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Canada reached agreement for a new wage deal with a union representing 120,000 federal workers, the union said on Monday, bringing an end to the country’s largest public sector strike that had crippled services from tax returns to immigration.
(Sidebar: the immigration that lets alleged refugees return to their former places of torture, apparently.)
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Be like Steven Miller and take your money and run:
(Sidebar: I'll just leave this here.)
Testifying before the Standing Committee on Finance, Rachel Grasham, a senior director with the federal finance department said those powers will be used “only in exceptional sort of emergency situations.”“The purpose of that is to really allow the minister and the government to bring forward a temporary measure, under extreme circumstances, just to help promote financial stability and safeguard public confidence in the system,” Grasham testified, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.Grasham was responding to NDP MP Daniel Blaikie who asked why the Liberal government “feels those authorities should be granted” pertaining to the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) Act.“There are some extraordinary powers being conferred to the minister of finance in respect to the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation and deposit insurance amounts,” he said, referring to the amendments proposed in a bill sponsored by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on April 20.Known as Bill C-47, the 430-page omnibus budget bill seeks to amend the CDIC Act by allowing cabinet to guarantee deposits in case of a bank run to “the amount that the Minister [of Finance] determines” if it is deemed “necessary to promote the stability or maintain the efficiency of the financial system in Canada.”
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Cabinet was warned Canadians were upset with ineffective gun laws just seven weeks before it abandoned plans to restrict hunting rifles. Internal Privy Council polling showed Canadians complained gun crimes went unresolved while cabinet chased pointless legislation: ‘Their impression is crimes involving firearms had largely continued unabated.’
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France first requested that Canada extradite Diab in 2008, to stand trial for his role in the bombing 28 years before outside the synagogue on the rue Copernic. Diab’s lawyers fought the extradition; it was only in June of 2011 that a Canadian judge agreed to his extradition. But at that point, there were still further delays; an appeal made by his lawyers to the Ontario Court of Appeals was rejected and, at long last, in 2014, six years after the first request for his extradition, Hassan Diab was extradited to France to be tried for the bomb he planted on the rue Copernic in 1980. ...
What “next steps” does Canada have to consider taking? France is a parliamentary democracy, with an independent judiciary, and an advanced legal system solicitous of the rights of the accused. In the past, when France asked for Hassan Diab’s extradition by Canada, it was granted – albeit in 2014, six years after the request was first made because of the delaying tactics of Diab’s lawyers. Now France has asked Canada to again extradite him, not for a trial but to serve his sentence.
Hassan Diab, now 69 and a resident of Canada, faces life in prison in France. But he and his supporters want Ottawa to reject any new requests for his extradition.
“We will look carefully at next steps, at what the French government chooses to do, at what French tribunals choose to do,” Trudeau told a news conference.
Canada is dragging its feet. And the source of this delay is the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. Why does Trudeau not comply at once with France’s request, instead of suggesting he may not do so, as Canada “considers its next steps”?
The French judges have considered the evidence and announced their verdict. They want Canada to send Hassan Diab back to serve his sentence. There is no ambiguity in their view. Nor is there anything to suggest the French government really doesn’t want Hassan Diab extradited, for fear of possible terrorist attacks by his incensed supporters. .
But, he [Trudeau] added, “we will always be there to stand up for Canadians and their rights.
Really? I would have thought that Canada should “always stand up for justice,” above all else, even if a person convicted of multiple murders abroad happens to be a Canadian citizen. France’s judicial system is not directed by some crackbrain Idi Amin or Muammar Qaddafi; it has no hanging judges like the Iranian judge Khakhali. The French judicial system is fully the equal, in its procedural guarantees, of the system which exists in Canada. How would Trudeau react if France refused to extradite to Canada a French citizen convicted of the murder of Canadians by a Canadian court? Would he be impressed with France “always being there to stand up for the French and their rights”? Or would he be, as we should now be with him, furious?
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VOTES!:
Canada interned hundreds of Italian-Canadians during the Second World War “for the simple reason that they were of Italian heritage,” Liberal MP Angelo Iacono told the House of Commons on April 14, paving the way for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to announce that Canada would formally apologize for doing so in May.Mr. Iacono’s claim is remarkable. It suggests that Canada perpetrated a massive violation of human rights among members of that ethnic community. But if they really were interned simply because of their heritage, surely tens of thousands must have been thrown into camps – far more than the 12,000 Japanese-Canadians pulled from their homes on the West Coast and interned during the war (in addition to the thousands more forced to work on farms). There were, after all, more than 100,000 Italian-Canadians in 1940.And yet, if we don’t count the 100 or so Italian sailors in Canada who were caught off guard by Italy’s declaration of war in 1940, the number of internees totals about 500, less than 0.5 per cent of the Italian-Canadian population. There must have been something special about them. What, one wonders, could it have been?Fortunately, historians have studied this topic in some detail, so we have answers. Enemies Within: Italian and Other Internees in Canada and Abroad, edited by Franca Iacovetta, Roberto Perin and Angelo Principe is a comprehensive takedown of the claim that Canada waged a “war against ethnicity” when interning Italian-Canadians.Instead, the book finds that Benito Mussolini’s diplomats in Canada aggressively promoted fascism among Italian-Canadians and met with some success – although only a small minority of Italian-Canadians were involved in fascist organizations. Such people caught the attention of the RCMP, which compiled what historian Luigi Bruti Liberati describes in the book as “a detailed picture of fascist activity in Canada, from the largest urban centres to the most distant mining camps.”Mr. Liberati notes there are valid reasons to question the accuracy of the RCMP’s conclusions. But they were based on evidence, however imperfect, rather than on blanket assumptions about the entire community.
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How many nothing degrees do people have?
How many shoes were willing to be shined?
How many people are willing to hustle?
How many people have basic life skills?
How many people coast on their dad's name and money and always expected it to get them out of a jam?
A third of Canadians with high skill jobs have a Grade 12 certificate or are high school dropouts, says federal research. Conversely more than a third of low skill jobs are held by Canadians with a postsecondary education: “The correlation between educational attainment and holding a lower or higher skilled job was not as high as one might expect.”
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