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The artificial francophone oligarchy does not like Ford's treachery one bit and is not afraid to mislead everyone to get its way:

Quebec’s premier rolled into Ontario on Monday and complained Ontario isn’t treating their linguistic minority with enough respect.

I wish I was making this up.

The man who leads a province that has a law dictating English on business signs must be half the size of French is worried Ontario isn’t treating French speaking citizens with enough respect. ...

Yet for all the chest thumping by Legault now, worried about linguistic minorities, I don’t recall him speaking out for Montreal’s Anglos when he was part of a cabinet that merged the entire Island of Montreal into one city and reduced English services.

Neither did many of the Liberals now speaking out against Ford utter a word then.

Also:

Yes, it’s true that the French-language services will no longer have a standalone office to handle complaints. The commissioner will be let go and the work of the office will be rolled into that of the ombudsman’s operation. That’s a small symbolic change, but francophones will still have an avenue of complaint if they find services inadequate. The disbanded office received 200 or so legitimate complaints a year with a budget of $1.2 million. That’s something the ombudsman, a francophone, is quite capable of handling.

The 2017 Ontario Liberal promise to create a French-language university doesn’t stand up to logical examination. The number of post-secondary students in Ontario has been declining. That’s one of the reasons the new provincial government cancelled three other proposed university campuses. Why add universities when the ones we have are struggling to get enough students?

When it comes to French-language education, Ontario students are far from disadvantaged. The University of Ottawa is the largest bilingual university in the world and nearly 13,000 of its more than 40,000 students are French speakers. French language education is also offered at Laurentian University, the University of Sudbury, Université de Hearst, the Glendon Campus of York University and two community colleges. ...

Franco-Ontarians should be confident about their position in Ontario. They are still an important voting bloc, especially in eastern and northern ridings. The evidence of that is the number of political leaders rushing to score cheap political points by sucking up to them.

Again, how is this oligarchy being screwed over?


And - if Ford is backing down now, how different is he from the Liberals?:

“It came from the floor and it’s non-binding, so it’s done,” Premier Ford said on Monday when asked about the motion.

Since its passage the resolution has been riddled with controversy from both within and outside the party.

The Minister of Education, Lisa Thompson said that the resolution “has nothing at all to do with government policy”. Since the election, Thompson was put in charge of handling the public education sex-ed repeal which was a central policy promise in Doug Ford’s election campaign.

“I doubt that this is really from Doug Ford, but from his Chief of Staff, Dean French. Dean seems to be calling the shots in that government, for good or ill (mostly ill),” said Tanya Granic Allen.

Dean French has been somewhat of a trump card for the Ford government. Before he became Doug Ford’s Chief of Staff, French was a successful business man and a relatively unknown member in the party.

But a feature article by The Globe and Mail that interviewed 20 PC party insiders revealed a different side of Mr. French, suggesting he was “at least as outspoken and aggressive as Mr. Ford” when tabling meetings. According to the report, French rules staff appointments with an iron fist and has an uncomfortable amount of power at Queens Park.

 
Statistics Canada made $113 million selling others' personal data:

Also - something to think about.



Handing taxpayer money to the Liberals is like handing heroin over to a junkie, which the taxpayer also pays for:

The fleet only has 78 per cent of the number of technicians it needs, which means only 83 per cent of the aircraft needed are ready. That shortage has increased the number of hours of maintenance needed to keep the aging CF-18 fleet in the air to 24 for every one hour of flying time.

Let that number sink in. The CF-18s were bought in the early 1980s and were expected to be retired 20 years later. Current plans are to keep them flying until 2032, by which time they will be 50 years old — a bunch of rusted nuts, bolts, airframes and engines supplied by the lowest bidder.

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Business groups are urging finance minister Bill Morneau to fully match U.S. tax reforms in his fall economic statement Wednesday, saying that a failure to maximize capital cost write-offs will leave Canadian firms at a profound disadvantage to their rivals.

(Sidebar: never going to happen.)




If Canada was truly bothered by anything the UN did, it would withdraw from the godawful organisation today:

Conservative MP & Opposition Immigration Shadow Minister Michelle Rempel says a Conservative government would pull Canada from the UN Global Compact on Migration.

Rempel says Canada shouldn’t sign the agreement.

Here’s how Rempel explained it:

“By allowing nearly 38,000 people to enter Canada illegally from the safety of upstate New York then claim asylum, Trudeau has undermined the integrity of Canada’s borders. Canada’s borders should not be compromised by abuses of our asylum system, and should not sign this compact.”

Is this more of Andy's "ambulance-chasing", Justin?:

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer unveiled a series of firearms policies Tuesday meant to curb gun violence — and slammed the Liberal government's plan to study a national handgun ban as a "lazy" effort that could punish lawful gun owners.

Watch this motion - whatever its merits - get voted down out of spite.



I'm sure it's nothing to be concerned about:

Beijing's municipal government will assign citizens and firms "personal trustworthiness points" by 2021, state media reported on Tuesday, pioneering China's controversial plan for a "social credit" system to monitor citizens and businesses.

We may never know their motives ... or something:

Police said on Tuesday they arrested three men who were allegedly preparing to attack a "mass gathering" in Melbourne, less than two weeks after a man was killed in Australia's second-largest city in what police said was an act of terrorism.

Australian federal and state police, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, and other agencies that form part of the Joint Counter Terrorism Team carried out the arrests on Tuesday morning.

Police said three men, Hanifi Halis, 21, Samed Erikioglu, 26 and Ertunc Erikioglu, 30, were taken into custody after they allegedly sought to acquire a semi-automatic gun to carry out an attack.

All three men were charged with planning a terrorist act, police said. They are all Australian citizens and their passports were canceled earlier this year.

(Merci beaucoup)