Mid-Week Post

Your mid-week intermission ...




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

The Trudeau PMO reportedly sought to control statements made by former Canadian Ambassador to China David Mulroney.

And their reason?

The “election environment.”

That’s the stunning revelation in a report (paywalled) by Robert Fife & Steven Chase.
According to the report, David Mulroney – Canada’s Ambassador to China from 2009-2012, says Paul Thoppil, the assistant deputy minister for Asia-Pacific at Global Affairs, told him he was passing on a message from the Trudeau PMO, asking him to ‘clear’ his comments on the ongoing dispute with China with them first.

While the Liberals will obviously try to downplay this and pretend it’s no big deal, Mulroney makes clear that he was “deeply concerned” by the attempt to control what he said:


Mulroney has said he doesn’t want to be “silenced or co-opted,” and noted that discouraging experts from speaking is “fundamentally an undemocratic idea.”

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Justin Trudeau has appointed a bank executive to fill a seat in the elitist Liberal-dominated Senate.

The spot will be filled by Tony Loffreda, an executive at Royal Bank.

Loffreda is currently the Vice-Chairman of RBC Wealth Management, and has been high up in RBC for over a decade.

Trudeau has now appointed 50 people to the Senate.


While Trudeau falsely claims that his appointees are ‘independent,’ the reality is that the Senate is dominated by the Liberals, who regularly vote exactly how the Trudeau government demands.

The election is less about choosing the candidate who most represents one's values and more about entertainment. In the case of this upcoming election, who has the most dirt on Justin, the Chinese government's favourite frat-boy.

Cases in point:

Independent MP Jody Wilson-Raybould, who was removed as Attorney General and kicked out of the Liberal Party for refusing to do Justin Trudeau’s devious bidding, will be releasing a book.

Titled, “From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada,” the book will be released September 20th, 2019, ahead of the federal election.

Here’s part of what UBC Press – the book publisher – says in a press release announcing the book:

“In this powerful book, Jody Wilson-Raybould draws on her speeches and other writings to argue that true reconciliation will occur only when Canada moves beyond denial, recognizes Indigenous Rights, and replaces the Indian Act. The good news is that there are solutions. Now it is time to act, to end the legacy of colonialism and replace it with a future built on foundations of trust, cooperation, and Indigenous self-government.”

(Sidebar: the colonialism that allowed her to ascend to political office, among other advantages of living in a First World nation, but I digress ...)

While there is no word on whether the book will address the Trudeau PMO SNC-Lavalin Scandal directly, a supportive quote for the book mentions the “political pressure” she faced ...

(Sidebar: this SNC-Lavalin.)

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“Out of context?” In what context are such statements by a future Prime Minister of Canada not concerning? Source: Trudeau campaign forced to address 2010 comments on Alberta ...

It's just money:

Since Parliament adjourned on June 21st, Justin Trudeau has announced $2.27 billion in new government spending.

As noted by True North News, a whopping 62% of those funds have gone to Quebec.

And guess how much has gone to Alberta?

Just 0.1%.


To put that in dollar terms, Quebec has received $1.4 Billion in new federal spending since June 21st, while Alberta has received just 3.34 million.

If she was rejected for "comments" (which, in Canada, are bad, heathenish and American things), then she sounds like someone one should pay attention to:

Two people — a former provincial party official and a campaign organizer familiar with the situation — told the National Post the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party asked Ghada Melek to drop out of the race for the provincial nomination in Mississauga-Streetsville.

Melek, however, denies the party rejected her, saying she withdrew “for personal reasons.”

She was seeking a nomination to run in the 2018 Ontario election when now-deleted tweets and retweets from her account surfaced, including some suggesting Islamic radicalism was pervasive and causing “economic hell” in places like Detroit.

Last year, Melek lobbied against what she termed an “offensive” advertisement on Mississauga city buses promoting tolerance of the hijab.

But there is “no communication” between the federal and provincial parties on potential nominees, said the Ontario PC source, and so Melek was chosen as the Conservative candidate for the federal riding of the same name last December.

“Why the federal party would be rolling that dice is beyond me,” said the source, who was not authorized to speak on the record. “(If) they don’t want to consult, it’s on them.”

Melek, a Coptic Christian immigrant from Egypt, said the Twitter posts — which date from 2013 and 2014 — were an emotional response to mass protests against her native country’s then-president, Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Mohammed Morsi.

“As a Coptic Christian, I know what my family and friends often endured under Morsi and the Brotherhood, and that passion may have got the best of me at times,” she said in a statement. “While these are almost entirely retweets from more than half a decade ago, I do understand how some of them may be offensive, and I do regret that as well as retweeting them. I will always stand with Muslim Canadians.”

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer’s press secretary could not be reached for comment.

Oh, I'll bet he couldn't.




Uh, no:

A Federal Court judge has ordered Canada’s chief electoral officer to take a second look at whether voting day this October needs to be moved because it falls on a Jewish holiday — and come up with a decision in a matter of days.

Li Peng, who presided over the massacres at Tienanmen Square, is dead:

The legacy of former Chinese Premier Li Peng is reflected in modern China itself, where extended and broad-based economic growth is inextricably coupled with authoritarian political controls.

Li, who died Monday at 90, warned Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters in May 1989 that "the situation will not develop as you wish" a day before he announced martial law. And the pet project he pushed was the Three Gorges Dam, which displaced 1.3 million people and is now the world's largest hydroelectric plant.

I will refrain from speaking ill of the dead so I will keep my "Li Peng is in hell" comments to a minimum.

The South Korean tiger rears its head long enough to anger the countries that separated it from North Korea in the first place:

Russia carried out what it said was its first long-range joint air patrol in the Asia-Pacific region with China on Tuesday, a mission that triggered hundreds of warning shots, according to South Korean officials, and a strong protest from Japan.

The flight by two Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers and two Chinese H-6 bombers, backed up by a Russian A-50 early warning plane and its Chinese counterpart, a KJ-2000, marks a notable ramping-up of military cooperation between Beijing and Moscow.

I'm sure white liberal feminists will be all over this:

A recent Indian government report shows that none of the 216 births recorded in 132 villages from a northern Indian district are girls, leading local officials to suspect female foeticide.

Furthermore, 16 of those villages have not recorded a single female birth since the beginning of the year, according to the district’s magistrate Ashish Chauhan.

Officials in the district of Uttarkashi, Uttarkhand state have marked 82 villages as “red zones” to closely investigate local data and have asked local health workers to stay on alert. 

Female foeticide has been banned in India since 1994, but still continues in areas where communities place a higher value on boys than girls. 

“It is shocking to have a zero girl child birth rate in 132 village of the district, as we have rarely heard of (or) seen any incident of female foeticide in the hills,” said legislative assembly member Gopal Rawat, as quoted by The Independent.

 
Archeologists make new discoveries at L'anse aux Meadows:

L'Anse aux Meadows, the site of a Norse colony founded a millennium ago and where Indigenous tribes once hunted and gathered, is an already famous as an archeologist's dream — and the area is not yet done revealing history's secrets.

A team of archeologists from Memorial University, led by Paul Ledger, has discovered a new layer of evidence of human occupancy while they were searching for something else.

"We were there to do a study of the environmental change of the site in relation to the human occupation of the site. Primarily we were interested in how the environment had changed around the Norse colonization of L'Anse aux Meadows," Ledger told CBC Newfoundland Morning.

The key to finding that information? Digging through peat.

"Peat accumulates at a rate of a millimetre a year, effectively. And as it's doing that it records micro-fossils and things from the environment — things like pollen or charcoal that's in the air, or other living matter. And it incorporates that into the peat so as you go down through the peat, you go back in time."

Ledger's original aim was to collect the samples and then analyze them in the lab to see the environmental history.

Instead, his team found much more. They were about 35 to 40 centimetres deep, about 30 metres from the Norse ruins, when they found what appeared to be cultural material that carbon dating identifies as coming from the late 12th to mid-13th century.

"It had some charcoal in it, some wood chips. They looked like woodworking debitage [debris], basically, so they were sort of unusual angles and they look like they've been cut," said Ledger. "Some of it looks like it's been split with an axe or maybe a stone tool.

"We don't know what culture produced these things. They just look like they've been worked."

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Rutger Hauer: