Sunday Post

Because priorities:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday he is seeking a seat for Canada on the powerful United Nations Security Council because it is where the world's most pressing issues are debated. ...

"The UN Security Council is a place where the biggest issues facing our world are debated, discussed and advanced," Trudeau said. "Having a Canadian voice at that table is important for Canadians but also for countries around the world who share our values, who share our concerns, who share our perspective on the world."

Spoken like a true narcissist who inflates his own worth and the worth of a has-been country.

Justin did not run on a record of accomplishments in 2015. He ran on a record of hatred for the incumbent, then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and won. From then until the October 2019 election, Justin has accomplished the following: failed trade agreements with China, India and the US, a bevy of ethics violations, high unemployment, climbing debt, baffling and injurious favouritism of Quebec over Alberta and various scandals that proved his poor judgment and antipathy towards others. Despite what should have been career-ending failures, the village idiot walked right back into office and proceeded to alienate Israel and continue his plans to control every aspect of the media in Canada, something that he started before the 2019 election.

Justin is not even taken seriously in his home province, let alone the rest of the country. When he began his laughable trip to India, PM Modi would not even meet him. Declaring his love for the communist dictatorship of China still earned him no credence with that nation-state when its foreign ministry refused to take his calls regarded two detained Canadian nationals (token gestures on his part, I'm sure). Deluding himself that Africans, who do not consider homosexual issues, or any other leftist focal points, to be top priorities, share his views nor is Ethiopia a trading partner on par with the US, a country he knows he cannot measure up to. He is doing what he and liberals of his ilk often - pretend that they are doing some actual work by aiming at low-hanging fruit that will neither reward nor ruin them.

Justin hopes that this will earn him the UN seat that he craves but it is doubtful that even the UN takes him seriously. Even if he were to land the seat (prestigious only in his mind), one second term decision to withdraw funding from the UN would make his already worthless career even more short-lived.

At least he has his dad's money to fall on.


Also - because Liberal priorities:

Barton, who had up-close business dealings with scores of Chinese companies beginning when he was based in Shanghai from 2004 to 2009 as McKinsey’s chairman for Asia, has a long list of priorities in dealing with China.

Before he headed back to Beijing, however, Barton took some grief for mistakenly telling MPs that Huseyin Celil, a Uyghur-Canadian who has been imprisoned in China for 15 years, is not a citizen of this country.

Canada’s last ambassador, of course, was former Liberal cabinet John McCallum who screwed up royally by twice speaking publicly on the legal case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, the epicentre for today’s icy China-Canada relationship after she was arrested at the behest of the United Sates for potential extradition for allegedly playing too loose with U.S. sanctions against the mad mullahs of Iran.

Kenney, don't expect the Americans to improve your lot. Separate or bleed the east:

Jason Kenney opted to join Ontario counterpart Doug Ford in the Democratic doghouse Saturday as the Alberta premier vented his spleen about progressive presidential hopefuls who have vowed to block the controversial Keystone XL pipeline expansion. ...

“Why then would they threaten to tear up an agreement that will be the basis of a multibillion-dollar Canadian investment in this country to become an even bigger and more reliable secure source of energy?”

Because communists.

Now, bleed the east.




Roads are for driving:

The Regina Police Service has opened up an investigation after a vehicle appears to have driven through Wet’suwet’en supporters on Saturday.

Several videos posted online show a blue car driving through protesters who were blocking Albert Memorial Bridge.

It appears one picketer was on the hood of the car as the vehicle drove forward. Other protesters are seen banging on the driver’s window.

There are no reported injuries, according to police. No charges have been laid at this time. The investigation remains ongoing.

Also - the Canadian legal system has a "get out of jail free" card for anything:

Killer Stuart McKellar Cameron has finally admitted harbouring a “deep-seated resentment” of Asian women when he terrorized four victims 20 years ago in North York.

The sexual predator was considered an enigma — a soft-spoken, seemingly law-abiding father of three — when he admitted murdering Taiwanese student Tina Wu and almost killing her 14-year-old sister Theresa on July 27, 2000.

Cameron also attacked two other Asian women in separate home invasions in ’99 and 2000. ...

At a National Parole Board hearing in November 2019, Cameron, who is of Guyanese indigenous and Scottish descent, was granted unescorted temporary absence passes to attend an indigenous healing lodge at Kwikwexelhp Healing Village — a minimum security institution at Harrison Mills, B.C., where the focus is on spiritual and cultural healing.

Because Stone Age cultures dealt with anti-social behaviour by smearing spa-grade clay on the offenders' skin.




Wow.

People really have a handle on this coronavirus:

China's virus death toll rose by 89 on Sunday to 811, passing the number of fatalities in the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic, but fewer new cases were reported in a possible sign its spread may be slowing as other nations stepped up efforts to block the disease.

Some 2,656 new virus cases were reported in the 24 hours ending at midnight Saturday, most of them in the central province of Hubei, where the first patients fell sick in December. That was down by about 20% from the 3,399 new cases reported in the previous 24-hour period.

This is according to China.

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A 60-year-old American has died of the new coronavirus, the first confirmed non-Chinese death of the illness, U.S. officials said, as millions of Chinese began returning home after a Lunar New Year break that was extended to try to contain the outbreak.

While the vast majority of cases have been in China, the virus has spread to some two dozen countries abroad, including five British nationals infected in a French mountain resort.

A Canadian passport-holder is furious to have spent so much time and money on getting a passport only to be greatly disappointed when it doesn't mean a hasty retreat from a disease-ridden sh--hole he still works in:

As scores of his compatriots climbed off an evacuation flight from Wuhan, China, on Friday, Qi (Kevin) Jin was still languishing at ground zero of the coronavirus outbreak — and feeling decidedly abandoned.

The Canadian citizen based in Toronto says he has registered repeatedly with Global Affairs Canada, but heard next to nothing from the department about planes out of Wuhan, where he’s visiting his mother.

His first contact with one of its officials was Wednesday, when he called Canada’s consulate in Shanghai, only to be routed to a number in Ottawa. The person he talked to there said the evacuation plane simply had no room left. There was no mention at all of an American flight that made more than 40 seats available to Candians.