Tuesday Post

"Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

 
The Ford government passed the bill limiting the size of the Toronto city council:

The Ontario government passed a controversial bill to slash the size of Toronto city council on Tuesday, capping off a rare and tumultuous summer legislative sitting that saw the newly elected Progressive Conservatives forge ahead on several key campaign promises.

The legislation, one of two bills passed during the month-long sitting, was announced unexpectedly in late July, putting the province at loggerheads with the city as it prepares for a fall municipal election and prompting critics to accuse the new government of circumventing the democratic process.

 
No more bloat.




Why would the mayor of Victoria offer to keep a statue she had removed?:

Victoria's mayor says the city has no intention of getting rid of the Sir John A. Macdonald statue that was recently removed from the steps of city hall, after the Ontario government wrote asking about acquiring it.

The statue of Canada's first prime minister was taken down on the weekend after city council voted in favour of the removal, as part of reconciliation efforts with local Indigenous communities. 

Mayor Lisa Helps said Macdonald was a polarizing figure for First Nations peoples because of his role in the establishment of residential schools. 

On Monday, Ontario Tourism Minister Sylvia Jones said her government wrote the mayor saying the province would be happy to give the statue a new home.

"People are complicated, but there is no doubt that 125 years ago after his death, our first prime minister stands as an important Canadian within the creation of our country," Jones said in the Ontario Legislature.

Helps said she wrote back to Jones, thanking her for the letter, but saying the city plans to keep the statue. 

"It was a gift to the city. We are storing it carefully and in the meantime, we will have a continued dialogue with the nation and the community as to the best place, way and context to place the statue that balances commemoration with reconciliation."

 
There are too many useless people in power.


Also:

The head of the PEI Native Council – Jonathan Hamel – made the point that it’s better to leave up the statues and have discussions, rather than remove them.
Here’s what Hamel said:

“A lot of the policies his government formed when Canada became a country [are] having a negative impact upon Canada’s Indigenous population today. We also realize that being a founding father of Canada and the fact that the idea of Canada was actually born here in Charlottetown, those are important things to remember and celebrate as well. By removing it, we think that’s diminishing, sometimes, what has happened. But if we allow it to stay there, we can address it. We can say, ‘This was not right, we need to come together.”

Hamel makes a good point, and it’s the common sense that has been missing from the far-left politicians. Instead of trying to wipe out and destroy Canada’s history, it should be talked about, and both the positive and negative aspects should be freely discussed.

Indeed.

It is a common leftist tactic to attempt to blot out or stifle things it doesn't like. These things only re-emerge later and ultimately prove what a blinkered lot the left really is.

No one has to like Sir John A. MacDonald but he has to be respected for the father of Confederation that he was.


And:

And when the Government of Pakistan slammed Canada for “interfering in the internal affairs of Saudi Arabia,” one Pakistani-Canadian municipal politician when asked for a reaction said, “…I am not denouncing Pakistan or the Pakistani government.” After 45 years in Canada, his tribe was more important to him than his country.

As for Pakistani-born Liberal MPs Iqra Khalid and Salma Zahid and Conservative Senator Salma Ataullahjan, there was not a word from them that I could find that was critical of either Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.

This was exactly the malady in our political fabric that Conservative MP Maxime Bernier was talking about. The Quebec MP lamented in conclusion: “Having people live among us who reject basic Western values such as freedom, equality, tolerance and openness doesn’t make us strong. People who refuse to integrate into our society and want to live apart in their ghetto don’t make our society strong.”

Two other developments, one in British Columbia over the weekend and the other in Manitoba in May illustrate the identity crisis we Canadians face after Prime Minister Trudeau declared, “there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.”

If we don’t have a core identity, then who are we? Did we just waste 400 years crystallizing what was best in Britain and France while embracing the United States as our neighbour for over 200 years? 

Trudeau can speak for himself, but not for us Canadians, especially those of us who fled the horrors of race-based supremacist societies where women are baby factories and gays are thrown to their death from rooftops and where people are still crucified in public squares.

On Saturday the city of Victoria removed the bronze statue of the founder of Canada, Sir John A. as he is fondly remembered across the country. For all his faults as our first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald literally carved out a country out of a territory, but he was cast aside in a dustbin of history with not a word of outrage from any MP or Minister, let alone the Prime Minister who occupies the institution our first prime minister created.

Contrast that with the May 12, 2018 dedication of a park in Winnipeg dedicated to the founder of Pakistan, M.A. Jinnah who was responsible for the amputation of historic Hindustan leading to the death of a million lives in 1947, three million in 1971 and four wars.

When M.A. Jinnah triumphs over Sir John A. Macdonald for acceptance in Canada, is Bernier not right in his indignation?

(Sidebar: let one not forget how Justin and his friends are dreadfully wary of criticising Pakistan.)




It is a sign of capitulation:

A Christian university in British Columbia that lost a Supreme Court battle to create an evangelical law school has dropped its controversial requirement for all students to sign a contract that forbids any sex outside heterosexual marriage.

Many observers, including some who intervened in the court case, saw this as a preliminary step toward a renewed push for an accredited law school. Trinity Western University, in Langley outside Vancouver, first announced plans to offer legal degrees in 2012, only to find itself locked in litigation with law societies in Ontario and B.C., which refused to accredit it.

The school’s new motion, passed last week but only released Tuesday, reads: “In furtherance of our desire to maintain TWU as a thriving community of Christian believers that is inclusive of all students wishing to learn from a Christian viewpoint and underlying philosophy, the Community Covenant will no longer be mandatory as of the 2018-19 Academic year with respect to admission of students to, or continuation of students at, the University.”

None of this will ever appease anyone.

Look for a renewed push to shut the place down for good.




Sure, Bill. Sure:

Canada said on Tuesday it will consider a safeguard action on seven steel products to protect domestic producers from imports since the United States imposed tariffs against its major trade partner in March.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau said a 15-day consultation period will be used to look at the harm or threat of harm to seven steel categories, including steel plate, rebar, energy tubular product, hot rolled sheet, pre-painted steel, stainless steel wire and wire rod.

That sounds like wasting time.




It's time to abolish teachers' unions:

Any elementary teacher who teaches students the updated 2015 sex-ed curriculum will have the full and legal support of their union, says its leader.

The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario says it strongly denounces the Ontario government’s decision to repeal the updated sexual health curriculum which leaves teachers to provide lessons based on 1998 material. The old teachings don’t include topics such as gender identity, online safety or consent.

(Sidebar: the curriculum written by this man.)

“Teachers will not be muzzled by a government whose political agenda takes precedence over the protection and education of their students,” ETFO President Sam Hammond said Monday at the union’s annual meeting in Toronto.

Never mind the bollards:

Three people are being treated for injuries following a terror attack at Parliament Square in London.

A man drove a car into pedestrians, before crashing into security barriers.

At least twenty-two people are dead after a bridge collapse in Italy:

A bridge on a main highway linking Italy with France collapsed Tuesday in the Italian port city of Genoa during a violent storm, sending vehicles plunging 45 metres (nearly 150 feet) into a heap of rubble. Authorities said at least 22 people were killed and 16 injured, although the death toll fluctuated throughout the day and some people were found alive in the debris.

Culture matters:

A Jordanian immigrant was sentenced to death on Tuesday after being convicted in what Texas prosecutors described as the honour killings of his daughter's American husband and her friend who was an Iranian women's rights activist.

And now, brain-melting cuteness: