R.R. Reno is onto something with his claim that the ‘rainbow flag’ means far more than tolerance and all getting along, but a entire new regime, a metaphysical revolution, a transvaluation of all values – the only ‘value’ being an vague and vacuous tolerance, and a hedonistic pursuit of pleasure and one’s own view of the universe. 

I predict that the time is coming, perhaps soon, when our elites will suppress the American flag and wave all the more insistently the rainbow substitute. 

There was a time, even a couple of years ago, this prophecy would have seemed unhinged. But here we are in Canada, with many municipalities choosing to forego Canada – or, more properly, Dominion – Day, in light of the discovery of the unmarked residential school graves.

As I wrote recently, there are many things for which to be sorrowful in this Dominion, but all in perspective, proportion, and, as Saint Thomas would put it, for the right object, in the right way, and for the right purpose. Injustices were certainly done, and the death of children is always tragic. But the numbers who die from abortion – free and untrammelled access to which Trudeau will brook no opposition right up to the moment of birth, and even beyond – is a far graver and more immediate evil. And, unlike whatever evils happened in the past, we can do something about the death of unborn. 

Canada Day is a day on which should remember, and rejoice in, all that was and is good about our nation, and work to preserve these, to ‘stand on guard’ for the ‘true, north, strong and free’. In the words of an underrated Beatle, it has been ‘long, cold, lonely winter’, and the we should welcome the sun, and, more to the point, the Son. For there is a deeper point in all of this, that the the only path to true and lasting repentance and reconciliation is through Christ and His Church. Our Dominion is Christian, or it is not much of anything at all. 

Canceling Canada Day seems just one more insidious step towards canceling Canada. So rejoice in what we have been given, and let us use it all for the good of all. 

 

 

 

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