1. Some more thoughts on why Canada has so many (scores) of memorials to Nazi collaborators. It's not just a function of immigrant communities but also government and corporate policies.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1284171868790861825 …
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2. Canadian corporations in 1950s actively recruited Nazi collaborators as strike breakers to head off big post-war unionization push. Follow this facebook link for more information. https://twitter.com/cultureofdefeat/status/1280468212661043200 …
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3. This 1995 Sudbury Star article delves into use of Nazis as strikebreakers in 1950s/1960s Canada.pic.twitter.com/NHDqM7Wb9D
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4. Prior to 1950s, East European immigrant communities in Canada leaned left & produced many activists. This podcast investigates how deliberate recruitment of right-wing nationalists was used to change these communities.https://twitter.com/robrousseau/status/1284175687268655104 …
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RobVerified account @robrousseaumany are wondering why we have multiple nazi monuments in this country. it's because we deliberately imported scores of fascists post WW2 in order to disrupt any emerging collectivism in the Ukrainian diaspora.@DanBoeckner broke this down for me last year https://49thparahell.libsyn.com/episode-30-omar-coming-with-dan-boeckner …Show this thread4 replies 60 retweets 205 likesShow this thread -
5. More broadly, it's not widely understood but Canadian state-sanctioned multiculturalism (often seen as progressive) has a Cold War origin: it was a way to elevate and legitimize the nationalist wing of immigrant communities (as against the internationalists).
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You're gonna have to provide some evidence of that. Grad work covered this, and the cold war didn't come up when trudeau introduced the policy in 1971. Otherwise, i'm gonna have to rule this claim as being false.
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1971 policy was an outgrowth of earlier efforts to integrate immigrant communities into national polity. I think Franca Iacovetta is good on this.
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