Feeling threatened by an honest question from an angry heckler, Justin insults her and then has her forcibly removed as though she were a common thug:
Social media has been abuzz about the video of an interaction between Trudeau and a woman who was heckling him at an Aug. 16 Liberal event in Sabrevois, Que.
The exchange, in French, between the two was heated, but what happened to the woman afterwards borders on something one might see in a police state rather than a free speech democracy. ...
Meanwhile, Trudeau lashed out at the woman at a public rally when she asked whether his government would repay Quebec for the cost of settling refugees. Then she was manhandled away by his security.
It seems unlikely Trudeau had any inkling about her potential affiliations, and we’ve reached to the woman to see if she’ll talk.
But when the dust settled, an older woman is seen telling an officer who let her away that he’d bruised her arm and the question she raised was lost in the controversy. ...
As the sun set last Thursday, Trudeau was at a podium in a rural setting with a small crowd talking about investments in Quebec when the woman started hollering at him.
“I want to know when you are going to refund the $146 million we paid for your illegal immigrants,” the woman yelled in French.
“Madame,” said Trudeau, “this intolerance towards immigrants has no room in Canada.”
At that point, the video shows security people — responding to someone saying the older woman was making a threat — attempting to talk with her.
She would not stop yelling.
She asked Trudeau if he “tolerated” Quebecers, she talked about the rights of “original Quebecers,” and also questioned the Ottawa-born Trudeau’s Quebec pedigree.
But, clearly agitated, Trudeau was not done himself.
When he was finished speaking, surrounded by security, the video shows him leaning in to her in the crowd with a strong retort to her pestering questions — making the point he is a “proud Quebecois” and that her “racism has no place here.”
(Sidebar: the police manhandle her at the 3:45 mark.)
Justin - this Justin:
"You know, there’s a level of of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime ..."
(Sidebar: this China.)
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Petition e-1787, which is sponsored by Conservative MP Michelle Rempel, was first launched online by Craig Rowe of Brockville, Ont., on Aug 1. It calls upon Trudeau “to be held to the same standards as he has set for his caucus.”The motion highlights the fact that Trudeau has said sexual harassment in the workplace is “unacceptable.” He has also taken a hard line against members of his own Liberal caucus who have been accused of sexual misconduct.The petition comes after a story about Trudeau emerged in national headlines in recent months. In August 2000, a 28-year-old Trudeau was accused of inappropriately touching a female reporter in her 20s while she was working on assignment for the Creston Valley Advance, a local newspaper based in British Columbia, and other publications.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau manhandled a male Conservative MP, told another group of MPs to “get the f— out of his way”, and elbowed a female New Democrat — all of it on the floor of the House of Commons Wednesday evening, prompting one of the most bizarre parliamentary melees in decades.
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- who - if he isn't swearing, screaming, elbowing, groping or running away, is "polarizing" the rest of the country.
"Polarization" is a new word he was taught and it encapsulates what he does on a regular basis:
Hate speech and the politics of division are creating a “dangerous path” for Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday as he vowed to steer clear of such roads and to continue calling out those who rely on “extremist” methods to make their voices heard.
(Sidebar: it's hate speech to ask for misspent tax dollars? Really?)
The province of Quebec has a choice. It can either be tribal and re-elect the doofus who insults anyone who challenges him and, in so doing, prove Maxime Bernier unbelievably right or it turf him and attempt to save face and perhaps the province.
(Sidebar: note how Justin also says that terrorist attacks will happen in the future at the fifty second mark.)
(Thumbs up)
It smells like election time:
Justin Trudeau's Liberal government is dropping its controversial lottery system for reuniting immigrant families and moving to a first-come, first-served online system following backlash from frustrated sponsors.
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Last spring the government introduced Bill C-76, aimed at preventing foreign interference in elections and regulating third-party advocacy groups, as well as undoing a number of controversial measures passed by the previous Conservative government.But insiders say the Liberals now want to beef up the bill, which was being studied by the procedure and House affairs committee when Parliament broke for the summer.Among other things, the government wants to do more to ensure foreign actors or money aren't involved in elections, require more transparency for political messaging on social media and prevent political parties from setting up ostensible advocacy groups to support them and help skirt spending limits.
Ashwaq was only 14 when Islamic State fighters stormed into northern Iraq, including the heartland of the Yazidi people.
They took thousands of women as sex slaves, including Ashwaq - sold for $100 to a man named Abu Humam.
Raped and beaten, she managed to escape three months later and then went to Germany with her mother and one brother.
A few months ago, on the street outside a supermarket, she heard someone call out her name.
Ashwaq told the BBC: "On the way back to school a car pulled up next to me. He was sitting in the front seat. He talked to me in German and asked: 'Are you Ashwaq?' I was so scared I was shaking. I said: 'No, who are you?'"
She said he then replied: "I know you are Ashwaq, and I am Abu Humam."
Ashwaq said he then started to talk to her in Arabic and told her not to lie to him.
"I know you, he said. And where you live and who you live with. He knew everything about my life in Germany."
Taiwan is beefing up its defenses as a reaction to China's increasing military presence:
Taiwan is responding to China’s arms buildup by developing missiles and interceptors of its own that could reduce Beijing’s military advantage over the self-ruled island, defence experts say.
Since President Tsai Ing-wen took office in 2016, Taiwan has deployed one set of missiles, perfected another and sped production of a third, the analysts say, in the latest sign of how it’s handling a Chinese military threat that is raising the chances of an armed confrontation.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has taken a hard line against advocates of independence for Taiwan and has sent warships, bombers and fighter planes on training missions circling the democratic island in a show of strength.
While Beijing has an increasingly overwhelming military advantage, Taiwan’s missile systems advance its odds of holding off China in asymmetrical warfare, said Alexander Huang, strategic studies professor at Tamkang University in Taiwan. The term refers to effective resistance of an enemy with targeted firepower rather than overwhelming force.
“Taiwan with limited resources can only invest in the area that would create some kind of asymmetrical advantage, which would dissuade the Chinese from taking actions,” Huang said.
“President Tsai has committed more or at least expressed willingness to invest more in the asymmetrical capability.”
I've said this any number of times:
By all external indicators, Trump’s strategy has always focused primarily on shipping and cross-border trade, while eschewing the deadlier and more discriminate strategy enshrined in our two North Korea sanctions laws (1 | 2) — the targeting of Pyongyang regime’s finances and slush funds. I’ve previously explained why a trade-based strategy is flawed, plays into the hands of our critics and enemies, and ultimately costs us the support of the North Korean people whose empowerment is the only path to a lasting peace in Korea. That’s because cross-border trade also fuels markets in food, consumer goods, and information that can help us break the dependency of the poor on the state, and host an environment in which political resistance can survive, organize, and propagate itself. And as a matter of diplomacy and enforcement, a trade-based strategy puts relatively more power into the hands of the Chinese, Russian, and South Korean governments, thus reducing U.S. leverage over them.
This puts things back to where they started.
Real sanctions and real pressure must be punitive to those who cripple the North Korean people, the very same whose sorrowful family reunions will soon be a thing of the past as generations die out.
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