India's distrust of the Trudeaus goes back decades. Pierre refused to extradite the Khalistanis who went on to plot & rehearse the Air India bombing right under the noses of the RCMP & CSIS. After Justin's Monday melodrama, trust has collapsed entirely.
#BREAKING
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association taking federal government to court over the invoking of Emergencies Act to deal with convoy protests in Ottawa
@cancivlib
.
Just so everybody knows, the 'offensive and hateful video' in question was produced by the originators of the "Modi did it" story, the militant Khalistani "Sikhs for Justice" outfit that certain of my colleagues in the journalism racket have called a "human rights group."
1/2 : There is no place in Canada for hate. The circulation of an online video in which Hindu Canadians are told to leave Canada is offensive and hateful, and is an affront to all Canadians and the values we hold dearly.
A confession: I've been holding back, for weeks, because as a Canadian & as a journalist I realize public trust in our government is a life-and-death necessity right now. But Health Minister Patty Hajdu did more to undermine that trust today than any conspiracy theory out there.
No self-respecting member of the Liberal Party will fail to see this for what it is. You'd have to have the IQ of a housecat to not see what he's doing here.
We're in the midst of a full-on national security crisis, even if the craziest TruAnon claims are true.
This can't go on.
Justin Trudeau is now insinuating that anyone who believes the Global News reporting about Han Dong and has questions about Chinese election interference is actually stoking "anti-Asian racism."
Since 2001, China's coal-fired greenhouse gas output has doubled and tripled. Energy GHG's from the rest of the industrialized world have flatlined. So we sell China coal, ban plastic straws, & if you don't like the carbon tax you're an "arsonist."
‼️WOW‼️ Bruce Aylward/
@WHO
did an interview with HK's
@rthk_news
& when asked about
#Taiwan
he pretended not to hear the question. The journalist asks again & he hangs up!
She calls back & he said "Well, we've already talked about China."
ENJOY+SHARE THE MADNESS!
#CoronaVirus
It's pretty embarrassing that the most thorough summation of the Trudeau government's exertions to hide its intimacies with Beijing's agents of influence in Canada has to come from a British newsmagazine:
Of all the dumbass own-goals I've watched politicians score over the years. . . The famously dense Mark Gerretsen cites a $1 million Chinese prezzie for the Trudeau Foundation in 2014 as evidence the Conservatives were dirty - because Harper was the PM at the time.
Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen says Tories don't want to look at the 2015 election because the CCP $$$ donation to the Trudeau Foundation took place during the Harper years.
FLASHBACK: Justin Trudeau expresses support for Julie Bourgeois, failed Liberal candidate, in 2011.
Bourgeois, a judge, just denied Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich bail.
For several months, Trudeau has been sitting on CSIS briefing notes showing that Beijing funded 11 candidates in the 2019 election & placed operatives on campaign staff & in the offices of several MPs,
@scoopercooper
reports. Last straw or no?
Gotta hand it to him. By taking sides in a Surrey gang war & rubbing Narendra’s nose in it for humiliating him in Delhi, Trudeau has changed the channel from China & made himself the star of his own movie. Emboldened the Khalistanis, but who cares, rIght?
This piece by
@jonkay
is very good. Canada has been absorbed into a post-truth world where what you are allowed to know and what you are required believe are strictly patrolled and rigidly enforced.
Thank you, Canada — for casting your vote, for putting your trust in the Liberal team, for choosing a brighter future. We're going to finish the fight against COVID. And we're going to move Canada forward. For everyone.
Parliament is not entitled to know exactly why the government invoked Canada's very own doomsday law, says Senator Marc Gold, the Trudeau cabinet's Upper House leader: "I think the government is owed a certain degree of deference."
No, it is not.
@AmbCuiTiankai
No, Taiwan was never part of the PRC and China has no right to claim Taiwan. The country is a sovereign liberal-democratic republic. Mind your own damn business.
After a grilling from Global BC’s Neetu Garcha (on reconciliation, housing, Bill 21, feminism, and Afghanistan), Prime Minister Justin Trudeau complains that he didn’t get to talk about what he wanted to talk about — then gets scorched for it. 😬
#cdnpoli
The Liberal Party must have some internal polling that's frightening them half to death. The hyperventilation, the grasping at straws, the dog whistles and wedge-issue shouting is pretty amazing all of a sudden.
Not mentioned: Taiwan was screening Wuhan flights Dec. 31, banned Wuhan residents Jan. 23, suspended tourist visits to China Jan. 25, banned all Chinese arrivals Feb. 6; Canada permitted flights until last week.
This story took weeks to put together. I'll have more backstory here shortly. For now: no, this is not a story about Indigenous people telling lies. It's a story about white people losing the damn minds.
Canadian Civil Liberties Association announces it will ask for a judicial review of the Emergencies Act, arguing it is a massive overreach of federal power, infringing on the rights of every Canadian, contrary to the gov'ts claim it is geographically targeted.
#cdnpoli
Every shocking thing we heard this week at the Hogue inquiry Trudeau knew nearly five years ago. CSIS told him. He said nothing. He did nothing.
He refuses to answer, even now.
During the emergency debate on the protest outside of Parliament, PM
@JustinTrudeau
isn’t trying to calm the situation at all.
He and his ministers are pouring gas on the fire and branding everyone protesting his government as a racist and a Nazi.
#cdnpoli
#FreedomConvoy2022
Every mayor, premier, and federal cabinet minister in this country should read this, and then have a bloody good long look at themselves in the mirror. Well done,
@BradWestPoCo
and
@joannachiu
.
@BradWestPoCo
@starvancouver
In my interview with Mayor West, he told me dozens of local residents have come to him for help after unhappy Chinese officials visited them or called them about things such as social media posts and participation in political events.
#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
A deep rupture has opened up between the PMO and CSIS. You can bet that CSIS officers have already memorized the “public interest” exemptions in the Security of Information Act's secrecy rules.
It's pretty disheartening how so many people appear to have convinced themselves that the shocking revelations about Beijing's long reach into Canadian institutions are just part of some stealth plot to elect Poilievre, and so should be dismissed out of hand.
So damn cynical.
It is unclear just how there can be any coming back from this. No exertions of reconciliation can mend what has been broken. No diversity training, no workshops in anti-racism and no inter-faith seminars can expunge the obscenity of what has happened.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault praises Beijing's green credentials, says nothing about the 41 percent of the polysilicon in China's solar panels that comes from the labour of Uyghur slaves.
So, if you"indirectly" participate in any public assembly that *might* lead to a breach of the peace, your bank will be instructed to freeze your bank account, and you can't even sue.
This will not end well.
This is one for the archives. Trudeau is actually interrupted when he tries to talk over a reporter's question and doesn't answer the question and prattles on and on and ends with that squinty smile of his.
He was interrupted. "Answer the question." He didn't. Still, he was…
Ahead of the weekly Liberal caucus meeting on Parliament Hill, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pressed by journalists on latest reports re: his knowledge of alleged Chinese interference in Canadian elections.
#cdnpoli
It's been 12 days. This is still up.
No hospital was bombed. There was an explosion in a parking lot that Hamas told the world was an Israeli bombing of a hospital. It wasn't.
My prime minister stood his ground today, stood on principle, and stood for Canada. Bravo. It might not be saying much - yay, we didn't disgracefully capitulate to Beijing this time! - but still. Due credit. Trudeau stood his ground. Bravo.
Say what you like, loathe him to your heart's content, this is how Poilievre is taking the working class back from the New Democrats. Yes - horrors - he's a Conservative, but right here he could be a prairie socialist orator from the 1930s.
Per the story in La Presse today, it turns out it wasn't "right wing conspiracists" who "terrorized" the Trudeau Foundation board into resigning. It was a revolt of Trudeau Foundation board members who found the whole dirty-money affair stank to high heaven.
PM Trudeau says immigration to Canada has "grown at a rate far beyond what Canada has been able to absorb," adding that "temporary immigration has caused so much pressure in our communities," in relation to housing
#cdnpoli
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Montreal Canadiens showed a 'lack of judgment' by drafting a player who shared sexually explicit photos of a woman without her consent: 'As a life-long Habs fan, I am deeply disappointed by the decision.'
Canada is finally coming to terms with the tragic reality: we can’t rely for leadership on the World Health Organization, or any other international agency beholden even indirectly to Beijing.
Liberal MPs Jennifer O'Connell and Sherry Romanado accuse Conservative MP Michael Cooper of "microaggressions" toward Melanie Joly and demand that he apologize for his conduct.
Gobsmackiing scoop. This guy got permanent resident status before he even set foot in Canada.
Every week, a scandal that in normal times would mean a career-ending cabinet resignation.
The utterly abnormal has been normalized in Canada.
Prime Minister
@JustinTrudeau
, more than 10,000 Canadians have written to you in protest of your harmful remarks made Tuesday. Instead of listening to their voices, you have chosen to again blame
#Israel
& negate
#Hamas
' culpability in this conflict.
What makes the path to peace…
This is what Trudeau is hiding (thread):
In 2015, Team Trudeau’ set out to serve as the political wing of the Canada-China Business Council, and Beijing’s influence-peddling operation, the United Front Work Department, expanded radically in Canada.
This guy should be summoned to the PMOffice and instructed to mind his bloody tone or be immediately deported. No other embassy would get away with threats like this. Beijing is a thug regime. We should Magnitsky the lot of them.
PM suggesting concerns raised about Beijing’s foreign interference foments anti-Asian racism is beyond the pale.
Canadians concerned about Beijing’s threats are not the cause of anti-Asian racism.
We must counter both anti-Asian racism & the threats from Beijing.
#cdnpoli
Smoking guns: Beijing worked and spent and mobilized in the 2021 election for a Conservative defeat. Got the Liberal minority it wanted. Trudeau: nothing to see here.
This changes everything.
If you don't see this, you're a blind partisan. As some wiseguy put it, perfectly, the Trudeau government is a social media marketing strategy running a G7 country. The prime minister is an Instagram influencer. His policies are celebrity endorsements.
I'm hearing from Liberals, even, that Canada's at odds with the US, Australia, the EU et. al. in its uniquely weird utterances viz China, because Ottawa is afraid. If so, can we then agree that nothing the Trudeau government says should be taken seriously?
Gotta say, after spending most of my life in the news business it's been quite something to watch some of the most courageous and conscientious of my colleagues slandered as racists and liars.
#ChinaTrudeau
.
I can't imagine who in Liberal hq thought this would work.
A. Canadians have every right to be very angry about what's become of their country.
B. "Amplifying fear and division" has been his government’s organizing principle.
The very day David Johnston was stuffing his face at a banquet with Xi Jinping in Beijing was the day, the very moment, the regime killed the beloved dissident Liu Xiaobo. The very fucking moment.
They're going to absurd and extraordinary lengths to conceal something related to Beijing's election interference operations in 2019/2021. The question is what. If PM Trudeau would simply answer direct questions honestly, there would no need for any of this. What are thy hiding?
The Canadian Embassy in Damascus was damaged in an Israeli air strike that killed two Iranian generals. No 🇨🇦 staff were present.
So far, neither Canadian nor Israeli officials will say whether Israel warned Canada in advance of the deadly strike.
This is what happens when journalists use stupidly misleading terms like "pro-Palestine" and "anti-war." You end up reporting that a Jewish rally for the hostages and for Israel is "in support of the war".
Idiotic, at best.
A CTV anchor falsely claimed the peaceful Rally for the Jewish People was a rally in support of the war.
This is a prime example of why a growing number of people hate mainstream media. Do better,
@CTVNews
I'm sorry, but Aaron clearly hasn't been paying attention to what has been in plain sight since 2015. The PM has not been some poor innocent bystander in Beijing's influence ops in Canada. He's been a willing participant. It's been official policy.
Chinese people are the heroes of the story, esp. the journos & doctors who risked their lives & liberty to get the word out. The CCP hid the facts, silenced doctors, jailed journos, monkeywrenched the science. The regime & the people are not the same thing, FFS. Josh gets it:
The Marouf scandal: not just about "offensive Tweets." More and more every day, Team Trudeau comes off like an insufferably radical-chic student council at a posh high school instead of the government of a G7 country.
The Trudeau government is (again) running interference for the Beijing regime's influence, interference and infiltration operations in Canada. Much as it pains me, I can't see how this can be understood any other way.
Going into Toronto's
#Jewish
neighbourhoods and telling them to "go back to Poland" under the guise of 'protesting the war' isn't only dispicable but also HIGHLY
#antisemitic
!
@MayorOliviaChow
@fordnation
this has to be addressed!
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.
PMJT funds this group lavishly. Constantly pandering for their votes. "And that tells you the kinds…
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow drowned out several times by pro-Palestinian demonstrators at a skating party at Nathan Phillips Square.
On Nov. 10th, Chow called for, “the immediate and unconditional return of all hostages and a ceasefire.”
No matter how closely the Trudeau Liberals follow American culture-war fashions and model themselves according to all the latest preoccupations of bourgeois American “progressives,” Canada is not the United States. Sorry:
Sorry, no. It's not "common practice" for an MP to have regular chats with Beijing's ambassador or Beijing's Toronto consul, four of which were specifically about the kidnapping of the Two Mikes.
🔴Aggressive anti-
#Israel
protestors stormed a Peel District School Board meeting last night, attempting to intimidate school trustees & coerce the board into capitulating to their demands.
After trustees left the interrupted meeting, protestors broke through security to…
It will break some hearts to say this out loud, but Johnston’s own deep connections with the Trudeau family & the China lobby suggest that a proper inquiry would look into whether Johnston is a witting participant in what is an obvious attempt at a cover-up.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed European leaders in Brussels and delivered a forceful rebuke of authoritarianism and a passionate defence of Western democracies.
Read more here:
Juno Beach, June 6, 1944, roughly 24,000 Canadian soldiers & sailors threw themselves into the Allied liberation of Europe from fascism. That first day there were 1,074 Canadian casualties, including 359 dead.
Absolutely disgusting hate yesterday at a
#Vancouver
rally.
A demonstrator refers to the October 7 massacre, rape, torture & kidnapping of Israeli men, women & children as an "amazing, brilliant offensive."
This glorification of terror has NO place in
#Canada
.
#cdnpoli
Ottawa is resuming funding to UNRWA, the UN relief agency for Palestinians, CBC News has learned. The government paused funding in January after Israel alleged that 12 employees of UNRWA were involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
.
Imagine if Trump, having cancelled the presidential election altogether, sent out 1000 cops to arrest what remained of the Democratic Party leadership & charged them all with subversion. While nobody was watching that's what happened in Hong Kong today.
Not sure why this guy's getting shadowed like he's some sort of absconding debtor or notorious gangland figure. He's a private citizen. He brought something in the public domain to the public's attention, in the public interest. He's already explained himself.
The Vancouver man who released the photo of Justin Trudeau in blackface at a party says the "Canadian public had the right to know" about it.
But when
@ericrankincbc
caught up with Michael Adamson, he refused to elaborate on his motivations:
I'm old enough to remember when we used to compare ourselves favorably to the United States. Now we boast that we're better than Afghanistan. Also Russia.
Canadians who think Ottawa is corrupt should “take a look at Afghanistan,” says parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs. MP
@PamDamoff
told Commons ethics committee the gov’t is also better than Russia’s.
#cdnpoli
So. Justin Trudeau’s handpicked interlocutor on Islamophobia endorses a leaflet accusing Israel of genocide and apartheid.
As an individual she's free to endorse any crank leaflet she likes.
But she's doing this on behalf of the federal government, on the public dime.
"This chilling effect on freedom of expression and academic freedom has the hallmarks of a new McCarthyism. A failure of those of us in the legal profession to voice our opposition to this conduct will only accelerate the erosion of the very protections that make dissent – and…
How do you say "they made us sign a non-disclosure agreement" without saying "they made us sign a non-disclosure agreement"? By saying nothing. Take a bow, lads:
Failed Liberal brainiac Gerry Butts thinks burning indigenous churches "may be understandable." Wonder when he'll find it politically expedient to shrug off the burning of mosques and synagogues.
Apparently, marching down the street in Toronto calling for synagogues to be targeted is now fair game. Worse, he’s encouraging children to join with him in this hate-fest. When will our leaders wake up and realize this is not business as usual in Canada? Certainly not for Jews!