There is a great deal of controversy and internet blog traffic recently about foreign nationals, foreign governments, and foreign social media influencing our domestic elections. The consensus seems to be that these foreign interventions are not welcome.
Yet there is a foreign government and well organized media machine, lead by a foreign dictator, that has been influencing our politics ever since Canada was founded. That is the organized intervention of the Roman Catholic (Empire) Church and the completely foreign, non-elected, dictator-for-life Roman Catholic Pope in the autonomous nation of the Vatican.
Exactly why do we Canadians reject American influence on our elections, but tolerate the edicts of one foreign national, completely removed, even isolated, from true Canadian culture, history, and family life, to impose his will on Roman Catholics in Canada, and demanding that they take action against legitimate, legal, lawful legislation passed democratically in OUR sovereign country? Why do we allow a foreign leader demanding that Canadians place his leadership and his edicts and his law above those of our own Canadian government?
As long as we continue to allow a foreign leader to dictate to our citizens we will never be a sovereign nation.
At the least, the Roman Catholic Bishops and Archbishops in Canada must be appointed by an entirely Canadian governance, completely independent of any influence and meddling of this foreign non-domestic power. The Roman Catholic Pope in Rome should have absolutely no determination in the ex-communication of any person in Canada for their non-compliance with a dictate from a foreign leader.