Mark Steyn: "A Nation for All Except Its Nationals"

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a woman who heckled him about illegal immigrants at a recent rally in Quebec that her "racism has no place" in Canada. The exchange was caught on video, and is now making the rounds online.

"I want to know when you are going to refund the $146 million we paid for your illegal immigrants," shouted a woman in French at the prime minister at an event in Sabrevois, Quebec on Thursday.

"Ok, Madame," Trudeau responded. "This intolerance towards immigrants has no room in Canada."

.... Trudeau is telling citizens to their face in public that there is "no place" in their country for people with their views. He doesn't actually get to decide that: Ever since the creation of Canadian citizenship on January 1st 1947, someone born in Canada is a Canadian, and there's nothing the Prime Minister can do about it. He can choose which polygamists and clitoridectomy-practitioners and vehicular-homicide aficionados he wishes to import, but he has no choice about those who are Canadian by birth.

The lady was manhandled away, with borderline Harvey Weinstein finesse, by the Bollywood bridesmaid's heavy-handed security guards. She lives in Saint-Anne-de-Sabrevois, a small Quebec town I have known very well almost my entire life. It sits just a few miles north of the Vermont border, and therefore, unlike M Trudeau secure in his official residences at Sussex Drive and Harrington Lake, this woman sees the consequences of his pitiful virtue-signaling.

The western world's leaders - Trudeau, Merkel, Pelosi - are bored by their own people. And they're making it ever plainer that the replacements they have in mind are not just newer and different but better. We spent much of last week discussing the ongoing war on statuary. But, as Trudeau's remarks make plain, ultimately it's not about removing statues, it's about removing you.