Wednesday, September 15, 2021

In a Canadian Tax Court, Can There Be Such a Thing as Religious Bias?

 CBC.ca: Jewish Tax Court judge barred from presiding over cases involving Muslims, documents show.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tax-court-judge-allegations-1.6173998

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Why Two French Debates and Only One English Debate? Let the Anglos Get Their Knickers in Knots

 As under Trudeau's "Transparent " government, a coalition has been formed for these debates called the Debate Broadcast Group, which includes APTN News, the CBC, CTV and Global News chain as well as Angus Reid.  If you remember Justin ducked out of a debate last election when we had multi debates so would having more than one be any better? 

As such,  and per this monopolistic coalition in cahoots with Trudeau, there is one national debate in French and one national debate in English with varying rules each year to oppose Maxime Bernier from appearing at these forums. 

Now a Québec network, not unlike any network in English Canada (rest of Canada "ROC") invited only the parties with elected Québec seats to a debate meaning only four parties could participate. Any English network could have done the same. Let's say TVO although not nearly as significant in Ontario as TVA to Québec. 

Now we are left with uninformed Anglo Canadians complaining (not just Québec anymore) about the state of politics and Quebec's unfair advantage in the debate series. I recently heard at a lunch this misinformed comment "What's the population of Quebec? There are way more English Canadians and we only get one debate while Québec gets two?". 

Actually,  the answer is Québec had only one debate for Québec, there was a national English debate and a national French debate as last time I checked there are two official languages in Canada both spoken in and outside of Québec. Anyone heard the term Franco-Ontarien or Acadian?

Québec Has a Point: Apologies Demanded After Loaded English Debate Question

After taking down the cross from Québec's Assemblé Nationale after much pressure,  a Religious symbol that has stood for most of Québec's 400 year old history of culture (yes Canada has culture(s) and customs, they don't all lie outside of this country) doesn't levelling the religious symbols playing field involve ridding of ALL religious symbols, to be fair?  Done by a democratically elected government under civil law. 

Meanwhile, the question posed for such was prefaced with "discriminatory".  A loaded question this author would say. 

But then again, the problem with Québec is...English Canada, not even caring. 

http://nationalpost.com/news/national/election-2021/national-assembly-calls-for-apology-for-english-debate-question/wcm/88a437d2-67e4-48cb-aedb-85644ee0b3b0


Canadian Pensions Investing Less and Less in Canada to Detrimental Levels: Letko Brosseau

Unfortunately real issues like these will never be part of an election platform as most voters are more interested in a free cheque.  

"...The Pension Investment Association of Canada, the country’s leading pension fund association, reported for the year ended December 2020 that Canadian publicly held securities represented approximately 5 per cent of its members’ total assets. This is down from 28 per cent in December 2000.

“It should be a major policy concern for Canadians and our leaders that the country’s pension industry has moved large amounts of its funds to other countries.,” said Daniel Brosseau, President of LetkoBrosseau. “When investment managers send Canadians’ hard-earned savings outside of Canada, they aren’t just moving money out of the country, but also some of its important associated economic benefits. That means less innovation, fewer jobs, and reduced economic activity and security for Canadians.”..."

 Invest in Canada – Press Release - Letko, Brosseau & Associates (lba.ca)