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Conspiracy Theories and the Canadians who Love Them

Anderson, Kevin
http://activehistory.ca/2020/11/conspiracy-theories-and-the-canadians-who-love-them/

Publisher:  Active History
Date Written:  16/11/2020
Year Published:  2020  
Resource Type:  Article

Anderson explores Canada's conspiratorial heritage, a heritage that continues to engage with transnational currents attempting to explain the modern world. He focuses on two Canadian figures, Social Credit MP John Blackmore and writer William Guy Carr, to argue that they are not isolated fringe figures in Canadian history, but that they exist within widespread national and transnational networks.

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What we are experiencing now is not wholly new, but it can feel that way without background, especially in Canada where conspiracy theories are often dismissed as an American problem. Tell that to the "anti-maskers," Holocaust deniers, and QAnon supporters across Canada. Tell that to Maxime Bernier who asked via Twitter during the 2019 federal election if Justin Trudeau was "LOYAL TO CANADA OR LOYAL TO A FUTURE WORLD GOVERNNMENT THAT WILL DESTROY CANADA?". Blackmores and Carrs are not isolated figures. They exist within national and transnational networks that are more widespread than many of us know or want to know. Conspiracy theories facilitate the erosion of diverse peoples living together by imposing malicious causation on the vagaries of the modern world. We should at least try to better understand our own conspiratorial heritage as, perhaps, both good scholarship and good citizenship.

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