Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Mid-Week Post

Your middle-of-the-week item of note ...

 

Let us never forget:

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To choose not to take the COVID-19 jab was to choose to lose the right to travel, to be employed in many cases, to attend educational institutions, to dine in restaurants, and to take part in social gatherings. The unvaccinated were turned into social pariahs and treated with such disdain that had they been any other minority group, the country would have been condemned by Amnesty International.
Despite all that coercion, millions of Canadians still chose not to be injected. Their reasons were myriad, from religious to medical. The reasons they chose not to get the shot don’t matter. Clearly, their misgivings with the jab were so deeply held, they were willing to endure all of the penalties for their “choice.”
If there were to be a case made for such coercion of the public for vaccination, it would have to be based on broader public safety. When it became crystal clear the vaccines didn’t prevent the spread of COVID-19, the state should have backed off on coercion efforts. Instead, it doubled down.
We were told that things such as travel, assembly, dining, or having a job are not rights. These are apparently privileges we enjoy with the permission of the state which can be suspended at will if they determine it could be for the public good.
Many people got the jab because they felt cornered. They had bills to pay and places to go. They still feel violated, and hearing the prime minister arrogantly dismiss their concerns adds insult to injury.


And let's not forget the literal guns pointed at people:

One demonstrator, David Paisley, a HVAC technician who has spent the protest broadcasting updates from a fishing shack on the back of a flatbed truck known as “the shed,” described the moment an officer entered the vehicle to arrest him.

“He had a big military rifle, he pointed right at my chest, he yelled at me to get down, on the ground,” said Mr. Paisley, 33, who captured the moment of his arrest on a recorded livestream. “It was like a movie scene.”

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Oh, did everyone forget that the truckers did not have  permit to protest?

Justin didn't forget:


Because everyone needs a permit to point out that Justin, who cowardly used his own child to hide behind before running away and then using the police to trample grandmothers with horses, is a tyrant, an incompetent, unaccomplished son of a former prime minister and a tool for the Chinese Communist Party (something else he would rather us forget but more on that later).

No, Justin, we won't forget.

 

Also - the public sector, that bloated, overpaid mass of antipathy for the public that it serves, threatens to shut down the country.

Is the horse-trampling unit ready?: 

Federal ministers said Tuesday they are monitoring for blockades of critical roads and infrastructure as striking federal workers made good on a promise to ramp up their picket efforts by disrupting traffic and limiting access to office buildings in downtown Ottawa.

More than 150,000 federal public servants with the Public Service Alliance of Canada were on strike for the seventh straight day as their union representatives continued to negotiate with the government for a bigger wage increase and more flexibility to work remotely.

Around the National Capital Region, hundreds of striking workers made their presence felt and heard, circling buildings, chanting through megaphones and blasting music throughout the morning.

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The other thing Justin doesn't want us to talk about:

Jeremy Broadhurst, who works in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), was asked about the Sept. 28, 2019, briefing as he testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) on April 25.
Previous inquiries by PROC with the Trudeau government established that cleared Liberal Party officials had been briefed on that date by national security officials.
This information ties into Global News reporting that in late September 2019, about two days before the federal election nomination deadline, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) had warned the Liberals that one of their candidates was working with Beijing.
Global said that according to sources, now-MP Han Dong was a “witting affiliate in China’s election interference networks.”


Also:

Security advisors have no business recommending whether candidates for Parliament are suitable, a senior advisor to the Prime Minister said yesterday. The remarks came during House affairs committee debate over two-term Independent MP Han Dong (Don Valley North, Ont.): “That is not their role.
 

So, it is not the role of security advisors to warn the defacto head of this country of dangers to its very existence?

Right ...

 

No wonder Justin wants the censorship bills passed now. So we can never bring this up again.

 

 

Another danger to Canada's existence, the people elected to run it:

Taxpayers will only learn of terms of a $13 billion Volkswagen Canada subsidy once the money is spent, the Senate national finance committee was told yesterday. Managers with the Department of Industry refused to discuss the subsidy for a battery factory in St. Thomas, Ont.: “I am just trying to get an impact of what that $13 billion is going to be on the government’s deficit.”

 

(Sidebar: more here.)

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Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino yesterday said it’s a concern that courts have not imposed maximum sentences for gun running. Cabinet proposes to increase the maximum to 14 years but acknowledged the current 10-year sentence is not used: “Is it common at all? Has it happened quite a bit?”

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Flying low over the desert at night, their helicopters’ lights out, U.S. Navy Seals zipped in and out of Khartoum on April 23 to safely extricate their diplomats from a country on the edge of destruction.
The United Kingdom pulled off a similar operation, while countries such as France, Germany, Spain, and Italy have also worked to evacuate their people safely from the capital of Sudan, where government troops are under attack from paramilitary insurgents.
Hitching a ride with the Seals were six Canadian diplomats. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced via Twitter only that “our diplomats are safe—they have been extracted” and that the country’s military is “planning for various contingencies with partners.”
He did not say thank you/merci America. Which, I’m guessing, most Americans would find really irritating. Were I an American I’d be sick and frickin’ tired of having to cover the costs of a country more than ready to righteously lecture the world on  diversity, inclusion, intersectional equity, climate emergencies, systemic racism, and patriarchal oppression, but too intellectually and financially lazy to properly defend itself and its people.
I’d find it alarming that a country with whom the USA shares its longest border has admitted that when it comes to carrying its military weight as a NATO partner, America can just forget about it. Not gonna happen. We ain’t gonna do it. Just not interested.
According to leaked documents obtained by the Washington Post, Trudeau has “told NATO officials privately that Canada will never meet the military alliance’s defence-spending target,” which is 2 percent of GDP—something Canada last agreed to in 2014 and which will be discussed again in July. NATO estimates Canada’s current contribution rate at 1.29 percent. While the report couldn’t confirm this was the case, the leaked document contained dates that indicate Trudeau’s remarks were recent and could have been made in conversation with U.S. President Joe Biden during his visit to Ottawa in March.
For context, only seven out of NATO’s 30 members have met or exceeded the 2 percent target (the U.S. spends 3.57 percent), but when it comes to military loafing, only Spain (about the size of the Yukon), Luxembourg, Slovenia, and Belgium (which would all fit comfortably inside half of Nova Scotia) are more half-hearted in their efforts than the Great White North.
We haven’t fulfilled our NATO promise to bolster our deployment in Latvia, and in Poland, where Canadians are training Ukrainian soldiers, Trudeau’s government has failed to properly reimburse its own soldiers, who are forced to buy their own meals. Even Turkey is worried about us.
We supply tanks to Ukraine almost one at a time because nearly all of ours have been insufficiently maintained and aren’t operational.
We said no to Biden’s request to send troops to restore order in Haiti.
We had to depend on the U.S. Air Force to shoot down a mysterious weather balloon over the Yukon because our “scramble” was delayed for an hour due to icy conditions (something you’d think Canadians would be prepared for).
Our submarine fleet is diesel and essentially non-functional due to maintenance issues, and we really have no idea what’s going on under the Arctic ice.

 

 

If it is not the Canadian flag, a made-up flag should be no where near a school or government building, nor the ideology behind it.

Strangely enough, actual math is more important than this.

I know. Shocking, right?:

A rural Southwestern Ontario township’s five-person council has approved a motion to ban non-government flags on any municipal property.

The controversial motion for the Township of Norwich passed 3-2, with Mayor Jim Palmer casting the deciding vote.

The bylaw was proposed by Coun. John Scholten and originally specifically targeted Pride and Progress banners before Scholton amended the motion mid-meeting on Tuesday to remove mention of those banners.

“I simply need to look at our federal, provincial and municipal flags to see everything we need to maintain the unity that is already there,” Scholten said.

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“You must reflect on this letter and we expect a response to avoid an official designation from our organization as ‘Unsafe for the LGBTQ2IA+ Community of York Region’.”

 


 

 

Yoon, don't do anything foolish.

Biden will cripple your country.

Save yourselves:

South Korea will make clear on Wednesday that it will not seek its own nuclear weapons, as President Yoon Suk-yeol meets with U.S. leader Joe Biden in Washington amid growing concerns in Seoul over the United States’ commitment to defending its Asian ally from North Korea’s increasingly potent missile and nuclear arsenal.

The pledge will be part of a new agreement — known as the Washington Declaration — that also creates a fresh bilateral nuclear consultation mechanism based on U.S.-European Cold War-era frameworks, according to senior U.S. officials, who said the document had been under discussion with Seoul “for months.”



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