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Father | Settler | Lawyer working for Indigenous Peoples | Award-winning beard grower | I don’t make the rules, I just interpret them | Tweets, not legal advice
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Alternative headline:
“Religious fundamentalists finance terrorism”
Christian group raises over $500K for Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse
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So Jordan Peterson fans are pissing themselves because they’ve just now learned that regulated professions have standards of conduct, and ongoing education requirements, and that if you don’t meet those standards, you can be disciplined? Is that right?
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In case you still thought this was about conservation, last night non-Native fishers broke into a lobster pound, poured paint thinner in the water to kill the lobsters, assaulted the Mi’kmaw fishers, and set fire to a woman’s van.
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Your regular reminder that the Queen of England claims ownership of millions of square kilometers of land she has never seen, touched, or even thought about.
But Indigenous peoples are required to prove their ownership of lands they have used and occupied for millenia.
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This would be over pretty quick if the Government of Canada and Nova Scotia made clear they will take steps to identify those individuals responsible for the violence, charge them, and revoke their fishing licenses if they are convicted.
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@BarbaraBierman
@jordanbpeterson
When he’s saying things that call into question his competence and his psychological state, that is absolutely relevant to whether he can practice psychology.
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I have to complete 12 hours of continuing legal education this year.
JP fans: “this is worse than being sent to the Gulag!”
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Welcome to the real world, where actions have consequences fellas.
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People are angry because Trudeau bought his doughnuts at a locally owned shop, and not a chain that is owned by a Brazilian hedge fund
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If a lawyer steals client trust funds, they could be booted from the profession.
JP fans: “another example of cancel culture run amok!”
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Someone please tell Erin O'Toole to stop calling Indigenous Peoples "Indigenous Canadians".
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My wife is better at the family news thing than I am.
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Any Canadians inclined to get on their high horse about gun violence in the US, remember: a significant portion of our population thinks shooting someone is a reasonable response if their friend climbs on your ATV.
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Any man who calls out another man for crying at his father’s funeral is a broken, sad excuse for a human being.
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Anyone who thinks that decal depicts a *consensual* sex act with a *17 year-old* should have to hand in their badge
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I don’t know how anyone can look at this picture and not feel deeply ashamed and angry about how our city and province are handling the housing crisis.
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Scotiabank is worried that CERB might lead to a living wage.
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Things that are actual international embarrassments for Canada:
1) residential schools and the people that continue to make light of them;
2) the convoy/occupation in Ottawa;
3) our mining industry and its human rights record
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The Venn diagram of people who get upset when Sir John A's name gets taken off of something, and the people who think that FIrst Nations should "forget about the past" has a LARGE area of overlap.
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Starving Indigenous peoples so we can take their lands is a time-honoured Canadian tradition. Might as well make it a Heritage moment.
BREAKING. “Exclusion zone” now set up cutting off supplies to Wet’suwet’en
#Wetsuweten
#WetsuwetenStrong
#rcmp
@BCRCMP
@jjhorgan
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7 of the 10 poorest postal codes in Canada are First Nations reserves in New Brunswick.
Asked on
@infoamfred
about a listener suggestion he raise taxes on the “super-wealthy” such as the Irvings, Premier Higgs says the tax agreements with First Nations were creating “super-wealthy” reserves to the detriment of non-Indigenous New Brunswickers.
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Nova Scotia has experienced three extreme weather events in 10 months. Asking the Premier to acknowledge climate change isn’t a “political gotcha”. It’s a political and scientific reality.
Looking for info from the news conference withNS officials re:flooding. 1st 2 questions (CTV) were wasted on political “gotcha” questions. Seriously - there are 4 missing Nova Scotians and the 2nd q was used to scold the Premier for not mentioning climate change. Do better CTV.
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Someone commented on this photo in an article asking whether it was an actual city or just someone dicking around in photoshop, and I’m still laughing.
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Know whose territory you live in, and what treaties you live under.
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Conrad Black: "I think I've written the silliest possible take on racism."
Margaret Wente: "Hold my latte."
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Apparently there are so few cyclists in this city that we aren’t worth building infrastructure for, and yet so many cyclists that we are a constant, never ending danger to drivers.
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These men are deliberately pushing our public health system to the brink of collapse so they can justify selling it to their friends for pennies on the dollar.
The premiers of Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and P.E.I. will meet in Moncton today for a summit to discuss Canada's struggling health-care system.
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The NDP sent a bad tweet.
Also, the Liberals voted against universal pharmacare.
Maybe we should be more concerned with real world policy than social media policy.
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A grown man shot a young man in the head at Point blank range with a restricted firearm, then claimed his gun went off “accidentally”, and was acquitted.
You are lecturing the wrong people about “personal responsibility”.
I know there may be some strong reactions regarding verdict of Gerald Stanley trial.
Let us all remember personal responsibility for thoughts, actions & comments – incl on social media - & that SK is always strongest when all our communities work together
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Four fully vaccinated Premiers can’t find a safe way to meet, but still think it’s fine to have dozens of kids crammed into classrooms with poor ventilation, no vaccines, and no social distancing.
In-person meeting of Atlantic premiers shelved amid rising COVID numbers
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Mary and Joseph lost their health care and can’t afford a baby. The wise men were stopped by the Travel ban. The angels stand accused of spreading “fake news”.
And Herod is richer than ever thanks to your tax cut.
Merry Christmas, you hypocrite.
At the end of each year, no matter how short—or long—it may feel, there is always Christmas. Waiting for us is that sense of wonder the shepherds felt when the angels appeared in the night sky to herald the birth of a Savior.
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Can we create a “no fly” list for people who go to the media with stories like this?
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Bear in mind that when you say the government “just needs to get people to the table”, you are asking the Mi’kmaq to sit with people who deny their rights, and who have spent decades using violence to prevent them from exercising them.
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The youngest in their first jingle dress with their Grammy.
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Imagine spending 8 years on council, announcing your mayoral bid a year in advance, chasing headlines with controversial positions, and barely beating out a guy from TikTok who threw his hat in the ring at the last minute.
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Canada isn’t so much a country, as it is a resource extraction company, a bank, and a real estate investment trust stacked on top of each other in a trench coat.
we're cancelling each other over canada takes today. post your cancellable canada take
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Worth keeping this in mind. We are now in a nationwide rail shutdown because one pipeline company wasn’t willing to consider an alternate route that would do less damage.
That's right: the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs gave *an alternate route* to Coastal GasLink. One they were okay with because it avoided ecologically pristine and culturally important areas.
And Coastal GasLink refused.
DO NOT let this info get lost in misleading rhetoric.
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I witnessed this as well. This woman was assaulted by a protestor, and had more than one vehicle attempt to drive into her. We informed the police of this. They arrested her and let the woman who assaulted her walk away.
Literally: as the lone protester who just faced down a mob of enormous vehicles was bundled into a police car, she shouted to onlookers, "get vaccinated, it saves lives".
That happened today in our city, right in front of me.
#FluTruxKlan
#DefundThePolice
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Just a reminder that in addition to refusing to release records from residential schools or issue an apology, the Catholic Church also failed to pay their share of the residential school settlement.
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My fellow settlers, I want to gently suggest this is not the time for us to be weighing in on the Buffy St. Marie story.
Allow the people who are directly affected time to process this. Sit back and listen to what they have to say.
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I’ll keep this short - paid sick days.
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Your regular reminder that if people were concerned about a sustainable lobster fishery, they would be targeting Clearwater.
"Two trawls, which are strings of traps, that had been "soaking" for 13 days contained 128 dead lobsters, 53 weak and bitten lobsters, 60 claws and 18 groundfish."
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Lauren Southern, who is virulently anti immigration, is really upset this Maori guy told her to leave his country.
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One dumb tweet probably shouldn’t define someone for life. But his advocacy against a living wage for the working poor absolutely should.
I'm inclined to agree. Rocco looks terrible today but one dumb tweet shouldn't define someone for life.
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Canadians can get smug about election results when our largest province isn’t run by a low-level drug dealer.
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Arguing that “ordinary Canadians” can’t afford to shop at local shops that pay their staff properly, and so we should shop at chains that don’t pay ordinary Canadians properly is one hell of an argument.
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It’s funny, I knew a Peter MacKay that was part of a Conservative government for almost 10 years that did a lot to strengthen our relationship with/increase our dependence on China.
The Communist Chinese government is continuing their coronavirus coverup and Justin Trudeau is sourcing "Canadian" supply lines... from China. We need made in Canada solutions.
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Another reminder that as the RCMP talk about “de-escalation” and “both sides”, that this was their response to Indigenous protests in Elsipogtog 7 years ago.
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If there are future historians to write about it, the fact people frequently chose loud, obnoxious, proudly ignorant men over intelligent, capable, experienced women for positions of leadership will probably be a pretty big factor in the decline of humankind.
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If a Halifax police officer is "tired of hearing" about racism, imagine how tired some people are of enduring racism.
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"The real victims of this mass shooting are the RCMP" is a hell of a take.
BRIAN SAUVÉ: Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission must look forward, not harm police participants | SaltWire
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How many good journalists have lost their jobs, and Postmedia is paying Rex Murphy for front page stories about how he can’t fucking cook? Who reads this drivel?
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In 39 years as a man, I’ve never had people publicly debate what I should or shouldn’t wear.
Should young women be forced to wear a bra in school? Quebec minister Helene David says it's an “extremely interesting” question — and called students who recently led a bra-less protests "leaders with strong personalities".
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If you’re a politician whose previous job was hiding rich people’s money in Bermuda, maybe you shouldn’t be talking about which jobs are “real” and which ones aren’t.
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Sure Halifax has four distinct seasons: Hurricane, winter storm, forest fire, and flash flood.
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Almost every downtown in the Maritimes was designed for people on foot and people on horseback.
If you’re driving downtown and complaining about pedestrians getting “in your way”? It’s your car that the space isn’t designed for.
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New Brunswick: moving to level 3 restrictions.
Nova Scotia: "be careful out there"
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Thousands of pounds of live lobster, stolen from the pound by non-Native fishermen, and then dumped in front of DFO offices to die and rot.
Showing the world how much they care about conservation.
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This shouldn’t need to be said, but:
Nazis believe that the Aryan race is superior to other races.
Being civil to them is not going to make them respect you as a human being.
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I assume if we get a big winter storm this year that instead of White Juan we are going to call it ... Dorian Gray?
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We could have just kept wearing masks.
Calls are increasing across the Maritimes for governments to tackle labour shortages in the health-care sector, as hospitals are being forced to close emergency rooms now that weary staff are taking summer vacations to recover from pandemic-related stress.
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@AmRahman1717
@Football__Tweet
Maybe don’t bud to host a major sporting event if you aren’t willing to be welcoming and inclusive?
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Deferring maintenance is one of the most fiscally irresponsible decisions any government can make.
Ontario's new Tory government has cancelled a $100-million fund earmarked for school repairs this year. READ MORE:
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Trevor Noah explaining why the movie “White Chicks” is different than blackface:
“White Chicks never oppressed anyone except moviegoers.”
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In addition to the destruction of property, this lost gear will remain at the bottom and continue to catch lobsters and other species, doing damage to the marine environment.
Anyone doing this doesn’t give a lick about conservation.
UPDATED: The chief of the Sipekne’katik First Nation estimates anywhere between 150 and 200 lobster traps were lost on Friday as non-Indigenous commercial fishers cut lines and destroyed buoys.
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@mikeavila
@katimorris_h
@RexChapman
Not even convinced there should be a title game for 8 year olds. Lots of evidence that winner-take-all competition does more harm than good at that age. Programs should be skills focused.
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My wife went to the kids’ school yesterday to teach 3 classes about Mi’kmaw quillwork. The kids came home beaming with pride about their culture. It’s a beautiful thing.
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Call it what it is: mob violence.
Indigenous fishers in N.S. have lobster taken, van burned as tensions heighten: chief
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Power and Politics regularly has panels that discuss Indigenous issues without a single Indigenous perspective.
#pnpcbc
1/
Tonight on
#pnpcbc
we speak co-founder of Proud Boys
@Gavin_McInnes
who defends 5 men who disrupted Cda Day Indigenous event
#cdnpoli
#hw
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We live in a country where, if you ask too many questions about how the police handle sexual assault cases, you get messages like this.
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I really like beer, but to suggest that government providing cheap beer is anything like government providing necessities like health care, childcare, and education is a ridiculous comparison.
It's amusing that the same people screaming that Ford's "buck a beer" promise is a cheap attempt to buy votes, also think "free" daycare, dental care, pharmacare and tuition by his political opponents aren't the same thing. And, unlike Ford's proposal, they're not cheap.
#onpoli
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A guy peed in a coffee mug and that disqualified him from running for office in Canada. Just saying, America.
#AlabamaSenateElection
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Yes, the different angle that shows the kids doing “tomahawk chops” and war whoops makes it look much less racist.
Completely different angle.
I'm sorry for judging this kid.
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Nice to sit out on my deck and listen to the sounds of nature. Birds chirping. Peepers peeping. Men with fragile egos driving unnecessarily loud motorbikes up and down residential streets.
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Parents: does your kids school expect primary school aged kids to eat lunch in complete silence, and punish them if they don’t?
Asking for a friend.
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Also, defending it by saying that there are even more graphic and obscene stickers making the rounds in the oil sands just raises more red flags.
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If Albertans wanted other Canadians to take their concerns more seriously, electing a corrupt conspiracy theorist as Premier was probably not the way to do it.
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You can spot the Nova Scotians in New Brunswick. We’re the only ones wearing masks.
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Can ... can we get our crosswalks to do this?
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FTR, if people are asked to take basic, reasonable steps to prevent the spread of a highly infectious, deadly disease, and a minority of people say "No, fuck you, I can do what I want", it's that group that is being divisive, not the other way around.
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If you care more about a statue than you do about the damage Macdonald did to Indigenous communities, languages, and cultures that had survived thousands of years, then it’s not really historical erasure you are worried about.
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So if I understand the candidate vetting process for Nova Scotia politicians, DUI's and threatening to kill people with your truck are cool, but boudoir photos are not?
#nspoli
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Congratulations: you’re now defending an industry culture where sexual violence against children is so normalized, people don’t even think it’s particularly obscene.
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The assumption that white fishermen should get to dictate the rules for the Mi’gmaq fishery is, in fact, racist.
#ModerateLivelihood
Nathan Cook of Atlantic Canada seafood says it’s unfair he’s being called racist lol
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“We”
“Whether we like it or not, they’re allowed to go out and fish” - RCMP officer to non-Indigenous fisher. From video taken yesterday by Denise Marie/Facebook
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Imagine being one of those non-native fishermen and thinking you are accomplishing anything other than convincing a lot of people to never buy your lobster again.
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Imagine a country which, in it's 154 year history, has never had a single head of state that speaks any Indigenous language.
Then imagine one is appointed, and people argue that they should not have been appointed because they don't speak one of the "founding" languages.
Imaginez une seule seconde la nomination d’un GG ne parlant pas l’anglais. Impensable.
Pourtant, la nomination d’une GG ne parlant pas le français est non seulement possible, elle est célébrée comme une avancée.
Désolant de voir ce pays traiter sa langue fondatrice ainsi.
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Hey Nova Scotia. I see you all out there wearing your masks today. You look kind of mysterious and sexy. I like it.
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Nothing says “I love free speech” like advising other journalists on what voices they should silence.
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So the Province *can* provide housing to folks who have been displaced by a crisis….
The province has bought 25 modular homes for $7.4 million. The 2- and 3-bedroom homes will be available for rent to people displaced by the recent wildfires while they rebuild. Rents are $1k-$2k/month, month-to-month leases
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When experts said that there was a toxic culture in resource industry man camps that was putting women at risk, conservatives positively *scoffed* at the idea, said it was an insult.
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Glad we made sacrifices and didn’t see family over the holidays so that they could keep the malls open, and so that the kids can go back to overcrowded, poorly ventilated classrooms with no testing so that they can spread COVID indiscriminately.
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The Higgs government made the whole thing up. The whole policy review was based on a big fat lie.
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