From the archives: There are limits to the comparisons that can be drawn between the religious clashes during Confederation and today’s animosities, but they do exist StPatricksDay
[np_storybar title=”” link=””]“How will McGee be remembered as we move towards to bicentenary of his birth in 2025? As Canada has become a multicultural society, McGee’s attempt to balance core values with minority rights will probably assume greater importance, as will his insistence that immigrants and ethnic groups should not inject old hatreds into their new environment.
In Montreal, the St. Patrick’s Day parade has taken place uninterrupted for 192 years — or so they say. They continued in Montreal in part because the city’s Irish Catholics felt better integrated into a French-Catholic city where Protestants were a minority. While there are limits to the comparisons that can be drawn between the religious clashes during Confederation and today’s race and religious animosities, such comparisons cannot be neglected. It might even be said that the Irish Catholics in Canada of the 1860s were the Muslims of their time.Article content
What would McGee make of Canada this St. Patrick’s Day, almost 150 years since his death? Wilson, his biographer, says it is a reasonably safe bet that “he would have wanted a very hard line against Islamic terrorist/revolutionaries and their sympathizers in Canada.” Such conclusions are certainly consistent with the views McGee expressed through the later years of his political career in Canada.Article content
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