Canada

LILLEY: Trudeau Liberals trying to scare voters to protect convicts

Should Canada be tougher or more lenient on those who commit heinous crimes? Ask most Canadians, and they will have little sympathy for Paul Bernardo, Russell Williams, Luka Magnotta or Alexandre Bissonnette who carried out the Quebec City mosque massacre.

Polling says “Desperation has set in”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Petition urges governments to consider antisemitic protest chants ‘hate speech’

… The petition, which closes for signatures at the end of this week, urges the federal government to provide clarity to law enforcement and provincial attorneys general on whether rallying cries such as “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free,” “Globalize the Intifada” and “Long Live Oct. 7” contravene portions of Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code of Canada concerning the wilful promotion of hatred. 

Grifters hoping to earn a slot in the DEI victimhood hierarchy describe “It’s OK to Be White” as hate speech in order to demonize and fund raise off of those they disagree with.

The Pallie phrases listed above are ugly but not hate speech. 

Bad idea.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

U.S. Supreme Court spurns former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr‘s appeal of murder conviction

Justin will be in tears at the news.

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a Canadian former Guantanamo Bay detainee’s bid to vacate his convictions for the 2002 murder of an American soldier in Afghanistan and other crimes he committed at age 15 to which he later pleaded guilty.

The justices declined to hear an appeal by Omar Khadr, now age 37, of a lower court’s refusal to hear his case on the grounds that he had waived his right to appellate review as part of a 2010 plea agreement before a U.S. military commission.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Canada to launch ‘national action plan’ to fight auto theft

The federal government is launching what it calls its “national action plan” to combat auto thefts, which will include stronger penalties for thieves, and increased information sharing between police agencies, government officials and border enforcement.

Several cabinet members announced the plan during a Monday morning news conference in Brampton, Ont.

The announcement comes on the heels of the national auto theft summit held in February in Ottawa. According to 2022 industry estimates released at the time, rates of auto theft had spiked in several provinces compared to the year before. In Quebec, thefts rose by 50 per cent. In Ontario, they were up 34.5 per cent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime

First Oregon, now B.C.: Why drug decriminalization faces renewed questions

Last September, as Oregon faced an ever-increasing rate of fatal drug overdoses, a new study concluded the state’s first-in-the-U.S. decriminalization policy was not to blame.

The study found that based on similar overdose rates in other states before and after the first year of decriminalization, overdose deaths in Oregon would have risen at essentially the same rate with or without the policy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Drug Legalization, Drugs, USA

The Liberals lob their last-minute weapon 17 months from an election

It seems a little early for the kitchen sink.

But Justin Trudeau and his Liberals saw an opportunity, however slim, to attack Conservatives on abortion – and they grasped at it.

Abortion is one of the holy trinity of explosive issues that the Liberals lob at the Tories in every election campaign, along with guns and privatization of health care. But usually they wait until late in the writ period before they reach for those weapons.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada is falling behind its peers in terms of living standards — can it catch up?

Canada, once admired for its robust economic health and high living standards, now faces a worrying decline. The nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growth trails its peers in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), while Canadian workers clock more hours for less output.

Business investment is shrivelling while government expenditure is ballooning, creating an unhealthy fiscal cocktail. The health-care system in Canada is also lagging behind its European counterparts.

The legal system has grown expensive and slow; the justice system is also experiencing a chronic under-staffing crisis. Young Canadians, feeling dissatisfied, have reported low happiness scores compared to their international counterparts (in 58th place, just before Ecuador).

This palpable downturn begs two urgent questions: what underlies this fall in living standards? And what can be done to stop, and perhaps even reverse, this unsettling trend?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

McGill denounces pro-Palestinian protest outside senior administrator’s home

McGill University is condemning a protest outside the home of one of its senior administrators Sunday morning by supporters of the pro-Palestinian encampment on the school’s downtown campus.

Protest organizers said in a post on social media that the university administration had ignored students who are calling for the school to divest from investments in companies linked to Israel.

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

Pierre Poilievre is pretending he doesn’t know how his job works because it makes it easier

Justin Trudeau gave a press conference this week about electric vehicles, but reporters took the opportunity after his remarks to ask the Prime Minister whatever they wanted.

My colleague Laura Stone stepped to the microphone.

“I want to ask you about leadership. Polls have you 20 points behind the Conservatives and it doesn’t seem to be getting better, despite your recent communications push from your budget,” she said.

She doth protest too much.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party

Canadian immigration asks medical worker fleeing Gaza if he treated Hamas fighters

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Lawyers are questioning Canada’s approach to screening visa applications for people in Gaza with extended family in Canada after one applicant, a medical worker, was asked whether he had treated members of Hamas.

The Canadian Press obtained a redacted letter sent to the applicant by a Canadian immigration officer, which asks if he has “ever provided medical care to injured Hamas members.” If he has not, the letter asks him to say how he was able to refuse “without consequences.”

Kelly O’Connor, an immigration lawyer in Toronto, said she gasped out loud when she saw the text. Any medical worker who denies care to someone hurt in a war zone is committing a “serious breach of the Geneva Convention,” she said in an interview.

No Gazans should be admitted to Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Oh look! Canada made international news again!

Canada’s standard of living on track for worst decline in 40 years

Canada is experiencing one of the country’s worst declines in the standard of living in 40 years, according to a study.

The authors of the study by the non-partisan Fraser Institute said the figures should serve as a “wake-up call” for the country’s Liberal government, led by Justin Trudeau, to enact “fundamental policy reforms”.

While Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) has grown in recent years, driven by high population growth and labour supply, its GDP per person has fallen dramatically, the study said.

Thank Trudeau.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

What happens when a thin-skinned political lifer becomes prime minister? We may be about to find out

“You must be kidding.” That was one of the many emails I received in response to a column I published in Policy Options in 2021 titled ”Justin Trudeau: The Mature Brand.” It argued that the man once accused of being ”just not ready” in a barrage of attack ads by the Stephen Harper-led Conservatives had transformed into a seasoned, mature figure.
At nearly 50, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had just navigated the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic. But I warned that while Trudeau starts from a position of strength, the unpredictable nature of the pandemic could affect voter loyalty. I wrote that “strong brands provide certainty, ease, and empathy, qualities Trudeau must embody to win the next election. Nonetheless, voter fatigue and a desire for straightforward solutions may challenge his campaign’s effectiveness.” He won another minority in October 2021. But the voter fatigue I warned of has grown into irritation. Many, including the person who wrote me that email, are now convinced Trudeau wasn’t ready to be Prime Minister. And still isn’t.
Blackie’s Star is getting more desperate by the day.
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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

New Democrats try out a sharper line of attack as Conservatives target NDP ridings

New Democrats say they’re rolling out a new line of attack against the Conservatives as their leader Pierre Poilievre targets NDP-held ridings.

On Tuesday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh started dropping a new line — “The price of Pierre Poilievre” — an echo of Poilievre’s frequent references to what he calls the “Liberal-NDP costly coalition.”

The party is also pushing for passage of the pharmacare bill — C-64, one of the centrepieces of its confidence and supply deal with the Liberals — before Parliament rises for the summer. The party says it wants to use it and other policy wins to advance its strategy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party, NDP

Chinese Spy Defector Shares New Info on Dissident Whose ‘Mysterious’ Death in Canada Was Cited as a Warning

A former Chinese spy has revealed new information about the Chinese regime’s targeting of a Chinese dissident who died in British Columbia in 2022.

While the RCMP says the death was not suspicious, it was raised as a warning last year to another exiled Chinese activist now living in Toronto. The warning was conveyed in a phone call between the activist and one of his friends in China, whom the activist said was under pressure from Chinese police and described the death as being “under mysterious circumstances.”

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