The White Supremist attitudes of this Harper Government never ends

White people don’t have to worry about Canada’s new “report your neighbor” hotline

Last week, Canada’s Conservative party announced plans to set up a police hotline called “Report Your Neighbor,” which is exactly as terrifying as it sounds. This is the totalitarian nightmare of “Brazil” married to the paranoid delusions of “Arlington Road,” where all it takes is one malicious busybody deciding you look suspicious and poof! You’re an enemy of the state.

The justification for “Report your Neighbor” draws from that fulsome rhetorical well where the government just wants to protect innocent women and children from “barbaric cultural practices.” Which are what, exactly? According to Canada's Immigration Minister Chris Alexander, the practices they condemn are various forms of sexual slavery -- forced marriage, polygamy, and the like -- as defined by the “Zero Tolerances for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act” which passed this summer in Parliament.

Oh. Uh…okay! Then isn’t a tipline a good thing? Surely women and girls ought not to be left vulnerable to sexual exploitation, and concerned Canadians ought to be able to report it easily? It’s precisely because these plans staked the moral high ground while focusing on the salacious and titillating (instead of, say, different cultural attitudes towards letting dogs inside the house), that Joseph Heath was prompted to write, in a blog dedicated to Canadian public affairs, that “it was, I think, the most despicable thing that I have ever seen in Canadian federal politics. I’m not sure which was worse, the frontal assault on Canadian values, or the fact that it was masquerading as a defence of Canadian values.”

As Heath explained, polygamy and forced marriages are already illegal in Canada, and the country already has a tip line in place, called “crimestoppers,” to report regular crime. (It also has, I will add, a terror tip line that apparently doesn’t help very much at all because 92 percent of the calls are bunk, as well as existing “snitch lines” in place to report individuals suspected of immigration fraud.)

So if the “Report Your Neighbor” tip line serves no practical or legal purpose, why create it in the first place? Well, Heath opines:

“Suppose you suspect that your neighbour is a polygamist (not just a serial monogamist, like the rest of us). Should you call crimestoppers? Or should you phone it in as a ‘barbaric practice’? Or perhaps you suspect that there is domestic violence going on next door, and that the husband may kill his wife. Are you worried that this may be an ‘honour killing,’ or just a regular murder? On what basis will you make your decision? I think we all know the answer to that question. The ‘barbaric practices’ tipline will be used for surveilling and reporting on brown people, while the ordinary crimestoppers line will be used for white people.”

As he concluded grimly: “The only possible consequence of this policy is that it will encourage Canadians to discriminate against one another on ethno-religious grounds. I don’t see how the tipline idea can be construed in any other way – there is no innocent way of interpreting it.”

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