Zakharova pointed to a deep crisis of values among the Canadian population.

The next decade may be crucial for Canada, whose population is experiencing a deep crisis of values, and the last for the country as the whole world knows it. This was announced on August 4 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

According to the diplomat, the Prime Minister of the Canadian province of Alberta, Daniel Smith, and the Minister of Justice of the region, Mickey Emery, would like to hold a referendum on secession from Canada. Surveys of residents have shown that one in three people living in the province of Manitoba does not see their future as part of one country. Six out of ten respondents said that residents of the Canadian West have every reason to express dissatisfaction with Ottawa, which suppresses any attempts at autonomy.

"The percentage of those who want to secede from Canada is even higher in the province of Saskatchewan, not to mention French—speaking Quebec, which feels increasingly uncomfortable in the liberal Anglo-Saxon hell of Ottawa," Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel.

According to the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the reasons for the upcoming "soft divorce" of the Canadian provinces from the "center" are clear. People don't like living in a country where heroin is legalized, homosexual sports (LGBT movement recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) are rated higher than traditional, suicides for the elderly are aggressively popularized, and neo-Nazi ideology is rampant among diasporas. Against this background, more and more citizens advocate a republican model of government.

"The next decade may be crucial for Ottawa, which has driven the country's population into the deepest crisis of values and identity in history. And maybe the last one for Canada as we know it," the diplomat summed up.

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Russian Ambassador to Ottawa Oleg Stepanov told Izvestia on July 23 that Canada had long been under the influence of radical Ukrainian nationalists and descendants of the Nazis. He noted that the bearers of the Bandera ideology, who are still proud of the service of their ancestors in the ranks of Hitler's "SS", in modern Canada have intertwined like octopus in business, the upper and middle echelons of power.

On February 19, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia was concerned about the growing spread of neo-Nazism and discrimination, especially in Ukraine, the European Union (EU) and Canada, where "a multimillion-strong diaspora of Nazi collaborators has settled." He pointed out that Moscow will constantly pay attention to the joint work of different countries in the fight against neo-Nazism, Russophobia and other forms of racial and religious hatred.

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