For A Saturday

The story so far:

In 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, a group that adheres to the Sunni sect of Islam, drove Iraqi armed forces from Mosul. In August 2014, ISIS abducted and murdered Yazidi men, women and children, sending the remaining survivors fleeing to Mount Sinjar.

Then MP Justin Trudeau responded to this crisis by saying Canada should offer parkas to Yazidis fleeing ISIS rape gangs:

“There’s a lot of people, refugees, displaced peoples, fleeing violence who are facing a very, very cold winter in the mountains. Something Canada has expertise on is how to face a winter in the mountains with the right kind of equipment," Trudeau said.

He later characterised the Tory plan to prioritise Yazidis and Iraqi Christians, who were targeted for rape and murder by ISIS, as "disgusting" and nothing more than a ploy to take photos with them.

After winning the election in 2015, he withdrew CF-18s from the region the following year, an unpopular move which only emboldened Islamists:

“Canada ran away,” read an Arabic-language Twitter post. Another, by Sally Jones, the widow of ISIL fighter Junaid Hussain, read: “Canadian fighter jets to withdraw from fighting ISIS – yeah because they know whats good for them.”

 

After being humiliated into allowing a token number of Yazidi refugees into Canada (which he previously refused to do as it was considered "disgusting"), Justin's government often hindered attempts to allow Yazidis into the country:

The Liberal government missed its target to resettle 1,200 Yazidis and other survivors of ISIS in Canada by the end of 2017 because of an extended ban on international flights at a key airport in northern Iraq.

Justin was further humiliated after receiving blow-back for rewarding a convicted terrorist $10.5 million and then by stating that returned ISIS members could be rehabilitated:

At a town hall forum in Edmonton, a man in the audience asked Trudeau about his stance on ISIS terrorists returning to Canada.

Trudeau has pledged taxpayer funds to “de-radicalize” these terrorists, and has even claimed that ISIS members could become “an extraordinarily powerful voice.” ...

“When we welcomed in waves of refugees — whether it was the Ismaili refugees in the early ’70s, whether it was the Vietnamese boat people in the early ’80s, whether it was people fleeing the devastation of the Second World War, the Italian communities, the Greek communities, the Portuguese communities, and others — our country is so much the better for it.”

It has since been discovered that that a returned ISIS thug calling himself Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi is living in Toronto. He bragged about executing people for ISIS:

According to the CP, al-Kanadi “told a New York Times podcast that he shot people in the head as an executioner for Islamic State militants in Syria.”

Conservative House Leader Candice Bergen ripped the Trudeau Liberals for their inaction:

“This individual is speaking freely to the media. The government has got to know where he is. The media are reporting this individual is in Toronto, right now, as we speak. Can the government confirm it? Why isn’t this government doing something?”

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale responded, saying he couldn’t talk about “operational matters” in the House of Commons.

(Sidebar: this Ralph Goodale.) 


Now, under fire from the opposition for this, Justin refused to comment, believing that doing so was divisive:

“Once again we see the Conservatives trying to drum up fear as a way of political attack,” Trudeau said in the House of Commons, later adding, “We saw this approach by the previous government in the last election. It does not work to try to scare and divide Canadians.”

This divisive:

In the podcast, Abu Huzaifa states that he worked for ISIS enforcing sharia law in Syria. He brags about getting splattered with blood while brutally lashing people who broke their laws, and he proudly admits to murdering ISIS prisoners and having the irony smell of blood on his hands.

Also - another thug Justin doesn't want to talk about:

Jaspal Atwal, the man at the centre of the India trip fiasco, was recently arrested and charged with one count of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm, the Sun has learned....

Atwal was convicted of attempted murder in 1986 when he tried to assassinate a visiting Indian politician to Canada. 

He was the source of a major controversy for the government in February when he was invited to a dinner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the home of High Commissioner of India.

Speaking of thugs:

Falk heckled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after Trudeau responded to an NDP question on rural access to abortion by declaring the Liberals “will always be unequivocal in standing up for a woman’s right to choose.”

“It is not a right!” Falk yelled.

The remark provoked immediate outbursts from NDP and Liberal MPs, such that House Speaker Geoff Regan had to call repeatedly for order. 

“What we have just heard is awful,” was the response by NDP MP Anne Minh-Thu Quach, according to Hansard.

No, you silly creature, what you heard is the truth.



It's just money:

Imperial Oil says they won’t be doing any more project expansion in Canada, as regulatory burdens make the approval process far too time consuming.

As one can see, there are ways to skirt the sanctions:

North Korean diplomats stationed in Austria have been caught attempting to take luxury goods banned under U.N. sanctions out of the European country, an American news report said Saturday.

According to Voice of America (VOA), Austrian authorities found that items inside two containers sent to Pyongyang last year by the North Korean Embassy in Austria included some banned for export to the North under United Nations sanctions.

North Korea further butters the sanction-lifting toast by claiming it will dismantle one of its test sites:

North Korea has scheduled the dismantlement of its nuclear test site for sometime between May 23 and 25 depending on weather conditions in order to uphold its previous pledge to discontinue nuclear tests, state media reported on Saturday.

The work is already half done at Punggye-ri. Will it shut down its other nuclear facilities?



(Merci beaucoup)