Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt supposedly roasted President John F. Kennedy’s inaction on civil rights by wishing the author of the 1956 Pulitzer-prize-winning Profiles in Courage would show less profile and more courage. A crack that surely also applies to our prime minister, a fearless social justice warrior when there’s nothing to fear but a bit of a coward when the going gets tough. For instance on this Uyghur genocide business.
Welcome to Canada eh? What is happening in our country? pic.twitter.com/TdmB8K2eUG
— 🍁🇨🇦CanAditude🇨🇦🍁 (@CanAditude) February 24, 2021
But Dr. Theresa Tam says some of the more personal measures, like wearing masks and limiting close contact outside our households, may be with us longer.
Expect a smooth transition from Covid Lockdown to Climate Lockdown.
NDP intercepts early draft of Biden-Trudeau meeting agenda – you won’t BELIEVE what we found!
— NDP (@NDP) February 23, 2021
The roadmap will outline how the two countries will work together to fight COVID-19, rebuild the economy, tackle climate change, advance diversity, improve national security measures and build international alliances, the briefing indicated.
The big headline in the U.K.’s Guardian Tuesday morning was “Canada votes to recognize China’s treatment of Uyghur population as genocide.” The headline was only slightly expanded in the first sentence of the article, which read in part, “Canada has become the second country in the world to describe China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority as a genocide …”
Trudeau, Biden agree to prioritize economic recovery, fights against COVID-19 and climate change
“The United States has no closer friend, no closer friend than Canada,” said Biden, kicking things off. “We’re all best served when the United States and Canada work together and lead together.”
In response the prime minister made a point of welcoming back American leadership on files like climate change, saying “U.S. leadership has been sorely missed over the past years.”
Said Justin between swallows.
The Chinese government lashed out at Canada today after the House of Commons voted to declare that China is committing genocide against Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims in its western Xinjiang region.
MPs passed a motion Monday saying that China’s persecution of these groups amounts to genocide in accordance with the definition set out in the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, and called on the federal government to formally adopt that position.
In a media briefing in Beijing this morning, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry said the Commons motion disregarded facts and was aimed at maligning and smearing China.
The federal Conservatives are calling on Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan to detail whether he acted on allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Gen. Jonathan Vance when sources say he first learned of them years ago, accusing the minister of “hiding the truth.”
A once-secret U.S. State Department document suggests that former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau may have asked one of Quebec’s top business leaders to “make it as tough as possible” for the newly elected Parti Québécois government in 1976 and to quietly move jobs out of the province.
WASHINGTON — The White House isn’t leaving much wiggle room for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to escape Joe Biden’s Buy American rules.
The two leaders are set to meet virtually later today in Biden’s first bilateral meeting since taking over as U.S. president.
A fact sheet released early today by the White House describes plans for a “road map” for progress in areas of mutual interest, like COVID-19, climate change, defence and social justice.
It makes no mention of certain Canadian priorities, such as procuring more vaccine doses, freeing Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig from China or securing an exemption to Buy American.
As the private sector faced lockdowns and unprecedented unemployment, thousands of public sector employees were paid to stay at home.
Outside of China, there is widespread agreement that the Chinese regime has committed gross human rights violations against Uighur Muslims. A campaign of repression and allegations of abuse have been documented by media outlets like the New York Times and the BBC.
“So my question is if PHAC’s models have been largely correct and the health experts are predicting this type of exponential case growth, if P/Ts choose to move forward with lifting public health measures despite the evidence, are they culpable for the resulting deaths?” asked Turnbull before quoting the criminal code.
OTTAWA — Federal MPs voted to formally label China’s treatment of the Uighur Muslims a genocide Monday, without the support of the Liberal cabinet.
All opposition MPs who participated in the vote as well as most Liberal MPs, including Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Oliphant, voted in favour of the Conservative motion introduced last Thursday. Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau abstained on the record while the rest of his cabinet colleagues were absent.
“I abstain on behalf of the Government of Canada,” said Garneau in the House of Commons.
A recently revealed audio tape of a “senior” Iranian official demonstrates the Islamic Republic of Iran’s continuing attempt to hide its responsibility for the downing of Ukrainian Airline flight PS752 shortly after take-off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport on Jan. 8, 2020. The speaker in the recording appears to be Iranian Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif, a man who often attempts to portray himself as the “moderate” face of the regime abroad.
Trudeau will do whatever his string pullers tell him to do.
