Saturday Post

 

 
That someone has to plead or force a government to be revolted by the murder of an eight year old means that the battle has already been lost:

Rodney Stafford has a message for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: "God bless and I pray for you to do the right thing, which is to ensure this justice is reversed and a child killer is returned to prison to finish her sentence behind bars!"

(Sidebar: silly man! Justin doesn't believe in God!)

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After hammering the government for days, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer plans to force a vote next week on a motion condemning the transfer of convicted murderer Terri-Lynne McClintic to an Aboriginal healing lodge, and demanding the decision be reversed.

(Sidebar: one could argue for an independent judiciary and against race-based sentencing and spas for killers but I digress ...)


Also:

Aboriginal healing lodges are a response to the disproportionate number of Indigenous people behind bars and an attempt to address concerns that “mainstream prison programs do not work for Aboriginal offenders,” according to information from CSC’s website. They use a “holistic and spiritual” approach, including “guidance and support from Elders and Aboriginal communities.”

But research into their effectiveness has shown mixed results. A 2013 government backgrounder claims that the recidivism rate for offenders who’d completed programs at three Aboriginal healing lodges was six per cent, less than the national rate of 11 per cent. But a 2001 government analysis reported a 19 per cent rate of recidivism for healing lodge residents, compared to 13 per cent for Indigenous offenders released from minimum-security facilities.

And:

Justin Trudeau thinks convicted terrorists deserve to keep Canadian citizenship.


His government refuses to fight against the transfer of child-killer Terri-Lynne McClintic to minimum-security ‘healing lodge.’

Trudeau has called returning ISIS terrorists a “powerful voice for change,” while his government lets them return.



Every chance they get, the Trudeau government sides with criminals, and goes against the vast majority of law-abiding Canadians – even demonizing law-abiding Canadian gun owners who haven’t broken any laws.

 
Why complain that an ice-woman murdered elderly patients and then allow euthanasia? Why bother?:

A lawyer for one of the families impacted told of a frail man fighting Wettlaufer off as she administered lethal injections. It’s an obscene image, but the underlying obscenity is far more grave: That we accept that this, when it comes to care, is the best we can offer.

But isn't a citizen always a citizen?:

The House of Commons passed a unanimous motion Thursday to revoke honorary citizenship from Aung San Suu Kyi over her unwillingness to condemn the genocide Myanmar’s military is carrying out against that country’s Muslim minority.

Also - sorry, dear, but you are simply not Justin's sort of immigrant:

El Shafie wants the Canadian government to take in more Yazidi refugees.

The federal government pledged to resettle 1,200 ISIS survivors in Canada by the end of 2017, with an emphasis on Yazidi families.

It missed that target, bringing in only 981 ISIS survivors last year. Eighty-one per cent were Yazidi.

"I would like, first of all, for [the Canadian government] to keep their promises," El Shafie said.

"Secondly, I would like to see them increasing this number to 4,000."

There is a reason why splitting the vote can be disastrous.

Cases in point:

New Brunswick's right-leaning People's Alliance has agreed to prop up a Tory minority government, but the Liberal premier is urging skeptical Progressive Conservative legislators to rebel against "the deal" — and keep his party in power.

One can make many sound arguments why the Tories do not represent the interests of many voters just as one can make many sound arguments that eventually these parties evolve into the things they wished to avoid. Nevertheless, united fronts win elections.

So there's that.

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Six years and two elections later, the CAQ and the Liberal Party, which has held power for all but 18 months of the last 15 years, are in a virtual tie in the polls. Legault’s likelihood of victory on Oct. 1 lies in his party’s ability to harvest the collective goodwill of Quebec’s Francophones outside Montreal and its immediate suburbs. Until the advent of the CAQ, this great swath of territory was, with a few exceptions, relatively fertile ground for the separatist Parti Québécois.

The silver lining of this insufferable parochialism is that a loss for the Liberals this October may mean a loss for the Liberals next October.



 It's just money:

The Liberal government's 2016 tax hike on Canada's top one per cent not only failed to yield the promised billions, but resulted in a net revenue loss for government coffers, according to a new report released by the C.D. Howe Institute.

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At some point in the next 20 to 30 years, on current trends, one or more of the provinces is likely to default on its debts. That is the inescapable message in the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s latest annual “Fiscal Sustainability” report.

Priorities:

This week, Trudeau is in New York for the annual love-in of the world’s despots, dictators, and a handful of Western liberal democratically-elected leaders — also known as the United Nations General Assembly.

Trudeau has his heart set on further roping Canada into this world of wasteful make-believe, where we all pretend that the UN has real legitimacy or exists beyond the purpose of stroking the egos of the madmen who run the world’s most regressive regimes.

(Sidebar: regimes like this.)


This UN:

India’s foreign minister accused neighbouring Pakistan of harbouring terrorists in an angry speech Saturday before the U.N. General Assembly, and rejected the notion that India is sabotaging peace talks with Pakistan, calling it “a complete lie.”

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North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong ho told the United Nations on Saturday that continued sanctions on Pyongyang were deepening its mistrust in the United States.

This United States:

In the latest twist in Donald Trump’s shifting strategy on North Korea, the U.S. president on Wednesday backed off a set timetable for Pyongyang to denuclearize, ahead of a planned visit next month to the North Korean capital by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Why are are we still funding this?