Has America’s 1% become our version of the CCP?
Dear Brian Pallister
This is what a backbone looks like.
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
The Mounties always get their Blog
A federal censorship bill will be useful in prosecuting bloggers and Facebook subscribers, an RCMP specialist said last night. Bill C-36 will “see more things through to charges,” a webinar was told: “There is no such thing as free speech in Canada, only freedom of expression.”
We can lay lotsa charges with #C36 censorship bill, say @RCMPGRC police; bloggers & tweeters face $70K fines or house arrest for offensive words.
He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
You’ll like being Chinese. Really you will.
Twitter posts are “undermining Canada’s democracy,” said Canada’s Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault in a briefing note, who is urging regulation of hurtful comments for “a truly democratic debate.”
Cabinet on June 23 introduced Bill C-36 An Act To Amend The Criminal Code that threatens Facebook, Twitter and YouTube users suspected of posting content that promotes “detestation or vilification” with house arrest or $70,000 fines. The heritage department promised public consultation on the bill, according to Blacklock’s.
“This content steals and damages lives,” wrote staff. “It intimidates and obscures valuable voices, preventing a truly democratic debate.”
“Our objective is to ensure more accountability and transparency from online platforms while respecting the Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms,” said the June 16 briefing note Regulation Of Social Media Platforms. “The mandate of the Department of Canadian Heritage includes the promotion of a greater understanding of human rights.”
Related: Psaki on de-platforming American citizens: “You shouldn’t be banned from one platform and not others if you providing ‘misinformation’ out there.”
Canada’s Most Wanted
For shooting a paper target. In the bush. In the middle of nowhere.
The Libranos: It’s Good To Be King
The Canada Infrastructure Bank is refusing to disclose bonuses paid to executives despite a unanimous vote by MPs on a House of Commons committee calling for the amounts to be revealed.
Members of Parliament on the standing committee on transport, infrastructure and communities, including Liberal MPs, voted 11-0 on March 23 in support of a motion requesting that the bank “file all documents detailing the bonus policies and payment of bonuses to executives and the board of directors since the bank’s inception.”
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The Liberal government created the CIB in 2017 as a Crown corporation with a $35-billion budget and a mandate to support projects that are in the public interest and that attract outside investment from large institutional investors, such as pension funds.
The exchange between the transport committee and the CIB is one of several continuing battles between the minority Parliament and the government over motions to turn over documents. In one case, the Liberal government is taking the House of Commons Speaker to court in an effort to prevent the release of uncensored documents that MPs requested in relation to the firing of two scientists from Canada’s top infectious-disease laboratory.
h/t Chris, who has more;
2. In contempt of Parliament… Federal bureaucrats are refusing to follow ANOTHER law.
The federal Finance Department is asserting that it has the power to freeze a law passed by Parliament that gives more generous tax treatment to small businesses…The legislation received royal assent on June 29. But, in a news release issued the next day, Finance stated that the new rules won’t come into effect until Jan. 1.
The department’s stance that it can delay the onset of the new tax rules is unusual. It also defies federal law, which says bills go into effect when given royal assent unless otherwise specified, according to experts in legislative process and parliamentary procedure.
Links are here.
A Donor A Day Keeps The Court Losses Away
Blacklocks: Attorney General David Lametti in a single day appointed four Liberal Party donors as judges. The flurry of appointments Friday came three weeks after the Commons justice committee rejected an investigation of Party vetting of judges: “I am confident they will serve the people.”
It’s Not Dead
It’s resting. @PierrePoilievre celebrates the fact that the Senate has closed its doors for the summer without passing Bill C-10, making it nearly impossible for Trudeau’s Liberals to make their censorship dreams reality.
Wuhan Flu: The 75% Solution
Trudeau says: Canada won’t open border fully until 75% people vaccinated…
So, what’s the plan for when this thing “goes away on it’s own” and we’re still short of the target? Because that threshold of 75% double-dose will never be met. Even in Saskatchewan where the hesitant are growing numb from the lectures, pleading and insults, we’re only crawling our way to 70% on the first shot.
Diversity Is The Long Game
According to the 2016 Census*, there remain only 1.6 million Indigenous survivors of Canada’s dark history of colonial oppression and genocide.
Yet, as the media trucks pitch camp in century old burial plots, and politicians trample one another in surrender, few seem to notice (much less mention) that the Trudeau Liberals have opened the floodgates to 300,000 economic immigrants a year — immigrants who have nothing to reconcile and no reason to apologize. These millions are to be added to a Canadian population that’s already over 20% foreign born.
In their strategic plan to replace vexatious old stock Settlers by importing a loyal new voter base, our Natural Governing Liberals are quietly diluting their “Indian problem” away — and they know it. Given current trends, First Nations protestors of the next decade will be banging their drums in a new and mostly indifferent country.
“Demographics is destiny” it is said, but about the accelerating erosion of First Nations population share and political influence, the chattering classes of our gated institutions and talk boxes remain conveniently silent.
It’s as though they’re in on the joke.
Zombie Legislation
Even a decade ago, Stephen Harper’s supposedly right-wing ideologues had no stomach for the fight. His “conservative” attorney-general was useless and his “conservative” human-rights commissar was on the other side. When the issue came up in Cabinet, the consensus was that “Steyn’s going to lose” – as every other defendant had lost – and therefore there was no point getting involved. Maclean’s was the country’s biggest-selling news magazine, and its excerpt of America Alone was a short clip from a Number One Canadian bestseller. But the “human rights” commissions had feasted on fringe losers and had worked up an appetite for meatier fare.
Crucifixions Will Continue
Until morale improves.
Interesting to see this story actually getting some traction in the corporate press. Here’s Global and CTV.
Here is a profile on Dr. Francis Christian from the University of Saskatchewan website. That includes a charming little YouTube video at the bottom of the good Doctor showing us how to surgically repair a hernia.
Have a listen to what got everybody’s knickers in a knot.
Now have a listen to the officials who are going after Dr. Christian for blasphemy.
In the Dead of the Night
The Liberal government strategy of multiple gag orders and a “super motion” to limit debate bore fruit last night as Bill C-10 received House of Commons approval at 1:30 am. The Parliamentary process took hours as the government passed multiple motions to cut short debate, re-inserted amendments that had been previously ruled null and void, and rejected a last-ditch attempt to restore the Section 4.1 safeguards for user generated content. The debate included obvious errors from Liberal MPs who were presumably chosen to defend the bill. For example, Julie Dabrusin, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, said that Section 2.1 in Bill C-10 “specifically excludes content uploaded by users.” Only it doesn’t as Dabrusin should know given that 2.1 covers users not content and she was the MP who introduced the amendment at committee to remove Section 4.1, which was the provision that excluded content uploaded by users.
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Cold Canuck Hands
Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights;
Today, Bruce Hughson of the Department of Justice forwarded a notice to the Federal Court concerning our case against the Attorney General of Canada. The notice is to inform the court that the government has invoked Section 39 of the Canada Evidence Act. This is an action that the Clerk of the Privy Council can take to “make secret” any materials the government doesn’t want the public to see. This puts the materials, in this case the government’s evidence, beyond the reach of anyone, even the courts. Supposedly, this sweeping power is exercised when the material is so sensitive, it is against the public interest to disclose it.
The certificate invoking S. 39 was signed by the Interim Clerk of the Privy Council, Janice Charette. Keep in mind, in late May, Judge Gagne ordered the government to provide its evidence to her alone, not the public. She would then evaluate if the materials were too sensitive for public disclosure. It appears that the government believes the evidence they used to ban up to a million firearms owned exclusively by licensed gun owners is too secret (or dangerous) to have even a federal judge view it.
More here.
h/t Colonialista
More French
via Blacklocks
Private sector employers for the first time face requirements to speak French under a cabinet bill yesterday introduced in the Commons. Airports, banks, grain mills, interprovincial trucking companies, radio stations, railways, marine shippers and other federally-regulated companies must embrace bilingualism in provinces with a “strong francophone presence,” thought the term was not defined: “It is up to us to protect French.”
Pesky Facts
We Don’t Deserve Them
They are too kind to us.
The province of Ontario announced Monday that they will once again be allowing non-essential travel into the province later this week, but how will Manitoba’s own restrictions affect you when you return home?
Manitoba’s Has A Plan
Don’t get your hopes up.
“Summer is coming and vaccines are here,” says Pallister. “Our ‘4-3-2-One Great Summer’ Reopening Path rewards Manitobans with greater freedoms and fewer restrictions on our lives and economy as more and more of us get vaccinated.”
Provinces Webpage Some more non details here. and also here.
Looks like the “plan” is that this will never end.
Update: We don’t want any sass from you there Bernier.
CBC had a good roundup of all the details.
Help Wanted
Successful applicants will be required to purchase their own uniforms.
Sounds like fun. Why would anyone object? Must just be those Q-anon conspiracy theorists