Over 200 years ago the sparsely populated, remaining British colonies of North America were invaded by a mass of immigrants from the former 13 southern colonies after the War of Independence.
Approximately 50-80,000 loyal British subjects came to Canada and many settled in what is now Ontario which was estimated to have a population of 8,000 at the time. Canada would be forever changed by this mass immigration who called themselves the United Empire Loyalists or UEL.
The UEL was a euphemism that purposely disguised who these immigrants were and why they had to flee the new Republic and find refuge in the North. It was not just British rule that the Americans rebelled against but the entire administrative/bureaucratic state of; tax and customs collectors, harbor masters and magistrates, Governors & clergymen, Royal surveyors and Sheriffs. The UEL was the entire class of patronage appointees who were the face of British oppression-they had to flee.
When the UEL arrived to Canada they promptly set up the same oppressive patronage system and awarded themselves similar authorities and privileges that had been stripped away during the revolution. We would soon coin a ne w label for the UEL and they became known as the Family Compact. The Family Compact began to award themselves the best tracts of land, give themselves proprietary licenses for trade and commerce and create an education system that would exalt the UEL as heroic loyalists while disguising their true past.
Their corruption and oppression however would bring about another rebellion in Upper and Lower Canada in 1837-39. The UEL, and Family compact were never dissolved or defeated but are often known by another name today, the Laurentian Elite and they control the political establishment thru their ownership of the Liberal and Conservative political parties.
What the Family Compact and Laurentian Elite fears above all else is America and its ability to destroy stranglehold on the Canadian population. That is why both Carney & Poilievre, Red & Blue have joined together as Team Canada and are “Elbows Up.” (more...)
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