Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Mid-Week Post



Your mid-week moment of relaxation ...


This country is plagued with such stupidity that one should argue not whether the US should invade Canada but would it be worth it?

Cases in point:

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Last year the federal government dished out over $54,000 on focus groups to seek opinions about an advertising campaign for Canada’s national parks. 

The Oct, 17, 2022, Probe Research Inc. study, which was commissioned by Parks Canada, declared that some Canadians reacted negatively to imagery of historic battles because of colonialism and the ongoing war in Ukraine. 

Targeting mainly people from urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, researchers concluded that Parks Canada best avoid images of soldiers or cannons at national historic sites. 

“Given the current war in Ukraine and the ongoing reckoning with Canada’s colonial history, some participants reacted negatively to imagery showing historic battles, cannons and soldiers at national historic sites,” pollsters declared. 

“It may be prudent to avoid including images that make overt reference to war or conflict in the final version of the advertisement.” 

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More here.

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Eight years after Parliament passed the Veterans Hiring Act the Department of Veterans Affairs yesterday said it had no figures on how many veterans were actually hired. “We absolutely believe in hiring veterans,” Steven Harris, assistant deputy minister, testified at the Commons veterans affairs committee: “We do make efforts.

 

Corruption, thy name is Liberals:

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  • How much it will cost Canadians to meet their most basic energy requirements for heat, electricity, mobility and materials post-decarbonization?  
  • Will global hydrocarbon demand be materially reduced if Canada were to eliminate entirely its existing and potential hydrocarbon exports? And how much economic value lost to Canada, forfeited to other countries?  
  •  What costs will be imposed on Albertans forcing it to eliminate existing coal and natural gas electric generation infrastructure? Will Alberta be forced to rely on intermittent wind, solar and inadequate battery technology to meet our electricity demands? 
  • Are various zero-net technologies economic in the context of even the $170 per tonne carbon tax to be imposed in 2030 on Canadians?  

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It was only a year ago:

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Trudeau doesn’t seem any more inclined to talk to these protesters than he was last year — a strong sign that he has no second thoughts about nonengagement with the demonstration in 2022. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has said many times that Trudeau could have cut short the convoy protest just by agreeing to meet some of them, as Poilievre and many of his MPs did.

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Police and Bylaw Services officers maintained an increased presence in the Parliamentary Precinct on Sunday, as dozens of people gathered in downtown Ottawa to mark the one-year anniversary of the arrival of the 'Freedom Convoy.'

Ottawa police vehicles monitored several intersections entering the downtown core, while Parliamentary Protective Service officers monitored people entering Parliament Hill ahead of a planned rally and dance party.

A small group of people gathered on Parliament Hill during a snowstorm Sunday afternoon. Signs at the rally said, "Proud member of the fringe minority with unacceptable views", "Truck yah!", "Canada is united", and "Freedom".

"It was a reunion to reunite everybody together," organizer Mathieu Venne said Sunday afternoon. "We were here peacefully, honourably, clean."

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The day was festive, and reminiscent of the atmosphere when the convoy first arrived in the nation’s capital at the end of January 2022. Music was played, and people were seen waving the Canadian flag to commemorate the truckers’ movement that occasioned people of all backgrounds from across the country to call for the abolition of vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictive public health measures.
“Freedom is not easy,” Johnny Rowe, co-organizer of the event, said in a speech. “There will be roadblocks, and that’s okay.”
“We are gonna go up and over, we’re gonna go underneath, we’re gonna go around, but most of all, we’re gonna go through.”

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Emergency powers invoked against the Freedom Convoy were no excuse for privacy breaches, the federal privacy commissioner said yesterday. “Privacy protection is not just a set of technical rules,” Commissioner Philippe Dufresne wrote a parliamentary committee: “Even in an emergency, public institutions must continue to operate under lawful authority.”

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The federal Liberal government has considered forcing a carbon tax-like “regulatory backstop” onto farmers should voluntary agreements to reduce fertilizer emissions not meet Ottawa’s arbitrary standards – and it could see crop production across the country drastically decline.

The Liberals have been pulling out all the stops in recent months as part of their ongoing efforts to reduce emissions in the name of fighting climate change. Carbon taxes, plastic bag bans and electric vehicle sales rules are just some of their initiatives, but they’ve also set their sights on emissions from fertilizer use by farmers.

The feds maintain that fertilizer targets will remain voluntary and be based on individually-crafted agreements with farmers and industry leaders. However, a Jul. 16, 2021, discussion paper acquired by True North from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada via an access to information request shows the government floating a federal backstop as a “policy option” should all else fail. 

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It's like the tyranny of one and the sloth of an entire province:

The very same morning, Quebec Premier François Legault took to social media to denounce “a frontal attack on our capacity as a nation to protect our collective rights” after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had told a La Presse reporter he was considering asking the Supreme Court of Canada to rule on the pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause by certain provinces.
“The idea of having a Charter of Rights and Freedoms is to protect us against the tyranny of the majority,” Mr. Trudeau said. “In using the notwithstanding clause in [a pre-emptive] manner, we have reduced the political costs of suspending fundamental rights. That’s why I’m worried.”
The Prime Minister’s comments were not directed only at Quebec. He also singled out Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government, which last fall pre-emptively invoked Section 33 of the Charter to shield back-to-work legislation aimed at educational support workers from a legal challenge. But that law was withdrawn after a public backlash over the Ford government’s attempt to interfere with the right to strike. Mr. Ford faced the immediate political costs of going against the popular will.
This is what most of the authors of the 1982 Constitution predicted would happen if any government tried to abuse Section 33. “Political accountability is the best safeguard against any improper use of the [notwithstanding] clause by any parliament in the future,” Ontario’s then-attorney-general Roy McMurtry wrote at the time.
In late 1981, after then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau and the premiers, except Quebec’s René Lévesque, approved a constitutional package that included the Charter and its “override clause,” then-federal justice minister Jean Chrétien told the House of Commons: “Experience has demonstrated that such a clause is rarely used and when used it is usually not controversial.”



Justin can't upset his Chinese bosses:

Cabinet has successfully opposed a Federal Court petition that it formally sanction Communist China as genocidal. A judge rejected the petition by lawyers acting on behalf of minority Uyghur Muslims held in Chinese slave camps: ‘Canada has decided not to act.’


Also:

A senior RCMP official says the force is in the midst of examining equipment it obtained from a company linked to China's government to search for any points of vulnerability.

The national police force suspended its contract with Sinclair Technologies for radio frequency (RF) equipment last year following reporting by Radio-Canada that revealed Sinclair's parent company, Norsat International, has been owned by Chinese telecommunications firm Hytera since 2017.

The Chinese government owns around 10 per cent of Hytera through an investment fund, Radio-Canada reported.

RCMP Deputy Commissioner Bryan Larkin, who is in charge of specialized policing, told a House of Commons committee Monday the equipment does not have the technical ability to access RCMP radio communications.

He said the force is still doing random audits on equipment across the country, looking for bugs or other security gaps.

"We actually have taken a Sinclair radio filtration device, a piece of equipment, off a radio tower in Ontario. Our team has deconstructed it to look at any opportunities, whether it was compromised, whether there was any sort of devices. And I can report back and say absolutely not," Larkin told the committee on industry and technology.



Some people are special:

“Anishinaabe, Métis, Coastal Salish, Cree, Cherokee. We have nothing much in common. We’re all aboriginal and we have the drum. That’s about it.” — Thomas King, from The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America. ...

When it comes to diversity among Indigenous communities, few things range more widely than the roles assigned to hereditary chiefs.

In some First Nations, hereditary chiefs are given great status, despite being un-elected. They are not only seen as the carriers of traditional knowledge, some Canadian Indigenous communities ask them to go to court in land disputes. On the other hand, in a host of Canada’s 600 Indigenous communities, hereditary chiefs have next to no power. Elected chiefs hold sway.

Who has final say in an Indigenous community? As Vancouver Island author and Gwawaenuk hereditary chief Bob Joseph says, “It depends.”

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But the decision is complex, involving dozens of other First Nations whose children also attended the institution, numerous landowners, potential DNA tests, multiple levels of government, the coroner and the RCMP.
All that is in addition to the anxiety Chief Willie Sellars said he has about ensuring there isn't more trauma for survivors if bodies are found.
"I really start stressing out when I start thinking about excavation," Sellars said in an interview.
"And we're going to get there, I would imagine, but it's not going to happen overnight."

An entire country was accused of genocide.
Dig up those sites.



Panic in the House of Commons:

During the 20-minute speech in both French and English, Poilievre repeated many of the shots he’s taken at Trudeau in recent months. He covered a wide range of issues both broad and specific, such as immigration, government spending, inflation, crime, passports, and planes and trains.
He reiterated his claim that “everything feels broken” in Canada that earned him a stern rebuke from the Prime Minister in a speech last fall.
But he also accused Trudeau of watching idly as issues within the federal government’s purview grow and absolving himself from any responsibility for fixing them.

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“You’ll claim you have nothing to do with any of these files as though, as a federal Prime Minister, you’re not responsible for the Federal Criminal Code. As a federal Prime Minister, you’re not responsible for the chaotic federal airports. That as a federal Prime Minister, you’re not responsible for the half-trillion dollars of federal debt that you have added that led to a 40-year-high in inflation,” Poilievre said.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau implicitly told Liberal MPs on Jan. 27 to be ready to campaign in an election due to the minority status of their government, in a speech during the party’s caucus retreat that focused on accomplishments and criticized Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre.
“We need you to keep stepping up in your communities,” Trudeau said.
“You’re all working the ground hard to get yourselves nominated once again, because we’re in a minority Parliament, and we need to be ready for anything.”
This was a different tone then a few weeks ago when he gave a year-end interview to a Quebec TV station.
“No, no, no,” Trudeau told TVA Nouvelles when asked about the possibility of an election in 2023. “There is too much work to do, and we have a deal with the NDP.”

 

Justin won't get rid of his hyperbolic, insulting Jew-hating b!#ch:

The Quebec government is calling on the federal government to withdraw its support of Amira Elghawaby, the new representative to combat Islamophobia, only four days after she was first appointed. ...

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday rejected demands that he withdraw the appointment of his “inclusion” advisor for inflammatory comments. One cabinet minister described remarks by Amira Elghawaby as “really inappropriate.”



Canadians will defend a system because it is a system, not because it works, is needed or is cost-effective.

Suggesting that it is broken, bankrupt, or unneeded is wicked, heathenish and American:

Why is Ontario, a province where 1.8 million people have no family doctor, devoting hundreds of prime medical school spots to students from Saudi Arabia, future doctors who will help their country, but not ours?

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  • 86% of Canadians and 50% of Americans are worried about the state of the healthcare system in their province/state. 
  • 63% of Canadians and 28% of Americans agree it is difficult to access healthcare in their province/state. 
  • 54% of Canadians and 19% of Americans say nurses’ working conditions in their province/state are poor. 
  • 44% of Canadians think healthcare workers should be allowed to take disruptive action to fight for better working conditions, however, the same proportion (44%) say that healthcare workers striking puts Canadians’ health and well-being at risk. 
  • 31% of Canadians support more privatization in their province’s healthcare system. 
  • 55% of Americans would like to see more publicly-funded healthcare in their state.  

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An Ontario medical college tribunal has rejected a motion by three doctors critical of COVID-19 policies who sought to stop disciplinary hearings against them.
The doctors are at risk of losing their licences for allegedly committing professional misconduct in certain actions they engaged in while taking issue with some of the COVID-related public health directions given by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSO), such as to do with vaccination and treatment.
The doctors involved are Mark Trozzi, Patrick Phillips, and Crystal Luchkiw, who argued in their motion that the CPSO’s prosecution against them is “unlawful” on jurisdictional grounds.
Allegations against them include “making misleading, incorrect or inflammatory statements about vaccinations, treatments and public health measures concerning COVID-19,” “failing to cooperate with College investigations,” and “issuance of vaccine exemptions.”
The trio have been speaking out against COVID-19 mandates and restrictions publicly, appearing in videos and interviews. Currently being suspended from their practice, they sought to have the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal dismiss their cases without referring them to merits hearings.
Their argument was based on both administrative law and constitutional law. The administrative law argument asserted that the allegations are based on investigations that college registrar Dr. Nancy Whitmore lacked statutory authority to launch. The constitutional law argument was that the allegations relied on the college’s COVID-related direction that itself breached two guarantees in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: freedom of expression and the right to life, liberty, or security of the person.
The tribunal dismissed their motion on Jan. 19.

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Over three million Canadians are stuck on a waiting list for surgery, a diagnostic scan, or to see a specialist, with some estimates pushing the total close to four million, according to new data from a Canadian think-tank.

A SecondStreet.org study has found that nearly 3.2 million people are on these waitlists across the provincial and territorial healthcare systems. 

However, SecondStreet.org says that the data they used – largely received through freedom of information requests – is incomplete, as many jurisdictions were unable to calculate the figure. Prince Edward Island did not provide the think-tank with any data.

In Ontario, the most populous province, over 200,000 citizens are waiting for a surgery and nearly 500,000 are waiting for a diagnostic scan. The number of Ontarians waiting for a specialist was not provided. 

Quebec has 160,000 people waiting for a surgery with over 700,000 waiting for a diagnostic scan and nearly 800,000 waiting to see a specialist. 



Carbon isn't a pollutant but I repeat myself:

According to OurWorldInData.org China and India combined make up approximately one third of all global carbon emissions. In fact, combined emissions from those two countries are almost the same as the entirety of the North American and European continents.

The US makes up approximately 15% of global carbon emissions. Countries like Canada and Australia make up between 1% and 2%, while the UK hovers at around the 1% mark.

It may not surprise you to hear that it’s not the economies of Asia that are leading the way in cutting back in their carbon dioxide emitting activities! On the contrary, they appear to be rapidly expanding their fossil fuel use.

For example, in Q1 of 2022 alone, China approved the development of more than 8GW of new coal-fired power plants, adding to the 18GW approved in 2021.

Moreover, the world’s 10 largest coal-fired power plants currently in operation are either in China or South Korea. Neither of these Asian, industrial powerhouses are showing any signs of following in the footsteps of their Western competition who cannot seem to ban the use of coal fast enough!

For example, in 2015 the UK had 14 operational coal-fired power plants which supplied around 30% of the nations’ total power demand. As of 2022 there were just three remaining with a combined capacity of only 3.5GW, all of which the government has pledged to close by 2024.



Tried as they did, they did not silence Jordan Peterson:

Renowned Canadian author and psychologist Jordan Peterson touched on woke schools and assisted suicide during his Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life tour stop in Ottawa Monday night.

“I don’t think there is a more dire sin than corrupting children… maybe the only more egregious error is swearing to do nothing but violate your own conscience, you know, out of spite and bitterness,” the renowned personality said of the woke agenda in the classroom.

“You’re gonna have to take your blows to push back against enforced and mandatory idle worship, but that’s a lot easier battle than losing control of your own soul,” Peterson said of teachers pushing back against that agenda.

Despite attempts by activists and an Ottawa city councillor to cancel the event, it went ahead peacefully and without protest. Thousands of people descended onto the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa’s Kanata suburb to listen to Peterson, which began with a live musical performance by his son Julian and a speech by his wife Tammy.



Why would the Palestinians repent for willful murder? Who will make them?:

The PA may be hopping mad that the Israelis took unilateral action in Jenin, but it bears full responsibility for allowing Palestinian Islamic Jihad to stage attacks from within its territory. Until the Palestinian Authority gets serious about rooting out terrorists, this tragic cycle of violence will only continue.


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