The Henchmen

The lesser Bond villains.

More like red-shirts who die before the opening credits:

The CRTC will consider Canadians’ views on how it should implement the Liberal government’s contentious online streaming legislation, according to the broadcast and telecom regulator’s new chairperson.

 

Unaccountable and unelected.

 

Also:

To put it simply, a trained psychologist like Jordan Peterson standing up on a stage in Ottawa and claiming that people with penises might not be actual women is the 21st-century equivalent of shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theatre. And whether it’s true or not just doesn’t matter.

Just ask J.K. Rowling who, although she has never spoken one harsh word against a member of the trans community, continues to be given the bum’s rush from polite society, as Brendan O’Neill put it recently in the Spectator.

“What has really happened is that belief in biological sex has been redefined as bigotry,” he wrote. “Standing up for women’s sex-based rights has been rebranded as transphobia. So Rowling’s perfectly normal views, which are likely shared by most people out there, can be talked about as hate crimes when they are nothing of the kind.”

British author and political commentator Konstantin Kisin, who is about as middle of the political road as it gets, has similarly found himself shunned by some media for his efforts to bring reason to the woke, recently through a very popular speech to the Oxford Union. And yet:

“Funny how people attack me for going on right-leaning media,” he tweeted. “Do you know that not ONE left-leaning publication or TV show has invited me on to talk about my speech? Not one.”

Thoughts and words that once were viewed as merely contentious or disagreeable are now subjected to the most severe opprobrium from segments of society previously deemed radical but which are now termed “moderate.” The moderates—the sort of people who like to make their beds every morning—are now the extremists. Resist and you risk being branded an ally of all the evils listed above.

Hyperbolic neo-puritanism isn’t just winning, it’s poised to codify its victory in legislation, after which there will be no going back. And, as history teaches, those who suppress free expression never turn out to be the good guys.

 

My dear Mr. Menzies, even Dr. Zhivago and The Gulag Archipelago found their ways to publication.

Fear not.

And - the explanation is that they are vile:

A CBC story faulting the Catholic Church was “an error in judgment” that violated the broadcaster’s own ethics code, a network ombudsman said yesterday. The ruling came three days after CEO Catherine Tait hailed the CBC as the “gold standard” on ethics: ‘Editors did not have an explanation for the failure.’

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The federal government has spent almost $94-million since the last election booking entire hotels for months to accommodate an influx of asylum seekers entering Canada, according to an access-to-information request.

Since September, 2021, the Immigration Department has paid $93,886,222 for “long leases” with hotels, mostly in Quebec, setting them aside for asylum seekers, including those entering the country through the irregular border crossing at Quebec’s Roxham Road.

The department booked 30 hotels between April and December last year – 10 in Montreal alone, according to a redacted response to the access-to-information request.

 

They are not "asylum-seekers" who entered Canada "irregularly". 

They are cheaters.

Treat them as such.

 

Also:

A judge says four Canadian men being held in Syrian camps are entitled to the federal government’s help to return home.

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The problem. That:

The prime minister blew off Germany’s request for Canadian LNG last August as lacking “a strong business case” — which of course is completely false. He did it so as not to antagonize Quebec, which opposes any new pipelines. As a result, in November Germany cut a 15-year, multibillion-dollar deal for LNG from Qatar. Now Korea and Japan are requesting new LNG exports from our west coast. What should we tell them? Will we be part of the solution, or part of the problem?

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What a literal waste:

Um, June 17, 2022:

'Due to the inherent characteristics of substitutes, the reduction in plastic waste from the six categories of SUPs depicted in Table 6 will have an associated increase in waste from substitutes (e.g., substituting paper for plastic increases material weight).' 

Also:

Obviously, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is concerned about the implications of this energy transformation to her province. She should be.

The fact she overstated what the report said by claiming it anticipated 2.7 million jobs would be lost — it said there would be “significant labour market disruptions” in economic sectors employing 2.7 million workers  — doesn’t diminish the seriousness of the issue.

She’s not the only Alberta politician saying it.

In an interview with the Calgary Herald, NDP leader and former premier Rachel Notley demanded Ottawa scrap its looming just transition legislation and called its 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction targets unrealistic and unachievable.

“My view is that the federal government has to put the brakes completely on its legislative plans for this spring with respect to the sustainable jobs legislation, as well as plans for the emissions cap,” Notley said, describing the situation as a “crisis” with “wide-ranging consequences, particularly to the people of Alberta.”

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What are "collective harms"?:

The federal government has come to a $2.8-billion agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by two British Columbia first nations related to the collective harms caused by residential schools.

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Screw you, Francois!

Your province has been the beneficiary of every petro-dollar, act of cronyism and political break since Sir John A MacDonald made the fatal error of keeping your den of corruption in the Dominion.

You're just angling for more favouritism.

Disgusting:

Quebec Premier Francois Legault is criticizing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for “attacking Quebec’s democracy and people” by proposing to limit the use of the notwithstanding clause.

In a Tweet posted this morning, Legault said that this expressed desire by Trudeau is a “frontal attack” on the Quebec nation’s ability to protect its collective rights.

 

He's YOUR jack@$$.

YOU deal with him. 

Speaking of corruption:

The New York-based consulting firm McKinsey & Company has been making headlines since the start of the year for its increased use by the Liberals, but it remains a relatively small player among the billions spent in outsourcing in recent years.

An analysis from Carleton University showed that the federal government spent no less than $22.2 billion in 2021-2022 on contracts across all public service departments, agencies and organizations – but only those that proactively disclose their contract spending.

 

Is that so?

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A second Liberal minister gave thousands in contracts to a foodie firm with family ties to a senior staffer in Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen’s office, Global News has learned.

Marci Ien, the minister of women and gender equality, gave $10,000 in constituency contracts to Munch More Media, a Toronto-based public relations firm specializing in promoting the restaurant and food services industry.

Global News reported Thursday that the director of Munch More Media, Hiba Tariq, is the sister of Tia Tariq, who has held several senior staffer roles in the Liberal government over the last six years.

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