从加拿大的角度为美国提供宪法建议

康拉德·布莱克：从加拿大的角度为美国提供宪法建议

https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/conrad-black-constitutional-advice-for-the-united-states-from-a-canadian-perspective-5492581

9 月 14 日，我在华盛顿为希尔斯代尔学院发表演讲，希尔斯代尔学院是一所著名的美国中西部保守派大学，校园位于华盛顿。 我被要求从加拿大的角度向美国提供宪法建议。 以下是该地址的摘录。

毫无疑问，你期望我谴责加拿大觉醒和过度的政治正确性，这引起了一些美国评论员的欢笑和警惕。 我会这么做，但你会明白，加拿大人对你们的媒体将你们伟大的城市描述为充满可怜、无家可归的吸毒者的射击场感到震惊，在那里掠夺几乎是财富再分配的合法形式。 刑事定罪的成功率达到了极权主义的水平，尽管抢劫和袭击通常不再是犯罪，而且一半的国家认为在总统竞选开始时以可疑的理由起诉反对派领导人是完美的。

加拿大在官方上有一半法国血统，因为它一开始就是法国殖民地，否则就会并入大英帝国的美洲殖民地。 它最终不得不不再是法国的，因为法国和英国之间的战略分歧是，法国拥有无敌的陆军，而英国很少需要陆军，但能够维持世界上最大的海军400年，并在全世界范围内为所欲为。 世界。 对于在这片大陆的北半部崛起的独立国家来说，随着美国人不再是英国人，加拿大必须从法国人过渡到英国人。 再说一遍，否则加拿大就会被卷入美国革命之中。

加拿大只能抵抗美国革命者，并在1812年的战争中再次抵抗，因为英国向法裔加拿大人承诺保护法语、罗马天主教（在英国受到歧视）和法国民法， 以换取法裔加拿大人对英国王室的忠诚。 双方都信守了这些承诺，这导致杰斐逊在《独立宣言》中令人愤慨地声称乔治三世国王试图在美洲殖民地传播教皇制。

内战结束时，美国对英国有许多合理的不满，紧张局势足以让250万加拿大人聚集在美国北部边境，结成联盟自卫。 这样一个国家能够组建起来的唯一基础是承认英语和法语社区的平等权利，并将非常实质性的权力留给组成省份。

Conrad Black: Constitutional Advice for the United States From a Canadian Perspective

https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/conrad-black-constitutional-advice-for-the-united-states-from-a-canadian-perspective-5492581

Commentary
On Sept. 14 I gave a speech in Washington for Hillsdale College, the prestigious Midwestern American conservative university that has a campus in Washington. I was asked to give constitutional advice to the United States from a Canadian perspective. The following are excerpts from that address.

You undoubtedly expect me to denounce the woke and excessive political correctness of Canada that have caused such mirth and alarm with some American commentators. I will do that, but you will appreciate that Canadians are appalled by your media’s presentation of your great cities as shooting galleries infested with pitiful, homeless drug addicts, where pillaging is almost a legalized form of wealth redistribution. You have totalitarian rates of success in criminal convictions, though robbery and assault are often no longer crimes, and half the country thinks it is perfectly in order to indict the leader of the opposition at the beginning of a presidential election campaign on dubious grounds.

Canada is officially half French because it had to begin as a French colony, otherwise it would have been integrated into the American colonies of the British Empire. It ultimately had to cease to be French because the strategic division between France and England was that France had an invincible army and Britain rarely needed an army, but was able to maintain the world’s largest navy for 400 years and took what it wanted all over the world. For an independent country ever to arise in the northern half of this continent, the transition of Canada from the French to the British had to occur as the Americans ceased to be British. Again, otherwise Canada would have been swept up in the American Revolution.

Canada was only able to resist the American revolutionaries, and again in the war of 1812, because the British had promised the French Canadians protection of the French language, the Roman Catholic religion (which was discriminated against in England), and French civil law, in exchange for French-Canadian loyalty to the British crown. Both sides kept these promises, and they led to Jefferson’s outrageous claim in the Declaration of Independence that King George III was trying to propagate popery in the American colonies.

At the end of the Civil War, the United States had a number of legitimate grievances against the British, and the tension was sufficient that the 2.5 million Canadians clustered along the northern U.S. border confederated in self-defence. The only basis upon which such a country could be put together was one that acknowledged the equal rights of the English- and French-speaking communities and left very substantial powers in the hands of the constituent provinces.