Your mid-week pause for clarity ...
You see, Quebec is special:
However Mr. Singh came out this weekend, from behind Justin Trudeau’s chair, to explain to Canadians that Quebec unilaterally amending the whole of the Canadian Constitution is quite fine with him and his party. And his logic was impeccable. It amounted to declaring it OK because it is Quebec that is proposing the amendment.
Which leads to the corollary that were it any other province — particularly Alberta — it would be an unthinkable assault on the very foundations of Canadian governance, and for that matter, Canadian history.
(Sidebar: I'll bet that Jag thought that up all by himself.)
Even has-beens are putting skin in the game:
Yet, the former Liberal Party leader backs Justin Trudeau’s position on Quebec’s attempt to unilaterally amend the Canadian Constitution to declare the province a nation whose only official language is French.
(Sidebar: in case one had forgotten, New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province in Canada. Without government enforcement, Quebec and the form of French that is partly spoken there would disappear.)
The Bloc Quebecois failed to unanimously pass a motion recognizing Quebec’s right to unilaterally change the Constitution in line with proposed reforms to the province’s language law.
Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet tabled a motion Wednesday in the House of Commons asking lawmakers to recognize that right, but confronted a single, critical “nay” from a lone member of Parliament.
Independent MP Jody Wilson-Raybould scuppered the unanimity required for a motion tabled without official notice.
In a Twitter post minutes later, she said political partisanship and “pandering” have led lawmakers “to abandon core legal norms” and debate on constitutional issues.
As a “proud (First Nations) woman I’m always ready 2 discuss Nationhood & language,” she wrote, calling the parties’ deference to the Bloc “dismaying.”
(Sidebar: because "here first" or something. Just block some railroads.)
Now it's time for everyone else to realise that oligarchs run this country and that what they truly deserve is to be cut off.
The Alberta government has introduced a revamped version of legislation that had given the province the power to restrict and control shipments of its energy exports as a means to “fight back” against other Canadian jurisdictions that oppose pipeline projects or otherwise block the province’s oil and natural gas.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Today in "the government is filled with petty and corrupt chair-moisteners" news:
A Conservative MP yesterday was threatened with expulsion from the Commons for wearing a pro-oil button. House rules forbid props: “Remove that button.”
Then forbid Justin's fruity socks.
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In the video, O'Toole sets up the scenario of an attack on freedom of expression in the form of Bill C-10. The bill he was describing, however, was not Canadian at all, and was instead on the worrying attack on free expression currently ongoing in Hong Kong.
(Sidebar: this desperate yet much maligned O'Toole and this Bill C-10. No wonder Justin and his creepy friend want Bill C-10 to pass. Imagine being a groping creep owned by O'Toole and everyone knows about it.)
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Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault has frequently claimed that his legislative goal in Bill C-10 is to “get money from web giants”. As last week’s post on a Canadian Heritage departmental memo highlighted, Bill C-10 targets far more than just “web giants” as the bill adopts a far broader regulatory approach that targets podcast apps such as Stitcher and Pocket Casts, audiobook services such as Audible, home workout apps, pornographic sites, sports streaming services such as MLB.TV and DAZN, niche video services such as Britbox, and even broadcaster websites such as the BBC.
The effect of significant new regulatory costs on these services is likely to spark one of two responses: some services will simply pass along the costs to consumers in the form of new Cancon surcharges, while others will likely block the Canadian market altogether. The Cancon surcharges, when combined with the new sales taxes on digital services that take effect later this year, could lead to the costs of digital services skyrocketing by nearly 50 per cent in Canada. If that happens, Guilbeault will be getting money from consumers, not the web giants.
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DailyNK reports website this morning, that : “on Apr. 25, approximately forty days after his arrest, Lee was publicly executed in front of a crowd of five hundred people, which included Wonsan officials and their families, teachers, and university students. After forcing Lee’s immediate family members to stand in the front row at the execution, the authorities killed Lee by firing squad.”
“Lee’s wife, son, and daughter collapsed where they were standing in the front row of the execution area. While everyone watched, Ministry of State Security officials picked them up and loaded them into a cargo truck with barred windows for transport to a political prisoner camp.”
“Lee sold the CDs and USB sticks containing South Korean video content for between USD 5 USD and USD 12 each. The Ministry of State Security is searching for those who purchased the videos from Lee. The authorities arrested approximately twenty other merchants involved in the case and are currently conducting preliminary examinations for each of them. If you are caught watching a South Korean video, you receive a sentence of either life in prison or death, so nobody knows who will be executed next,” the source said. “You can receive a seven-year sentence just for not reporting someone [who watched or distributed South Korean media]. The entire population is shaking with fear.
(Sidebar: this North Korea.)
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“The Senate is unelected and unaccountable to anyone other than itself. Sadly, that concept has been twisted to mean that senators are not permitted the procedural fairness available to every other resident of Canada,” he said. “Even the Charter of Rights has no application here.”
Uh, the Charter is toilet paper.
Wait - the lab theory makes sense now?:
Kessler goes over the timeline of the first stories about COVID, back when we were still calling it the novel coronavirus, but he gives the Leftist legacy media a complete pass for their catastrophic failure to do their basic jobs because they had another job to do: undermine the president.
Hate Trump, if one must, but ignoring China's global malfeasance and/or incompetence takes the cake even Walter Duranty would hesitate over.
Also - we don't have to trade with China:
Sauytbay tells of a torture chamber she calls the “black room,” near the guardhouse at the camp where she was imprisoned. The screams coming from the black room “sounded like the raw cries of a dying animal,” she says. “The second you hear them, you know what kind of agony that person is experiencing.”
She recalls seeing chains on the walls in the black room, and chairs with “nails sticking out of the seats” where inmates would be tied down. Torture devices on the walls “looked like they were from the Middle Ages,” including “implements used to pull out fingernails and toenails,” and a spear-like rod “for jabbing into a person’s flesh.” Electric chairs, “iron chairs with holes in the back so that the arms could be twisted back above the shoulder joint,” and other chairs designed to pin victims down lined one side of the room.
“Many of the people they tortured never came back out of that room,” she says. “Others stumbled out, covered in blood.”
It's a good thing that there are people ready to grovel before China.
Also - China crushes underfoot its own people, the Tibetans, the Uighurs, the North Koreans and black people.
But whatever sends the tweets:
Anti-asian violence is one of many negative consequences of a flawed China policy that makes Americans less safe at home.@QuincyInst's @JessLee_DC calls for a more rational debate about U.S.-China relations:https://t.co/avrprMwNwx pic.twitter.com/XrZNDIXw2A
— Quincy Institute (@QuincyInst) May 25, 2021
About 26,000 American men moved to Canada in the 1960s in order to avoid service in the Vietnam War. Notable among them was singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester as well as the husband of Margaret Atwood, whose draft eligibility prompted the couple’s move to Toronto.
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While the influx is often remembered with some measure of national pride, most Canadians at the time were not at all happy with the American newcomers.
A 1968 poll cited by Boyko found that 58 per cent of Canadians said draft evaders should be barred from the country. Vancouver mayor Tom Campbell called them elements of a “scum community” who “won’t even fight for their own country.” In 1966, Canadian director of immigration J.C. Morrison wrote that deserters should not be allowed entry to Canada as they had already demonstrated a willingness to flout “moral or contractual obligations.”
When you think of incompetence and unpreparedness, think of puny Canada:
Canada’s National Emergency Strategic Stockpile was unprepared to deal with the pandemic due to “long-standing unaddressed problems” that had been known for more than a decade when COVID-19 hit, according to the auditor general.
In a report released Wednesday, Auditor General Karen Hogan reviewed the national stockpile and efforts to purchase personal protective equipment and found Canada was ill-prepared to respond to the pandemic.
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The Privy Council Office is concealing hundreds of thousands of records on pandemic mismanagement, the Commons health committee was told. Disclosure of a few records to date detail favouritism in contracting and attempts to hide supply shortages: “Who in government is responsible?”
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The Alberta company’s messenger-RNA shot could be rolling out of the Emergent Biosolutions plant in Winnipeg before year’s end, Sorenson said last week, shortly after Emergent executives underwent a public grilling by U.S. lawmakers.
The Maryland-based manufacturer has taken heat in Congress and the U.S. media for ruining 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine, struggling with quality-control problems at its Baltimore plant and generating spotty results from a lucrative government contract.
The firm’s little-known Winnipeg facility, not implicated in the U.S. controversy, is slated to do the final stages of manufacturing on the Canadian vaccine.
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That collaboration has been “great,” said Sorenson, whose firm made headlines earlier this year when Manitoba purchased two million doses of its product in advance, independent from the federal vaccine-procurement program.
But plans are up in the air as Ottawa has shown scant interest in pre-ordering any of the Providence vaccine itself, despite encouraging early results, he complained.
(Sidebar: could this flu shot be worse than the ones that give you blood clots and strokes? But it's not about effectiveness of vaccines. It's about the contempt the government has for its population and that population's comfort with it.)
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Officer Cadet Ladislas Kenderesi was charged with one count of “endeavoring to persuade another person to join in a mutiny,” an offence under the National Defence Act. Kenderesi was also charged with one count of behaving in a scandalous manner unbecoming of an officer.
The charges were laid May 12 by the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service, defence officials told this newspaper.
Kenderesi had appeared at an anti-lockdown rally in December in Toronto dressed in his Canadian Forces uniform and speaking out about the COVID-19 vaccine, claiming it was a “killer.”
He called on military personnel not to be involved in government plans to distribute the vaccine. “I’m asking military, right now serving, truck drivers, medical, engineers, whatever you are, do not take this unlawful order (for) the distribution of this vaccine,” Kenderesi said at the rally. A video of his speech was posted on YouTube.
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Pandemic stay-home orders and lockdowns were so widespread it cost the federal treasury more than two-third of a billion in lost gas taxes, according to finance department accounts. Fuel tax revenue will remain “well below expected GDP growth” for years to come, wrote staff: “Revenues are projected to fall by 12 percent.”
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