Prime Minster Justin Trudeau is painting Parliament as a place of “toxicity” and “obstructionism” to his minority government’s agenda, fueling growing speculation of a possible election call later this year.
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Canada’s Senate Has A Chance To Redeem Itself By Stopping Bill C-10
After years of declining credibility, the Senate can take a stand for freedom of expression and show that it still has an important and valuable role.
Driven By Multiculturalism, Woke Regime “Most Advanced In Canada”
“What is the end-game of the woke revolution?” is the premise of a new book entitled “Multiculturalism In Canada” by Hugh Donald Forbes, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.
To understand the end-game of the woke revolution, look north: “The woke regime is most advanced in Canada, where officials call it multiculturalism.”
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau added multiculturalism to Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the year 1982. The multicultural ideal would, in Trudeau’s words, “separate once and for all the concepts of state and of nation.”
‘The nudge unit’: Ottawa’s behavioural-science team investigates how Canadians feel about vaccines, public health and who to trust
When Trudeau and the premiers use their podiums to calm fears or tell hard truths about the pandemic, for example, their words don’t just come from hunch or political instincts. Reams of behavioural data is being collected by government throughout the pandemic, on everything from people’s general emotions about COVID-19 to their willingness to get vaccinated.
GOLDSTEIN: Growing Indigenous support for pipelines, oil sector, says report
Considering how the issue is being debated in Canada, you’d think Indigenous Canadians are unanimously opposed to pipelines and the development of our oil and natural gas resources.
In reality, as a new study by the Fraser Institute released Tuesday, First Nations and the Petroleum Industry — From Conflict to Cooperation, makes clear, nothing could be further from the truth.
RCMP preparing charges against Toronto IT worker who became ‘voice of ISIS,’ document reveals
A former Toronto IT worker, known as the “voice of ISIS” because he narrated its gruesome execution videos, is being investigated by the RCMP for “serious terrorism offences,” a court document unsealed Tuesday reveals.
The RCMP alleged in the top-secret affidavit it had reason to believe Mohammed Khalifa, a Canadian citizen captured in Syria by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in January 2019, had committed four terrorism offences.
China calls for UN investigation of Canada’s crimes against Indigenous people
On the same day Canada leads an international effort at the United Nations to demand that China allow free access to Xinjiang to investigate reported human rights violations, China and its allies have called on the UN to investigate crimes against Indigenous people in Canada.
“We are deeply concerned about the serious human rights violations against the Indigenous people in Canada. Historically, Canada robbed the Indigenous people of the land, killed them and eradicated their culture,” said Jiang Duan, a senior official at China’s mission to the UN in Geneva.
CRA audits of ultra-wealthy Canadians have resulted in zero prosecutions, convictions
Data from the Canada Revenue Agency shows its recent efforts to combat tax evasion by the super-rich have resulted in zero prosecutions or convictions.
In response to a question tabled in Parliament by NDP MP Matthew Green, the CRA said it referred 44 cases on individuals whose net worth topped $50 million to its criminal investigations program since 2015.
Only two of those cases proceeded to federal prosecutors, with no charges laid afterward.
Woke Racism: European Canadians “Did Not Become White At The Same Time”
Official anti-racist materials being deployed by Global Affairs Canada contain some mighty provocative statements:
“One of the documents on which the Global Affairs material is based informs recipients that “all European immigrants did not and do not become white at the same time (Irish, Italians, Jews).”
“Becoming white involves giving up parts of your original culture in order to get the advantages and privileges of belonging to the white group.”
SMOL: Teachers should be outraged over Ryerson statue toppling
Teachers should oppose the toppling of the statue commemorating the founder of public education in Ontario.
In Defense of Canada’s First Prime Minister, John Macdonald
The memory of John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, is not thriving these days in the country he brought into being. In 2018, his image was removed from the Canadian $10 bill, which it had decorated since 1971. His name has been quietly scrubbed from the Ottawa airport named in his honor in 1993. In August 2020, vandals toppled statues of Macdonald in Montreal and in Kingston, Ontario. (The city of Kingston legally removed that statue on June 18—a special blow to Macdonald’s memory in the city he represented in Parliament throughout most of his career.) This summer, the province of Prince Edward Island removed a modern statue of Macdonald from its capital, Charlottetown. Even the small town of Picton, Ontario, where Macdonald argued his first law cases, will soon remove a statue erected with donations from local residents, my wife’s family among them. Macdonald’s name has been erased from university and school buildings, and even book prizes.
Canadians Aren’t Being Told About Vaccine Risks
Reibl v Hughes went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada and in 1980 the Court articulated the current standard for informed consent, specifically that the physician (or other health care provider) “must give the patient sufficient information so that an objective, reasonable person in the patient’s position would be able to make an informed choice about a medical procedure”. The court defined failure to disclose the attendant risks as negligence.
Thus, in Canada, to receive a treatment or procedure, the subject must not just verbally agree and sign a consent form, but must give informed consent after having the risks explained to them.
Forty-one years after the Supreme Court decision our federal and provincial governments are engaged in a program of administering to the entire Canadian population above the age of 12, a completely new, untried, experimental, non-FDA approved, gene therapy treatment. This therapy, according to US and European government adverse vaccine reaction databases, is reasonably suspected of having killed thousands of people, and created serious injury in tens of thousands. Meanwhile, the long-term consequences of the therapy are simply unknown.
h/t Mom
Canada: University Uses Critical Race Theory to Fight ‘Islamophobia’
Like a kid with a new toy, leftists are bringing their latest tool of oppression and discord everywhere.
The Agassiz-Harrison Observer out in British Columbia reported Thursday that at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV), a vanguard academic institution if there ever was one, is striking a blow this week against one of the great evils of our time: “As part of the Peace and Reconciliation Centre’s (PARC) Peace Talks series, on June 23 the centre will host a webinar from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., addressing Islamophobia.” What a relief! And even better, in a meeting of academic fads that one day will look as dated as Nehru jackets and bell-bottom trousers, they’re hauling out Critical Race Theory to fight “Islamophobia.”
Is Canada a racist country? One-third of respondents in a new study say yes
… Most respondents from across the country think that diversity is ultimately a good thing — 85 per cent of people agree that Canada is a better country because of how racially diverse its population is.
But when it comes to other sentiments, responses were divisive. One-third of respondents think that “Canada is a racist country.” Of these respondents, 42 per cent are visible minorities and 54 per cent are women under the age of 35. Meanwhile, three-quarters of respondents over the age of 55 don’t think Canada is a racist country.
Some respondents, including 54 per cent of Albertans and 57 per cent of Saskatchewanians, say that exaggerating discrimination is a larger problem than not seeing it where it does exist. However, 44 per cent of Saskatchewanians agree that Canada is a racist country.
Canadians appreciate Indigenous land acknowledgements, but don’t think it applies to them: poll
OTTAWA — A new poll shows that while Canadians want politicians to acknowledge the Indigenous history of the land they’re standing on, they don’t think it applies to their own land.
