. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 27 - Has CBC Lost The Plot *Completely*? (Rhetorical Question)
After refusing to call Hamas ‘terrorists’, this week’s SCIENCE coverage by CBC includes the story of a man ‘fighting to rename natural gas’. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 26 - Gaza Is Not Canada
Many Canadians are borrowing the terminology of Indigenous issues in Canada and applying it to the conflict in Gaza. This is irresponsible and dangerous. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues &...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 25 - Two types Of Nazis
The argument that Yaroslav Hunka shouldn’t be judged as a Nazi because he made ‘a difficult choice’ of fighting one evil regime (the Soviets) by joining another evil regime (the Nazis) seeks to change fundamentally how we have viewed Nazi crimes. *** Independent voices are more important than…
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Elevator Chat - Episode 24 - Canada’s Fall From Grace
The just-announced cut of $1 billion on defense spending is the latest example of why Canada has lost its clout on the world stage. Let’s take a look at the cumulative factors that have brought us to this sorry pass. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am…
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Elevator Chat : Episode 23 - Missing Jack Layton
NDP leader Jack Layton was ridiculed for suggesting that geopolitical matters should be approached with pragmatism rather than ideological zealotry. Canada would do well to heed this advice in its diplomatic spat with India. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 22 - Mopping Up After PM Trudeau’s G20Visit To India
Some responses to my article about PM Trudeau’s disastrous trip to India for the G20 summit show fundamental defects in what many Canadians believe our foreign policy should be based on. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the…
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How Big Will CPC’s Majority Be?
Conventional wisdom has it that CPC forms a majority government when there is a vote-split between LPC & NDP. But it is likely that, as the cliché goes, “This time it’s different”. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 20 – The International Student Mess Will Continue
A recent MSM report shows that our Establishment is loath to address the uncomfortable aspects of any serious issue. Therefore, the issue doesn’t get resolved. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 19 - Symbiosis Among Parasites
The symbiotic relationship between activists and the political class creates a force that acts as a parasite on the body of the broader society. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy,...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 18 - ’15 Minute Cities’ & NIMBY-ism
In yet another instance of the ‘horseshoe theory’, Pierre Poilievre’s idea of creating dense housing around transit stations falls afoul of two diametrically opposed groups. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 17 - Canada’s Mental Block On Immigration
The dogmatic opinions around immigration are so deeply entrenched in many sections of Canada that no amount of evidence to the contrary suffices to shake them. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 16 – Canada’s Complicated Relationship With Addiction
As a first-generation immigrant, I am unable to decipher whether policy in Canada is aimed at reducing the incidence of addiction or to fuel the habit in an enthusiastic manner. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 15 - DEI, The Not-so-smiling Assassin
By treating a set of ideas as unchallengeable, and the people who challenge them as evil, DEI is killing the future of Canada's children, and thence, the future of Canada. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions…
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Elevator Chat: Episode 14 - Gender Rights & Age Of Consent
For all the furor around children’s right to identify as LGBTQ, not much debate has happened on exactly WHEN the children are to be considered mature enough to engage in certain identity-related actions. Link to my referenced tweet: https://twitter.com/TheophanesRex/status/1680384301223796736 ***...
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Int’l Student Policy - A Complete Mess
The functioning of our policy on international student visa is so rife with wrongdoing at multiple points that expecting good outcomes from it would be naïve in the extreme. We need a total revamp of this policy. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 13 - The Immigration Trap
Contrary to the widespread belief that we need immigration because of our low birth rate and/or ‘labour shortages’, the reality is that immigration itself creates the need for more immigration. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to…
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Elevator Chat: Episode 12 - Official Misinformation
For all the chatter about 'misinformation', the kind that originates from official sources is never in focus. If we are to get a handle on this issue, we will need to tackle this part first. Links to the news stories referred in this episode: CBC:...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 11 - The Unexplored Parts Of Bill C-18
The unexplored part of Bill C-18 is this: If the tech companies were ‘stealing’ the content of news publishers, why wasn’t anyone charged for this ‘theft’? And why can’t legacy media increase subscription revenues? *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy…
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Elevator Chat: Episode 10 - Paved With Good Intentions
The mess at Tomken Road Public School in Mississauga shows how overzealous enforcement of ideological imperatives usually harms the very same people that they are supposed to benefit. Link to National Post piece:...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 9- The Revealing Blunder Of Bill C-18
With Meta deciding not to share links to Canadian news sites, the Trudeau government finally discovers the limits of its authority. How we reached this point is as important as where we are. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 8 - Unmarked Graves & ’Denialism’
Many of the Indigenous issues in Canada are located on thin ice, but Justice Minister Lametti’s public musings about criminalizing ‘residential school denialism’ need to be discussed in a frank manner. ** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my…
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Elevator Chat: Episode 7 - Illegal Migrants & The Charter
Any country’s Constitution is at the very foundation of that country’s social contract, but in Canada’s case, the interpretation of the Constitution keeps shifting, depending on political exigencies. This makes our social contract unclear. Links: Supreme Court Decision:...
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Elevator Chat: Ep. 6 - Is it the weather or climate?
A leading media pundit recently conceded that the recent wildfires were not necessarily caused by climate change, but then went on to make the bold claim that wildfires are a ‘climatological event’. Let us explore what the term 'climatological event' means, and whether its use in this case was...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 5 - Revisiting ’Mandatory MAiD’
My episode about the *stage play* in Calgary that explores whether MAiD should be made mandatory for those over 85 years of age generated much feedback. The people who disagreed with my take have helped me to refine my argument. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s…
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Episode 13: Death By Decree
A group floating the shocking idea as to whether Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) should be made mandatory for people over the age of 85 shows that Canada is now teetering on the edge of end-stage socialism. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to…
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Elevator Chat: Episode 4 - Bill S-243 & ’Conspiracy theories’
Media’s lack of reporting and commentary on important issues & developments creates an information-vacuum, which people must fill using their imagination. What results may be wrongly derided as a ‘conspiracy theory’. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am…
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Corporate wokery & pseudo-intellectualism
Corporations jumping on the 'progressive' bandwagon often propagate ideas that are pseudo-intellectual & even unscientific. We can only speculate why they are doing this, but we know the impact of these messages. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to...
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Elevator Chat: Episode 2 - One cause of vandalism by students
It is natural for the young to be boisterous. But the cause behind many acts of destruction by students today is not age, but rather an imbalance in their 'academic diet'; ideological pursuits are prioritized over academic achievement. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in…
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Elevator Chat: Episode 1 - The importance of challenging ideas
Adding a point to my recent article 'The Coming Age Of Un-knowledge' (link: https://darshanmaharaja.ca/the-coming-age-of-un-knowledge/), in this first short-form podcast episode, I explore why it is fundamental to the pursuit of knowledge that all ideas should be capable of being challenged....
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Dark Man’s Burden
I reject the widely promoted notion, in the wake of CPC leader Pierre Poilievre’s recent event, that if non-white Canadians lean to the Conservatives, it can ONLY be because they are either ignorant or traitors to their own kind. *** Our Canadian Journey Independent voices are more important than...
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Elon Musk’s endorsement of Republicans v/s Twitter neutrality
Elon Musk recommended to Americans to vote Republican in the November 2022 election. Earlier, he had said that Twitter would be politically neutral. Is there a contradiction between the two messages? I discussed this with Rubina Ahmed-Haq on her show 'On Point' at AM640 on November 07. ***...
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Diversity v/s Division
Special treatment given to different identity groups in the name of Diversity only ends up causing Division. The resulting erosion of social cohesion is to the detriment of everyone - except the political class, which benefits handsomely from it. *** Independent voices are more important than…
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Ep. 9: Death Of A Promise
Recent reports show that the policy of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) has become exactly the kind of slippery slope that its opponents were warning about. Instead of offering timely healthcare, our Universal Healthcare system causes interminable wait times, and when the patient's suffering...
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Ep. 8: In The Shadow Of The US
Events happening in the US provide a fulcrum – or a crutch, if you will – for discussing major issues of Canada. At such times, it feels like we haven’t attained the age of maturity as a country, and therefore must depend on examples and ideas from external sources for informing our views on…
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Ep. 7 - Perennial Outsiders
A small segment of Conservative supporters believes that foreign-born Canadians should not be allowed to hold elected office. This isn't possible legally or practically, but the Left exploits this sentiment to turn many voters against Conservatives. But no party is doing enough to ensure that all...
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Ep 6: Grassy Narrows - Does It Make Your Blood Boil?
The mercury poisoning of land, water & people at Grassy Narrows has the dubious distinction of being the most widely known and the least cared about public concern in Canada. Successive governments (including the current one) in Ontario have failed to remove the mercury. Opposition parties have...
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Episode 5: Profiting From a Mess
Canada's policy on international students creates messes all around and causes grave suffering all over, including suicides and human trafficking. But this mess is not on the radar because the people who caused it are the ones benefiting from the mess. Here's a look from one of the epicenters of...
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Episode 4: Is Canada Full Of Racism & Hate?
If we are to believe the officialdom & much of the media, Canada is teeming with hateful racists waiting to pounce on and victimize non-white people. This is in stark contrast with the messaging OUTSIDE Canada, where our country is presented as the best place on earth to live. Of course, the...
About this show
As the saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun. For the things that take place in Canada, there are often historical precedents from other places & other times. Knowing more about those precedents helps us to make better choices in the present.Through my experiences in different countries, I have intimate knowledge of some of these precedents. It is my hope that by bringing them to public debate in Canada, I will have helped you see our issues in clearer light.
Hosted by
Darshan Maharaja