Wednesday, June 05, 2024

Mid-Week Post

Your middle-of-the-week spoonful of sugar ...



It's called treason:
 
The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) released its “Special Report on Foreign Interference“ on June 3. The report, based on approximately 4,000 documents from relevant departments, mentions how some officials have ”wittingly” assisted foreign states after getting elected. ...

Mr. Dong has not been responding to inquiries from The Epoch Times. The MP, now sitting as an Independent, told the Foreign Interference Commission a few weeks back that he was unaware of the irregularities.

In supplemental evidence provided to the inquiry, Mr. Dong said he “does not know whether all those students voted for him, but believes it is likely most did because he visited the school as part of his nomination campaign and encouraged students to support his candidacy by volunteering and/or registering as Liberal party members if they were eligible.”

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Why?

Is your name among them?:

Cabinet members yesterday expressed unease over a federal report pointing to foreign spies on Parliament Hill. One unnamed public office holder was suspected of “providing information learned in confidence from the government to a known intelligence officer of a foreign state.”

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Liberals are special breed of stupid:

“I think Canadians can be very confident there’s a very robust system of checks and balances and measures designed to catch and combat foreign interference in Canada,” he said.

 

Not when there is active treason, moron.

We used to do something about that.

 

Also - it's time to cut China off:

From the start of academic exchanges with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the early 1970s, the government of Canada has watched and largely approved of Chinese students focusing almost exclusively on science and technology faculties at Canadian universities. Meanwhile, Canadians going to study in China have engrossed themselves in Chinese language and culture and Maoism. For most of the past fifty years, Canadian universities and authorities were satisfied with this exchange. They saw giving Chinese students the benefits of Canadian knowledge and experience in science and technology as a gift toward the economic and industrial development of China.

Around the year 2000, however, Beijing and its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) realized that here was an opportunity to grab or develop technology for their program of rapid military modernization that had begun a decade before. The PLA calls the program “picking flowers in foreign lands to make honey in China,” and it is not at all as innocent as it sounds. It involves PLA engineers and scientists from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) and six other armed-forces universities disguising their military links and presenting themselves as simple scholars in order to engage in postgraduate research at Canadian universities.

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Canada made a promise to block imports of products made by forced labour, to keep those goods from entering this continent as part of the new North American trade agreement.

Now a U.S. senator heavily involved in the issue offers a blunt answer when asked by CBC News whether Canada is keeping that promise. 

"No, not yet," Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat who co-wrote his own country's legislation on the topic, said, followed by a dead silence.

The bill he introduced is about to mark its two-year anniversary

That U.S. law created a list of products allegedly made in forced re-education camps in China's Xinjiang region — primarily clothing, food and electronics.


 

The Liberals are a form of organised crime.

Change my mind:

Directors of a federal agency dubbed a “green slush fund” had conflicts of interest 186 times, auditors disclosed yesterday. In 90 cases they voted for subsidies benefiting friends and associates: “The federal government is unable to follow its own laws.”
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Auditors yesterday documented favouritism in the awarding of millions in federal contracts to McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm formerly led by a friend of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. McKinsey received a total $200.4 million in contracts since 2015: “It looks like it was done to suit them.”





Before I start:



Now, Jag, what are you going to do about the government you support, the one that drove up inflation, raised taxes and will not remove the price-fixing boards that make purchasing food staples difficult for low-income Canadians?:

 The federal New Democrats want a price cap on grocery store staples if the Liberal government can't convince grocers to bring down the prices themselves.

For months, the Liberals have been trying to get big grocers in Canada to sign a code of conduct that they say will bring down food prices for everyone.

And Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne has even said he's trying to court a foreign grocer to usher in competition.

Some food costs have recently eased due to a slight decline in inflation, but New Democrats say prices have not dropped nearly as much as they have risen in the past three years.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he's tired of Canadians getting ripped off by corporations, which he says continue to price gouge.

Last month, some shoppers boycotted Loblaw following a month-long campaign from frustrated consumers who are feeling the pinch and blame the grocery giant.



Sell your Rolexes, Jag.

 


 
An increasing number of Canadians can’t afford a house or find a decent-paying job. Some can’t find a date or are fed up with the bitter politics, while others are in search of adventure, are sick of the cold winters, or simply miss home. The solution they seek? Leave Canada.
The rising cost of living, record-high immigration, a stagnating economy, and political tensions are prompting rising numbers of Canadians—both native and naturalized—to leave the country.
Canada is increasingly becoming a country of emigrants, as well as a country of immigrants, experts say.



Canada needs a public inquiry into what has become known as “The Kamloops Graves Hoax.” 

The May 27, 2021 claim of the Kamloops Indian band was that “human remains”  were found in the apple orchard area of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, resulting in what has been described both as a “national hysteria” and a “moral panic”. The band subsequently extended the claim to include other even more graphic  terms, such as “bodies”, “graves” and even “mass graves.” Emotional articles and books followed.

In a press release issued three years after those sensational claims were made their chief, Roseanne Casimir, has finally admitted the truth — there were no “human remains”, “bodies” “graves” or “mass graves” found at Kamloops. Only “soil anomalies” were detected. Those anomalies could just as easily be tree roots, rocks, or the result of any of the other previous excavations that had been done in that same area. (As it happens there was a previous excavation in the area that was apparently missed by the radar operator. It is almost certain that it was soil anomalies from a 1924 excavation that her radar detected.)

Those 2021 false claims sent the nation into a panic. There is no need to describe in detail the flag-lowering, church-burning shock and  frenzy that spread like wildfire through national and  international media, brought the ailing Pope to Canada, convinced shamed MPs to condemn their own country as genocidal, vote in regressive UNDRIP and other incredibly expensive legislation, and spend what will be billions of dollars on a futile search for “missing children” who never existed. Many fine writers, including Terry Glavin, have described these strange last three years

That episode of national hysteria is now an embarrassing part of Canada’s history.

A legitimate question to ask is why the Kamloops band made those false claims. Chief Casimir said that they were based on Sarah Beaulieu’s report

But it would be shockingly unprofessional for a ground penetrating radar operator (GPR)  to claim that graves had been found before excavation had taken place. It is well known that GPR can detect only soil anomalies or disturbances. It cannot detect “graves” or “human remains”. A simple Google search of the question “Can ground penetrating radar detect graves?” is all that is necessary to find that answer.

It therefore seems highly unlikely that Beaulieu would have made such a reckless claim. Almost certainly, Beaulieu properly reported only that soil disturbances, anomalies or reflections — that might be graves — were detected, and that excavation would be necessary to determine whether or not those disturbances were graves, or any of the many other possibilities.

But the answer to precisely what Beaulieu said can only be found by reading her report. And that is currently impossible, because the band is refusing to release the report. This is odd, because they had initially promised to release it, and only later reneged on that promise. They are are now steadfastly refusing to let the public see  it. 

The only reasonable explanation for this refusal is that they have something to hide — specifically that their claim of “graves” found was a claim they knew was false when they made it. Beaulieu’s report almost certainly did not say that graves had been found.

But on the strength of what appears to be a lie they made an application to the federal government for money to deal with what they said were “graves” containing the remains of 215 KIRS students — students they insisted had died under sinister circumstances, and were secretly buried by persons unknown, with the forced help of children — “as young as six”. 

Exactly what representations the band made to the federal government in order to get the $8,000,000, or how the money was spent, is unknown, for the simple reason that neither the band nor the federal government have released that information to the public.




No country for anyone:

Iran-backed Shi'ite armed groups in Iraq have ramped up rocket and missile attacks on Israel in recent weeks, raising concerns in Washington and among some Iranian allies of potential Israeli retaliation and regional escalation should they draw blood.
Though the attacks, often from hundreds of miles (kms) away, are not seen by western officials and Israeli experts as posing the same level of threat to Israel as point-blank strikes by Hamas and Hezbollah, they have increased in number and sophistication.
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Last week, a U.S. Congressional committee called on a key backer of anti-Israel encampments in both the U.S. and Canada to provide details on its funding and alleged links to Palestinian terrorism.

“We therefore seek documents and information from your organization to facilitate oversight into how pro-Hamas propaganda and illegal encampments are being funded,” reads the three-page letter by Kentucky Rep. James Comer, chairman of the committee on oversight and accountability.

The letter is addressed to National Students for Justice in Palestine (National SJP), an organization whose Canadian affiliates include Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, the central organizer of an illegal Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of McGill University.

The McGill chapter of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) was behind a March blockade of the site of the Montreal Holocaust Museum as well as several targeted shutdowns of McGill’s Bronfman Building, which is named after Jewish philanthropist Samuel Bronfman.

In recent weeks, McGill administrators have denounced SPHR for “threatening” tactics, including hanging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in effigy, and dispatching masked crowds to the homes of school administrators.

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The families of five young women who were kidnapped and taken hostage on October 7 recently decided to release footage taken from the terrorists' body-cams that day. They evidently wanted you to "see for yourself and be spokesmen...." There have been claims that this barbarism did not occur. Horrifically, it did -- with more promised if Hamas is not militarily disabled ...

 






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