Charlie Angus, who served as federal MP for Timmins-James Bay through six federal elections from 2004 to 2025, retiring just before the most recent election, has emerged as the arguably most effective voice for Canada resisting Trump’s threat to absorb our country. His recent post on Founding Father D’Arcy McGee’s pivotal role in creating the Canada we love constitutes a compelling reason why we Canadians must preserve our sovereignty at all costs. If you care at all about our future, this Charlie Angus article is a must-read!

D’Arcy McGee and the Foundations of Canadian Democracy

In his earlier years, Mr. McGee was a fierce agitator for Irish freedom to the extent that, after joining the mass Irish emigration to the US during the Great Famine of 1845-52, he became a vocal advocate of the US forcibly taking over the British North American colonies.  However, witnessing increasing US intolerance towards Irish immigrants, he moved to Montreal in 1857 and become involved in Lower Canada politics. Witnessing the deep divides between Irish Catholics and Protestants, Francophones and Anglophones, and the sheer carnage unfolding in the US Civil War, he came to believe that the answer lay in creating a new and much more tolerant nation under the British Crown.  Specifically, he believed that nation must be based on compromise, tolerance, peaceful resolution of differences and protections against the majority overruling the rights of the religious and linguistic minorities. That enabled him to make common cause with John A. MacDonald who, as a member of the Orange Order, would previously have been an opponent.  Together, they laid the groundwork of the vibrant, democratic and mostly welcoming nation which we inherited.

Why Canadian Sovereignty Matters Now

Are we now willing to give up our freedoms, our sense of caring for the well-being of our fellow Canadians, rationality and rule of law to be absorbed the morass of fear, autocracy, intolerance and outright lies into which our previously friendly and reliable neighbours south of the border have been falling?  Hell no!! We owe it to ourselves, our children, our grandchildren, the global order of which we are a part, and the legacy of far-sighted honourable founders like D’Arcy McGee to remain true to our values while maintaining our national sovereignty.