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The rise ? Perhaps you are clueless too...."racism" has always been part of America (and Canada)....and still is. Pretending otherwise is very naive. I don't need white liberals to explain things to me....from another country.

I've got a great idea: call them deplorables and make sure everybody knows your superiority over half the population of the USA. A proven election strategy.

The USA and Canada have very fond memories of Somalia. No wonder Omar wouldn't want to go back. The "Squad" is a gift to Trump's re-election....let them rage !

Why doesn't AOC go to Mexico and complain to them about not accepting the Guatemalans, the Hondurans and other Central-Americans?

You just proved in two sentences your total stupidity. When did the Republicans advocated for no taxation at all? When did the poor start killing each other for no reason? Are you that debilitated? Bin Laden was a billionaire. It's all about indoctrination, islamic indoctrination to be accurate.

The race baiting from those 4 is getting intolerable - even by the left, it's becoming clear who is dividing the country. Trumps approval rating went up 4 points, that's a pretty good payoff. And, it's just another take on the old "love it or leave it" cliche. AOC used to look like the "hot chick" who was a little crazy, now that we're used to her, she's just a crazy bitch.

The democrats make racist comments every day and never get called out.

So, it would appear as though Trump has once again got the democrats hurt feelings set ablaze again to the point where he has now been called a racist(democrats favorite word by the way)because Trump hurt their sensitive women of color(as they are called)feelings. I listened to what Trump said and I did not find anything in his words said where he was being racist towards any of those four congresswomen? But as usual with the democrats and their back up gang in the leftist liberal fake media they have decided that what Trump said was racist and that he now must be impeached. Are these democrats insane. Impeach a sitting President for some words he said that may have appeared racist but were really not meant to be racist. Just a little tell it like it is words that if these four members of congress did not like to hear well too bad for them. It's not like Trump used the "N" word on any of them. These democratic losers and their lame duck media just will never give up trying to get Trump on something. These demos are a bunch of crazy leftist whackos. It's funny how the democrats and their lap dog leftist liberal media saw no problem with democrat Nancy Pelosi saying that all Trump is trying to do is to keep America "white" as not saying something racist? What a dumb women she is by saying that. Or when the black congress member said that if other black or brown Americans do not want to stand with us, but against us, and support Trump then they are pretty much deplorable people is saying something close to saying something racist. It's funny how the democrats can be racist and the media ignores them, but when a conservative like Trump says something that may even appear to be racist, they go ballistic and want his impeachment which some democrats are now calling for. They won't get it but nice try, fools. Any comments?

God yes ! DO IT !!!!!

60,000,000+ and ready to do it all over again. GOP firmly behind him. Even weak ass Trudeau begging Trump for help on China.

The scary part is that even though he is a radical Islamist and banned in a lot of countries, he still has 200 million viewers. Including Marocc,

Of course there is racist "genocide" in Canada, but Trump will always matter more....even in Canadian media. Trump dominates, because he knows how to do it, even in a foreign country. How many times do I have to tell you that ?

Can't do that because Canada's foreign minister would bitch even more about Trump and the U.S. protecting the "post WW2 order" while Canada remains a NATO deadbeat. Trump is doing just what he intended to do, and gets far more attention than the continuing racist "genocide" north of the border.

Yes, it's an interesting choice of hero. He's a radical Islamist. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48132710

No because it happened once and isn't a cultural thing in Québec to shoot people in the streets or in the mosques, churches. It's a cultural thing where Omar comes from.

I don't think there is a country on earth that does not include racism as a primary element of its culture. To deny that would be foolish and dishonest. What Trump said about their home countries of these four women was 100 per cent accurate. As usual, he is playing the dems and their media moron pals like a well tuned violin ...er...fiddle.

As I mentioned before, I am assured that none of the leftists read his tweets completely. They are up in arms about the words 'go back.' Anyway, I think Trump is safe now. The 'four donkeymen of the Dem-pocalypse' are circle back on Pelosi this morning. They warned her to watch her words

True....Trump has lots of followers in Canada and around the world....far more than Trudeau or any of the other weak EU weenies. Trump dominates...he sucks the oxygen away from other "leaders" like no other before him. When Trudeau has a news conference or public appearance, they ask him about....TRUMP ! "Racist" tweets are only the beginning of a wild 2020 presidential campaign and fight with House Democrats in the U.S. Trump's strategy of linking the "Squad" with Democrats is working, just need to keep stirring the pot.

Trudeau is a absolute embarrassment for Canada. I'll never defend him. I did not vote for him. I am one of the few political atheists on this forum. I don't care what brand you wear, it's what comes out of your mouth and your actions that will determine what I think and if I would support you. I like some conservative values, some liberal values, and some green values, some ndp values, ect ect. I'll vote for the person that closes resemble what my values are, plain and simple. YES 100%. As I am one of those Canadians.

You'd be surprised what I know about psychology and history. And radical religions. Anyways, you are exactly like almost every other Muslim I've met - same beliefs. I don't subscribe to your beliefs of wife-beating, rape, misogyny, killing of homosexuals and adulterers or jihad. Same weasel-y answers, too. Done with you.

Yes, it's a pretty extreme religion, which lends itself open to even further extremism. That's the problem. Yes, because sooooo many women beg to have sex with their captors. Get real.

Ummmmm,.......because he's been in the news as a radical Islamist who is banned from many countries, including our own?

It's not hard. He's been banned in Canada. He also engages in a lot of double-speak - as you do also. On the one hand saying he condemns terrorism, on the other hand, advocating it.

Your own government has self admitted to genocide, but Trump is the real problem ? For starters, we don't call tribes and bands "aboriginals"....we call them Americans. "Give your head a shake." <===== (popular smug Canadian term I learned from CBC comments).

Maybe something about the USA supporting terrorists which end up causing a couple buildings in NYC to come down.

Alberta oil sells at far below the world price because they don't have proper access to world markets. A huge percentage of it goes to the US and it's like surplus oil for them now. They don't need it anymore. It's like selling ice to an inuit. Hence the need for pipelines, but our current PM is talking out of both sides of his mouth. Smirking westward: "You want a pipeline Alberta, we'll get it approved! Look I just spent another $4B of taxpayer money!" Glowing with pride in front of his adoring Quebecers and his Saudi handlers: "Hello earthlings! No need to worry! We're making the pipeline approval process bulletproof and we're shutting down the oilsands!"

While I agree 100% with Mr. Hardner, for the sake of accuracy, out of 296340 immigrants coming to Canada in 2016, 200355 came from predominantly Caucasian countries. Of the top ten countries of origin, 7 were predominantly Caucasian countries. The exception were the Philippines, China and Eritrea. The Philippines were the largest source of immigration. https://canadaimmigrants.com/canada-immigrants-by-source-country-2016/ As for "western" countries, where do you draw the line? Is the line the Ural Mountains? Extend that line south and it includes all of Africa. What about Australia and New Zealand? Some of our English cousins would classify the French as non-white. No country has a monopoly on idiots. As Michael said, it doesn't matter where people come from. We are all basically the same. As for the author of the article in the OP, he or she should be grateful we even accept immigrants from Mother Russia.

Ilhan Omar blushes and gets wet when talking about Al Qaeda. She almost moans when mentionning 'Al Qaeda';

How many jobs are you eliminating? And yes decent paying jobs are lost replaced by low wage part time workers. What's the gain? And if we are spending 200 million to CANCEL the contract. How does that same money? It seems like a stupid

U.S. House defeats Trump impeachment measure 332 to 95.

From the Hamas Charter: 'Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.' (Preamble) 'Palestine is an Islamic land... Since this is the case, the Liberation of Palestine is an individual duty for every Moslem wherever he may be.' (Article 13) '[Peace] initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement... Those conferences are no more than a means to appoint the infidels as arbitrators in the lands of Islam... There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility.' (Article 13) 'The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: 'O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.' (Article 7) 'The HAMAS regards itself the spearhead and the vanguard of the circle of struggle against World Zionism... Islamic groups all over the Arab world should also do the same, since they are best equipped for their future role in the fight against the warmongering Jews.' (Article 32)

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You still don't get it....power beats "laughing stock" every day. Winning beats losing....just ask Hillary Clinton. Trump matters more at any G-7 or G-20 meeting than the rest, especially Trudeau, who went begging to Trump for help on China, which continues to kick Canada's ass because of such weak leadership and government.

I will tip my hat to you, as you seem to have an understanding of the frustrations of our system. Not sure if 'union' has anything to do with these issues but it may - in terms of an impediment to swift delivery of services. But I will tell you what IS an impediment: our national disregard for good management of services. This means: delivering VALUE to a USER at low cost, in a timely fashion and with quality. As a manager, I am consistently appalled at how Canada does on this time and time again. If it were just government then that could be the cause, but I see it in financial orgs, telecom, and retail also. Until we collectively realize how shitty we are at that, nothing will be done as the biggest problem is that people actually accept it, even if they complain to each other about it.

And the only people who still embrace that system are those on the Left.

Because when child sexual assault and abuse happens within native families outside of Ontario it's COMPLETELY different. So just leave them there. Who cares what happens to them, right? As long as they're on the reservation where they have to stay! Why are all the segregationists on the Left now?

Wtf? What is your purpose in this tone-deaf ridiculous nonsense? Your role, our role, is not to determine how Indigenous lives 'should' be managed. Your opinions are irrelevant. Our role is to make our governments enforce and uphold our agreements with Indigenous Peoples, to finally free them to manage themselves (instead of actively sabotaging that, as has been the case from 1867 to date).

"This file is soon to be bypassed"? What does that mean? Who decides that? You? "Little honesty or effort" ... by Canada, that's certainly true. Indigenous Nations continue to struggle very hard, with few resources to do so, to get our governments to conduct themselves appropriately, legally, to recognize and respect their land rights and titles, pay money owing according to Treaty and other agreements, replace money embezzled from their Trust funds, etc, so that Indigenous Nations can be self sustaining, as they planned for and intended from the beginning of colonization. "Real changes" would involve Canada living up to it's agreements. That is all that is necessary. If you, and all Canadians could devote efforts to making changes to the ways our governments evade their legal responsibilities to Indigenous Peoples, that would be helpful. Sanctimonious navel-gazing and spouting half-baked, ill-informed and unilateral 'ideas' about what Indigenous people 'should' do isn't helpful. I certainly won't join you in that. Lol Did you know ... Canada's largest single Indigenous community, Six Nations' 27,000 members plus businesses, send about $700M per year in (income and business) taxes to Ottawa, and receive only about $70M back in funding for all public services - governance, social, educational, health, public works, land claims, etc.? Canada profits $630M/year ... +++ all revenues from land 'surrendered' for federal management from which Six Nations' share of revenues is never deposited in their Trust Fund, as required by treaties? Did you know that businesses on reserve are not legally required to pay business taxes (Supreme Court confirmed this), but are harassed by federal agencies with surveillace, nit-picking and interference with their ability to do business until they comply ... just to keep their businesses viable? Did you know ... that Indigenous Peoples need govetnment approval, seldom provided, just to access their own trust funds for capital to build businesses that could sustain them? Did you know that local business communities lobby governments to prevent competition from Indigenous businesses? It's important to be aware of the many ways that Canada's governments sabotage self-reliance of Indigenous Nations, to understand that such Indigenous self-reliance is not Canada's purpose: continued harassment, subjugation of Indigenous Peoples and embezzlement of Indigenous funds for our governments' uses is the practical reality of all of Canada's policies and practices. If we didn't (illegally) have 'use' of Indigenous funds generated from resource extraction and other developments on traditional Indigenous territories, Canadians would have to become much more resourceful in how we manage our finances. Canada could no longer sustain itself by passively by extracting resources and ignoring the environmental damage left for future generations. Canada's resource-extraction-based economy was never viable, as repeatedly noted by international agencies, and now is crunch time as damage from incessant resource extraction finally comes under scrutiny. Unfortunately, our governments' four-year limited vision never allows for long-term planning for our future realities. That's our job. It will take substantial civic action by Canadians to correct the lazy course our short-term governments' set ... and partnering with Indigenous Peoples with their thousands of years of knowledge and perspective ... to adjust our plans towards a more sustainable and equitable economy for the future. Focusing your efforts towards that might be useful.

It remains the law in Canada for school-aged children to attend school, as it should. If students live very far from a school, funding is provided for students to live near schools. That’s really what residential schools are. A century ago many schools were run by government or religious institutions. Now when Indigenous students attend schools far from home, they are Indigenous run. It isn’t all wine and roses, as many students still suffer depression and face challenges of substance abuse. I will tell you that child welfare agencies don’t enforce attendance, and now child welfare is going to be Indigenous run on reserves, though still publicly funded. Will it result in more children being removed from families? Will more or less removals be better or worse for children and communities? The verdict isn’t in because the process is getting underway. The costs are high. Hopefully the results are better.

You and Jacee exaggerate and demonize, which is why this file is soon to be bypassed. There’s little honesty or effort to make real changes that would sustainably fix these problems.

They’re very different systems. I’d love to see the end of the reserve systems like most Canadians. Read An Inconvenient Indian. Many Indigenous want to keep the reserves.

It’s a highly politicized inquiry’s words. The inquiry’s recommendations go far beyond their mandate and are very ideological, unfortunately. The TRC has similar issues. Sadly the problems with this committee work obfuscate real issues that need to be addressed.

Unfortunately many people choose their own enslavement. I guess it becomes comfortable in a way because it’s familiar. No one is getting involuntarily removed.

Yes, it's systemic, but the whole system not just police. The intent to destroy Indigenous Peoples "as such" has always come from government ... because business needs their land, needs "certainty". I think involuntary removals of Indigenous Peoples are no longer possible. It isn't anybody's business where somebody chooses to live.

I’m not denying for a second that racism exists in police forces, just as it exists in any profession and the wider society. The issue is whether it’s some bad apples versus a systemic problem. I do think in some forces , RCMP included, it was systemic, not officially so but probably in terms of deployment of resources based on stereotype assumptions. I think and hope that the systemic problem is being addressed, and ways of doing this include changing system leadership, weeding out bad apples, raising awareness, and seriously revamping investigative and other processes. For example, carding is over in most GTA forces. Racial profiling is another sketchy business that has been seriously curtailed. I think what the inquiry is most concerned about is whether as many resources and as much care was given to MMIW as non-Indigenous MMW. Until recently the answer is clearly no, but there are complexities around many of these cases, as mentioned, such as the lack of an identity trail for more transient individuals, as well as the disconnect between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. I think the latter relates to the broken reserve system that not enough Indigenous people want to change. I think that system maintains the sense of disenfranchisement and alienation among Indigenous.

That's already proven. The Office of Independent Police Review Director is the body that investigates complaints about police performance in Ontario. Their investigation found that racism in the force, the Chief and the Police Services Board were factors in the poor investigations deaths of Indigenous youths. *The Chief of Police was replaced. *The Police Services Board was disbanded. *Deaths of Indigenous youths are being independently reviewed. Relevance to this thread topic re the MMIW inquiry: RCMP reported only on Missing and Murdered Indigenous women. Similar to the Thunder Bay situation, many suspicious deaths of Indigenous women, written off as 'accident', etc., were not considered.

Thunder Bay police to review nine Indigenous deaths in response to independent report https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-thunder-bay-police-to-re-investigate-nine-indigenous-deaths-in/ Thunder Bay police will review investigations into the deaths of nine Indigenous people in the city going back more than a decade, responding to an independent report that found racist attitudes on the force contributed to the mishandling of such probes in the past. Police chief Sylvie Hauth said Tuesday that the cases would be reviewed by outside experts as well as members of the police force and could eventually be reopened. She made the announcement at a meeting of the Thunder Bay Police Services Board, a civilian body overseeing the force that was itself disbanded and reformed since December over similar charges of systemic racism. In a December, 2018, report on relations between the Thunder Bay police and Indigenous people, the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD), a civilian oversight agency, found that nine death investigations conducted by the force were so “problematic” they should be reinvestigated. In responding to that call Tuesday, Chief Hauth said the nine cases will be handed over to a three-tiered oversight body that will be comprised of local First Nations leaders and outside investigators, as well as members of the Thunder Bay Police Service. (Officers involved in the original probes will be barred from participating.) The oversight body will determine whether to reinvestigate certain cases, police spokesman Scott Paradis said.

I’m well aware of the coverage of the police in Thunder Bay. There was a clip played on rotation showing a policewoman holding down an Indigenous woman. I’m very familiar with the multiple deaths down by the river. It’s all very sad. There was the case of the man who threw a tire iron out a window at an Indigenous woman. I would simply say that while racism exists among some police and that some crimes weren’t as thoroughly investigated because of stereotyping and assumptions about substance abuse leading to drowning, in some cases (most?) it was drowning due to substance abuse and in some cases (most?), the Thunder Bay police and RCMP did deploy resources much as they would to non-Indigenous crimes. You’re making assumptions about motives that depict police and non-Indigenous as racist. Police work can be very difficult. What happens when Indigenous students in an Indigenous school living with an Indigenous family engage in reckless behaviour that could result in death by substance abuse or drowning? Do we say, “Oh well they’re victims of the system?” Of course not. We try prevention to reduce suicide and substance abuse. You can’t blame it all on police and residential schools that no longer exist. The broken reserve system with its incentives to stay on the reserve for tax breaks and Indian Status continue to exist and many Indigenous want to keep this system. Again, as with self-government, I think it’s important that Indigenous have their own community policing as well as some form of Child and Family Services. While I’m sure some police and CFS case workers are blameworthy, I doubt it’s the majority. In the end, it’s best to turn over as much of this work to Indigenous within current funding levels as possible and for governments and police forces to implement sensible policies to root out racism. In terms of personal and legal responsibility, we are all responsible for what we do. Bad behaviour has to be rooted out no matter the race of the perpetrator. There is plenty of blame to go around, in and out of Indigenous communities. It’s what we do going forward that counts.

Again, your work with non-Indigenous kids and CAS/CCAS in Ontario is not very relevant to this topic at all. (Derail strategy?) I don't believe that CAS/CCAS even operate in the west, primarily RCMP jurisdictions, where the problems of both missing Indigenous women and missing children are rampant. Since you mentioned Thunder Bay, I'll just clarify ... the primary problem with Police in Thunder Bay is that the 30+ year epidemic of deaths of Indigenous teens (mostly male) whose bodies were generally found in the river or the Lake were ALL dismissed by police as "accidental death", 'They got drunk and drowned' being the usual conclusion, with no further investigation. On November 3, 2016, I initiated this [OIPRD] systemic review to investigate and respond to these concerns. That the questions raised by Indigenous people in 1993 remained as valid as they did some 25 years ago, was deeply troubling, and demanded an urgent and comprehensive response. Under OIPRD oversight now, the TB Chief of Police has been replaced, and cases are being re-opened and re-investigated with external supervision. I highlight this because ... the RCMP data reported re the MMIW Inquiry addressed only "Murdered and Missing" Indigenous women. The RCMP made no mention at all of the possibility of miscategorized 'accidental deaths', overdoses or other dismissed-and-uninvestigated deaths of Indigenous women nation-wide. For example I'm aware of one case reported to the MMIW Inquiry, 20170530_MMIWG_Whitehorse_Public_Vol_1_combined.pdf a serial killer whose weapon was alcohol - dosing Indigenous women with lethal levels of alcohol once they were incapacitated. 5 Indigenous women died that way, deaths dismissed, uninvestigated beyond 'alcohol overdose', then a white woman died, her family raised the alarm and were listened to and a real investigation began. Then another Indigenous woman died and finally police surveillance caught the serial killer in the act of intentionally over-dosing a semi-conscious Indigenous woman (who survived). The serial killer was convicted of Manslaughter for the death of the white woman. Just an example ... so, there is still much investigative work to be done on the systemic racism in actions and in reporting of all Police forces, and perhaps especially the RCMP given their primary policing role in largely suburban/rural western jurisdictions, a huge swathe of Canada, and the first places of the protests that eventually gave rise to the MMIW Inquiry.

If you''re asking "why are non-whites coming to Canada ?" it may be that the problem is that you don't like non-whites or at least care about unimportant things, not that there's some conspiracy to supplant whites. I can't make you understand things if you don't want to see it.