Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Another Catholic Church Up In Flames and Still No Outrage in Canada, the Country That is Supposed to Bleed For Any Ethnic, Religious, Sexuality, Gender Based Hate Crimes

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/fire-destroys-catholic-church-north-of-edmonton-rcmp-say-blaze-suspicious 

Silence From Canada's Elected Politicians When it Comes to Burning of Catholic Churches; thr Same Government That Has Called Out Racism at Many Other Events

The same government that came running during a hoax of a child's hijab being ripped off, that kneeled for eight minutes with Black Lives Matter, that scrambled to be in London for a Muslim family that was run down, that has been paranoid of anti Asian sentiment during a pandemic and a serious security incident in a Winnipeg microbiology lab, that has falsely tried to right thr wrongs with First Nations, that has highlighted various forms if vandalism and synagogues and mosques is nowhere to be seen nor heard when it comes to Catholic churches.

"...Four Catholic churches have been burned down in the last week on First Nations land in B.C.’s Southern Interior. Two others, one in northern B.C, the other in southern Alberta, set on fire. Churches have also been the target of vandalism, most recently in Edmonton where a statue of Pope John Paul II was covered in red paint. And yet, there has been silence from most political leaders, including Justin Trudeau..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ben-woodfinden-burning-down-places-of-worship-even-catholic-churches-must-be-condemned

Another Trap Laid By the Liberals as Parliament and Senate Break for Summer and Next Meeting May Be Election/Leaders Debate

Bills C-6, C-10, C-12 and C-30. Two out of four.  Rushed bills like this, so much for the Senate's role of "independence" - who are they (appointed) working for?  The Liberals will use the bills HASTILY put forth to the Senate as a "virtue signalling" trap leading up to or if an election/leaders debate is called. Everyone including the media will blindly buy this virtuous circus. 

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/senate-passes-net-zero-bill-set-to-debate-budget-bill-before-rising-for-summer

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Not Just Your Elected MPs But Appointed Senators Behaving Badly: Senator Woo Defends China And Wants To Interfere With a Vote

 Will Canada grow up and stand for itself and own agenda.  Free of influence, political correctness, 

"...A Canadian senator has urged the Senate not to condemn China’s record on the Uighurs, arguing that Canada has its own history of genocide.

"...Sen. Yuen Pau Woo also said the Chinese are happy with their government — more happy than Canadians are with their own.

In a speech on Monday, Woo asked his fellow members of the house of sober second thought to vote against a motion that would condemn the genocide of the Uighur Muslim minority and call for the 2022 Olympic Games to be moved from Beijing if the genocide does not end, saying it “does not add any actionable measure specific to the Uighur situation in China; it is simply an exercise in labelling.”

Somehow the Incompetencies and Faults of the Liberal Party Are Chronically Tolerated: MP Bennett's Treatment of Wilson-Raybould and Other Examples

 The list goes on when it comes to unpunished Liberal MPs, "...And why not? It’s not like the Trudeau government ever punishes under-performng ministers for their foibles. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan remains in office despite a blisteringly inept performance, a record so bad Canada’s military ombudsman called a press conference a week ago to publicly denounce it. Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault spent weeks trying and failing to coherently explain a critical change in the Broadcasting Act, handling the file so badly it may yet be put to death by an unconvinced Senate. Yet he’ll be OK..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/kelly-mcparland-carolyn-bennett-hangs-on-to-her-pension-and-privilege

Social Media Out of Touch With Reality? Say it Aint So: Overwhelming Majority of Canadians DO Want Canada Day and See More of our Flag Displayed

"...The poll surveyed 1,542 Canadians between June 18 and 20. Among respondents, fervent support also came for the Canadian flag. Sixty-nine per cent said they wanted to see the Canadian flag displayed “more often and in more places.”

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/cancel-canada-day-the-vast-majority-of-canadians-disagree

The Efforts Made and the Great Lengths Canadians Will Go to Recklessly Delve into History To Prove Someone As a Negative Versus Focusing on the Little Known Yet Good Parts of Our History Is Sickening and Disappointing

 The state of "Canadian History Expertise" is dangerous.  Although a light needs to be shed on these negative events all the focus is on tearing down and making Canada look its worst.  Where are the amateur historians when it comes to other matters or significant events in Canadian history? 

http://nationalpost.com/news/local-news/edmonton-catholic-board-trustees-unanimously-vote-to-rename-grandin-school-remove-mural-from-building-exterior/wcm/bb51c485-d2d5-4e0f-87b6-7ceb66f98bd9


More Catholic Churches Vandalized or Burned Down: Where is the Wide Spread Media Coversge For this Religion Based Atrocity ?

Two wrongs do not make a right but in this case two wrongs make the second unacknowledged.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/little-damage-as-suspicious-fire-probed-at-abandoned-church-in-northwestern-b-c

Sunday, June 27, 2021

Canada: Where Selective and Allowable Outrage Is Allowed in Burning Down Catholic Chirches :

 Add to the protesting thuggery of vandalism and defacing statues. Now the burning if not one but four Catholic churches, down to the ground, does not spark outrage and blame from the media but almost a tone of understanding and justification. Had it been a mosque, synagogue or other there would be hell to pay. 

Although Bill C-36 was sneakily and cheekily introduced after the House closed for its summer break and only relates to online hate, here we have a real life example with no mention of "hate crime" reported. 

http://nationalpost.com/news/two-more-catholic-churches-burn-down-on-indigenous-land-in-b-c-s-interior/wcm/8c8557c5-1415-437e-8146-bc0590e0212e


Saturday, June 26, 2021

How Citizenship is Viewed By Those Not Living in Canada: Ignoring Their Own Gall, Perhaps They Could Start By Reviewing Their Own Country's Citizenship Policies

 The arguments for an everlasting chain of descent and ancestry based reasons that could be applied to multi-generations that have never lived in Canada is ludicrous.  The chain needs to stop at some point. It is also frustrating hearing people from other countries telling Canada what it should do about its immigration and citizenship policies. She should look no further than her own native USA to understand how Canada could be behaving. Try making these same arguments to the US Customs control/Department of Immigration/IRS  and see how far you get.  

The flaws of her argument are: 

Arguing birth rates - it does not help when you have no idea whether your son will live in the USA or Canada. The fact that your son is at least two generations removed from being born in Canada, despite the ties and knowledge of its institutions, and lives in a state almost the furthest away from the border like will result in living in the USA.  And no help to birth rates of Canada. 

Ease of crossing the border - passports are for crossing borders, citizenship holds a right to vote and a responsibility of being an active, knowledgeable abiding, tax paying person of that country.  If her concern is genuinely crossing the border, apply for permanent resident status. And when your infant is closer to an age of majority, not 1 year old. 

The Globe and Mail: I am a Canadian citizen. Why can’t my son be a Canadian citizen, too?.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-i-am-a-canadian-citizen-why-cant-my-son-be-a-canadian-citizen-too/

Canada Accepts More Refugees Than Entire USA: Liberals Will Not Stop at Anything Immigration/Refugee Related In Order to Stsck Votes for Generations and to Set the Trap For Opposition Parties

Doubly unfortunate for the 45,001st applicant.

"...On June 18, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino announced ambitious new targets for the number of “protected persons” — refugees and asylum seekers who are given leave to reside in Canada while their cases are being decided — and their families who will be admitted to Canada. The number will go up from 23,500 in 2020, to 45,000 in 2021 (Canada has admitted an average of 30,000 in recent years)..."

Diversity, inclusion and compassion of course will be argued but are not genuine when the amount is based on mathematical limits:

"...According to 2019 data from the City of Toronto, 40 per cent of individuals living in the city’s homeless shelters were refugees and asylum claimants. Among families staying in Toronto shelters, in 2018, the city noted that refugees and asylum claimants represented a staggering 80 per cent of the total. Similarly, a study of Ottawa’s homeless shelters in 2018 revealed that almost a quarter of those using the shelters were refugees or immigrants...."

And it is not just on a per capita basis, Canada deliberately set limits,  sought after and accepted more refugees than the entire USA, with 10 times more the population.

"...It is striking that Canada admits more refugees than the United States, a country with a vastly larger population. In fact, Canada overtook the U.S. in 2018, when this country resettled 28,000 refugees, compared to 23,000 in the U.S. Part of this no doubt reflects the Trump administration’s’ crackdown on admitting refugees, but it also speaks to the Trudeau government’s ambition to accept a large number of them..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rupa-subramanya-why-are-the-liberals-doubling-our-refugee-intake-when-so-many-of-them-end-up-on-the-streets

Friday, June 25, 2021

Canada Continues to Shoot Itself in the Foot With Ongoing Dealings With China: Will the Canadian Powers That Be Ever Learn?

Now that the story has started to make headlines after a year and a half, where are the  two scientists that were fired? 

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/commons-speaker-intends-to-ask-court-to-strike-down-government-lawsuit-challenging-parliaments-right-to-know

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-trudeau-liberals-taking-house-speaker-to-court-another-arrogant-attack-on-parliament

The Shocking Behaviour From the Liberals Against Wikson-Raybould Continues, a Government That Has Professsed to Make Amends With Canada's First Nations Since 2015

The Liberals have made it a chronic career among other things of promising everything to the First Nations, even Gord Downie desperately pinning his hopes on Justin by pressing him into the spotlight of responsibility at a memorable concert in Kingston. With Justin selfishly accepting the limelight from a dying man yet neither he nor his merry band of virtuous Liberals acting on it.  

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sabrina-maddeaux-jody-wilson-raybould-slapdown-shows-trudeau-liberals-nothing-but-a-mean-girls-clique

Thursday, June 24, 2021

More of Liberals Embellishing Issues to Be the Saviour Rather Than Running the Country at its Best: Liberals Now the Crusaders of Hatred, Racism - But the Digital Kind

Unfortunately Canada is not free of racist examples known by many as a new "hatred" and many countries around the world face the same. It does not justify racism, hatred nor make it right. 

Canada's largest city of Toronto offers municipal services in 300 languages as evidenced during this important vaccination period. Canada's immigration and refugees acceptances are among the highest and most aggressive in the world. Not just on a per capita basis. Thousands of ethnic and race based events are conducted and allowed throughout Canada under the guise of culture.  Political protests for events in other countries outside of embassies are allowed whether peacefully or turned violent or involve such thuggery as defacing important and historic statues or defame the various institutions that are at Canada's roots as a country. Not a perfect country but hardly the signs of "systemic". 

Regardless of all this, instead of moving forward and encouraging Canada as one Canadian people to live better together, the Liberals have decided to pour a five gallon drum of lighter fluid on the cheapest portable barbecue on sale at Canadian Tire already chock full of an overflowing bag of coal.   Rather than move to a"cleaner burning gas" approach to racism, hatred the Liberals would rather blow the issue up in a combustible metal and carbon bonfire, carbon tax free, and ramp up the racist examples of the day in order to appear the saviours of Canadian human behaviour that may have some (suspected) biases deep within our brains.  Even so far as for Justin to so carelessly, effortlessly and recklessly point a finger at the physical  House of Commons and claim systemic racism throughout MANY if not ALL of Canada's institutions. However, this only applies to the Liberals' digital world of online. 

Now the Liberals will be telling us what racism, hatred are and what digital acts count in their legal views. Of course, it will never apply to a certain group of demographics. 

"...It would more narrowly define hatred to mean “the emotion that involves detestation or vilification” that is “stronger than dislike or disdain.” And it would specify that a statement would not be considered hate speech “solely because it discredits, humiliates or offends.”

“Hate and vilification are realities for Indigenous people, Asian, Jewish and Black Canadians, LGBTQ2 people and people with disabilities,” said Justice Minister David Lametti at a news conference Wednesday. “And some of the worst examples of hate are visible online, in that virtual public space...”

To add to the "metal and carbon bonfire" the Liberals announce all of this afternoon the House of Commons has stopped for its summer break once again duping and playing with the media. While the media accepts it. 

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/liberals-introduce-bill-to-combat-online-hate-speech-as-commons-adjourns-for-summer

 

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

With a Finite Amount of Dollars, Is The Economy Negatively Impacted With So Many Dollars Put Into Canadian Housing Versus Investment Accoumts, RRSPs, TFSAs?

 Former Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge

http://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/cash-poured-into-housing-could-choke-off-growth-dodge-1.1620755

What Do the Conservatives Have and Must Offer? In Light of the Virtuous, Overly Apologetic, Tearing Down Institutions Parties

 "...O’Toole’s theme of a country that is proud of its place in the constellation of nations; one that boasts of its belief in freedom, respect and inclusion, while acknowledging that tragic mistakes have been made, is one that resonates with more people than Trudeau’s salvation anxiety..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-otooles-pro-canada-speech-may-resonate-with-voters-tired-of-apologies


Despite One of the Most Severe Recessions, Millionaires Increase on Canada

 https://financialpost.com/executive/executive-summary/posthaste-canadian-millionaires-multiply-in-weirdest-recession-ever

Risks to Canada's Housing Market and Comparisons to UK's and USA's Problems

 "...Concern is growing that the professionals are crowding out first-time buyers and would be quick to sell if property values start to slide, which could threaten the economy.

Investors account for about a fifth of new mortgages in Canada -- the same share that prompted a crackdown in the U.K., and roughly five times the rate in the U.S. -- stoking debate over whether homes should be viewed as assets, or just places to live..."

http://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/housing-market-gone-berserk-stirs-unease-over-investors-clout-1.1620247


Are the Liberals Promoting, Expanding, Widening the Definition or Eliminating Activities Involving Hate: Section 13

 "...Under section 13, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal could issue cease-and-desist orders and impose fines up to $10,000 in response to complaints from individuals about matters likely to expose them “to hatred or contempt” for the reason of those individuals being “identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.”

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/liberals-to-introduce-new-hate-speech-bill-possibly-bringing-back-controversial-section-13

"Zoom Democracy": How the Liberals Love and Behave During a Crisis

 "...the situation has made it near impossible to hold the government to account. You can’t have a level playing field in question period with one person in the room, and the other just a talking head. The media can’t chase a politician down a hallway in cyberspace. And most Canadians are too busy trying to stay sane through this crisis to pay rapt attention to politicians’ rantings on Twitter.

On top of this, no one wanted a lockdown election, and the Liberals knew it. Consequently, they behaved more like a majority government than a minority one, ramming through a leviathan budget bill, shutting down debate on Bill C-10’s changes to the Broadcasting Act, and tabling sweeping changes to the Official Languages Act days before Parliament was set to recess for the summer..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/tasha-kheiriddin-trudeau-will-probably-miss-our-unaccountable-pandemic-parliament


Tuesday, June 22, 2021

The Plot Thickens in Winnipeg's Microbiology Lab and its Connection With Wuhan: Two Chinese Scientists Were Walked out and Later Fired

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/head-of-canadas-public-health-agency-reprimanded-for-not-providing-unredacted-documents-requested-by-mps

 "..He was responding to an order to appear in front of the House of Commons to be admonished because his agency had been found in contempt of Parliament for withholding documents that might explain why scientists Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng were fired from Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory earlier this year.

“The House has the power, and indeed the duty, to reaffirm them when obstruction or interference impedes with its deliberations. As guardian of these rights and privileges, that is precisely what the House has asked me to do today by ordering the Speaker to reprimand you for the Public Health Agency of Canada’s contempt in refusing to submit the required documents,” Rota read..."

Saturday, June 19, 2021

The "Woke-a-crats" Have Crossed Another Line and Justification For It: Rex Murphy Does Not Mince Words About Gifted Students Now Unable to be Offered Gifted Classes Due to the New Religions of Inclusion

If you don't have gifted classes then how can anyone be gifted, more gifted or less gifted? Inclusive problem? What problem? All according to the woke-a-holics. 

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-cutting-honours-programs-and-keeping-smart-kids-down-proves-the-silliness-of-inclusivity


Friday, June 18, 2021

Your Transparent Liberals At It Again: This Time Involving State Security And Viruses

 https://nationalpost.com/news/not-a-parliamentary-committee

"...For weeks, opposition members have remained in a Parliamentary deadlock with the Liberal government as they try to obtain hundreds of pages of documents related to the operations of the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg, whose collaborations with Chinese military researchers has raised alarm in Canada’s intelligence community. Two scientists — Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng — were fired from the NML in January for undisclosed reasons amid an RCMP investigation....

...There’s only so many of these labs around in the Western world, let alone among the Five Eyes,” Leuprecht said. “So if you’re going to try to infiltrate one, you’re going to try to pick the weakest link. And so once again, it turns out, that Canada was the weakest link.”

In 2019, the facility transferred Ebola and Henipah viruses to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, just months before the two scientists were escorted out of the Winnipeg lab by Canadian authorities..."

Thursday, June 17, 2021

Worst Own Goal in History and Worst Karma Experience: Goalie Born in Canada Elects to Play for Haiti and is Abysmal

https://nationalpost.com/sports/canada-reaches-final-qualifying-round-of-world-cup-after-worst-own-goal-from-haiti

"...Interestingly, the goalie who fumbled the ball is from Canada too.

The 21-year-old Duverger was born in Montreal, and was even called up to the Canadian Under-17 national team in 2016, before representing Haiti a year later..."

SIkh-Hindu Tensions Disguised as Peace Rallies and the Alleged with Direct Political Connections to Two MPs Is Off Free: Canada has Been Called Many Things Lately, Is it Now a Corrupt State Too?

 https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/alleged-victim-angry-as-assault-charge-dropped-against-relative-of-ndp-leader-and-liberal-mp

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Sobering Interest Rate Forecasts

 Better Dwelling: Canadian Mortgage Rates Forecast To Rise Over 40%, Posted Rate Can Hit 7%: Desjardins.

https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-mortgage-rates-forecast-to-rise-over-40-posted-rate-can-hit-7-desjardins/

More of Your "Transparent" Liberals, Shutting Down Debate and Fast Tracking Bill C-10: Even Speaker of the House Stands Up to this Cunning Lunacy and "Secret Law Making"

 "...The Heritage committee voted on those amendments last week, without debate or the ability to consult experts. The unusual process, in which the public wasn’t aware of what MPs were voting on until days later, was criticized as “secret” law-making by University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist...."

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/bill-c-10-hits-speed-bump-as-speaker-voids-dozens-of-secret-amendments

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Canada's Well Meaning But Ad Hoc Terrorism Laws

A white male randomly driving over and killing several random people using  a van while on a busy sidewalk of pedestrians is not a terrorist act. A male of Asian descent (Faisal Husaain) who had a brother that had  33 guns seized in 2017 randomly shoots people along Danforth, killing two young white females, not a terrorist act. Not to trivialize the Muslim family in London that was run over by a car, but four members of one family run over in one incident is applying to be treated as a terrorist act.

http://nationalpost.com/news/local-news/terrorism-charges-against-accused-in-alleged-london-hate-attack-court-hears/wcm/691db7a8-46ba-4f84-8e59-ef2c665e8402

Her First Few Days on the Job as a Liberal and Already Wordsmithing: MP Jenica Atwin Drinks the Liberal Kool Aid When it Comes to Foreign Policy While the Liberals Could Not Pass Up Taking the Bait Citing "Differences" Are Accepted in thr Party

 https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/former-green-mp-jenica-atwin-adjusts-position-on-israel-after-joining-liberal-caucus

Sunday, June 13, 2021

Friday, June 11, 2021

These Are the Candidates for the Governor General: Have We Not Learned Anything from Payette?

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/pm-to-get-short-list-of-potential-governor-general-candidates-in-a-few-days

 From a simple search or poking around, it could have been quickly determined that Payette would never have been an appropriate candidate as a GG but no, the Liberals could only see female, francophone, astronaut. 

Now the pendulum has swung the other way with the proposed underwhelming candidates to fill the prestigious representative for the Head of State, the Queen's, shoes. A Canada Post representative- seriously? 

"...acting clerk of the Privy Council Janice Charette, Inuit leader Natan Obed, Universite de Montreal rector Daniel Jutras, interim Canada Post chair Suromitra Sanatani and Judith LaRoque, a former secretary to the governor general..."

If Only Woke Was a Joke: Cancel Culture Shutring Down Canada Day, of All Days, In Victoria

 For a country with the highest immigration levels, hand picked refugees by the tens of thousands, from one particular war torn Muslim country, numerous accommodations and changes ot laws (eg. Motor cycle helmets or, policing uniform changes not required nor allowed for some), allowing illegal entry at unofficial border crossings treated with dignity, rights and respect, court and law systems based on appeals; consultation, veto rights, and land agreements for its native population (still not enough given its ongoing issues of water access); right to protest in large groups even during a pandemic for recent movements; diversity reflected everywhere even in elected mentees if parliament....Canada is so bad that it's own day is agreed to be cancelled by many? 

http://nationalpost.com/news/city-of-victoria-cancels-canada-day-broadcast-as-first-nations-mourn-residential-school-deaths/wcm/4d010362-ad00-428f-bdec-caa1fbb7a047

The Rot of Arrogance Continues to Run Deep in the Liberal Party: WE Charity Affair Reaponse Ramps Up the Gall Factor

 Not only were the Liberals caught, reluctantly held an inquiry by committee, provided nothing but heavily redacted documents, shunned committee responsibilities by providing irrelevant individuals to answer "I don't know" to all questions, but now have the gall to write a dissenting report (a "normal" Liberal party would have just ignored the findings, but no this Liberal party manages to stick its feet further into the four letter word for a terrible and organic form of quicksand). 

"...Within its scathing 116 pages lies a list of 20 recommendations to reform Canada’s lobbying and conflict of interest laws, supported by all three major opposition parties. While they largely stem from the infamous WE Charity affair, they also touch upon other suspect pandemic funding decisions, including those for large ventilator contracts.

Unfortunately, the governing Trudeau Liberals aren’t on board. They attached a four-page dissenting opinion that rejects the committees’ 20 recommendations as either “unhelpful” or “outside the scope of this study.” They also include three recommendations of their own; ones that would be comical in their hollow inanity if the subject  weren’t of such importance to Canada’s democracy and national security..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sabrina-maddeaux-the-trudeau-liberals-shrugging-at-we-ethics-report-proves-the-rot-runs-deep

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

D-Day, Don Cherry and Poppies

 https://youtu.be/NedVBhcsK5M

USA Continues Push For Control of its Borders; Meanwhile, In Canada....

 https://nationalpost.com/news/world/harris-takes-on-graft-in-guatemala-and-tells-migrants-do-not-come

More of the Liberals' Say One Thing and (Not) Do Another

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sabrina-maddeaux-chrystia-freeland-needs-to-take-her-mask-off-and-keep-her-shoes-on

"...While Liberal leaders claim to support truth and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, they continue to fight residential school survivors in court. While they call themselves feminists, they downplay and dodge accountability on a sexual misconduct crisis in the military. Liberals campaign on electoral reform, but change their mind when it might mean more votes for other parties. They talk about freedom of speech, then run one of the more secretive governments in Canadian history and table a bill to control it on the internet..."

Monday, June 7, 2021

Canadian "Convenient Ignorance": Do Canadians Want to Know History and Who We Are? Or Just Believe the Diversity, Inclusive, Environmental, Political Correctness of the Day?

 https://nationalpost.com/news/convenient-ignorance-canadians-knowledge-of-residential-schools-woefully-lacking

How many are taught about the British North American Act and understand the agreements made for Anglos and Francos to live in Canada? 

How many were taught the essence and history of the Charter of rights and freedoms?  Being 12 years old in 1982 at the time of repatriation of the Constitution it was a big focus in our history classes complete with a mini edition of Charter of rights and freedoms (I still wish I had) like a mini new testament received for communion. Now, how many (pseudo) Canadians are recklessly running around thinking they are experts on the Constitution or quoting one specific clause when they are wronged ? How many know the actual physical copy has red paint spilled over it ? 

What about the Irish immigrants that were left destitute and to survive on their own after arriving on the shores?

What about the Acadians, settles, born and raised in Canada, that were told to leave and shipped south to Louisiana?  

What about the second class treatment of Catholics for so long in an Anglo-Protestant world early in Canada's history?

Trudeau has highlighted some of the wrongs that help his cause and voter demographic. I won't hold my breath for him to apologize the aforementioned items. 

There are a lot of tragedies in Canada. No history is clean and perfect. It's about time Canadians starting recognize all of these.  We do not have enough time in the school day to teach all of these, but let's start with a thorough and fair education on one of them. 

Otherwise why have a country filled with people who call themselves "Canadians" if there is no responsibility or acknowledgment of how we arrived at this point after 487 years of recorded history since Jacques Cartier. 

Friday, June 4, 2021

Canadian Unemployment 8.2%? What, Me Worry?

 

"...The drop in May was largely part-time workers, who saw employment decline by 54,200 during the month. Full-time employment was down by 13,800. Hours worked were little changed during the month...."

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/canada-suffers-second-labour-market-setback-ahead-of-reopening-1.1612591

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Kovrig and Spavor: After More Than 900 Days It Appears the Liberals Change the Channel at Every Opportunity

 "...Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have now been in prison for more than 900 days. Nothing the prime minister has tried has worked — though to be fair, there is no evidence that he has tried very much..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-trudeau-should-change-tack-on-the-two-michaels-and-negotiate-for-their-release

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Erasing History In a Reactionary Move is a Dangerous Game for Canada

 Another opportunity, as horrific as it was, to delete Sir John A. MacDonald from the annals of Canadian history. 

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/cp-newsalert-charlottetown-council-votes-to-remove-statue-of-sir-john-a-macdonald


The Needed Change Was Made, Now Where is the Acknowledgement? After Years of Claiming Offense and Concerted Efforts to Stop the Use of the Historic Eskimos Name...

 ...as well as a genuine, rigorous and sincere engagement by a professional club with limited marketing and political resources to right a societal, first nations wrong, the reaction from the Inuit is....crickets. The media, and Inuit, had been quick to throw Edmonton's CFL franchise under the bus for criticism of the prior and long time revered, proud Eskimos moniker, yet where are they now upon the change?  Especially and unfortunately after the timing of an announcement involving the horrific discovery of a mass grave from residential school days.

Here are the plain facts, with no reaction or feedback from those the change was meant to greatly help and move on from the past. 

https://youtu.be/GY8MiwPThLc

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-ee-cfl-football-name-1.6048578