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Andrew Scheer visits India and doesn't make an @$$ out of himself:

Andrew Scheer’s trip to India is probably worth the cost to the Conservative party, if only because it allows the leader to repeat his joke about Canadians not having to worry: “I don’t dance and I am not bringing a celebrity chef.”

Any investment that conjures up the image of Justin Trudeau, in full sherwani frock coat, dancing to Bhangra beats during his disastrous visit to the subcontinent earlier this year, is money well spent by the official opposition.

Liberal support dropped nearly five percentage points in the wake of the trip in February, as voters wavered on whether Trudeau was a serious leader.

Those doubts apparently extended to India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, who didn’t meet Trudeau until the sixth day of his visit, amid criticism that the Canadian prime minister is too soft on Sikh extremists. Scheer met Modi on Tuesday in New Delhi, after the Conservative leader arrived on the weekend.

Notably, Scheer was dressed in sensible brogues, dark patterned socks and a conservative navy blue suit.

Modi recounted how the Canada-India relationship had been elevated to a strategic partnership during his visit to Ottawa in 2015, when Stephen Harper was still prime minister.

(Sidebar: this Stephen Harper.)

Even PM Modi met with him. (source)

Unlike Justin:

 

Also - does this account include corruption and choking someone?:

In My Stories, My Times, Chrétien writes, “My ministers who were close to the business sector wanted us to follow the lead of the Americans but I thought on the contrary that the independence of the four pillars of finance, each of which had been separate from the others since the 1930s, had served us well and should be maintained.”

Bill C-6 allows convicted terrorists to retain their Canadian citizenship:

“He spoke about playing soccer with severed heads, wrote that homosexuals “should be killed” and posted ISIS’s incitement lines, such as: “Kill the disbeliever whether he is civilian of military.”

Following the deadly October 2014 terror attacks that killed Canadian soldiers in Quebec and Ottawa, he wrote, “First Ottawa, then Quebec. Strike them, just as they strike your brothers and sisters.”

“If you are unable to make hijra [travel abroad], know that you have permission to strike them in their lands. Kill a kaffir [non-believer] and secure you [sic] place in Jannah [heaven],” another post read.”

Yet, despite all of this, he may end up going free if he returns to Canada.

People who warned that euthanasia would be used against children were laughed at and then ignored:

Canada’s largest children’s hospital is drafting a policy in preparation for the day when children could decide for themselves to be euthanized.

But ... but ... global warming!:

Scientists who try to explain climate change to the public with emotional images of parched fields and stories about starving polar bears should stop because they are not only misleading and “ludicrous,” but they may actually do more harm than good, according to new psychological research.

He is correct:

Later this month, recreational use of marijuana will become legal in Canada. The toll of human misery will accordingly increase, but not to worry, some very wealthy firms will make a lot of money and the government will get its share of the booty, just as it does with tobacco, gambling and alcohol.

To wit:

A prospective study looking at gray matter volume at 12 years of age, prior to initiation of marijuana, found that smaller orbitofrontal cortex volume predicted initiation of cannabis use by 16 years of age, suggesting pre-existing structural abnormalities may play a role in both behavioral differences that lead to cannabis use as well as continued differences in the course of development

It's time for the stocks to return:

Vandals defaced a Halifax naval memorial honouring thousands who died in the First and Second World Wars overnight Sunday, but veterans and others quickly went to work removing the graffiti.

Oh my. This must be embarrassing:

Sameera Khan sparked controversy today when she apologized for putting out some praise of Soviet gulags with a meme defending socialism as more humane than our current capitalistic, for-profit prison-system.

I assume she was tired of all the bullsh--:

UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is stepping down at the end of the year, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday as Haley sat by his side in the Oval Office.