The most civic engagement I have witnessed in Canada has been over the last year. Sounds lovely, right? It sounds suggestive of a much-needed renaissance within Canadian civil society. But alas, it was not.

Sadly, the civic engagement I have witnessed in Canada over the past year has been enacted by shills for terrorist organizations, organized street mobs braying for genocide, while falsely accusing Israel of the same, and by Canadians celebrating October 7 and (we can only assume) the killing, raping, or burning of victims — some babies — and the kidnapping of hostages that occurred on that terrible day one year ago. In our capital, Canadians shouted “Long live October 7!” Useful idiots.