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Update: CSIS, Canada's spy agency, reveals that protestors were not violent, were not carrying Nazi flags, and claims to the contrary are overblown.
— Emergencies Act Inquiry (@Emergencies_Act) October 11, 2022
The inquiry is going to have to find another way to get @JustinTrudeau off the hook.https://t.co/bDiOwRjOVG
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Detailing how the presence of bigoted imagery is “not unique” when it comes to large-scale protests, CSIS also noted that the presence of swastikas on some flags was “not necessarily to self-identify as Nazis but to imply the Prime Minister and federal government are acting like Nazis by imposing public health mandates.”
It was therefore the conclusion of CSIS that while some attendees had manually added swastikas to flags, it was to associate Trudeau with Nazism as a statement of their opposition to the ideology.
Two weeks after the CSIS report was produced, Trudeau doubled-down on his conflation of the Freedom Convoy with Nazism, accusing the Conservative Party of Canada, and in particular Jewish MP Melissa Lantsmann, of standing “with people who wave swastikas.”
The publication of the CSIS documents cast further doubt on the claims of Trudeau’s Liberal Party that the Freedom Convoy’s presence in Ottawa warranted the unprecedented response of invoking the Emergencies Act (EA). The same act which allowed Trudeau’s government to both deploy the national police force to physically remove protesters as well as direct banks to freeze the accounts of those associated with the movement without a court order.
As backlash against Trudeau’s use of the EA continues to intensify, and more information is revealed, it is now apparent that Liberal Party Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino has lied in at least a dozen instances regarding the now-debunked claim that law enforcement agencies had requested the invocation of the EA.
Minister Marco Mendicino’s office yesterday claimed he had no involvement in backdating documents to mislead a federal judge. Internal emails show documents were sent to Mendicino’s office. Staff did not explain the discrepancy: “We’re just waiting for MINO’s approval.”
Lying means nothing to these people.
Internal Department of Public Safety reports confirm there was no evidence of violence by Freedom Convoy supporters outside Parliament. One report issued the very day cabinet invoked the Emergencies Act said the protest was small, peaceful and had little impact on federal operations: “Disruption to government activities is so far minor.”
It was never about a virus:
Janine Small, Pfizer’s president of international developed markets, was testifying before the European Union Parliament on Monday when she was asked the question by Dutch MEP Rob Roos.
“Was the Pfizer Covid vaccine tested on stopping the transmission of the virus before it entered the market?” Mr Roos asked.
“If not, please say it clearly. If yes, are you willing to share the data with this committee? And I really want a straight answer, yes or no, and I’m looking forward to it.”
Ms Small — appearing in the place of Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla, who had been called to testify but pulled out of the hearing earlier this month — replied that the company had to “move at the speed of science”.
(Sidebar: what is that exactly?)
“Regarding the question around, um, did we know about stopping the immunisation [sic] before it entered the market? No, heh,” she said.
“Uh, these, um, you know, we had to really move at the speed of science to really understand what is taking place in the market, and from that point of view we had to do everything at risk. I think Dr Bourla, even though he’s not here, would turn around and say to you himself, ‘If not us then who?’”
Ms Small said Dr Bourla “actually felt the importance of what was going on in the world, and therefore as a result of that, we actually, um, spent $US2 billion, at risk, of self-funded money from Pfizer, to be able to research, develop and manufacture at risk, to be able to make sure that we were in a position to be able to help with the pandemic”.
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Under the leadership of Health Minister Patty Hajdu, Canada’s Department of Health purchased over $1 billion worth of ventilators to help care for those suffering from respiratory problems as a result of being infected with Covid-19. The government has since admitted that they may have overestimated the amount needed, and have moved the vast majority to a warehouse for storage.
According to Public Services and Procurement Canada, of the 40,000 ventilators ordered by the Trudeau Liberals at the beginning of the pandemic, 27,706 have been delivered as of April 2022.The remaining units were placed in the national emergency strategic stockpile.
With the Covid-19 pandemic dwindling, the government has moved to cancel the portions of the orders that have not yet been fulfilled.
“Since the spring of 2020, evidence and public health guidance has evolved," Public Services and Procurement Canada explained. “Current modelling indicates that Canada has more than enough ventilators to meet Canada's current and projected needs. As a result, the Government of Canada is working with Canadian suppliers to identify opportunities to reduce the volumes ordered and support them as these contracts wind down.”
The massive number of ventilators ordered by the government was criticized by many, including Conservative MP Pierre Paul-Hus, who in 2021 called the decision one of “stupidity.”
“I feel that will be enough for about 50 years,” he added.
Contracts were awarded to a number of companies, with the vast majority located in Canada.
One of the companies subcontracted Baylis Medical, a firm owned by former Liberal MP Frank Baylis. They received a $237 million contract and insisted that the government pay in advance.
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she will replace Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw.
In her first press conference as premier, Smith told reporters she would seek "new advice on public health."
"I appreciate the work that Dr. Deena Hinshaw has done, but I think that we are in a new phase where we are now talking about treating coronavirus as endemic, as we do influenza," the premier said.
"(I will be) developing a new team of public health advisors."
You cost too much:
There have been a total of 31,664 MAiD deaths and the large majority of those people were 65 to 80 when they died. In 2017, only 34 MAiD deaths were in the 18- to 45-year-old category. In 2018, that figure rose to at least 49. In 2019, it was 103; in 2020,118; and in 2021, 139.
Today, thousands of people who could live for many years are applying—successfully—to kill themselves.
Indeed, in some Canadian provinces nearly 5 percent of deaths are MAiD deaths. In 2021, the province of Quebec reported that 4.7 percent of deaths in the province were due to MAiD; in British Columbia, the number was 4.8 percent. Progressive Vancouver Island is unofficially known as the “assisted-death capital of the world,” doctors told me.
Why the dramatic increase? Over the past few years, doctors have taken an increasingly liberal view when it comes to defining “reasonably foreseeable” death. Then, last year, the government amended the original legislation, stating that one could apply for MAiD even if one’s death were not reasonably foreseeable. This second track of applicants simply had to show that they had a condition that was “intolerable to them” and could not “be relieved under conditions that they consider acceptable.” This included applicants like Margaret Marsilla’s son, Kiano.
In 2023, those numbers are almost certain to rise.
Next March, the government is scheduled to expand the pool of eligible suicide-seekers to include the mentally ill and “mature minors.” According to Canada’s Department of Justice, parents are generally “entitled to make treatment decisions on their children’s behalf. The mature minor doctrine, however, allows children deemed sufficiently mature to make their own treatment decisions.” (The federal government does not define “mature,” nor does it specify who determines whether one is mature. On top of that, the doctrine varies from one province to another.)
I'll just leave this here:
In the spring and summer months of 1939, a number of planners began to organize a secret killing operation targeting disabled children. They were led by Philipp Bouhler, the director of Hitler's private chancellery, and Karl Brandt, Hitler's attending physician.
On August 18, 1939, the Reich Ministry of the Interior circulated a decree requiring all physicians, nurses, and midwives to report newborn infants and children under the age of three who showed signs of severe mental or physical disability.
Beginning in October 1939, public health authorities began to encourage parents of children with disabilities to admit their young children to one of a number of specially designated pediatric clinics throughout Germany and Austria. In reality, the clinics were children's killing wards. There, specially recruited medical staff murdered their young charges by lethal overdoses of medication or by starvation.
At first, medical professionals and clinic administrators included only infants and toddlers in the operation. As the scope of the measure widened, they included youths up to 17 years of age. Conservative estimates suggest that at least 10,000 physically and mentally disabled German children perished as a result of the child "euthanasia" program during the war years.
Because Quebec is special and EVs are polluting, exploding wastes of time and money:
The federal government says it will invest $222 million to help a Quebec company increase production of critical minerals for goods such as electric cars and batteries.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement today after visiting the Rio Tinto Fer et Titane facility in Sorel-Tracy, Que., about 90 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
Trudeau says the funding will come through the Strategic Innovation Fund and will allow the company to increase production of critical minerals such as lithium, titanium and scandium.
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As a result of his policies, @JustinTrudeau has 10 provinces fighting him in court claiming he is not abiding by the constitution.
— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) October 11, 2022
He's also got Alberta, and now Saskatchewan, talking about doing what they can to stop federal intrusion.
So much for better relations with premiers. https://t.co/087pxNs06P
Where ARE these doctors and engineers we were promised?
Are they training Canadians to succeed them when they retire?:
Thousands of highly skilled immigrants who in previous years would easily have qualified for permanent residence in Canada are being forced to return to their home countries as their work permits expire – the result of a backlog created by federal policy decisions intended to boost immigration during the pandemic.
Many of them are former international students who landed jobs in Canada mid-pandemic, during a critical labour shortage. Now they find themselves in limbo, waiting for opportunities to apply for permanent resident status – opportunities that may never arrive.
These fleeing workers will leave quite the electoral vacuum.
Oh, Japan, why would you trust the morons in the Trudeau government? They all work for China:
Canada and Japan have launched talks aimed at sharing military intelligence, as the two countries try countering growing threats from China and Russia.
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“Through the exchange of intelligence, we will be able to better counter threats at home, and work alongside partners to create greater stability in the region,” Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly tweeted Tuesday.
This will not end well.
Also:
When Wang Yang was Chinese Communist Party boss of economic powerhouse Guangdong province, the man now considered a top contender to be China's next premier displayed a liberal streak that has been less visible since Xi Jinping took power.
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Twenty years later, President Xi is preparing for another such meeting, at which he is expected to secure an unprecedented third term as leader. The man once less famous than his opera singer spouse – “Who is Xi Jinping?” a joke went, “he’s Peng Liyuan’s husband” – is now poised to shape the future of the world more than any other individual of his generation.
I doubt that Xi will be unseated and there is no "nicer", liberal form of communism. There is only its evil.
Remember that China and Russia have permanent seats on the security:
Venezuela, South Korea and Afghanistan lost contested races for seats on the top U.N. human rights body in Tuesday by the General Assembly, which faced criticism for electing countries like Vietnam and Sudan, which have been accused of having abysmal human rights records.
The 193-member assembly voted by secret ballot to fill 14 seats on the 47-member Human Rights Council. Seats are allocated to regions to ensure geographical representation, a rule that has regularly led to many regions putting forward uncontested slates — as Africa, Eastern Europe and Western nations did this year.
Human rights groups have long criticized this practice, saying it denies U.N. member nations any choice of countries on the council and virtually guarantees seats for some countries with poor rights records.
In this year’s election, the most hotly watched race was in the Latin America and Caribbean regional group, where Chile, Costa Rica and Venezuela were vying for two seats. The result saw Chile get 144 votes, Costa Rica 134 and Venezuela 88.
Venezuela narrowly won a seat on the Human Rights Council in 2019. Louis Charbonneau, U.N. director for Human Rights Watch, welcomed Tuesday's result, saying the General Assembly “rightly closed the door” on Venezuela's attempt to remain on the council.
“U.N. investigators have found evidence that (President Nicolas) Maduro and other officials may have been responsible for crimes against humanity against their own people,” Charbonneau said.
“A government facing these kinds of allegations has no business sitting on the U.N.’s top rights body. Now U.N. member states should seek ways to hold accountable those Venezuelan officials responsible for grave human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings and torture,” he said.
The other closely watched race was in the Asia-Pacific region, where Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, South Korea and Vietnam contested four seats. Bangladesh received 160 votes, Maldives 154, Vietnam 145 and Kyrgyzstan 126 and were declared the winners, beating South Korea with 123 votes and Afghanistan with 12 votes.
Charbonneau said that “electing abusive governments like Vietnam to the council only undermines its credibility.”
HA! He said credibility!
In the days before he killed 36 people, including 22 children stabbed as they slept, the former police sergeant behind Thailand's worst massacre was firing guns in his back yard.
For several nights the sound of 34-year-old Panya Khamrap’s 9 mm pistol cracked the silence in the sleepy village of Tha Uthai, neighbours said.
It was the latest show of violence from the former police officer, once a village success story who became an angry, introverted man in a downward spiral, though still invested with some of the authority his old job bestowed.
"How were we going to report him to the police? He was the police," said Phuwan Polyeam, 29, who lives close by with her two children.
Panya killed the 36 people in a three-hour rampage through the district in which he was born, shooting and stabbing to death neighbours, including a childhood friend.
The 22 child victims at the nursery were boys and girls aged two to five. Seven are in hospital.
Ladies and gentlemen, Dame Angela Lansbury:
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