Friday Post

How to turn Canada from a First-Word democracy to Iran overnight:

The Issue:

The Government of Canada is now dispersing taxpayers’ money in situations where they are aware the ultimate use of the funds will be the direct and indirect support of terrorism. Among the intermediary agencies involved are Islamic Relief Canada and its parent organization, Islamic Relief Worldwide. The ultimate destination of a portion of the funds is Hamas, an organization listed by the Government of Canada as a terrorist entity.

It is no longer an outside job; it is an inside job.

This funding may constitute a criminal offence.

The Senate of Canada heard in May 2015 that the Muslim Brotherhood, listed as a terrorist organization in several countries, has a series of some eight to ten front organizations in Canada. Among then were the Muslim Association of Canada; the National Council of Canadian Muslims; (formerly known as Council of American Muslim Relations – Canada or CAIR-CAN); Islamic Relief Canada and the International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy – Canada, IRFAN. IRFAN no longer exists as it lost its Canada Revenue Agency charitable status for funding terrorism and was later declared to be a terrorist entity.

The Members of Parliament involved in orchestrating this terrorist funding are:

1. The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Member of Parliament for Papineau and Prime Minister. As the First Minister in a Westminster form of Parliament, he has political responsibility and political accountability for the actions of his government. Prime Minister Trudeau has also done volunteer work for Islamic Relief Canada and a promotional video on their behalf. Prime Minister Trudeau has had a nearly ten-year long record of supporting, defending or deflecting criticism away from the Islamist cause in general since his election as a Member of Parliament in 2008. (See Annex 1 for more details.)

2. The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Member of Parliament for University-Rosedale and Minister of Global Affairs. As Minister of Global Affairs, she is politically accountable for the actions of her department.

3. The Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Member of Parliament for York South-Weston and Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship. As Minister of Immigration, he is politically accountable for the actions of his department.

4. The Honourable Marie Claude Bibeau, Member of Parliament for Compton-Stanstead and Minister for International Development. As Minister of International Development, she is politically accountable for the actions of her department.

5. The Honourable Omar Alghabra, Member of Parliament for Mississauga Centre and Parliamentary Secretary for Global Affairs. As a Parliamentary Secretary for the Global Affairs Department (Foreign Ministry) Mr. Alghabra bears some political accountability for the department. He has also used his position as a Member of Parliament and Parliamentary Secretary to promote the cause of Islamic Relief in a variety of official and semi-official situations.

6. The Honourable Iqra Khalid, Member of Parliament for Mississauga-Erin Mills, is the sponsor of the M103 Parliamentary Motion on Islamophobia. She announced major funding (23 million dollars) to address Islamophobia in relation of her M103 Motion. It is not clear what share of the proposed 23 million dollars will go to Islamic Relief Canada, nor is it clear why a relief agency would be involved in such a project.

Missing in Action:

The Honourable Ralph Goodale is the Minister of Public Safety. The Honourable Diane Lebouthillier is the Minister of National Revenue. The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould is the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. In these positions, they are responsible for the enforcement of laws and regulations related to terrorism, terrorism funding and charities. They appear to be silent on the issue of Canadian money being sent by Islamic Relief Canada to Islamic Relief Worldwide which is then used to support HAMAS. It is possible that they are acting to enforce the law, but there is no pubic evidence.

Thanks to the government Canadians don't want to turf, support for these Islamist organisations goes unabated.


(Paws up)


Also - are they coming home? Yes:

According to The Guardian, the feds are set to take back 11 Canadians currently held by Kurdish forces in northern Syria. Among those said to be part of the deal is Jack Letts, a British born and raised man who left for Syria and to join ISIS in 2014.

I'm sure that these sorts of things will magically balance themselves:

The price of Western Canadian Select (WCS) crude dropped more than US$55 per barrel below North American benchmark West Texas Intermediate on Friday. The widening discount is evidence the commodity may be in its “darkest days,” according to one industry analyst. 

Dan McTeague, senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com, points to a confluence of factors including U.S. refinery outages and issues with Enbridge Inc.’s (ENB.TO) plan to replace its aging Line 3 pipeline. However, he says none are more pressing than the lack of new takeaway capacity to relieve the growing crude glut in Western Canada. 

“Even basket-case Venezuela can get $67 for it’s heavy oil. We’re lucky to get $15. That should be a national disgrace,” he told Yahoo Canada Finance on Friday. “We’re in this situation primarily because we have allowed ourselves to find our capacity boxed in with no viable short-term, reasonable solutions.”

WCS, Canada’s main grade of crude, has seen a dramatic decline in recent months, plunging below $16 a barrel. Meanwhile, WTI prices rallied to a recent peak above $76 earlier this month, before retreating to about $71.

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The federal government is putting a 25% tariff on steel from China.

The tariffs are part of a move to address China’s repeated ‘dumping’ of steel in foreign markets.

(Sidebar: Justin's favourite country is not going to like that bit of Trump butt-kissing. Sit back and watch the train wreck.)

But assault rifles are already illegal, Justin:

But some military type rifles and shotguns are prohibited.”  Restricted firearms include “certain handguns and some semi-automatic long guns (not all semi-automatic long guns are restricted or prohibited).  Rifles that can be fired when telescoped or folded to shorter than 660 millimeters, or 26 inches, are also restricted.”  Prohibited firearms “include most 32 and 25 caliber handguns and handguns with a barrel length of 105 mm or shorter.  Fully automatic firearms, converted automatics, firearms with a sawed-off barrel, and some military rifles like the AK 47 are also prohibited.”

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The Trudeau government is taking another step towards taking away more rights from law-abiding Canadian gun owners, instead of actually dealing with criminals.

According to the CP, “Border Security Minister Bill Blair is launching a national public conversation about whether Canada should ban handguns and assault weapons. Blair announced today he will lead a series of public engagement activities, including roundtables and discussions with stakeholders to be held over the coming weeks. An online portal is also now open for written submissions from the public until Nov. 10.”

One would think that a former police chief would know which guns were illegal. But Bill Blair has never been particularly bright.
 



Stand back and watch them duke it out:

The Mikisew Cree argued that the former Conservative government should have consulted them on legislative proposals that would affect their treaty rights.

In 2012, the government introduced two omnibus bills proposing changes to Canada’s environmental protection and regulatory processes.

A Federal Court judge said there was a duty to consult the Mikisew because the proposals would arguably affect fishing, trapping and navigation.

The Federal Court of Appeal overturned the ruling, saying that including the duty to consult in the legislative process offends the doctrine of the separation of powers and the principle of parliamentary privilege.

But I thought that the judicial activists welcomed their Big Aboriginal overlords. Isn't that what Justin wants?




Even after the Groper shtupped for her to be the leader of a language that is no longer the language of commerce, Michelle Jean still proves her bitterness:

Rwandan President Paul Kagame says critical comments made by Michaelle Jean at the summit of la Francophonie towards his country were unwarranted.

Speaking to The Canadian Press on the sidelines of the summit in Armenia, Kagame says the secretary general of the International Organization of la Francophonie and former Canadian governor general simply can’t accept that someone else could lead the organization.

Jean lost her bid for a second term as secretary general of la Francophonie on Friday, as member nations opted for Rwanda’s foreign minister to take up the mantle going forward. ...

“At a moment when we march toward the 50th anniversary of la Francophonie, let’s ask ourselves here in Yerevan, in all conscience and in all responsibility, on which side of history do we want to be,” Jean said.

“Are we ready to accept that international organizations are used for partisan purposes?” Jean asked.

“Are we ready to accept that democracy, rights and freedoms are reduced to mere words, that we make them meaningless in the name of realpolitik?”

Not buying South Korean president Moon Jae-In's total codswallop - Australia:

Australia has assigned a guided missile frigate to the East China Sea to boast international efforts to enforce sanctions against North Korea, an Australian officer said Friday.

The Australian Defence Force chief of joint operations, Air Marshall Mel Hupfeld, said the warship with a crew of 230 will be supported by two Australian AP-3C Orion surveillance aircraft based in Japan.

"Despite the easing of tensions on the Korea Peninsula, Pyongyang continues with its nuclear weapons and ballistic weapons programs in defiance of ... United Nations Security Council resolutions," Hupfeld told reporters.

No gender studies graduate has ever built a bridge:

Three Canadian professors recently penned an editorial in an influential academic journal arguing that teaching students STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) helps perpetuate “patriarchy,” “heteronormativity,” and other social ills.

How could this go wrong?:

A small but increasing number of children in the United States are not getting some or all of their recommended vaccinations. The percentage of children under 2 years old who haven’t received any vaccinations has quadrupled in the last 17 years, according to federal health data released Thursday.

Good:

Despite that evidence that it is a common procedure, a recent study confirms just how little training the family doctors — the people who perform most abortions — receive in school.

That study published in June in the online journal BioMed Central concluded family medicine residents need more training on abortions, with existing programs providing little education and exposure to the procedure. 

Abortion doesn't cure leukemia. No one needs it for anything.

Try as one might, no one can defend this sick son-of-a-b!#ch:

Dr. Kermit Gosnell owned and operated the Women’s Medical Society clinic in Philadelphia. Well-known for providing grisly late-term abortions, the Gosnell clinic was actually raided in 2010 by the police on suspicion of illegal use of prescription drugs. They found an unsanitary, blood-stained, cat-infested “house of horrors” in which women were found suffering various degrees of malpractice by unlicensed and unqualified personnel. Fetal remains from late-term abortions were found in jars, in milk bags, in cat-food containers. The severed feet of dozens of fetal corpses were preserved.

In 2011, Gosnell was charged with eight counts of murder in addition to hundreds of violations of Pennsylvania’s abortion laws. The murder charges related to an adult woman, Karnamaya Mongar, who died following an abortion procedure, and seven newborns killed by having their spinal cords severed with scissors after being born alive during attempted abortions. In the May 2013 trial, prosecutors focused on fewer charges to obtain the necessary convictions to send Gosnell away for life. He was convicted of murder (first degree) for three of the infants, and manslaughter for Mongar. Gosnell is in prison for life, having waived his right to appeal in order to avoid the death penalty.

But what was introduced at trial was only the bloody tip of a massive iceberg of killing. An unlicensed physician at the clinic, Steven Massof, 49, pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree murder, murder conspiracy and other charges before Gosnell’s trial. He testified to a grand jury that he snipped the spines of more than 100 babies after seeing them breathe, move or show other signs of life.

“Severing the spinal cords of moving, breathing babies outside their mothers’ wombs was, according to Massof, ‘standard procedure’,” reported the grand jury. ...

Gosnell had been sued dozens of times over more than three decades. Detailed complaints on several occasions had been made to state regulators. His clinic was found in violation by the state department of health as early as 1989. But despite mountains of evidence that would have shut down an orthopedic practice overnight, Gosnell was allowed to operate, with abortion politics providing cover. 

It went right to the top, with the grand jury finding Gov. Tom Ridge’s office responsible for regulators looking the other way, or not bothering to look at all. That Gosnell preyed upon the poor made it easier for his victims to be ignored.

The police and prosecutors seemed deliberately lethargic, if not negligent, in following up deaths of women at the clinic, at least one of which resulted in a civil settlement. It was, after all, a Drug Enforcement Agency investigation that finally brought Gosnell down for illegal prescriptions. Had it not been for the DEA, Philadelphia police may have waited for the Internal Revenue Service to do its work for them.

Then came the trial. By all accounts it should have been a notorious story locally, if not nationally. But the major news media gave it a pass. Only after a shaming campaign on social media built pressure on the major networks and newspapers did the Gosnell story get some of the coverage it deserved.

There is enough shame to go around.