How is that working out for us?:
The special extended family program for people in Gaza is set to launch next week, after Palestinian Canadians pleaded for months to get help from the government to rescue their loved ones as the Israel-Hamas war continues.
The policy details released last week says the program will stop taking applications either after it receives 1,000 requests, or after a year has elapsed.
On October 7, 2023, just hours after Hamas invaded southern Israel and perpetrated a massacre in the Gaza Envelope in which more than 1300 people were murdered, many women were raped, more than 200 were taken hostage, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank celebrated the attack in the streets. A video from Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar) titled: "Palestinians overjoyed with the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation," showed celebrations in Gaza, Nablus, Jenin, and Bethlehem. The Iranian-affiliated Mayadeen TV (Lebanon) aired a report about Palestinian celebrations in the West Bank, according to which sweets were handed out in Nablus and in Jenin guns were fired "in jubilation." A little girl can be seen waving a rifle and a handgun in the air. Palestinian activist Omar Asaf said that "the only option people support is resistance and confrontation." Palestinian political Mustafa Barghouti said: "Today is a glorious day of historic proportion."
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After months of waiting, of unknowns, the last Canadian hostage held by Hamas in Gaza has been confirmed dead.
On Thursday, the Nir Oz kibbutz announced in a Facebook post that Judih Weinstein Haggai had died. She was 70.
Don't worry!
The Liberal government assures everyone that no aid goes to Hamas which solely runs Gaza:
No taxpayer funds have gone to “nefarious actors” in Gaza, says the Department of Foreign Affairs. The department said it took precautions against misappropriation of millions by terrorist groups but did not explain: “Protocols guard against the diversion of Canadian funds to nefarious actors.”
Also:
Ottawa is offering a lifeline to people fleeing an escalating civil war in Sudan if they have relatives in Canada who agree to financially support them.
That's what is supposed to happen, anyway, Marc.
What has changed?
Some may find this laissez-faire migration policy to be utterly bonkers but the Liberal government assures one that everything is perfectly ethical:
A United Nations official who said that part of Canada’s temporary foreign worker program constitutes “a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery” is standing by his comments, saying some agricultural and low-wage workers are subjected to unacceptable conditions, including surveillance.
Tomoya Obokata, the UN’s special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, said in an interview he found some temporary migrants were working in appalling conditions in Canada, and could not escape their employers because their work permits tied them to a single employer.
The UN rapporteur produced an end-of-mission statement in September following his visit to Canada in the summer, saying that “the agricultural and low-wage streams of the Temporary Foreign Workers Programme constitute a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.”
This finding was criticized by Conservative MPs on the immigration committee who questioned whether it reflected the true situation in Canada. They asked if the rapporteur had spoken to farmers employing temporary foreign workers.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller questioned whether the conditions the rapporteur had found, although reprehensible, could be characterized as slavery.
“I don’t know what descendants of former slaves would think of that characterization in relation to the abuse of their forefathers and foremothers,” Mr. Miller said at the November committee.
(Sidebar: they're not slaves but the North Koreans who make clothing and the day-labourers who work for cheap surely are.)
Yep.
And what is this wonderful trade-off?
Behold!:
In the final hours before Dec. 25, Canadian roads were blocked, overpasses were barricaded and malls were swarmed by screaming crowds as anti-Israel demonstrators attempted to make good on a promise to cancel Christmas.On Saturday, a crowd of more than 100 moved through Downtown Toronto screaming for “intifada.” Demonstrators attempted to block entrances at Toronto’s Eaton Centre. And on Christmas Eve, an overpass and two approaches to Toronto’s Highway 401 were blockaded for several hours by a group waving Palestinian flags.
Muslims offer prayers blocking a highway overpass in Toronto.
— sonofabench (@therealmrbench) December 31, 2023
This is not a display of religious devotion. This is a complete display of political power. When it becomes a regular occurrence, it moves away from freedom of religion.
They are protesting in malls. Blocking… pic.twitter.com/VDXTYCM0lS
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