Christmas Week: Mauve Christmas

No one ever sings songs about the warm side of the colour spectrum ...




You forget, Mr. Lilley, that this is a banana republic:

This is what Trudeau was willing to bend the law on, this is what Trudeau was willing to fire an attorney general over. It’s a sad testament to the ethics of this PM and his government but it’s also sad that Canadians re-elected a government that believes in two-tier justice based on who you know in the PMO.

What is the point? Is this not a "post-national state"?:

Immigrants must take the oath of citizenship to become Canadians, a federal court has ruled.

Justice Simon Noel’s judgement confirmed that newcomers must take the oath, not simply complete the rest of the citizenship test, to become Canadian citizens, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

“Becoming a Canadian citizen is a privilege,” wrote Justice Noel. “It is a privilege that is only conferred when the oath of citizenship is taken, these 43 words signifying adherence to our constitution and our country.”

We let anyone in this country. It's not a privilege but a participation pin.




The legal system once again rewards perversity:

A judge has dismissed charges against former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle, who had been accused of assaulting his wife Caitlan Coleman.

Also:

Edouard Maurice, the Okotoks, Alta., man who had been criminally charged with firearm offences in 2018 for firing warning shots at intruders on his property, and is now being sued by the man who was hit with a ricochet, has asked to have the lawsuit tossed out, citing new United Conservative legislation that protects property owners from civil suits.

But that would mean the people and not the Crown would win and that simply cannot be in Canada. If the serfs realise that they can strike back, why, it would be chaos!




Justin's party isn't the only band of inveterate Jew-haters:

The Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission has stripped a former NDP candidate of an annual human rights award after comments she made that compared Israel to Nazi Germany.

Rana Zaman stepped down as a candidate for the party in June, roughly a year after posting a string of tweets that suggested Israeli forces were “aiming higher than 6 million” in their bid to wipe out the Palestinian people. “I wonder if #Israel borrowed this from the #Nazis after they saw how successful they were?” she wrote, adding, “#Gaza is the new #Auschwitz.”

Perhaps people should stop expecting the government to do the right or competent thing:

Another delay, another disappointment for parents of autistic children in Ontario. This week’s news that the provincial government’s new-and-improved autism plan won’t be fully in place for more than a year wasn’t what parents wanted to hear.

Their frustration is understandable. This is the fifth reinvention of the program in less than four years. Families are facing enormous emotional and financial pressure. The clock is ticking for children awaiting autism treatment, which is most effective when delivered at a young age. Lacking timely support from the government, many parents are putting themselves into debt to help their children.

That said, it isn’t surprising that the government can’t double the size of the system in just a few months. Deciding to increase funding from $300 million to $600 million was the easy part, although it’s a big commitment. Creating the capacity to help far more children won’t be nearly so simple.

Japan dithers on baby hatch -

(Sidebar: this baby-hatch.)

- judgment:

A private hospital in Kumamoto that has launched a program for women who want to give birth anonymously is calling on the government to legalize the program, but receiving little in the way of response.