Wednesday, November 06, 2024

Mid-Week Post


 

Last night, American voters, moved not by trite slogans and disconnected elitists but by their dire financial situation, re-elected a proven administrator to fix the damage caused by four years of incompetence, corruption and partisan sentiment.

The breakdowns over this are EPIC!

 

One could go on but the tenor is pretty much the same: the world is over because some whinging, attention-seeking nobodies say it is.

The rest of the adult world is thinking how it can now plan for the future.

Canadians, I'm sure, are thinking of how to further contribute to the Liberal brain-drain and leave for the US, the only North American country that works now.

Justin is attempting to play it cool but one knows he is truly freaking out:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is prepared for a second Donald Trump presidency as questions swirl about how his government plans to handle the Republican president-elect’s incoming agenda. 

From trade tariffs and the war in Ukraine, to defence spending and immigration, cabinet ministers exuded confidence on Wednesday that they are ready to handle whatever another Trump administration may bring. 
 
No, you're not prepared, Justin.
Trump will pin you to the wall.

Meanwhile, we are stuck with the robber-barons at home:
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly accused the Conservatives of not supporting Canada’s diplomatic presence in the United States, as they grilled her over the purchase of a $9-million condo for one of its posts. 
And how does that help with the trade that your boyfriend sabotaged, Melanie?
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MPs yesterday described New York Consul Tom Clark as a “confirmed liar.” The Department of Foreign Affairs would not say if Clark will resign regarding complaints he deliberately misled the Commons government operations committee over the purchase of an $8.8 million Manhattan penthouse at taxpayers’ expense: “He wanted to live like a king.”
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Parliament should penalize Google and Facebook if they fail to identify and isolate “undesirable or questionable” information on the internet, says a Commons heritage committee report. A majority of Liberal, New Democrat and Bloc Québécois MPs complained of “societal harms arising from unregulated social media platforms.”
 

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh continued to walk a fine line on Monday while condemning the violence that broke out between clashing groups with opposing views on the Indian government at a Hindu place of worship in Brampton, Ont., Sunday.

During a press conference in Ottawa, Singh continued a pattern of not mentioning Khalistani activists, whose flags were seen striking worshipers, in his condemnation of Sunday’s events.


This new normal:

In a testy exchange in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of sowing the "divisions" that led to the violent clash between Sikh separatists and Hindu worshippers outside a Hindu temple in Brampton on the weekend.

The question period exchange kicked off with Trudeau calling Poilievre's silence on the violence in South Asian communities "deafening."

Poilievre accused Trudeau of using the issue to distract from domestic economic issues.

"So he uses divisions here at home. These divisions are the result of him," Poilievre said.

"Now we see sectarian riots on the streets of Brampton. This never happened before this prime minister. Does he take ownership for the divisions he's caused and the violence that has resulted?"

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to go public with foreign interference claims against India lies in stark contrast with the way the United States handled similar allegations and could be at the root of violent clashes seen in recent days between Sikh and Hindu crowds in Brampton, Ont., and Surrey, B.C., say India experts.

Last year, Trudeau told Parliament that Indian government agents were part of the plot to murder Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a pro-Khalistan Sikh shot down on June 18, 2023, in the parking lot of a British Columbia temple. Last month, the prime minister told the federal inquiry into foreign interference that he wasn’t looking to provoke a fight with the government of India, but that its agents are playing a role in widespread violence in Canada, including killings, something India has denied.

 

Is that the "undesirable info" that you were talking about?

 

Also:

Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan, former defence minister, last night testified he was not to blame for abandoning 1,250 Canadians and Afghan allies in the 2021 collapse of Afghanistan. Cabinet to date has not explained why Canada’s ambassador and staff fled Kabul aboard a half-empty military aircraft as Taliban seized control of the city: “We put every effort possible.”
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The Globe and Mail published a story in July that Sajjan instructed Canadian special forces to launch a rescue mission of 225 Afghan Sikhs who had no connection to Canada during the fall of Kabul in August 2021. The story, which was based on anonymous sources, said the Sikhs were not considered an operational priority for the military, whose limited resources could have been used to extract Canadians or allies.

 

 

We don't have to trade with China:

In an explosive admission, Parliament’s Canada-China Committee has confirmed that Canada’s spy agency, CSIS, issued a direct and unheeded warning to senior health officials in August 2018, raising concerns about “insider threat activities” linked to Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng.

This alert, delivered seven months before the couple’s network—connected to the highest levels of Chinese biological weapons research—coordinated the shipment of live Ebola and Henipah virus samples from Canada’s high-security National Microbiology Laboratory to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, highlighted risks posed by their continued access to sensitive materials.

“CSIS held a briefing for personnel responsible for security at [Public Health Canada],” in August 2018 that “focused on foreign interference and included possible indicators of insider threat activities, as well as other security risks,” according to CSIS’s submission to the Committee. In CSIS’s presentation, “student programs were identified as being one of these possible threat vectors,” prompting “[Public Health Canada] to flag two scientists to CSIS, Dr. Cheng and Dr. Qiu,” the Committee report, released Tuesday, states.

Despite these explicit warnings, no immediate restrictions were placed on Qiu, Cheng, or their Chinese students’ access to Canada’s sensitive research materials. In December 2018, Public Health Canada authorized a fact-finding investigation into the concerns, but the delayed response effectively allowed them to continue their operations, further endangering Canada’s security.

The Committee report also finds—like the ongoing Hogue Commission—that Justin Trudeau’s government, including senior bureaucrats and ministers, showed a reluctance to act on or even acknowledge urgent alerts from CSIS, exposing a stark divide between CSIS’s view of Chinese threats and Trudeau’s.

Dr. Qiu’s associations with China’s military and scientific programs had deep roots. She began her work at the Winnipeg NML in 2003, followed by her husband’s employment there in 2006. 

 

Read the whole thing.

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They are not Canadian citizens; they are spies. Treat them as such:

Parliament must find methods to revoke passports of citizens under investigation for espionage, says a Commons committee. The recommendation follows the disappearance of suspected spies now believed to have fled to China: “I mean, these are Canadian citizens.”
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Chinese-brand solar panels continue to be imported into Canada despite subcontractors’ past links to slave labour, according to court records. Parliament five months ago passed a law requiring that major importers ensure goods are not slave-made.

 

 

Canadians support an institution because supporting institutions is the Canadian way: 

Of the 22 per cent of Canadians without a family doctor, 29 per cent say they have been looking for one but the effort has been unsuccessful. Thirty per cent of those who have stopped looking say they aren’t doing so because there is none available in their area. Twenty per cent have simply given up looking.

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Quebec Premier François Legault says his government is prepared to use the notwithstanding clause to force doctors trained in Quebec to begin their careers in the province's public system.

 

Go to hell, Quebec.

At least pay for your self-crippling nonsense yourself.


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