The Gravy Train Isn't Meant to Help

At least not the proles:

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals came to power in 2015, federal spending on Indigenous issues was $11.4 billion annually.

According to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s latest budget, it’s estimated at $27.4 billion this year — an increase in nominal dollars (not accounting for inflation) of 140% in seven years.

A new report by the Fraser Institute projects federal spending will be at least $35.5 billion by 2026, in large part due to the continuing economic fallout from settling class-action lawsuits with Indigenous plaintiffs, including the recent child welfare settlement of $40 billion.

“At a time of large budget deficits and mounting debt, the explosive growth of Indigenous spending is expected to continue driven largely by settlement payouts,” said Tom Flanagan, author of the report “Indigenous Spending in Budget 2022.”

“If the latest federal budget is any indicator, there’s no end in sight to Ottawa’s Indigenous spending increases, despite any rhetoric about spending restraint.”

The problem, as described by independent, non-partisan Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux in a report last month, is that while the Trudeau government is spending more than ever on Indigenous services, it’s accomplishing less.

“Over the 2015-16 to 2022-23 period, there has been a significant increase in the amount of financial resources allocated to providing Indigenous Services,” Giroux said, but the increase “did not result in a commensurate increase in the ability of the organizations to achieve the targets they had set for themselves.”

In fact, “the ability of the organizations to achieve the targets … has declined.”

In 2017, Trudeau split the Indigenous and Northern Affairs ministry into two departments — Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada and Indigenous Services Canada.

Giroux found that five years after the administrative shakeup, the Trudeau government is failing to meet its own targets for improving the lives of Canada’s Indigenous people.

 

In Trudeau's Canada

It's not really his Canada but he would like to think so:

As scenes emerged of police confronting the Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa in February, Kevin Vickers, a former House of Commons sergeant-at-arms and Canada’s ambassador to Ireland from 2015 to 2019, started receiving messages from his international contacts about what was happening in Canada.

“I think those images, whether they’re benign or whatever, are certainly something that will come back to haunt us,” Vickers, who as sergeant-at-arms famously helped subdue Parliament Hill attacker and killer Michael Zehaf-Bibeau in 2014, told The Epoch Times.

“It’s our country’s reputation that’s at stake here. These types of things have to be managed to ensure control, so that Canada’s not seen as being heavy-handed in democracy and towards its citizens.”

 

Too late.

It's not simply that. It is also the fact that no leader should be able to do this. 

Yet here we are.

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Lich was arrested again on Monday in Medicine Hat, Alberta, and is expected to be transported to Ottawa within the next week for violating her bail conditions. On Feb. 17, Lich was arrested and charged with mischief, obstructing police, counselling others to commit mischief and intimidation.

Without downplaying the impact of the freedom convoy on residents of Ottawa’s downtown core, those are hardly charges that would normally see this kind of action by police and prosecutors. Lich has no prior criminal record and has not been convicted of the charges she now faces.

Yet depending on who you listen to, police have either arrested her for being critical of the government – not something that should get anyone arrested – or for being photographed at an event in Toronto with another convoy organizer.

At this point, forgive me for laughing at the idea that either of these are considered bail violations. If we had a justice system in Canada that picked up everyone who broke bail conditions, then I might be prone to saying, that as a law-and-order kind of guy, I could support Lich being detained.

That’s not who we are though, and our system continues to release violent repeat offenders on bail with no regard for community safety. On Monday, I was at a news conference with Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Toronto Mayor John Tory where they lamented repeat offenders for gun crimes being out on bail to reoffend.

“Chief Ramer, or before him Chief Saunders, could tell you of many instances, not just one, where people are getting out on bail for example, over and over and over again, when they’re charged with firearms offenses, and that simply has to be changed,” Tory said when discussing the recent spate of shootings in Toronto.

Our paper has been full of such stories and will have more to come in the future I’m sure, but police and prosecutors are worried about Lich taking a photo with someone more than 400 kilometres away from Parliament Hill.

Just this week, Toronto Police were looking for a man in an assault investigation saying the man was wanted on six counts of assault, two counts of assault with a weapon, six counts of choking and six counts of breach of probation among other charges. In another incident, two men were charged in a robbery with robbery with a weapon, disguise with intent, conspiracy to commit an indictable offence and fail to comply recognizance, which is police code for out on bail.

Those are just two cases police revealed on Monday.

One of the worst cases I’ve covered involved two men, both with bail and court conditions upon them, accused of shooting up a child’s birthday party last summer. Three children were injured from bullets flying in that incident.

Yet Tamara Lich is the real threat to society, not hardened, repeat offenders who shoot up streets, commit robberies or repeatedly assault people over several months. Our justice system is not supposed to be political, but whether we’re talking about the Lich case or the recent revelations that Justin Trudeau’s government interfered in the investigation into the Nova Scotia mass shooting, it’s clear we have a government intent on making justice political.

 

 

Dutch Farmers ...

 ... are as mad as hell and they aren't going to take it anymore:

Farmers driving tractors blocked highways in the Netherlands on Monday in the latest protest sparked by a government pledge to rein in pollution emissions, a move that will hit the country's agriculture sector.

Authorities urged motorists to check traffic updates before setting off, amid the protests that follow a gathering last week of tens of thousands of farmers in the central Netherlands that also caused traffic chaos around the country.

“We advise road users to be extra alert,” the government's road and water department said in a statement. At least three highways were affected by the protests.

Local broadcaster Omroep Brabant showed a truck dumping large, plastic-covered bales of hay on a highway near the town of Liessel, some 150 kilometers (93 miles) southeast of the capital, Amsterdam. On at least two more highways, farmers drove or parked their tractors, snarling traffic.

The Dutch governing coalition has mandated reductions in emissions of nitrogen oxides and ammonia of up to 70% in many areas of the country close to protected nature areas — even reaching as high as 95% in some places. The government has been forced to act after courts in recent years began blocking permits for infrastructure and housing projects because the country was missing its emissions targets.

The government has earmarked an extra 24.3 billion euros ($25.6 billion) to finance agricultural reforms that will likely make many farmers drastically reduce their number of livestock or to get rid of them altogether.

The pollution reduction targets, which have to be achieved by provincial governments, have been opposed even by members of Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s own party and other members of his coalition. Provincial governments have been given a year to formulate plans to meet the targets.

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Holland closes dozens of farms and cattle ranches to reduce nitrogen by 30%. Angry and hungry farmers block the nation everywhere. pic.twitter.com/VNSodhGanB

— RadioGenova (@RadioGenova) June 28, 2022

 

In Xi's China

A country we have no business trading with:

Digital censors quickly deleted a hashtag “the next five years” Monday as online discussion swirled in response to reported remarks of Beijing's Communist Party secretary saying that the capital city will normalize pandemic prevention controls over the course of the next five years.

Beijing's Communist Party chief, Cai Qi, made the remarks Monday morning as part of a report on the Party's management of the city.

The citywide party congress is held once every five years, ahead of the national level party congress, which is slated for this fall. At the congresses, members generally review the work of the past five years while also announcing goals for the next five years.

“In the next five years, Beijing will resolutely, unremittingly, do a good job in normalizing pandemic prevention controls," according to a cached version of the remarks in Beijing Daily, the main Communist Party mouthpiece in the capital city.

The city “will implement high quality regular PCR tests, and screening at key points, strictly inspect entries in residential communities, work units and public institutions,” it said.

The current version of the Beijing Daily no longer has the phrase “in the next five years.” On Weibo, the hashtag “the next five years” was deleted. A search for it on the social media platform turns up a notice saying the topic could not be displayed “according to relevant laws, regulations and policies,” a common error message for topics deleted by the app's censors.

 

And the Rest of It

Imagine if the oil sector wasn't destroyed by a spoiled frat-boy:

Germany hopes to import liquefied natural gas from Canada to help replace the Russian gas it still relies on for more than a third of its imports, down from about half before the invasion of Ukraine. Germany and Canada have been discussing options for an LNG terminal on Canada’s east coast to export to Europe, German officials said.

 

It is to laugh at both Canada and Germany, both of which destroyed their energy concerns. 

 

 

Apparently, Canadians don't need jobs:

Half of foreign college and university students in Canada are in the workforce, says federal research. The new figures follow a proposal from members of the Commons industry committee to lift a cap that limits foreign students to part time work: “International students have become an integral part of the labour force.”

Making the Pope prostate before Big Aboriginal:

The federal government is expected to soon announce funding for residential school survivors who want to attend the papal visit in-person or by holding their own community events, according to a senior government source.

 

When do we talk about Justin's dad's involvement?

 

Also:

"Land guardians can help the land heal," she said. "And the land can help the guardians heal."

Ball is at the forefront of the new way Canada protects its remaining healthy rivers, lakes, forests, mountains and plains. Crown governments would once rope off an area deemed particularly scenic or good for outdoor recreation and call it a park.

No longer.

"There's no future when it comes to conservation where the federal government is involved (and) Indigenous people aren't involved from the get-go," said federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. "This traditional model is a thing of the past."

Conservation is now something Indigenous people lead instead of something done to them. Most protected areas in Canada are now being proposed by Indigenous groups, who aim to look after those lands themselves.

 

Yeah about that:

 

Is there still a Canada left to hate?:

“We are reimagining a Canada Day, a new day, that includes a reflective, inclusive and fun day for everyone to come together,” the announcement read. There will be “pop-up stages” and “pipe ceremonies” and “picnic tables” and so forth, but nothing about Confederation, the country or Canada itself. Canada Day has been reimagined right out of existence.

The French announcement is even more clear, with no mention of Canada at all: “July 1st at the dawn of a new time!”

 

Oh, please. Canada can't do anything right. It certainly won't become a "haven".

But it does situate a complete douchebag:

Trudeau’s Liberal government is ignoring the pleas of some fifteen thousand Canadians who are demanding that the government not strip pro-life pregnancy centres of their charitable tax status. The Prime Minister’s finance minister recently responded to the petitioners, telling them that despite their concerns, the “Government of Canada is committed to taking action” against pro-life organizations.

 

Pro-life groups, stop thinking that you can change the minds of these troglodytes.

Bring back your "Show the Truth" campaigns and grim statistics and park outside Harrington Lake.

Also - "moral decay" is about right:

What a tragic failure we have been to young Eric Coulam. It’s only been six years since Canada legalized euthanasia and while it was first justified as something necessary for those with a terminal illness in the last days of their life, it has now become something nearly everyone can access, including young Canadians who are not able to secure the medical help they need to live.

It is an example of moral decay that we now live in a country where every resource is available to end the life of the sufferer, rather than find solutions to the suffering. The slippery slope is real and it’s time for Canadians to demand an end to this ever-expansive euthanasia regime.

 

And:

Lithuanian bishops have called on politicians to vote down proposed same-sex partnership legislation, quoting words used by Pope Francis to argue that civil unions distort the concept of marriage and family.

Lithuania's parliament last month voted to accept for further debate a draft bill legalizing same-sex civil partnerships, after voting down a similar bill in May 2021.

In a pastoral letter to the faithful, the Lithuanian Bishops Conference -- a body which unites the country's bishops -- quoted a 2016 treatise by Pope Francis which states "de facto unions or unions of the same sex cannot simply be equated with marriage".

"The draft law on civil unions essentially proposes what Pope Francis urges us not to do - to equate de facto unions and same-sex unions with marriage. We cannot support this bill, which distorts and devalues the concepts of marriage and the family," the bishops wrote.

The bishops said civil partnership could be "a Trojan Horse" leading to civil marriage.

 

Like the Trojan Horse of free speech in this country.

 

We Don't Have to Trade With China, Part Deux

And yet:

The foreign minister of Tuvalu pulled out of the United Nations Ocean Conference opening in Portugal on Monday after China blocked the participation of three Taiwanese included in the tiny Pacific island nation's delegation list, according to Radio New Zealand.

Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, is not a member of the United Nations and its citizens are unable to attend U.N. events as representatives of Taiwan.

Tuvalu Foreign Minister Simon Kofe withdrew from the conference after China challenged the accreditation of three Taiwanese delegates included in Tuvalu's delegation, Radio New Zealand reported on Monday.

The nation of 12,000 people has had diplomatic ties with Taiwan since 1979, and is one of 14 countries that continues to have diplomatic relations with Taiwan rather than China.

Taiwan is largely excluded from international organisations that have China as a member.

Taiwan's Foreign Ministry thanked Tuvalu for its support, and expressed condemnation of China.

"China's arbitrary pressure on (U.N.) member states has only once again revealed its nasty nature," the ministry said.

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Hong Kong is preparing to introduce new middle school textbooks that will deny the Chinese territory was ever a British colony. China’s Communist rulers say the semi-autonomous city and the nearby former Portuguese colony of Macao were merely occupied by foreign powers and that China never relinquished sovereignty over them.

It’s not a new position for China, but the move is a further example of Beijing’s determination to enforce its interpretation of history and events and inculcate patriotism as it tightens its grip over Hong Kong following massive protests demanding democracy in 2019.

“Hong Kong has been Chinese territory since ancient times,” says one new textbook seen by the AP. “While Hong Kong was occupied by the British following the Opium War, it remained Chinese territory.”

It is one of four sets of textbooks being offered to schools to replace those currently in use, all stating the same position, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post newspaper reported earlier this week.

Hong Kong was a British colony from 1841 until its handover to Chinese rule in 1997, with the exception of Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945. Its colonial status was the result of a pair of 19th century treaties signed at the end of the first and second Opium Wars, along with the granting of a 99-year lease in 1898 to the New Territories, which greatly expanded the size of the colony.

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A small Chinese study detailed in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal showed neutralising antibodies against some Omicron sub-variants were largely undetectable after two doses of a Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, with a booster shot only partly restoring them.

The study comes as China, which has approved only locally developed COVID shots including the Sinopharm vaccine, strives to improve vaccination rates, maintaining a "dynamic zero COVID" policy aimed at eradicate all outbreaks while many countries have adopted an approach of learning to live with the virus.

The vaccine, BBIBP-CorV, is one of the two Sinopharm COVID shots approved for use in China, and is also the main shot that the state-owned firm has exported.

Among 25 individuals who received two doses of BBIBP-CorV vaccine, the neutralising activity against sub-variants such as BA.2.12.1 and BA.4/BA.5 "was not or only minimally detectable", researchers said in correspondence published on Monday.

Neutralising activity against those sub-variants was observed in just 24-48% of subjects who received a BBIBP-CorV booster shot after the two-dose product, researchers said, citing results from a group of 25 participants.

The rate improved slightly, to 30-53%, for those who received a third shot made by a unit of Chongqing Zhifei Biological Products, another vaccine approved for use in China, according to data from another group of 30 subjects.

The study did not discuss the boosters' efficacy, a rate that reflects how well they could lower the risk of COVID disease or death, which is usually observed in large clinical trials.

 

Why Would Anyone Not Trust the Government?

 

Funny and true.

I can think of a few reasons:

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the Department of Environment admitted in a recent Inquiry of Ministry that the WeatherCAN application collected personal information of Canadians –  including locations and email addresses of users.

“All personal information created, held or collected via this app by the department is protected under the Privacy Act,” wrote staff. 

 

Why would anyone want to know when I checked the weather?

 

 

The ends justify the means:

The information revealed this week that alleges political interference in the Nova Scotia mass shooting probe in April 2020 was initially withheld by the Department of Justice, says the public inquiry investigating the tragedy.

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This is a breathtaking allegation: that the head of the RCMP promised PMO she'd get details about a mass murder weapon released for the purposes of helping them advance gun control measures. https://t.co/Da9LrK9nqu

— Aaron Wudrick 🇨🇦 (@awudrick) June 21, 2022

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RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki “made a promise” to Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and the Prime Minister’s Office to leverage the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020 to get a gun control law passed. 

A week after the murders, Lucki pressured RCMP in Nova Scotia to release details of the weapons used by the killer. But RCMP commanders in Nova Scotia refused to release such details, saying doing so would threaten their investigation into the murders.

The Trudeau government’s gun control objectives were spelled out in an order in council issued in May 2020, and were encapsulated in Bill C-21, which was tabled last month, but the concern in April 2020 was the extent to which politics threatened to interfere with a cross-border police investigation into how the killer managed to obtain and smuggle into Canada four illegal guns used to commit many of the 22 murders.

 

Truckers are bad and scary and made Justin run away:

In a recent CBC Radio interview defending his government’s response to the Freedom Convoy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that tow truck drivers in Ottawa required the Emergencies Act to move in on rigs within the city’s downtown core. 

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Ottawa police say they are aware of planned protests for Canada Day, and say they won’t allow a repeat of the ‘Freedom Convoy’ occupation that took over downtown earlier this year.

 

Bouncy castles are a bane of the gods! 

Because "transparency":

The Liberals blocked a motion calling on Ottawa to provide all documents used to justify restricting travel for Canadians during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, during Thursday’s House of Commons transport committee, NDP MP Taylor Bachrach sponsored a motion requesting “a copy of all relevant documents containing public health advice and scientific modeling received by the Minister of Transport” used to justify quarantines, masking, mandatory vaccination and other measures. 

“All of a sudden there was a decision to suspend the mandates without really an explanation of what changed,” Bachrach explained. 

“The way it’s supposed to work is the public health officials provide the advice to the government and then the government takes action. What we’re interested in is when did the public health officials first start advising the government these specific measures were no longer effective and could safely be suspended?”

 

No One Would Make Fun of the Canadian Government If It Was Smart

It isn't:

Canadians writing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have a five percent chance of getting a reply, records show. The Privy Council Office explained the Prime Minister gets a lot of junk mail: “Almost every day as Prime Minister I learn new things.”

 

One means that he send e-mails to the junk file.

He can't read and "I pay too much for gas!" is getting so old. 

 

Never apologise:

Organizers of a rodeo in southern Alberta are apologizing for a parade float with a turban-wearing man in a fake beard seated on a manure spreader with the words “The Liberal” painted on the side.

Photos of the float from Saturday’s event in Sundre, Alta., about 80 kilometres northwest of Calgary, circulated on social media. It drew condemnation from a Sikh group in Calgary, which said the float was racist, as well as from some Alberta MPs.

Sundre Pro Rodeo posted a statement from its parade committee on Facebook saying the float had not been approved and had joined the parade without passing through any registration.

 

But Jag and Justin ARE full of crap!

Show your thin skins again, guys.

No One Watches the CBC

And one can see why:

Drag Story Hour events are popular at many libraries in the country, and usually feature a performer in drag reading children's books about inclusion. They are often held in collaboration with local LGBTQ associations and have caused only minor controversy in the past. 

(Sidebar: yes, about that ...)

But amid a surge in anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and policies in the U.S., and a conservative movement in Canada increasingly influenced by right-wing politics south of the border, the all-ages drag events have turned into flashpoints of anger.

 

As one can see, the CBC has hit the usual social conservative and American nerves in this piece.

It's amateurish and utterly false.

Remember - this is the same CBC that claimed that the convoys were Russian in origin, that foreign interventionists were a part of the convoy (the story had to be retracted) and influenced already stupid politicians.

If Canadians are going to watch fiction, at least it shouldn't pretend that it is news or in any way factual.

It Was Never About a Virus, Part Deux

We all know it by now:

Buchan et al, 297 avoidable cases heart damage in Ontario. Kids landing in emergency departments or hospitalized unnecessarily. Should be enjoying school, sports, social life--instead injured and damaged with investigational mandated products. For kids healthy hearts--defer. pic.twitter.com/qb90yWpE6W

— Peter McCullough, MD MPH (@P_McCulloughMD) June 25, 2022

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More and new information is coming to light over recently released FOI emails from the Province of British Columbia (B.C.) government. Amazing Polly went through them and they detail how Dr. Bonnie Henry, the Provincial Health Officer, knew about vaccine-related injuries and deaths in B.C. as early as June 2021.

Polly notes that three things immediately popped out to her:

1. The people involved in B.C.’s ministry of health are “protecting the vaccine products and not the people receiving them.”
2. There are a lot of conflicts of interest between health officials and the entities they ostensibly oversee with payments, awards, etc.
3. How the government manipulates information to keep the public in the dark about health products.

Polly lists the 16 ways the ‘health authorities’ defend pharmaceutical products over consumers. These points are based on the aforementioned FOI emails from the B.C.’s ministry of health.

These include delaying the reporting of adverse events while coordinating responses across all sectors, allowing authorities to manipulate statistics and avoid issues its citizens may have.

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School trustees were entitled to suspend or fire teachers even if vaccine mandates were not medically justified, a labour arbitrator has ruled. The decision came in the case of an Ontario school board that disciplined 52 elementary teachers who declined to show proof of vaccination: “There is no dispute that none of the provincial or public health authorities required or specifically recommended the board make vaccination mandatory.”

 

I hope that the school board is going to fire the thrice-vaxxed teachers who keep getting sick.

Those guys are a real danger!

We Don't Have to Trade With China

But we do:

Hong Kong police will officially swap British-style marching for the “goose step” used in mainland China on July 1, as the city sheds signs of its colonial past under Beijing’s growing control.

 

Yeah, that must be it.

 

He Has A Point

Price controls failed in the 1970s.

What makes these clowns think Russia will go along with this? Russia can just cutoff the natural gas and oil to Europe until they cry uncle.

Our elected "leaders" are economically illiterate. pic.twitter.com/3ocY0FHSbS

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) June 26, 2022

 

 

It Was Never About a Virus

And we know it:

Canada’s public health agency made a “tragic error” by grounding its COVID-19 response policies on coercion rather than persuasion, which was a key medical principle that had been thrown away during the pandemic, according to Dr. Richard Schabas, a former Ontario chief medical officer of health.

 

You don't say.

 

Your Wasteful and Lunatic Government and You

It's what people voted for:

Members of the Senate communications committee are demanding cabinet spell out regulations under a YouTube bill that passed the Commons Tuesday by a 208 to 117 vote. Senators balked at demands they first pass the bill and see details later: “It will affect potentially every single Canadian who uses the internet.”

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau headed to the G7 summit in Germany on Saturday without a consensus from the Commonwealth to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but with a chorus of countries calling for help to overcome the fallout of the war.

 

Pick up the slack, Justin!

 

 

Whatever you say, liar:

The federal public safety minister says he is “deeply committed” to enhancing oversight of the RCMP by strengthening the role of the national police force’s management advisory board.

 

More Gestapo!

 

Oh, that will help!:

The federal government has created a special task force to help tackle the major delays with immigration applications and passport processing that have left Canadians frustrated.

It's Church-Burning Season in Canada!

Father Doug Jeffrey received a jarring text at 7:28 a.m. Thursday: It included a picture of a beloved church he pastored for the past three years in flames.

"The text just alerted me to the fact that the church was on fire and that it was mostly destroyed," the Catholic priest said of Our Lady of the Smile church, one of three he administers.

He said the text shocked him, and he thought "No, not our little church."

Now that it's sunk in, that shock has shifted to sadness.

A little more than an hour before that, Meadow Lake RCMP had been called to the church located on Waterhen Lake First Nation, about 200 kilometres north of North Battleford.

The fire was determined to be suspicious in the RCMP's initial investigation, and police have asked anyone with information to contact them.

 

 

It's a Cult And We All Know It

But don't take my word for it:

https://t.co/qEhloYU6gY

— Dumisani Washington (@DumisaniTemsgen) June 25, 2022

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You godless commies are forcibly sterilizing Uyghur women.

Your one evil child policy has created a generation of lost men.

Yesterday was a victory for life, so it's no surprise an apologist for the death merchants of the CCP is sad. https://t.co/SKBBm38D3n

— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) June 25, 2022

 

We could go on all day about China and its child-hating policies.

But one digresses ...

 

 

The money-shot, as they say:

The payoff with kids comes later. The energy you put into them as a parent when they’re little is returned with interest when you have children who become interesting, productive, and loving people. When you’re old and your world has contracted, your former employer won’t come and visit with you in the old age home but your children will, bringing the grandkids with them. The thing about kids is that it’s delayed gratification on an epic scale but it comes with a huge reward at the end of the line.

But for corporations, their employees’ children are simply an economic burden. If abortion is illegal in any given state, that employer is going to make darn sure it gets the current benefit of a childless woman now. Years later, when her employer no longer has any use for her, that same woman may find herself facing a very lonely old age.

 

Remember this, pro-abortion women, when you are a dried-out husk of a human being and your long-gone job that was mechanised or given to a cheap labour worker was what you hung onto. 

Did it thank you? Did your boss thank you?

 Don't lie and say that it was worth it. 

People can tell.

 

Yeah, Justin IS a laughingstock, isn't he?:

Trudeau once called the Freedom Convoy protesters that journeyed to Ottawa last February a “small fringe minority” who held “unacceptable views.” Funny, I thought liberals were all about protecting minorities. But I guess not the ones who hold “unacceptable views,” meaning those with which they disagree.

“No government, politician, or man should tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body.” Really? That is childishly obvious hypocrisy. The government tells women (and men) they cannot murder another human being for their convenience. Or club a baby seal to death. Or drive over the speed limit. Or walk into a convenience store and buy a pack of cigarettes before they turn 18. Etc., etc., etc.

“No government, politician, or man should tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body?” That’s as may be.

But, if she has an “unacceptable view,” Trudeau’s government might tell her what to think.

 

Whatever you say, PM "Learning Experience":

After weeks of discussion about the Kokanee grope, where Trudeau groped a female reporter and then apologized for being “so forward,” the PM kinda skated past the issue last July.

“I am confident that I did not act inappropriately,” Trudeau said at the time.

“I’ll be blunt about it — often a man experiences an interaction as being benign or not inappropriate, and a woman, particularly in a professional context, can experience it differently.”

Then he called the whole affair a “learning experience” for everyone in society.

 

I've learned that Justin is a disgusting creep.

And you?

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So the prime minister’s comment was not only an unwarranted intrusion into another country’s constitutional practice; it was also lopsided, or more precisely, partisan. Mr. Trudeau, almost as if he were speaking to his own citizens, was solemnly empathetic (to one side). “My heart goes out to the millions of American women,” he said on Twitter. “I can’t imagine the fear and anger you are feeling right now.”

This has a virtuosic, almost Bill-Clinton-level-deployment of the “I feel your pain” formula. But it has other elements more disturbing than that.  ...

What about fixing the embarrassing passport mess? Canadian citizens looking to renew or obtain the most vital civic document are lining up at 1 a.m. in some cities, bringing tents to stay overnight and hold their place in the interminable lines. It is a scandal of pure incompetence in a 21st-century modern country. Pearson airport is, as one visitor accurately described it, a mess and a “hell.” It takes longer sometimes to get out of Pearson than to have your passport renewed.

Inflation is prodigiously increasing. Food prices are leaping higher than they have in years. Gasoline and fuel, basic commodities, are at their highest since the ’70s oil crisis. Then of course we have the issue of “interference” with the police forces, the allegation that the PMO and some ministers urged the RCMP commissioner to give direction to the investigators in Halifax on the dreadful mass murder from last year. Which came on the heels of the still-unjustified, still-unaccounted for declaration of the Emergencies Act, with its seizure of bank accounts and vast invasion of basic civil liberties. Should I mention huge deficits and our mad trillion-dollar national debt? Or the truly miserable state of our economy following the two-year and mismanaged COVID regime?

If Mr. Trudeau wishes to offer exhortations on issues, there’s a bucket of them right on his desk. Things he has control over. Issues, in which and of which he is either the instigator or the subject of.

 

But sermonising and flying away to other countries is much easier.

 

This Country Is Rolled Over By A Pack of Robber-Barons and Narcissists

At least the American have checks and balances to somewhat prevent a serial pants-soiler from destroying what used to be a functioning economy.

Take, for example, this groping racist who used his own child to hide behind as he fled from his own irate citizens:

Justin Trudeau says people who chose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19 must accept the consequences of those decisions, including lost employment and restricted access to transportation and other services.

"It was their choice and nobody ever was going to force anyone into doing something they don't want to do," the prime minister said in an interview with CBC Radio's The House airing on Saturday. 

"But there are consequences when you don't. You cannot choose to put at risk your co-workers. You cannot choose to put at risk the people sitting beside you on an airplane," Trudeau said before leaving for international summits in Africa and Europe.

Federal vaccine mandates played a major role in last fall's election campaign and proved to be a focus of public anger earlier this year that contributed to the occupation of downtown Ottawa and blockades at border crossings in four provinces.

More protests are planned in the nation's capital over the Canada Day long weekend even though the federal government lifted most of the restrictions this week.

 

Thank you for attempting to justify your tyranny, Justin. 

Now, run away like a good, little coward. 

No wonder he wants censorship. Anything than hear how much he is hated:

I’ll give you a simple example. Instead of saying – and the Act precludes this – we will make changes to your algorithms as many European countries are contemplating doing – instead, we will say this is the outcome we want. We want Canadians to find Canadian music. How best to do it? How will you do it? I don’t want to manipulate your algorithm. I want you to manipulate it to produce a particular outcome. And then we will have hearings to decide what are the best ways and explore it.

Scott’s comments confirm what Rodriguez has misleadingly denied and Bill C-11 critics have maintained for months: the bill’s discoverability requirements will obviously require algorithmic manipulation in order to prioritize Canadian content. The notion that the CRTC is only tinkering with algorithms indirectly rather than directly makes little difference given the harms that the regulation can cause to Canada’s digital creators who may find the algorithmic manipulation at home has disastrous consequences abroad. Given the confirmation that algorithmic manipulation due to regulatory requirements is absolutely a possible outcome of Bill C-11, it will be up to the Senate to fix the bill when it conducts extensive hearings in the fall.

 

Why not repeal this monstrosity?

 

 

Because "transparency":

Four crucial pages of a senior Mountie's notes were missing the first time the federal Department of Justice sent them to the public inquiry looking into the Nova Scotia mass shooting.

The key section included allegations the head of the RCMP promised politicians the force would release information about guns used during the April 2020 rampage.

The Mass Casualty Commission said the federal government sent 132 pages of Supt. Darren Campbell's handwritten notes in mid-February 2022, but that the file had no references to a meeting with Commissioner Brenda Lucki on April 28, 2020.

Three weeks ago, the inquiry received a second file of Campbell's notes for the same time period. The package included the pages Campbell wrote about a conference call he and other senior officers in Nova Scotia had with Lucki.

It happened just over a week after a gunman disguised as a Mountie killed 22 people, including a pregnant woman, injured others and destroyed several homes by fire.

 

 

Says the lap-dog who colluded with Justin to keep Canadians under the jackboot:

New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh prated on at a press conference on Thursday, where he condemned Conservative politicians for meeting with members of the Freedom Convoy.

During his comments, Singh said that the goal of the Freedom Convoy was to "overthrow" the Trudeau government.

 

Who did you vote for, Canada?:

As inflation rates soar to the highest they've been in Canada in forty years, nearly half of Canadians say that right now, they're doing worse financially than they were at this time last year.

A further third say they expect things to get even worse in the coming year, the largest number of people to answer this way in more than a decade.

 

How is that subsidised day-care and load of carbon taxes looking now?

Roe vs. Wade Overturned

The hand-wringing from the idiot cultists who believe that men can gestate is to be expected:

The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives. Pp. 8–79.

(a) The critical question is whether the Constitution, properly understood, confers a right to obtain an abortion. Casey’s controlling opinion skipped over that question and reaffirmed Roe solely on the basis of stare decisis. A proper application of stare decisis, however, requires an assessment of the strength of the grounds on which Roe 2 DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION Syllabus was based. The Court therefore turns to the question that the Casey plurality did not consider. Pp. 8–32.

(1) First, the Court reviews the standard that the Court’s cases have used to determine whether the Fourteenth Amendment’s reference to “liberty” protects a particular right. The Constitution makes no express reference to a right to obtain an abortion, but several constitutional provisions have been offered as potential homes for an implicit constitutional right. Roe held that the abortion right is part of a right to privacy that springs from the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. See 410 U. S., at 152–153. The Casey Court grounded its decision solely on the theory that the right to obtain an abortion is part of the “liberty” protected by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. Others have suggested that support can be found in the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, but that theory is squarely foreclosed by the Court’s precedents, which establish that a State’s regulation of abortion is not a sex-based classification and is thus not subject to the heightened scrutiny that applies to such classifications. See Geduldig v. Aiello, 417 U. S. 484, 496, n. 20; Bray v. Alexandria Women’s Health Clinic, 506 U. S. 263, 273–274. Rather, regulations and prohibitions of abortion are governed by the same standard of review as other health and safety measures.  …

 

Read the whole thing.

It was bad law from a legal standpoint. It still does not mean abortion stops in its tracks.