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[Maple MAGA ] Inmate 'boss' threatens Canadian pilots on bail in Dominican after cocaine found...

Maple MAGA — 7/20/2022 8:10:00 AM

Inmate 'boss' threatens Canadian pilots on bail in Dominican after cocaine found on plane

Tom Blackwell - 1h ago

The inmate “prison boss” in the crowded Dominican Republic cell had for days threatened members of a Canadian airline crew, jailed themselves after finding and reporting contraband on their plane.

© Provided by National PostA Canadian airline crew arrested and jailed after finding and reporting cocaine stashed on their plane in the Dominican Republic. From left, flight attendant Christina Carello, mechanic BK Dubey, First Officer Aatif Safdar, flight attendant Alexander Rozov and Capt. Rob DiVenanzo, at a recent citizenship ceremony for Dubey.

The prisoner promised a violent end unless they wired money to the local inmates , at one point placing a dead body in front of them to drive home the point. Relief finally came when the Pivot Airlines crew were released on bail.

But during a regular check-in at the courthouse last week, they were stunned to be approached by that same inmate boss.

“Pilot, I’ll be seeing you very soon,” he told one of the Canadians as they waited in the prosecutor’s office, according to Pivot CEO Eric Edmondson.

The crew and their passengers are due back in court for an appeal hearing Thursday, when prosecutors will argue they should be denied bail and sent back to that cell.

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“We have no doubt that this deliberate and staged act of intimidation was a direct and implicit threat against our crew,” said Edmondson Tuesday.

The incident came after a third-party investigation commissioned by the company cleared its employees and underscored “deeply concerning” aspects of the original police investigation of the contraband discovery. The crew had alerted local authorities to bags stashed in the plane, with police later saying they contained 210 kilograms of cocaine.

Meanwhile, none of the Canadians — whose passports have been seized — have actually been interviewed about the incident they reported over three months ago, said Edmondson.

The developments make it all the more important for Ottawa to intervene aggressively on the part of the detained Canadians — and call into question the safety of anyone who travels to the Dominican Republic, said the CEO.

Close to a million Canadian vacationers a year visit the country, while various reports have detailed widespread corruption and human-rights abuses in its legal and corrections systems.

Pivot is grateful for the federal government’s efforts and encouraging words, with both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly raising the issue with Dominican counterparts. But the airline is unsure what concrete steps Ottawa has taken to safeguard the Canadians, he said.

“The problem is that there doesn’t seem to be action. They don’t seem to be doing anything.”

But Adrien Blanchard, a spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, pointed to the Trudeau and Joly meetings and said the government takes the issue seriously.

“Canadian officials at all levels have raised this case with representatives of the Dominican Republic, including to convey the priority that our government places on the safety and security of those involved,” he said.

A representative for the Dominican embassy in Ottawa could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Some of the Pivot crew members have also filed complaints with the United Nations Human Rights Council about their treatment, as Thursday’s court hearing looms.

“The greatest fear is not to come back alive,” flight attendant Alex Rozov said Tuesday about the prospect of being sent to jail again. “I’m hoping for this nightmare to end as soon as possible.”

He said it was “very shocking” to see the inmate boss last week in the waiting area of the prosecutor’s office, where Rozov and colleagues had to check in as part of their bail conditions.

In an earlier interview, Capt. Rob DiVenanzo described how the inmate made constant, violent threats during their prison stay – conveyed by his mobile phone’s translation app – while banishing the Canadians to the toilet area of the tiny cell for three days without food or water.

Their small chartered jet was supposed to fly out of the Punta Cana resort town on April 5 carrying seven passengers — potential investors and their guests being entertained by an Alberta company.

A Pivot mechanic discovered one of the bags in the CRJ-100’s avionics bay and the airline alerted both the RCMP and Dominican Republic authorities.

Soon after local drug police found another seven bags, they placed the Canadian crew and passengers into custody, where they stayed for nine days until a judge freed them on bail. He cited a lack of evidence tying them to the stash.

The investigation Pivot commissioned from Guidepost Solutions, a leading international security firm headed by a former deputy director of U.S. homeland security, highlighted unusual gaps in the local investigation.

Investigators noted the crew had to call police back to the plane after they initially removed only half the bags that allegedly contained drugs, according to Edmondson’s summary of the company’s report. And officers took away the parcels to an unknown location for an extended period of time, only to later return “similar-looking” bags to the plane.

“The obvious concern for the crew members is they can’t verify that the contents (of the bags) that were returned were the same as when they left,” said the CEO.

While the motives of police in this case are unclear, Edmondson said he’s heard many tales of bogus drug busts designed to bolster the reputation of Dominican police and prosecutors.

Outside reviews describe a generally troubled criminal justice system.

Human rights issues include “harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary detention; serious problems with the independence of the judiciary,” said a 2020 report by the U.S. State Department.

Some old-model prisons — where the majority of inmates end up — went effectively unguarded by staff as “inmates controlled the inside with their own rules and system of justice,” said the report.

It also noted that police often detained all suspects and witnesses to a crime, while corruption among judges was endemic.

A report last year from Transparency International , an anti-corruption NGO, said the Dominican Republic was among a handful of countries on international narcotics transit routes that lack crucial procedures to protect victims and witnesses of organized crime.

“The Dominican has done a great job of increasing tourism,” said Edmondson. “But the problem is that until they drive out corruption, they’re ahead of their skiis…. They lack fundamental protections to ensure that travellers are safe.”

[Maple MAGA ] Pierre 2.0 vows to stop evil hockey players once and for all. Only trans-gender ...

Maple MAGA — 7/19/2022 10:26:46 PM

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rips Hockey Canada leadership over sex assault fund

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference on Bowen Island, B.C., on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. The prime minister says it’s “hard for anyone” to have faith in Hockey Canada’s leadership as revelations emerge about how the federation maintains a fund meant to partially handle sexual abuse claims.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Joshua Clipperton, The Canadian Press

July 19, 2022 10:19PM EDT

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau understands the public's frustration and disgust with Hockey Canada.

He shares many of those same feelings.

Trudeau ripped the federation's leadership Tuesday in the wake of revelations that it maintains a fund meant to deal with sexual abuse claims.

“I think right now it's hard for anyone in Canada to have faith or trust in anyone at Hockey Canada,” he told reporters at an event on Bowen Island, B.C.

“What we're learning â€¦ is absolutely unacceptable.”

Hockey Canada has been under intense scrutiny since May when news broke that the organization quietly settled a lawsuit filed by a woman who alleges she was assaulted by eight unnamed players, including members of the country's 2018 world junior team, following a gala in London, Ont., four years ago.

The organization has since had federal funding cut off because of its handling of the case and settlement, while a number of corporations paused sponsorship dollars.

Trudeau, who added the situation is “completely outrageous” when answering in French, said government support would remain frozen “pending significant reforms, transparency and accountability.”

The Canadian Press was first to report Monday that Hockey Canada has maintained the fund - which comes from membership fees collected across the country - to pay for uninsured liabilities, including sexual abuse claims.

The detail was included in a July 2021 affidavit sworn by Glen McCurdie, who was then Hockey Canada's vice-president of insurance and risk management, as part of a lawsuit launched by an injured player in Ontario.

“Hockey Canada maintains a reserve in a segregated account to pay for any such uninsured liabilities as they arise,” said McCurdie's affidavit, which goes on to state “uninsured liabilities include potential claims for historical sexual abuse.”

Hockey Canada confirmed in a statement Tuesday it has a so-called “National Equity Fund” to cover a “broad range of expenses related to safety, wellness and equity initiatives.”

“The fund is also used to pay for the organization's insurance premiums and to cover any claims not otherwise covered by insurance policies, including those related to physical injury, harassment and sexual misconduct,” the statement read.

Hockey Canada added the fund was “established in a manner consistent with reserve funds maintained by other large national organizations.”

“When I think about the culture that is apparently permeating the highest orders of that organization, I can understand why so many parents, why so many Canadians who take such pride in our national winter sport, are absolutely disgusted by what's going on,” Trudeau said Tuesday. “As a government, we will continue to be unequivocal in our condemnation of what we're learning.

“And mostly in our demands that things change significantly.”

Hockey Canada CEO Scott Smith testified before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage in Ottawa last month that no government money was used in the settlement of the alleged assault, both of which were first reported by TSN in May.

The woman had been seeking more than $3.5 million in damages from Hockey Canada, the Canadian Hockey League and the unidentified players.

None of the allegations have been proven in court.

The NHL is conducting its own investigation because many of the players from the 2018 world junior team are now in the league, but isn't making participation mandatory.

St. Louis Blues forwards Robert Thomas and Jordan Kyrou released separate statements on social media Tuesday saying they had no involvement in the alleged incident.

The agent for Anaheim Ducks centre Sam Steel also released a statement saying his client “did not engage in any of the misconduct that has been described in the media.”

Chicago Blackhawks winger Taylor Raddysh said in a Twitter post he only learned of the allegations in 2019.

Four other players from that team - Cale Makar, Victor Mete, Conor Timmins and Jonah Gadjovich - have also publicly stated they weren't involved.

McCurdie, who retired in December, was not present for committee proceedings last month due to the death of his father, but has been subpoenaed by the committee for a subsequent round of meetings slated to begin next Tuesday.

Hockey Canada released a carefully worded open letter last week with a number of promises, including a pledge to reopen an incomplete third-party investigation into the alleged assault and a full governance review.

“We know we have not done enough to address the actions of some members of the 2018 national junior team or to end the culture of toxic behaviour within our game,” Hockey Canada wrote last week.

“For that we unreservedly apologize.”

Smith, who took over from Tom Renney as CEO on July 1, testified on Parliament Hill last month that Hockey Canada reported a total of three sexual assault complaints in recent years, but wouldn't discuss the other two in front of the committee.

He added there have been up to two complaints of sexual misconduct each of the last five or six years.

Hockey Canada said in its open letter that participation by players in the third-party investigation into the London incident will be mandatory - unlike before - and that anyone who declines will be banned from all activities and programs.

Smith testified last month “12 or 13” of the 19 players were interviewed before the original and incomplete investigation concluded in September 2020.

The woman's lawyer said in an email last week that his client, who did not take part in the initial probe or speak with police, “will be participating in the Hockey Canada investigation.”

“I'm very, very concerned by the culture, which apparently has reached the highest levels of the organization,” Trudeau said Tuesday of Hockey Canada in French.

“It's essential - really crucial - that there be a new approach and that there be oversight, responsibility, accountability.”

-With files from Amy Smart on Bowen Island, B.C.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 19, 2022.

[Maple MAGA ] Canada: Trudeau Liberals accused of ‘funding hate’ at Muslim Association of Cana...

Maple MAGA — 7/1/2022 7:18:48 PM

Canada: Trudeau Liberals accused of ‘funding hate’ at Muslim Association of Canada conference

JUL 1, 2022 4:00 PM

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

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In a surprising National Post article exposing Islamic supremacist hate in the name of “diversity,” a headline reads: “The Liberals are funding hate. How else to describe the speakers at this Toronto convention?” Hateful and “obscene” ideas are being brazenly taught at the three-day Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) convention, which is being held on Canada Day weekend. The July 1-3 event is called Thriving in the Path of Allah, and features a troubling lineup of speakers. Ironically, the MAC is infamously quick to employ the “Islamophobia” subterfuge, yet what is being taught at the conference includes:

Homosexuality is filthy, and homosexual acts warrant the death penalty. Christian Arabs who protect Jews from murderers are traitors. A man should be permitted to beat his wife.

Such teachings are consistent with the Sharia, but antithetical to the principles and ethics of free societies. Still, the Trudeau government, which boasts of its commitment to “diversity” and “inclusion,” has provided the MAC “with more than $3 million in federal ‘anti-hate,’ youth engagement and security funding over the past three years.”

Back in April, the Muslim Association of Canada launched a Charter of Rights challenge against the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), claiming “ systemic Islamophobia.” The MAC insisted that a CRA audit posed “an ‘existential threat’ to the organization because it threatens to revoke its charitable status and raises the possibility of damaging sanctions.” The pressing and most relevant question is that of what evidence the CRA has that precipitated the audit.

Adding to the National Post article about the “Liberals funding hate,” the MAC has a disturbing history.

For starters, the MAC is rooted in the Muslim Brotherhood, as it itself once stated on its website, although the statement has since been removed.

The MAC’s Vancouver imam, Tarek Ramadan (not to be confused with the Swiss professor Tariq Ramadan), who is a respected community leader, “has played an active part in organizing and leading demonstrations of solidarity with the Palestinians against Israel,” and spreading blatant hate, not to mention inciting violence and jihad.

MAC is also passing along its toxicity to the next generation. At the MAC’s Muslim Student Leadership conference last year, high-profile Kuwaiti hate preacher Tareq Al-Suwaidan was a featured speaker. Al-Suwaidan is author of the Jewish Encyclopedia, which aims to educate Muslims “about the most hostile enemies of the Muslim nation,” and denies the Holocaust. He was also fired as director of the Saudi Al-Risala TV by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal for admitting that he “belongs to the Brotherhood terrorist movement.”

The National Post highlights some of the speakers at the MAC summer conference that should be of concern to all Canadians. One of those speakers left unmentioned, however, is the infamous Hatem Bazian. This virulent anti-Semite and hater of America called for an intifada in America, and stated that the “sacred texts of Islam require its adherents to ‘fight the Jews.’” He urges the Muslim world “to militarily support Palestine.”

Bazian is head of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), which is “proud to announce the relaunch of AMP’s annual flagship project, the National Israeli Date Boycott Campaign 2022.” According to NGO Monitor, AMP provides “advocacy training, instruction on how to lobby politicians. Produces media and activism guidebooks, such as campus activism resources…..A PowerPoint presentation parrots the Hamas narrative of the 2014 Israeli-Hamas conflict in Gaza…”

Muslim human rights activists and Jewish advocacy organizations say they’re appalled that the Trudeau government continues to fund the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), which has taken a turn in recent years to an unambiguously reactionary and heavily politicized version of Islam embraced by only a small minority of Canada’s Muslims.

Yet MAC is sticking to its guns, stating that it is “MAC that’s entitled to be appalled. The association insists that it is being unfairly singled out by the Canada Revenue Agency, for instance, alleging a systemic Islamophobic bias in the bureaucracy.”

Canada Revenue Agency’s Review and Analysis Division (RAD) operates under the Anti-Terrorism Act, and is responsible for preventing “the abuse of registered charities for the financing of terrorism.” Now let’s look at the numbers in regard to why CRA may be interested in the MAC.

United Press International reported in 2015: “Muslim group funneled $300,000 to Hamas-linked terrorists.” The article revealed a Canadian police raid which discovered that MAC gave $296,514 to IRFAN-Canada between 2001 and 2010. IRFAN-Canada transferred approximately $14.6 million worth of resources to various organizations associated with Hamas between 2005 and 2009. In 2014, the former Canadian Conservative government finally listed IRFAN-Canada as a terrorist entity.

Despite MAC’s self-declared MB roots and its questionable reputation, the organization still holds much influence in Canada’s Trudeau government, which may possibly help its case in its Charter challenge against the CRA. Only a month before the MAC student leadership conference featuring Tareq Al-Suwaiden, MAC leaders were among the guests at the Government of Canada’s National Summit on “Islamophobia,” organized by the Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat.

On the Canadian government’s website was a quote from Rania Lawendy, an Executive Council member of the MAC. She called the Summit “a litmus test of our government’s commitment to take real effective action to dismantle the root causes of Islamophobia.”

Prime Minister Trudeau opened the Summit, which was said to provide “a national platform for Muslim communities to identify concrete ways to combat Islamophobia across the country.” During the Summit, Trudeau referenced Revenue Canada, stating: “From the (Canada Revenue Agency) to security agencies, institutions should support people, not target them.” At that same Summit, Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier requested that the Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson, François Boileau, “examine concerns by certain Muslim-led charities and engage other charitable organizations led by racialized communities about their experiences with the CRA.”

The priority of every sector of government should be due diligence and public safety. MAC also received $349,210 in federal funding for “Anti-Racism Projects Tackling Islamophobia” last year, and another $225,000 from the Ontario government to “combat ‘Islamophobia’ in schools.”

Disturbing elements threaten due process in the case of MAC and CRA.

Last June, one month prior to the Summit, over 130 groups, including MAC, called on Canada to stop “prejudiced audits’ of Muslim charities.” The vast majority of them were Muslim groups. Among the others were recognized anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions advocates, such as Canadians For Justice and Peace in the Middle East and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. See the list HERE.

The CRA is obliged to practice due diligence. Its spokesperson, Pamela Tourigny, has defended the fairness of the CRA process, stating that “the CRA does not select registered charities for audit based on any particular faith or denomination.”

According to its website, “the CRA chooses a file for an audit based on a risk assessment….likelihood or frequency of errors in tax returns or whether there are indications of non-compliance with tax obligations.” It could be any group. Three years ago, the government revoked the charity status of the Canadian Jewish group Beth Oloth Charitable Organization, with no subsequent barrage of antisemitism accusations.

The CRA owes it to all Canadian taxpayers to be prudent, despite heavy-handed pressure and accusations of “Islamophobia.” It is not biased or prejudiced for CRA to exercise due diligence regarding Muslim charities, or any charity. The power of “Islamophobia” accusations has proved to be immense. It now threatens to derail due diligence at CRA and possibly exonerate Islamists of terrorism financing and a range of other misdeeds, despite any overarching evidence. Kowtowing to Islamic supremacist lobbies will also set an alarming precedent, even beyond Canada’s borders. In the meantime, Trudeau keeps the money flowing in to the MAC in order to combat “hate” and “Islamophobia.”

[Maple MAGA ] EDITORIAL: Federal services collapsing under Trudeau Postmedia News - Yesterday...

Maple MAGA — 6/30/2022 10:25:52 AM

EDITORIAL: Federal services collapsing under Trudeau

Postmedia News - Yesterday 4:01 p.m.

Airports recently saw half of their expected flights pushed back or cancelled over a seven-day period due to government screw-ups. It’s a truly remarkable statistic.

According to the analytics firm Data Wazo, as reported by the Canadian Press, “54% of flights to six large airports were bumped off schedule in the seven days between June 22 and 28.”

The news story explained that, “Airlines and the federal government have been scrambling to respond to scenes of endless lines, flight disruptions and daily turmoil at airports — particularly at Pearson — a problem the aviation industry has blamed on a shortage of federal security and customs officers.”

This is an absolute mess. All signs point to the federal government being to blame.

It’s not the only problem Canadians are facing. The line-ups at passport offices are unacceptably long. There are also now reports of how people have been waiting for Nexus cards for two and even three years.

Things shouldn’t be this complicated. These are among the core service delivery tasks of the federal government. Why can’t they get it right?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last week the formation of a task force of 10 cabinet ministers to improve these problems.

Sorry, but we don’t see how this is going to help matters. It sounds like more red tape and more delays as they have meeting after meeting.

Canadians don’t want talk. They want action.

Last month Transport Minister Omar Alghabra rudely blamed out-of-practice travellers for causing the delays at airports, suggesting that Canadians had somehow forgotten how to take their laptops out of their carry-on luggage over the past two years.

Alghabra also went on to blame the aviation industry. Basically, he thinks everyone is to blame except for himself and the Liberal government.

It’s time for Trudeau, Alghabra and the rest of cabinet to stop denying and downplaying the problems and start fixing them.

Because right now it appears like federal services are collapsing under Trudeau’s leadership.

[Maple MAGA ] POLITICS Freeland touts previously announced measures to combat hot inflation ...

Maple MAGA — 6/16/2022 3:51:52 PM

POLITICS

Freeland touts previously announced measures to combat hot inflation

TORONTO - Amid stubbornly hot inflation and rising interest rates, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland detailed financial commitments to "help make life more affordable for millions of Canadians" – but the measures were all previously announced.

Freeland touts inflation plan in keynote address

TORONTO - Amid stubbornly hot inflation and rising interest rates, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland detailed financial commitments to "help make life more affordable for millions of Canadians" – but the measures were all previously announced.

Freeland delivered a keynote address about the state of the Canadian economy at the Empire Club of Canada in downtown Toronto Thursday afternoon.

In her speech, Freeland highlighted the federal government’s Affordability Plan, which she referred to as a suite of measures totalling $8.9 billion in new support for Canadians in 2022.

The measures were all included in the past two federal budgets and are now taking effect.

Freeland called skyrocketing inflation a "global phenomenon" that is being driven by lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing lockdowns in China and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

"Jobs are plentiful and business is booming, but it is also harder for a lot of Canadians to pay their bills at the end of the month," Freeland said in her speech.

Last month, Statistics Canada reported the inflation rate for April rose 6.8 per cent compared with a year ago. That’s the highest since January 1991. The federal agency is expected to release May’s inflation report next week.

The Conservative Party said Freeland's speech "demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of the causes of inflation."

"This flawed economic approach eats away at the earnings of hard-working Canadians and ignores the most basic principle of economics: that spending during an inflationary crisis will only fuel inflation further," finance and industry critics Dan Albas and Gérard Deltell said in a joint statement Thursday afternoon.

The statement also said the Liberals "continue to blame global factors for inflation and refuse to provide the immediate relief to the cost-of-living crisis that Canadians need."

"Rather, they re-announce policies that won’t take effect until the fall, as Canadians are left to suffer throughout the summer.”

The U.S. Federal Reserve hiked its key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point on Wednesday – its largest hike since 1994, leading economists to predict the Bank of Canada will follow suit next month.

Canada’s central bank has increased its key rate by half a percentage point twice in recent months, bringing it to 1.5 per cent in June and governor Tiff Macklem has hinted he is prepared to act "more forcefully" if high inflation persists.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 16, 2022.

TORONTO - Amid stubbornly hot inflation and rising interest rates, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland detailed financial commitments to "help make life more affordable for millions of Canadians" – but the measures were all previously announced.

F reeland delivered a keynote address about the state of the Canadian economy at the Empire Club of Canada in downtown Toronto Thursday afternoon.

In her speech, Freeland highlighted the federal government’s Affordability Plan, which she referred to as a suite of measures totalling $8.9 billion in new support for Canadians in 2022.

The measures were all included in the past two federal budgets and are now taking effect.

Freeland called skyrocketing inflation a "global phenomenon" that is being driven by lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing lockdowns in China and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

"Jobs are plentiful and business is booming, but it is also harder for a lot of Canadians to pay their bills at the end of the month," Freeland said in her speech.

Last month, Statistics Canada reported the inflation rate for April rose 6.8 per cent compared with a year ago. That’s the highest since January 1991. The federal agency is expected to release May’s inflation report next week.

The Conservative Party said Freeland's speech "demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of the causes of inflation."

"This flawed economic approach eats away at the earnings of hard-working Canadians and ignores the most basic principle of economics: that spending during an inflationary crisis will only fuel inflation further," finance and industry critics Dan Albas and Gérard Deltell said in a joint statement Thursday afternoon.

The statement also said the Liberals "continue to blame global factors for inflation and refuse to provide the immediate relief to the cost-of-living crisis that Canadians need."

"Rather, they re-announce policies that won’t take effect until the fall, as Canadians are left to suffer throughout the summer.”

The U.S. Federal Reserve hiked its key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point on Wednesday – its largest hike since 1994, leading economists to predict the Bank of Canada will follow suit next month.

Canada’s central bank has increased its key rate by half a percentage point twice in recent months, bringing it to 1.5 per cent in June and governor Tiff Macklem has hinted he is prepared to act "more forcefully" if high inflation persists.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 16, 2022.

[Maple MAGA ] Hypocrite Trudeau is now complaining about Press Freedom in Russia... Russia sh...

Maple MAGA — 5/18/2022 8:24:49 PM

Hypocrite Trudeau is now complaining about Press Freedom in Russia...

Russia shuts down CBC/Radio-Canada Moscow bureau, removes journalist accreditations

During Thursday night’s federal election leaders debate, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was asked a question by Rebel News, who were allowed to participate in the event following a federal court ruling, whether his government stands by their decision to not give them accreditation for the debate.

Trudeau said accreditation is done by the press gallery and by a consortium of networks with “strong perspectives on quality journalism.”

Trudeau went on to say that “organizations like yours that continue to spread disinformation and misinformation about vaccines, around how we’re actually going to get through this pandemic,” adding “I won’t call it a media organization – your group of individuals need to take accountability for some of the polarization that we’re seeing in this country.”

[Maple MAGA ] Rex Murphy: Don Cherry's cruel exclusion from the Order of Canada May 17, 2022 ...

Maple MAGA — 5/18/2022 8:23:24 PM

Rex Murphy: Don Cherry's cruel exclusion from the Order of Canada

May 17, 2022

Hockey commentator Don Cherry in Mississauga, Ont. on Tuesday November 9, 2021.

I wish to speak of the venerable, Mr. Don Cherry, he who reigned so long as the Emperor of Coaches Corner, now for some time in what I will term a kind of forced retirement. I do not think it can be challenged that for as long as he so briskly issued his wisdom on the national game from that singular podium there was no other individual Canadian broadcaster who commanded so large and loyal an audience. From the smallest, most remote village to the most crowded cities, old and young, everyone knew Don Cherry.

Now it would be wrong to say that during that long career he pleased everyone. Though it should be added that it is given to no man to please everyone (with the possible exception of course of Mr. Dressup). There were a few of determinedly elevated tastes and pacifist sensibilities that felt he was — what is the word? — a tad too “loud,” but that was probably an understandable confusion with his wardrobe. He favoured rather high-visibility outerwear and favoured colours derived from tropical festivals and the more extroverted birds of the Amazon rainforest.

What we often refer to as the great mass however liked him, and more. And, this was the key, he liked them. And he exuberantly loved, and still does, Canada as he loved Canada’s emblematic pastime. A living piece of Canadiana is Mr. Cherry.

It has been a curiosity of mine for a long time why this most vivid of Canada’s patriots, a gentleman so greatly favoured by our military, and hailed by such a broad sweep of Canadians, was never enrolled in our country’s honour system, the Order of Canada, as one of its outstanding citizens and achievers.

There are very few who have won the honour — and this is no disparagement of them — who can measure up to, in influence, affection among the Canadian public, energy, or sheer presence, as Mr. Cherry.

And yet he has been resolutely passed over again for that honour, even now in his twilight, as he had been passed over for decades.

I presume it was those who arbitrated the award viewed Cherry as a little too vigorous, thought perhaps his heart-on-the-sleeve boosting of Canada’s many glories too brash, or his unique verbal style — there was something of a bulldozer directness to it — most unCanadianly assertive. Was he perhaps too “common?” I would not like to think so, for that would imply a certain snobbishness attends the choice of who may be considered for the country’s great honours.

After his abrupt departure he was not treated well either.

Here he was the highest rated presence on CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada — finest tribune of the national sport, and undeniable favourite of its most zealous fans.

And there in a snap of woke fingers he was gone.

No salutes. No farewell dinner from Hockey Night in Canada, no memorial news reels of his more exuberant moments. He was there large as life and more lively on every TV screen in the country for decades, a living personification of the love of the national pastime, and then … he just wasn’t.

CBC, in particular was shameless in its silence, in fact callous in refusing him the kind of celebratory farewell they have given to so many with far less connection to the wide audience of Canadians. It does not take much imagination to guess how large an audience would have tuned it to a Farewell For Don night. But then, perhaps high audience numbers are an allergy risk at CBC.

However, what most irritates is that the well-placed who determine which Canadians are placed on the honour roll of Canadian achievement, the Order of Canada, have for so long kept him off that high scroll.

This is no criticism of any to whom that honour has been granted.

It is, and is meant to be, a major rebuke to those who determine who receives the honour, and who have so studiously and condescendingly persisted in making sure Don Cherry didn’t receive it. Whatever, he has been kept out of the Order, and there will be a time when it is the Order that is the less for it, not the man who has been effectively refused it.

You know something, it is just mean.

[Maple MAGA ] Canada: ‘Pierre Poilievre is giving me strong Ron DeSantis vibes’ MAY 8, 2022 9...

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Canada: ‘Pierre Poilievre is giving me strong Ron DeSantis vibes’

MAY 8, 2022 9:00 AM

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

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By 2025, Canada will have suffered through a decade of Trudeau, largely because of an activist media, along with a divided Right. A vote on June 10 to choose a new leader for the Conservative Party of Canada could finally see the building of a united Right. With that, hope is building for the 2025 election, even though it is three years away.

During the globally publicized Freedom Convoy truck protest in Ottawa in February that saw Trudeau humiliated internationally, the left-leaning head of Canada’s official opposition Conservative Party of Canada, Erin O’Toole, was thrown out as leader by his own caucus. While O’Toole met with the Freedom Convoy demonstrators, he also “distanced himself from the protest and ultimately denounced it.” It looks as if it cost him big to do so.

The great hopeful that has emerged to possibly replace O’Toole is Pierre Poilievre, a Member of Parliament for the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton. He has been drawing star-status crowds on his campaign tour. According to Global News in Canada, Poilievre “has been consistently appearing before massive groups of people at rallies across the country,” dubbed “unprecendented” by observers.

The dominance of the Conservative camp by CINOs (Conservative in Name Only) is well known, leaving disappointed grassroots Conservatives. In fact, watch Polievre’s opponent grin from ear to ear in this video, in a pathetic attempt to save face, as Poilievre calls him to account:

Should Poilievre win, by all indications he would be a formidable opponent to Trudeau.

His popularity even prompted an overtly partisan Leftist pollster, Frank Graves, to tweet a threat to Poilievre, thereby exposing the Left’s deep fear of a Conservative win. The no-nonsense Poilievre fired back:

“CBC pundit threatens me. The gatekeeping elites will try to destroy anyone who threatens their power. I’m not backing down,” Poilievre said in a Tweet on Wednesday. “Help me defund the CBC, remove the gatekeepers, and give you back control of your life.

Canada’s national broadcaster, which is tasked to represent all Canadians, is mostly an activist mouthpiece for the Trudeau government, which funds it handsomely. Rather than compete, it is bankrolled by taxpayers, raking in 1.4 billion a year.

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[Maple MAGA ] Politics Russia puts Trudeau, foreign affairs and defence ministers on its 'bla...

Maple MAGA — 3/16/2022 7:46:48 AM

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Russia puts Trudeau, foreign affairs and defence ministers on its 'black list'

Effective today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is barred from entering Russia

March 15, 2022

The Russian foreign ministry announced Tuesday it has added Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Defence Minister Anita Anand to what it calls its "black list," banning them from entering Russia.

The other federal party leaders — interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet and Green Party parliamentary leader Elizabeth May — have been told they can't set foot on Russian soil.

Have a question or something to say? CBC News is live in the comments now.

Hundreds of MPs from all parties and leaders of various Ukrainian-Canadian groups — including Alexandra Chyczij, the president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) — have also been put on Russia's black list.

The move is a response to Canada's aggressive stance toward Russia following that country's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses Parliament as Russian forces edge toward Kyiv

Along with other Western powers, Canada has levied sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin, his close political allies, senior government leaders and the billionaire oligarchs who control Russian industry and other entities abroad.

Canada and allies like the U.K. also have led the charge to essentially disconnect Russian financial institutions from the global economy while restricting Russia's exports and imposing steep tariffs on its imports.

The effects have been devastating for the Russian economy but Putin's troops have only pushed further into Ukraine since the onset of sanctions and tariffs, shelling major cities and killing thousands.

In an address to Canada's Parliament Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Trudeau and Canada for its contributions to this point — Canada has sent lethal aid, including ammunition. He also urged Canadian leaders to contribute to a no-fly zone to shut down Ukrainian airspace to Russian warplanes.

In a statement, the Russian foreign ministry said it was banning so many Canadians now because "official Ottawa" has "Russophobic rage."

"This step is forced and taken in response to the outrageous hostility of the current Canadian regime, which has tested our patience for so long. Every Russophobic attack, be it attacks on Russian diplomatic missions, airspace closures, or Ottawa's actual severing of bilateral economic ties to the detriment of Canadian interests, will inevitably receive a decisive and not necessarily symmetrical rebuff," the ministry said in a Russian post.

(There have been no reported "attacks" on Russian diplomatic missions but rather peaceful protests in front of the country's embassy in Ottawa.)

In a statement, a spokesperson for Trudeau said the prime minister was not bothered by the new Canadian additions to the Russian black list.

"The only response from Russia that we're interested in is an immediate end to the illegal, unnecessary war in Ukraine. Until then, Canada and our allies will continue imposing crippling sanctions on Putin and his enablers in Russia and Belarus," the spokesperson said.

WATCH | Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly on the possibility of supplying Ukraine with military planes

Canada's red line on Ukraine 'is not triggering an international conflict,' says Foreign Minister (10:02)

Asked about being barred by Russia, Joly said she was "not surprised" and she "won't back down" in the face of Putin's aggression.

"I think what we need to do is continue — every day, every week — to announce sanctions. We know we have to do more and we know that our sanctions must really target Putin himself, which we have done," Joly said.

Russia banned Freeland in 2014

This isn't the first time Russia has banned Canadian officials. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, a former financial journalist who lived and worked in Moscow for years, was secretly added to the black list in 2014 after Canada and other Western countries imposed sanctions on some Russian entities following Putin's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.

A Russian foreign ministry spokesperson confirmed in 2017 that Freeland and a dozen other Canadian officials would be banned from Russia until Canada lifted similar restrictions on Russian officials.

After Moscow imposed sanctions on her, Freeland, a frequent Putin critic, posted on social media that she considered it "an honour to be on Putin's sanction list."

Last year, Russia also banned Justice Minister David Lametti, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc and a number of government officials — including the then-top bureaucrat at the Department of National Defence, Jody Thomas.

That ban came after Canada imposed sanctions on nine high-ranking Russian officials for "gross and systematic human rights abuses," including the attempted assassination and subsequent jailing of popular opposition figure Alexey Navalny. Navalny, one of Putin's main political opponents, was poisoned in 2020 with the nerve agent Novichok.

In addition to banning Trudeau, Joly and Anand Tuesday, Russia also added U.S. President Joe Biden, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Biden's son Hunter, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, CIA chief William Burns and White House press secretary Jen Psaki to the black list.

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[Maple MAGA ] Rex Murphy: 'Slippages' in democracy? Justin Trudeau knows a lot about that Wha...

Maple MAGA — 3/9/2022 6:37:00 PM

Rex Murphy: 'Slippages' in democracy? Justin Trudeau knows a lot about that

What would invoking the Emergencies Act over a truckers' protest be considered?

Mar 08, 2022

Prime Minster Justin Trudeau attends a press conference in London, England, regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on March 7, 2022. Speaking to a Ukrainian-Canadian community in the Toronto area last week, Trudeau said there have been "slippages" in democracy worldwide. Rex Murphy suggests one such slippage occurred in Canada.

Justin Trudeau, not much or frequently given to philosophizing on world affairs, recently gave an address to the Ukrainian community in Etobicoke, Ont. Inevitably it was about Vladimir Putin’s savage war against Ukraine. And yet it had a perhaps unintended reference to our own country.

The core of his musings came with some reflections on the world’s democracies. He began by alerting his audience that, “We’ve come to a moment that, quite frankly, we’ve seen coming over the past years.” And what pray tell is that moment? It’s the moment “about democracies around the world (in which) we see a bit of a slippage in our democracies.”

This is an interesting description. Words are important, as Barack Obama once observed of Hillary Clinton, and these words are no exception. Nothing serious here for “our” democracies. Just a bit of a slippage. Not a full tumble now, a head over heels moment, or a real fall, but merely a little skid.

He then turned the volume up a bit and noted “countries turning towards slightly more authoritarian leaders.” Donald Trump? Naw. Couldn’t be Trump because Trudeau would never have offered that “slightly.” I’ll leave the choice to the reader, as Trudeau was not — and this was a bit of a failing — specific.

Next, he left the question of these slightly more (unnamed) authoritarian leaders without comment and went onto (for him) a more gravely worrisome sign, of “countries allowing increasing misinformation and disinformation to be shared on social media.”

There’s a little puzzle here, maybe even a full contradiction. If these countries have tended to more authoritarian leaders, and it being the practice of authoritarian leaders to prohibit, ban and outlaw what they don’t like or want, then why are they “allowing” all this misinformation and disinformation in their slightly slipping democracies?

And this leads to an even more pertinent set of questions. One such would be the distinction between mis- and dis- information. Is there a distinction?

For example, if a group of blue-collar workers, fearing for their livelihoods and angry about not being consulted on policies key to their employment, were to be called racists and misogynists and a fringe minority holding unacceptable views and not to be tolerated — into which category would that fulsome denunciation fall? Misinformation or disinformation?

Further, these wildly overcharged descriptions were, in fact, “allowed to be shared on social media.”

By whom? By Mr. Trudeau himself, for he was the author of half of them. And by some of his lead ministers.

How did Trudeau respond to the protest? First, by refusing to communicate with the Canadian citizens who made up the protest. Second by the first-ever invocation of the Emergencies Act. Which granted his government the power to arrest some of the protest’s leaders, seize their equipment, reach into their bank accounts, and find the names even of other citizens who donated to the protest — all this before, as the legislation allows, the act’s invocation had been confirmed by Parliament.

Before the Freedom Convoy protest, the freezing of bank accounts, in particular, was something contemplated only under extreme conditions, such as when acts of terrorism were contemplated or executed. It is an astonishing power. It invalidates personal autonomy, and pushes the citizen into utter dependence on the whim of the state.

The final currant in this Christmas cake of overreach came when the Emergencies Act made it to Parliament for confirmation. It got half a vote. The Commons — specifically the Liberals and the ersatz Liberal NDP — voted for it. It never made it to a confirmation vote in the Senate. Trudeau revoked what he had invoked before it could.

It never made it to a confirmation vote in the Senate

Now there’s a curiosity. The unprecedented deployment of near-wartime powers had nine days of exercise over the lives of Canadian citizens, reaching into their private affairs and their bank accounts, and it never received the confirmation of the full Parliament.

What do you think? Was this a “bit of a slippage?” A bit of a slippage in one of the democracies, namely ours?

Trudeau was dead on the money in much of what he said. Except what we’ve seen during COVID, and then the protest, was far more than “a bit of a slippage.” And putting the whole country of Canada under the Emergencies Act to deal with a local and peaceful protest was more than “slightly authoritarian.” It was a full dive into both those waters.

The only thing lacking in that speech was a mirror.

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I feel sorry for Greta supporters who like heavy metal.

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This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope.

How dare you!

You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.

How dare you!

For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear.

How dare you!

Continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.

You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency. But no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil. And that I refuse to believe.

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Let us not forget that when given the choice, Justin Trudeau would rather declare war on his own people than drop a single coronavirus restriction.
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[Maple MAGA ] Rex Murphy: Trudeau's monumentally misguided emergency measures are an insult to...

Maple MAGA — 2/18/2022 9:26:03 PM

Rex Murphy: Trudeau's monumentally misguided emergency measures are an insult to Canadians

Feb 16, 2022

Truck drivers and their supporters block streets during an anti vaccine mandate protest near the Parliament Buildings on February 15, 2022 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. PHOTO BY SCOTT OLSON /Getty Images

This is the most monumentally stupid, monumentally arrogant, and monumentally misguided decision by a prime minister since 1867.

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in his sophomoric musings on the nature of Canada some years back, famously declared that Canada has “no core identity,” most of us thought he was stating his opinion, however ridiculous, of the country as he saw it at the time.

We were wrong, ever so wrong. He was stating an ambition. He was declaring a goal.

After six years of the most amateur government this country has ever suffered, with the invocation of the most crushing legislation any government can call upon, the Emergencies Act, to attack and subdue a group of ordinary Canadian workers, he’s well on the way to achieving his “post-national” ambitions.

That’s one core value out the window: the right to peaceful protest. The invocation of wartime-like emergency powers by the national government to deal with a workers’ protest is grotesquely overwrought, something very close to lunatic.

If I were to seek out the one word that, more than any other, would characterize this dangerous and needless assumption of the state’s greatest powers, I’d come down on “insult.” It is an insult to the nature of the country, to the character of its citizens and to its cherished status as a democracy, for which so many of its citizens were wounded or died in two world wars to preserve.

The Emergencies Act could only have been brought in at this time by a leader and a government that have forgotten, or never knew, what Canada is and represents; that does not fully appreciate how its citizens, when they are in disagreement, eventually meet and work their way calmly to agreement.

Canada has no “core identity”? Well, maybe it seems that way to a prime minister who appears to view Canada’s history as a sequence of horrors for which he must personally apologize. Pride in our history, another core Canadian value, has also been severely diminished.

Canada has no “core identity”? Well, it might appear that way to a politician who, in the full vesture of the office of the prime minister, bewails this welcoming and flourishing multicultural country as systemically racist, while himself getting caught up in a blackface scandal. The dignity of the highest Canadian office, another core value, has been put under severe strain.

Canada has no “core identity”? Well, maybe to a leader who so loves to puffily pontificate about his progressive ideology on the international stage with the world’s leading virtuecrats, and promotes a global agenda over the real needs of his own country — saving the economies of the western provinces and having some respect for the dignity of their citizens.

Maybe to that person, Canada does not, in fact, have any “core identity.” Commitment above all else to unity in Confederation is another value that is being put to the test.

To another point, central to the present moment: what would it have taken to forestall this embarrassing — the word is far too timid, but let that be — flight into legislative overkill that we saw this week?

The answer: a smidgen of courage, and an ounce of humility — not to go off stage, not to hide, not to remove himself from the country’s leadership while a difficult, but not crisis-level, situation was in play.

Here’s the mother of all questions for Trudeau and it is one that he cannot, and will never, answer: what was so difficult about having a talk with the leaders of a group of Canadians who found some of the government’s COVID regulations to be a grievous burden?

When Black Lives Matter flooded the streets, Trudeau not only met with them, he went into the streets and joined in on the their American-inspired protest. He gave them a knee and bowed his head. But he would not meet with the truckers. He would not talk to their representatives. There was certainly no kneeling.

He rhetorically abused the citizens in the protest. He suggested they were racists and misogynists and that they hold “unacceptable views.” Which was a deliberate tactic to isolate them, to marginalize them, to mark them as somehow unCanadian.

The most egregious, polarizing agent in this entire protest has been the leader of the country. Two hours of talking, a little respect, a touch of democratic process and the whole affair could have been washed away. And we would not now have half the world asking: what in God’s name is going on in Canada?

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[Maple MAGA ] Justin Trudeau: Fidel Castro’s Son FEB 17, 2022 7:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER 5...

Maple MAGA — 2/18/2022 12:19:59 AM

Justin Trudeau: Fidel Castro’s Son

FEB 17, 2022 7:00 AM

BY ROBERT SPENCER

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If not biologically, then ideologically. Today in Front Page:

The rumors have been circulating for years: it’s easy to find side-by-side photographic comparisons of Fidel Castro and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, showing the strong physical resemblance between the two. This rattles the establishment media to the extent that they “debunk” it regularly. Last Saturday, the New York Times ran a piece entitled: “An old falsehood resurfaces: that Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro’s son.” On Tuesday, the Daily Beast chimed in with “Truckers Resurrect Bananas Theory About Trudeau’s Real Dad.” True to form for the establishment media, neither addressed the points journalist Karen Leibowitcz made in favor of the claim in 2020, but while the question is interesting, what is far more important is that whatever the true story of his parentage may be, in bringing authoritarian rule to Canada, Justin Trudeau has now shown himself to be the ideological son of Fidel Castro.

No one should be surprised by this. Trudeau has a long record of affinity for authoritarian governments. In 2013, before he was prime minister, he was asked what country he admired most. Trudeau answered, “You know, there’s a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say ‘we need to go green fastest…we need to start investing in solar.’ I mean, there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about, of having a dictatorship that he can do everything he wanted, that I find quite interesting.”

And when Fidel Castro died in 2016, Trudeau’s statement gave no hint of the bloodthirstiness and repression of the Communist regime in Cuba. Instead, Trudeau was fairly gushing with praise for “Cuba’s longest-serving President.” He declared that “Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation.”

Trudeau acknowledged that Castro was a “controversial figure,” but insisted that “both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people, who had a deep and lasting affection for ‘el Comandante.’” He said that his family was joining “the people of Cuba today in mourning the loss of this remarkable leader.”

Now we can see that this was not just an ill-considered outpouring of grief for a man Trudeau obviously loved dearly. His praise for China and for Castro have in common an admiration for the authoritarian’s ability to get things done with no regard for the opposition or the give-and-take of the democratic process. China was able to go green and Castro was able to make significant improvements to education and healthcare (in Trudeau’s view, not in real life) because they didn’t have to deal with all the carping and compromise that working with parliaments and voters entails.

And now Trudeau can rid himself of the Freedom Convoy, and seize the protesters’ bank accounts, without having to wait for court orders and worry about due process. If old Fidel can look up from his fiery grave and see what Trudeau is doing, he must be pleased. What’s even worse, however, is the silence of the world. One of the world’s foremost free republics is turning into a police state before our very eyes, and Trudeau has not been denounced by anyone. Old Joe Biden’s handlers, of course, aren’t going to say anything, because they would do the same thing to dissidents here if they thought they could get away with it. But none of the other leaders of ostensibly free societies seem to care either. Maybe they’re all Leftists who, in the indelible words of David Horowitz, harbor within themselves a totalitarian who is screaming to get out.

In a sane world, the Canadian opposition would already have secured a no-confidence vote against Trudeau, with significant assistance from members of Trudeau’s own party who oppose authoritarian overreach and the denial of civil rights to Canadian citizens. Trudeau would also be up for condemnation at the United Nations and by international human rights organizations. Ironically, if he were a prime minister in Africa or Asia and did exactly the same thing that he did in setting aside the civil liberties of his political opponents, those condemnations would be raining down. But for some reason, Justin Trudeau doesn’t appear to be in political trouble either domestically or internationally, at least thus far. It’s a sign that other countries in the once-free West are almost as bad off as Canada is.

Justin Trudeau is a tyrant. He is the sort of tyrant that the United States of America was founded to oppose. Canada, of course, is the country of the North Americans who opposed the American Revolution, so perhaps it is fitting that it would be the first of the two countries to fall into tyranny. But Canada also has a proud tradition of freedom and respect for human rights and the rule of law. May it prevail now, against the ideological son and heir of Fidel Castro, Justin Trudeau.

[Maple MAGA ] John Ivison: Trudeau oblivious as Canadians lose faith in government's ability t...

Maple MAGA — 2/17/2022 10:15:18 AM

John Ivison: Trudeau oblivious as Canadians lose faith in government's ability to keep peace, order