
In December 2024, a documentary film entitled ‘Canada the Illusion’ was released on multiple on-line platforms with a descriptive: “This film is entirely based on facts and not on opinions.” Produced by Timm Stein in collaboration with Xander La Rue, Doug Force, and The Myth is Canada, the documentary delivers a painfully detailed legal and political history of how the nation known as Canada came into being. And then ceased to be.
Citing the Statute of Westminster (December 11, 1931) as the most important document defining the land mass known as Canada, the documentary concludes that from that point forward, the nation of Canada ceased to exist as a sovereign entity. The provinces, because they owned the land, became sovereign states unto themselves. Consequently, every piece of federal legislation passed after December 11, 1931 is invalid and lacks any authority to enforce it.
As implausible as this sounds (as it also did to the documentary’s producers), there appears to be no way to dispute this conclusion based on Canada’s legal and political history, documented at every step of the way. So how could it be that a nation called ‘Canada’ has carried on as such irrespective of its history and relevant laws? Continue reading »







