Justin and His Voters Can Own It

All of it:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, re-elected last year with the lowest popular vote in Canadian history — who has described burning churches as “fully understandable” — has neither the political nor moral authority to unite Canadians on any issue, let alone federal vaccine mandates.

Not when the Liberals triumphantly bragged about winning a second consecutive minority government with just 32.6% of the popular vote — see Trudeau advisor Gerald Butts — compared to 33.7% for the Conservatives.

This because they divided Canadians up into little slices of political support and opposition across the country, in order to extract the maximum number of seats from the minimum number of votes cast.

That was a repeat of their 2019 election strategy, where the Liberals received 33.1% of the vote compared to 34.3% for the Conservatives, now the second-lowest popular vote in Canadian history for a winning party.

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The government is poised to press ahead with a law combating racial and religious hatred, including online hate, according to Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen.

 

Yes, about that:

Female genital mutilation is a brutal custom rooted in patriarchy.

Yet some in the Liberal government have shied away from calling it what it is, and missed a great opportunity not simply to condemn the practice but also to educate potential Canadians about the frightful effects it has on girls and women.

As Canada’s citizenship guide is being reviewed, citizenship minister Ahmed Hussen has done nothing but equivocate on whether he will include a statement condemning the practice as barbaric.

 

We wouldn't want to bring that up again, would we, Ahmed?

This is nothing more than a fig leaf to censor anything anyone can say, write or think. 

Also:

Cabinet yesterday acknowledged widespread opposition to its proposal to censor legal but hurtful internet content. “This is a very important and complex issue,” Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said in a statement: “I will have more to say on online news and online safety in the coming days and weeks.”

 

 

Oops:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unknowingly signed a neo-Nazi flag during a pitstop in Alberta in 2017, as the man had tucked in the flag to make it appear as though he was wearing a bandana. 

 

It's just an economy:

A record high number of employees missed work due to illness or disability in January, more than at the onset of the pandemic as the Omicron wave spread rapidly and forced semi-lockdowns in parts of the country.

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Canadians worked significantly fewer hours in January, and the jobless rate surged, evidence that the Omicron wave of COVID-19 has slowed economic growth.

Statistics Canada’s January Labour Force Survey found that hours worked dropped 2.2 per cent from December, when hours had returned to pre-pandemic levels. A decline in economic activity of that size will interrupt the momentum the economy had built over the latter half of 2021.

The Bank of Canada last week estimated that gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an annual rate of almost six per cent in the fourth quarter, but acknowledged the fifth wave of coronavirus infections will probably cause growth to slow to two per cent this quarter.

The unemployment rate jumped to 6.5 per cent from six per cent, and employment dropped by 200,000 positions, more than most Bay Street forecasters were expecting. The numbers confirm anecdotal evidence of what happened as provincial governments reintroduced restrictions at restaurants, arenas and other high-touch businesses to limit the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant.