Mid-Week Post

Three more days until fall ...

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Justin finds himself all alone ... again: 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he does not want to escalate tensions further with India, on a day when Canada’s allies showed signs they are unwilling to join Ottawa’s public condemnation of New Delhi for its alleged role in the gangland-style slaying of a prominent Canadian Sikh leader.

As he entered a cabinet meeting Tuesday, Mr. Trudeau sought to dial back his dramatic criticism of India after New Delhi ordered Canadian diplomat Olivier Sylvestre out of the country in a tit-for-tat response to Ottawa’s expulsion of an Indian foreign intelligence officer from its High Commission in Ottawa. ...

Despite these efforts, the United States, Britain and other allies have declined to criticize publicly the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which they see as a counterweight to China and a huge economic market of more than one billion people.

“We are deeply concerned about the allegations referenced by Prime Minister Trudeau,” White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson told reporters. “We remain in regular contact with our Canadian partners. It is critical that Canada’s investigation proceed and the perpetrators be brought to justice.”

Britain will continue trade talks with India despite the Canadian allegations, the British Prime Minister’s office said in a statement.

“When we have concerns about countries we are negotiating trade deals with, we will raise them directly with the government concerned. But with regards to the current negotiations with India, these are negotiations about a trade deal, and we’re not looking to conflate them with other issues,” the statement said.

Australia, for its part, said it was deeply concerned by the allegations raised by Canada. The statement by a spokesperson for foreign minister Penny Wong said Canberra had also conveyed its concerns to senior levels in India.

 

Some points:

Thanks to Justin, Canada's place in the world is so greatly diminished that even if Justin's concerns were valid, who would care?

This entire fiasco is related to Justin's recent humiliation in India. Once more, he made a total fool of himself and has zero in terms of trade and good relations to show for it. That is due to his failure as a diplomat, among other things.

It has been bandied about that this serves to bolster the Sikh extremist vote at home and help China in the process. While this may be, I lean toward the idea that Justin is incapable of being a mature, intelligent statesman and let his petulance get the better of him.

Was Nijjar murdered by the Indian government or some other party? In terms of Canada's saving face, it is irrelevant. Canada failed to quell Sikh extremism, to integrate all immigrants into Canadian society, root out all terrorist activity, protect its citizens and residents from external forces (cough-China-cough) or even get his state police to properly investigate a crime.

We see this kind of unravelling in banana republics where nothing works save for the tyrant.

But not in this case.

 

No one seemed to care that 332 people blown up by Sikh extremists:

And though the event has drawn comparisons to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, the Air India bombing did not set off a dynamic of bigotry toward Sikhs in Canada as extreme as the one inflicted on Muslims (and some Sikhs) in the United States after 9/11, he said.

 

That's because Canadians don't know anything about their own history.

Tell me again that David Johnston was impartial:

David Johnston in three months as cabinet “rapporteur” on Chinese interference awarded millions in sole-sourced contracts to favoured consultants, records show. Payments included fees to a publicist to “identify columnists and key opinion leaders” to promote Johnston: “Actual expenditures for the Independent Special Rapporteur have not yet been finalized.”

 

Behold the left in all its dime-shifting, child-grooming, bigoted glory!:

The majority of Montréal's #1MillionMarch4children protesters are Muslim, counter-protesters are chanting at then "Fascists go home!" pic.twitter.com/Z6tvhvQfFt

— Greg Renouf 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 (@grenouf) September 20, 2023

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Marxists in Toronto at the counter protest shout “Whose schools? Our schools!” And “Whose kids? Our kids!”#1MillionMarch4children pic.twitter.com/RzM71kLdCk

— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) September 20, 2023

Jordan Peterson is a honey badger:

Toronto psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson plans to challenge sanctions imposed on him by the College of Psychologists.

Peterson had been ordered by the college to take a coaching program on professionalism when making public statements on social media after complaints were made against him.

The complaints arose from comments he made about politics as well as his views of women, masculinity and gender issues.

Lawyers Howard Levitt and Peter Carey have filed for leave to appeal the sanctions to the Court of Appeal.

They claim the complaints came mostly from non-Canadians who had no connection with him or his professional practice.

“A significant amount of public controversy has surrounded this case, in Canada and abroad, since it impacts a large portion of the Canadian workforce subject to regulatory trade and professional bodies. The chilling effect that this decision has had will have on the freedom of speech and debate of everyday Canadians is alarming,” Levitt said in a statement.

It was not merely a weeding of defective materials.

It was acclimating students to censorship and book-burning. 

Canada has gone so far down the path of fascism that the teachers felt that they could do this openly and with little to no criticism. With the exception of a few voices, they were right and will attempt this again:

A school board west of Toronto says it is focused on replenishing resources in its libraries while reviewing training after its so-called “weeding process” was criticized.

Last week, Education Minister Stephen Lecce wrote to the Peel District School Board asking it to halt the weeding process -—which assesses and removes older books — after concerns were raised that some books were being removed from shelves simply because they were published before 2008, based on new equity-focused board guidelines.

Students and a group of Peel Region residents called on the board to provide a clear explanation on what happened and share details on how libraries with half-empty shelves would be replenished.

The board said last week that older books, regardless of publication date, could stay in school libraries so long as they were “accurate, relevant to the student population, inclusive, not harmful, and support the current curriculum.”

 

(Sidebar: what does "inclusive" mean, by the way?)

 

The letter of the day:

Further to the news that our current prime minister is blaming grocery stores for heightened food costs, why doesn’t he realize that his own father, Pierre Trudeau, was responsible for passing legislation that has cost Canadian consumers in the grocery stores for decades?

The federal supply management bill of 1971 artificially inflates the cost of milk, cream, eggs, cheese, ice cream, poultry, etc. As a result of this, in trade deals with other countries, Canada has had to sacrifice benefits in other sectors, thus hurting many Canadian businesses.

Simple solution: repeal the legislation. Once again, legislators care more about vote-buying from a few dairy farmers rather than alleviating all Canadians’ financial pain.

Typical:

Oil companies should pay costs of wildfires, a New Democrat yesterday told the Commons. MP Charlie Angus (Timmins-James Bay, Ont.) said it was unfair to charge firefighting expenses to taxpayers since oil companies were “burning the planet.”

 

Try walking everywhere.

 

 

Crime can be expensive:

Crime costs Canadians more than $43 billion a year, says a landmark report by the Department of Justice. Researchers totaled expenses from police overtime to victims’ lost wages, funeral expenses and trauma: “The effects of crime are far reaching.”

 

It's just money:

Cabinet billed more than a quarter million for a three-day cabinet retreat on inflation, records show. Expenses for the meeting at a Vancouver Hyatt a year ago included tens of thousands of dollars for food with catering from one café that sells an $88 “millionaire’s cut” steak and lobster plate: “The cost of living, that is our focus.”

Unbelievable: 

Nongovernmental groups called on the United Nations to urge the South Korean government to end its complicity in forced organ harvesting in China.

“South Korea, known as a major consumer of transplant tourism to China, has not taken sufficient steps to monitor and discourage this practice, despite being aware of the circumstances surrounding forced organ harvesting—a grievous and arbitrary deprivation of human lives," two nonprofits said in a statement on Sept. 13.

The two groups—the Korea Association for Ethical Organ Transplants (KAEOT) and Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH)—raised concerns about the Korean government's involvement in the organ transplant abuse, in a report submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Committee. A session of the global body is scheduled to take place in Geneva next month.

Kim Hwangho, director of KAEOT, said the report not only impacts the Korean government, but also helps to address forced organ harvesting in China, given that the multibillion-dollar business has been fueled by transplant tourists worldwide.

"Collaboration among NGOs to engage the Human Rights Committee in monitoring other countries for complicity in forced organ harvesting in China can help address this heinous practice, which relies on demand from other nations," Mr. Kim said in a written statement to The Epoch Times.

You know, China, Japan doesn't call you a Third World craphole that kills its girl infants, hates black people for fun and pollutes its air so much that people cannot see the sky:

The calls come from numbers with Chinese dialling codes. One restaurant chain in Fukushima reported more than 1,000 calls since last Thursday.

Tokyo has also warned citizens visiting China to take precautions and avoid speaking Japanese loudly.

Beijing has led criticism of last week's release of treated wastewater.

Tokyo has made daily reports, saying the seawater around the nuclear plant is showing no detectable levels of radioactivity.

Japanese authorities say the calls from Chinese numbers began after the release of water and they were made to government departments, schools and even an aquarium.

The callers speak in Chinese, Japanese and English - and sometimes use abusive language. They speak about their opposition to Japan's decision to release the treated nuclear water.

China has described the discharge as an "extremely selfish and irresponsible act".

 

I think giving the entire world a virus is extremely selfish and irresponsible. 

Also - Japan, the moron as the puppet-head in this country can't even tell you apart from his Chinese bosses: 

Yet, while our countries certainly enjoy similarities, our relationship is also complementary in nature. Canada is blessed with a great abundance of natural resources, and Japan imports from Canada energy and mineral resources that are absolutely critical for industrial activities. LNG Canada, still under construction, will be the very first project exporting liquefied natural gas to Japan from the west coast of North America, helping to bolster Japan’s energy security. At the same time, Toyota, Honda and other Japanese automakers have production facilities in Canada, supporting the development of Canada’s manufacturing industry. In this way, Japan and Canada have each advanced the development of the other’s economy while mutually complementing each other.

 

Japan, you have the knowledge, but Canada has resources it would rather keep in the ground.

Sorry.