Accountability Is For Little People

Indeed:

Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine won’t lose her job over comments she made online about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Manitoba’s premier Wab Kinew said in a statement. Fontaine was told to apologize instead.

Kinew’s cabinet minister, Fontaine, reshared a post on Instagram on Thursday that called the slain 31-year-old political commentator a “racist, xenophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic” individual. Extending condolences to Kirk’s family, Fontaine’s post went on to say that she has “absolutely no empathy” for him. “The man stood for nothing but hate,” her post, in part and since removed, read.

 

Of course, Miss Fontaine will never provide anyone with the late Mr. Kirk's alleged hate because - like accountability- proof is also for little people and utterly beneath her.

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Fontaine’s apology was swift, hollow, and predictable. But her actions screamed the opposite. Her initial post wasn’t a mistake. It was a conscious, hate-filled decision that reveals her true character. This is the same minister who, just months earlier, was caught on a hot mic complaining about an American Sign Language interpreter sharing her stage, grumbling, “F--k, why did I have her on the stage?” She apologized for that too. A pattern is emerging where Fontaine says something vile, gets caught, and issues an empty apology while Premier Wab Kinew looks the other way. 

 

Of course the apology was.

It was mealy-mouthed, perfunctory, lacking in sincerity, and even a cursory consideration of the optics of the moment. She wouldn't have said these things had she known that there would be a career-ending backlash.

Canada is bereft of backlash. 

 

Like the dozens trolls after this assassination, Miss Fontaine shows not only her venom but her ignorance of what Charlie Kirk actually said or did.

It's typical of the arrogance and blinkered emotional retardation that evolves into homicidal rage from really one side of the political spectrum.

It's not new, though, so any calls to draw line in the sand overlook the other lines in the sand where what started out as a mere statement ended in violence and destruction.

 

Also:

A Toronto teacher has been suspended after showing a group of Grade 5 and 6 students “a portion of a violent video” related to the assassination of U.S. conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Corvette Junior Public School principal Jennifer Koptie, in a letter sent to parents on Friday, said the incident is “extremely troubling and unacceptable.”

 

But not fired.

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A 23-year-old man faces threatening communications charges after police executed a search warrant in Orléans in relation to threats against St. Mark Catholic High School in Manotick.

Ottawa police say the search warrant was executed at about 8:28 a.m. Sunday at a home in the 300 block of River Ridge Crescent, where a suspect was arrested without incident.

Spencer Shamy appeared in court Monday. He remains in custody and is scheduled to appear in court again on Tuesday morning.

The threat came in response to social media posts from a staff member at the Grade 7 to 12 school about the recent killing of conservative media personality Charlie Kirk, who was shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.