The Liberal government’s Bill C-36 would let the Canadian Human Rights Commission prosecute people for online speech, and would also give courts the power to take away liberty over fear someone might commit a hate-motivated offence. Former human rights commission defendant Ezra Levant joined True North’s Andrew Lawton to discuss Bill C-36, which Ezra says is the “legislation of cancel culture.”
“But it might be that you guys are actually sort of the sun is setting on what a truly free Canada looks like. That’s what it seems like to me,” Rubin, host of the Rubin Report, pointed out.
He goes on to call Trudeau’s pandering the “worst sort of virtue signaling.”
Here’s an amazing story. A married-with-children British cabinet minister is caught on camera kissing his married-with-children aide and has to step down for violating COVID protocols. And now Canadian readers are shaking their heads and saying, “A cabinet minister had to step down?”
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she was “surprised and disturbed” to learn Vice-Adm. Craig Baines will be keeping his job as head of the navy despite a widely condemned decision to go golfing with Gen. Jonathan Vance while the former top solider remains under military police investigation.
Back in March, the government of China scandalously used the death of George Floyd to deflect from criticisms of the systemic human rights abuses that persist all throughout its own country.
“The United States has mountains of human rights problems in its own country,” said Li Xiaojin, a human rights official from China’s State Council Information Office, upon the release of the Chinese government’s 28-page report on supposed human rights violations in the United States.
RCMP investigating Winnipeg scientists fired from lab for possible transfer of intellectual property to China
The RCMP are investigating whether two scientists dismissed from Canada’s top-security infectious-disease laboratory passed on Canadian intellectual property to China, including to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The investigation centres on the possibility that materials such as plasma DNA molecules, which could be used to recreate vaccines or viruses, were transferred to Chinese authorities without the approval of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
The Globe and Mail has also learned that the RCMP have been informed that Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, recently relocated to China after they were fired in January from the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg.
Good work Dudley Do-Right. This is a little too convenient. No?
One of the great tricks of the federal Liberal party is to portray itself as the natural governing party of Canada, while claiming that when anything goes wrong, it’s the Conservatives’ fault.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a master of this political technique.
Even with low rates, interest payments on Canada’s $1-trillion-plus national debt will increase by almost 60% this year, predicts a new study by the Fraser Institute.
“Interest costs rise from a budgeted $22.1 billion in 2021-22 to $35.2 billion, an increase of 59.4%” says the report, Interest Cost Risks to Government Budgets, by Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios and Jake Fuss, released Tuesday.
The commission of the official leaders’ debates for Canada’s elections says one of the criteria for participating in the next set is parties must have at least four per cent of national support.
Leaders’ Debates commissioner and former governor general David Johnston announced the eligibility rules for the next debates in French and English, while Ottawa swirls in possible election speculation.
The Anti-Maxccine!
I suspect I am not alone in this, but the last few months, and in particular these last few weeks have brought my nostalgia for the days of Stephen Harper’s governance to an incandescent pitch.
In a provocative speech in the upper house on Monday, Independent Senators Group (ISG) Leader Sen. Yuen Pau Woo said Canada should avoid criticizing China for its human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims because our country has mistreated Indigenous peoples.
Echoing an argument made by Chinese officials at the UN last week, Woo said China’s policy toward the Muslim minority in Xinjiang province is similar to the colonialism directed at Indigenous peoples in this country, and that condemning the Asian country in harsh terms would be hypocritical and “simply an exercise in labelling.”
Canada’s ruling Liberal government announced on Wednesday that it plans to make online hate speech a crime punishable by as much as $20,000 (roughly $16,250 US) for the first offense and $50,000 ($40,600 US) for the second. The proposal would punish social media users who broke the law but exempt social media companies that host such content from fines.
Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), was arrested last Friday after speaking at an anti-lockdown protest in St-Pierre-Jolys, Manitoba. He was arrested for violating provincial health orders, which prohibit indoor and outdoor gatherings on both public and private property and mandate 14 days of self-isolation for anyone entering the province.
He was sent a letter in advance advising him that he was not allowed to what was a small rally. Canada is talking about vaccine passports.
Canada is banning gatherings, not for health, but to reduce a “misinformation campaign.” Canada is a totalitarian nation under Trudeau.
As the world’s eyes are focused on Anthony Fauci and the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s less-than-comfortable investments into coronavirus Gain of Function research with the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) only biosecurity level 4 virology lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), America’s neighbors to the North are quietly trying to keep the lid on a dangerous virologic scandal of their own between Canada’s BSL4 lab and the WIV that first emerged in July of 2019.
After enduring a barrage of online hate and physical attacks on her constituency office during her six years as an MP, Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna announced Monday she will not run again in the next election.
McKenna — who led the contentious fight to levy a national price on carbon emissions as environment minister — has long been the target of sexist attacks over her vocal defence of climate action in the face of entrenched opposition.
But she said the hardship she has endured in politics was not the motivation for her departure. Rather, she said, she wants to spend more time with her kids after many nights away during her time in office. She said the COVID-19 pandemic forced her to “step back and reflect on what matters most.”
Laughing all the way to the bank.
