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Harassment of MPs spiked almost 800% in 5 years, says House sergeant-at-arms

The harassment members of Parliament experience from the public has jumped almost 800 per cent in the last five years, according to the person in charge of security in the House of Commons.

Patrick McDonell, sergeant-at-arms and corporate security officer, told a committee of MPs studying the House harassment policy Tuesday that the spike was driven by incidents that are “mostly online but also in person and at events.”

The number of files McDonell’s office has opened on threats to MPs has also increased significantly, he said.

What’s worse the butt hurt experienced by coddled MP’s or the real world harm the Liberal government has inflicted upon Canadians?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

OCAD sued for $1M over alleged failure to protect Jewish students

A student at Toronto’s Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) University is seeking $1 million in damages after alleging she was subjected to ongoing anti-Jewish discrimination at the school.

The statement of claim, filed by the New York based Lawfare Project on behalf of Samantha Kline in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, claims there is a pattern of antisemitic harassment at the school as a result of OCAD’s alleged failure to protect Jewish students since war broke out between Israel and Hamas.

“Antisemitism has always been a problem at OCAD, and after Oct. 7 it exploded and the school did nothing about it,” Kline said at a news conference outside OCAD on Tuesday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

China can’t use Canada as trade path for cheap goods, Freeland says

(Bloomberg) — Canada won’t allow itself to become a foothold for oversupplied Chinese goods that could pass through to its democratic allies, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said.

But she did not commit to following the path of U.S. President Joe Biden, who announced massive tariff hikes against Chinese goods earlier this month. For now, Canada is simply reviewing its trade measures toward China, Freeland said.

“Canada absolutely recognizes that China has an intentional, state-directed economic policy which is leading to overcapacity and oversupply in specific sectors,” Freeland told reporters on Tuesday. She said the Asian country isn’t “playing by the rules” when it comes to steel, aluminum, some critical minerals and metals and manufacturing products.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

In rare move, Poilievre’s Conservatives offer to work with Trudeau Liberals to fight foreign meddling in elections

OTTAWA—Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are offering to fast track Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s legislation to shore up Canada’s defences against foreign interference during elections in a rare show of cross-partisan spirit, placing renewed pressure on the Liberals to convince Canadians they are serious about the problem.

The bill was unveiled to much fanfare earlier this month, but with its provisions not set to come into force until a year after the bill became law, and given the standard length of the legislative process, criticisms surfaced quickly that it would be too late to have new safeguards in place for the next federal election, scheduled for 2025.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada

Tasha Kheiriddin: Young people are taught to hate Canada. Mandatory service could fix that

Call it smart, call it a stunt, it’s what everyone in Britain is talking about — and what we should be talking about in Canada.

If Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party wins his national election on July 4, all 18-year-olds in the U.K, will be required to complete a year of national service, either military or civilian. Thirty thousand teens would serve in the military and the rest would work for charities and community services. The plan, costing 2.5 billion pounds annually, is intended to foster “a society where people mix with people outside their own communities, mix with people from different backgrounds, different religions, different income levels.”

Under Trudeau it would be a variant of RuPaul’s drag show, or worse. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Ontario mom pulls Jewish daughter out of high school after antisemitic ‘culture’ event

An Ontario mother has pulled her Jewish daughter out of high school fearing she is no longer safe, saying the school is allowing and encouraging pro-Palestinian activists to display and promote threatening antisemitic messages.

“I live in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, and my child is not in school because she’s Jewish. That’s insane,” said Anissa Hersh, after withdrawing her daughter from Burlington Central High School last week

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada

Conrad Black: Call for Canada to Recognize Palestinian Statehood Is Both Ridiculous and Wrongheaded

The stampede in many Western countries to champion the Palestinian cause has been a thoroughly nauseating spectacle of misdirected righteousness, faddishness, and racist bigotry.

This past week, following the announcement that Ireland, Norway, and Spain proposed to recognize a yet-to-exist Palestinian state, Canada’s New Democratic Party proposed that this country do the same. This was just reflexive political opportunism by the NDP. It is a new variant on the cowardly Western practice of purporting to support both sides in a war of life and death that only one side can win.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

CSIS and Trudeau’s adviser clashed on foreign interference threat in 2021: report

Intelligence regarding foreign interference sometimes didn’t make it to the prime minister’s desk in 2021 because Canada’s spy agency and the prime minister’s national security adviser didn’t always see eye to eye on the nature of the threat, according to a recent report from one of Canada’s intelligence watchdogs.

The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) released a report on Monday evening pointing to several schisms in the flow of information between Canada’s intelligence agencies and the federal government during the last two federal elections.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The latest unintended, inevitable consequence of Liberal immigration policy

Canada has always been an outlier on immigration. That was true long before the Trudeau government. Compared to other rich countries, we had a relatively wide and open door. But around the door were walls, which were also higher than those in Europe or the United States.

Canadians were always concerned about controlling the border, yet very welcoming of immigrants. That sounds like a contradiction. It isn’t. Walls don’t block a door, they support it. No walls? No door.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Hong Kong police make threatening phone call to prodemocracy supporter living in Canada

Hong Kong national-security police recently threatened a man from the city, who is seeking refuge in Canada, after he reneged on a deal to spy for China on prodemocracy activists living in Vancouver, according to an audio recording obtained by The Globe and Mail.

This is one of the rare instances where a recording has surfaced of someone being intimidated in Canada by a Chinese state-security official.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, WTF?

NDP, unions urge Trudeau to introduce program letting illegal alien invaders stay

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and his party’s MPs joined unions and community groups Monday to ask Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to introduce a broad program that would let thousands of migrants living in Canada without valid documents remain in the country.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller is preparing a plan to discuss with the cabinet, which meets Tuesday and again before Parliament breaks for the summer in June. It would propose that people living in Canada without legal status – including former international students whose study permits have expired – be given a chance to regularize their status and gain permanent residence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Canada’s new defence policy isn’t winning America over, analysts say

OTTAWA — The Liberal government’s new defence policy has landed with a resounding thud in Washington and it could be a sign that U.S. politicians are losing patience with Canada’s stinginess on defence spending, analysts say. 

A letter released Thursday by 23 Democrat, Republican and independent United States senators took Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to task for Canada’s defence spending, demanding that Canada meet NATO benchmarks requiring members to commit at least two per cent of their GDP to defence spending. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, USA