From the Most Corrupt Government Ever Re-Elected

Justin gives out orders from his bosses:

The Liberals spent the summer speaking about the need to reimagine Canada post COVID— they even adopted the Biden campaign slogan of “Build Back Better.”

Days before the throne speech, the government began to pull back from that and put forward a more modest plan focused fully on the pandemic. Seems the idea of using a global health crisis as an excuse to fundamentally alter society didn’t sit well with the public.

Well, that doesn’t mean Trudeau was fully shying away from that idea when it came to speaking to a global audience. A video of the PM speaking to a United Nations meeting at the end of September has started to gain all the wrong kind of attention as people parsed and shared his words over the weekend.

“This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset,” Trudeau said.

“This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.”

 

Like communism, Justin? 

 

 

Oh, we've heard of him:

Public Works Minister Anita Anand last night denied favouritism in awarding a $237,300,200 contract to buy ventilators from ex-Liberal MP Frank Baylis’ company, Baylis Medical. “I have no idea who Frank Baylis is,” the Minister told the Commons government operations committee: “I couldn’t pick him out of a crowd.”

It's like transparency but not at all like it:

The Trudeau Liberals will be providing a select few unredacted documents to the non-partisan parliamentary law clerk, who will then be tasked with deciding what information should be blacked out to protect party secrets.

"We have now agreed to send unredacted documents to the law clerk, except those that were redacted to protect cabinet confidences and unrelated material as already allowed by the committee motion," reads the tweet from Government House leader Pablo Rodriguez.

Because they believe in openness and free expression ... for them:

The Trudeau government is poised to introduce legislation aimed at better safeguarding the privacy of Canadians in the digital era.

 

(Sidebar: I'll just leave this right here.) 

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O'Toole levelled the industrial-espionage charge against Huawei and the Chinese Communist Party on Tuesday as he announced that the Conservatives are pushing the Liberals to decide within 30 days which companies can provide Canada's next-generation 5G wireless internet technology.

Dr. Lewis, if you believe that Justin's communist dad ever produced anything that guaranteed actual freedom, then you are very much mistaken:

The days of raising strong children who would not allow words to “break their bones” are gone. We are left with frail adults who claim victimhood as a means to suppress speech and lord over their alleged oppressor. We have come to devalue personal responsibility — namely, the responsibility to acknowledge that your reaction to someone else’s words is on you. We have moved away from the recognition that we control our own emotions, and that someone else’s opinions cannot harm us, unless we allow it to.

Free speech is dying, but there is hope for the human spirit to return to its origin of freedom, free will, free speech and free belief. It starts with a willingness to see information through the lens of truth. We must rebel against the movement to disconnect reality from facts, and return to a society that encourages dialogue and seeks out truth, in the spirit of philosophers like Socrates, Plato and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

The human spirit may be muted, but it cannot be silenced. It is intrinsically tied to our freedom to believe and to speak our minds. There is much to learn from discovering that one is wrong or right about any particular subject. A good argument between two people who counter each other’s ideas until both emerge wiser, whether they ultimately end up agreeing or not, is a necessary part of human development and a strong society.

I have heard so many Canadians tell me that they long for the days when holding your own in a verbal disagreement was not only allowed, but seen as a sign of intellect. The extreme tribalism that is silencing dissenting opinions has resulted in a fractured society, and has no place in a democracy. I believe that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the innate human spirit that longs to be free requires us to defend our ability to have a plurality of opinions — and to voice them.