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Well, first of all, they are guilty of treason. Secondly, the are guilty of rape, murder and destruction of property:

The RCMP is looking into whether war crimes laws can be used to prosecute Canadians detained in Syria over their alleged involvement in the so-called Islamic State, Global News has learned.

National security investigators are exploring not only whether terrorism charges are warranted, but also whether the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act could apply, officials said.

While war crimes-related prosecutions are extremely rare in Canada, with 32 Canadians detained in Syria by U.S.-backed forces following the collapse of ISIS, the possibility of charges is being examined.

The investigations are part of the RCMP’s preparations for the possible return to Canada of captured ISIS members.

 
This could have all been resolved if they were shot upon capture.

Not that those perpetrating this false concern really care.

Election year, you know.




From the most "transparent" government in the country's history:

Last week the Globe and Mail revealed the Liberal government had allowed Irving Shipbuilding to claim a $40-million industrial benefit credit for an Alberta french fry factory as part of a contract to provide the Royal Canadian Navy with new Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships. The industrial benefit policy is supposed to promote innovative work and research in defence and aerospace fields but it also allows for non-related benefits to receive credit.

The Globe article, by Robert Fife and Steve Chase, also revealed that officials in the office of Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains alerted Irving Shipbuilding that the newspaper had asked a question about the industrial policy involving the multi-billion dollar Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship program.

After that happened the Globe received a legal notice from a lawyer representing the Irvings that the newspaper would be sued if the story contained allegations of improper conduct.

The article never had any allegations of improper conduct.

Why did this all take place?

The Globe reporters asked one simple question. It was sent to the department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and it was a request for a confirmation that Irving had been granted the industrial benefit for the french fry factory in Lethbridge, Alta.

Innovation, Science and Economic Development says it has a policy of alerting Irving if journalists are asking questions about the company’s industrial benefits obligations and the Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship program.

Department spokesman Hans Parmar stated in an email that Irving was told of the media inquiry as part of the department’s policy to ‘’encourage transparency.’’

He claimed that Irving was not told who the journalists were. However, the Globe confirmed that Bains’ office informed Irving Shipbuilding that it was the Globe and Mail asking the question. That is how the Irving lawyer was able to quickly direct the company’s threat of legal action towards the Globe.

As justification for informing the Irvings about a media question on the Arctic ships, Parmar claimed that such a requirement is in the government’s contract with the firm. However, that contract contains only a general reference to coordinating public communications.

What is unclear is how extensive is the gathering of information on journalists by Bains’ office and the Innovation department?

It is also unclear what this policy means for the public.

Does this arrangement mean if a member of the public writes Bains’ office to ask about Irving Shipbuilding or industrial benefits involving the Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship or the Globe article then Irving is informed of that as well?

There are many unanswered questions about this policy.

I sent questions to Bains’ office and to the Innovation department about their policy. Here are some of the questions that weren’t answered ...

Read the whole thing.


Also:

The auditor general and deputy minister of finance will be invited to a House committee next week, MPs decided Thursday, to explain a funding shortfall that’s causing cuts to the independent auditor’s work, including a planned performance review on government cyber security.

The public accounts committee heard last month from the interim auditor general, Sylvain Ricard, that the Liberal government has not provided enough money for the office to complete its regular workload, which includes performance audits on government activities outside of regular financial auditing.

“In the near term, we have no choice but to decrease the number of performance audits that we conduct,” Ricard said. For the coming year, an election year, five have been cut, including one on combating cyber crime.

Last year the outgoing auditor general, Michael Ferguson, had asked for a $10.8-million increase to keep up the pace of work after the federal government added new responsibilities to the office’s mandate, including overseeing the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and the Canada Infrastructure Bank.

We wouldn't want to hold anyone to account, would we?




Justin is a moron and simply incapable of doing any sort of governance. Here's a link dump. It's just frustrating to go through:

According to the CP, the Trudeau Liberals tried to solicit a donation from Pascal Berube.


Pascal Berube is the interim leader of the Separatist Parti Quebecois.

The Liberals sent a donation letter to Berube’s constituency office.


The letter was signed by Justin Trudeau.

According to the report, “Other sovereigntists from elsewhere in the province — who’ve said they’ve never supported the federal Liberals — reported on social media that they too had received the Liberals’ letter. Some wondered aloud where the Liberal Party of Canada would’ve found the PQ’s mailing list.”

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The Organization of American States is asking Canada to hold an investigation into “allegations of genocide.”

On Twitter, the head of the OAS – Luis Almagro – said “it is necessary to clarify these allegations and achieve justice.”

“Given evidence of genocide perpetrated against indigenous women and girls in Canada I have offered the creation of an Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI Canada). It is necessary to clarify these allegations and achieve justice”.

(Sidebar: I would suggest no because the word "genocide" is not applicable here and screw everyone else, this country is still a sovereign one until Justin sells it at fire-sale prices to the Chinese.)

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Now, with the G20 meeting coming up, Justin Trudeau is seeking to finally get a meeting to discuss the detained Canadians. Here’s what Trudeau said during a recent media appearance:

“I look forward to being at the G20 in a few weeks as an opportunity to engage with a number of world leaders with whom we have either good working relationships or challenges. The opportunity to engage with the Chinese president directly is certainly something that we are looking at. The continued detention of two Canadians in an arbitrary manner by the Chinese government is of utmost concern to us. Their actions on canola, their issues around other products as well, is of concern. We are going to highlight the processes and the engagement that Canada has with the world and the way China should engage with the world needs to remain, following the rules, principles and values that we’ve all agreed to.”

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In a report written by the chair of the committee – Conservative Senator David Tkachuk – the bill is slammed as being divisive and hurting Canada’s national unity.

“This is not just a matter of dampening the economic interests of specific provinces. It is a nationally corrosive and divisive policy which pits one region against another, inflaming separatist sentiment and stoking a misplaced resentment of Indigenous Canadians,” the report says. 

The ban on tankers carrying diluted bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands appears to be “intentionally designed to damage the economy of western Canada,” rendering the bill “both divisive and discriminatory,” the report adds, going on to say that “targeting one region of Canada for economic punishment is unconstitutional and destructive to the fabric of Canadian federalism.”

Andy has served everyone a tall glass of "who cares?" and everyone should join him. So a tiny percentage of the population thinks that their personal lives are somehow achievements. No one else does:

For the third time since winning the Conservative Party leadership, Andrew Scheer won’t be marching in Pride parades this year.

His office confirmed the news first reported by the National Post on Thursday that Scheer is not scheduled to attend any of the upcoming parades that celebrate acceptance and the rights hard won by the LGBTQ2 community over the course of decades of discrimination.

As of this writing, this is one person and her ignorant tweet. It's clear that there are no history books gracing her shelves.

She clearly doesn't care that Vyacheslav Molotov signed a non-aggression pact with German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, which was then broken when Germany invaded Russia on a warm summer's day, June 22, 1941, in a race to see who could be the bigger b@$#@rd. Naturally, she is not going to mention how Stalin shoved his men into the meat grinder of war, how the secret police still rooted out ideological impurities despite the war raging on (SEE: Solzhenitsyn, Alexander), how Molotov demanded that a second front be opened up which resulted in Dieppe, a defeat so disastrous that it is forever etched on the Canadian consciousness,  or how blindingly obvious it was that D-Day was successful.

Why let facts get in the way of a good narrative?


Also:

Russia's most popular newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda asked: "Why does the West want everyone to think that their front wasn't just the second front, but the main one?". It added that millions of Soviet soldiers had been killed while the USSR was waiting for the Allies to open the second front. 

Perhaps if President Putin had been invited to join the D-Day commemorations in Normandy, Russia's viewpoint might be more positive. 

One Russian TV presenter declared: "There wouldn't even have been a Normandy landing if it hadn't been for the Soviet soldiers who'd died from 1941 onwards in the fight against fascism."

Oh, shut up!  That doesn't even make any sense.




And finally:

They were fighting “in the cause of freedom,” Queen Elizabeth rightly pointed out, citing the remarks of her father, King George VI, in a radio broadcast on the eve of the Normandy landings, the first phase of Operation Overlord, as it was called, the liberation of Europe. It was not just courage and endurance that the struggle demanded of the free world, the king had said, but “a revival of spirit, a new unconquerable resolve.” And it was that spirit, and that resolve, that all those brave men took with them to the beaches of Normandy, the Queen said, and “the fate of the world depended on their success.”

Directing her remarks on the few surviving soldiers, sailors and airmen of that time, she concluded: “It is with humility and pleasure, on behalf of the entire country —indeed the whole free world — that I say to you all, thank you.”

This raises an awkward question. What degree of sacrifice are any of us prepared to make to defeat freedom’s enemies today? Despite commonplace histrionics to the contrary, neither Europe nor North America is threatened by the spectre of fascist tyranny. But tyranny is smashing its way across a great deal of human terrain today, nonetheless, and it is creeping quietly through the liberal world order that the triumphs of the Second World War established. ...

On D-Day, that one day, more than 1,000 Canadians were among the 10,000 Allied casualties. Before the Battle of Normandy was over, 5,000 Canadians were dead. But on that first day alone, the butcher’s bill added up to 359 dead Canadians. That’s more than twice the number of Canadian soldiers killed — 158 — over the entire duration of the Canadian Forces’ engagement in Afghanistan, from October 2001 to March 2014.

The Canadian soldiers who rushed ashore at Juno Beach were all volunteers. Their average age was 26. Few of them knew anything about fighting. They faced a cruelly efficient German fighting force in heavily fortified positions along the Normandy coastline, and they fought like lions, pushing further into France than either of the two British and two American landing forces that day. ...

More than a million Canadians — one in 10 Canadians at the time — volunteered for military service during the Second World War. Roughly 45,000 of them were rewarded with death. June 6, 1944, is the day the struggle turned in our favour. Remember that.

Remember those who died that day. And honour those still living.