Zeitgeist

As you know, I have one foot out the door of Canada, as I have a property in the US and I hold Canadian and British citizenship. Only America has the strength to push back against the global elite central planners with their creepy ESG measures to fight “climate change”, Covid, and God knows what other “crisis”. Unfortunately America is two countries, red and blue. Right now only the red team are willing to assert American sovereignty. Biden is walking the West towards world war and UN/Chinese rule in lockstep with Trudeau.

Well I’m a Loyalist as long as our monarch supports democratic representation. Our Gov Gen and entourage, as well as the Cabinet, seem so unaccountable and self-interested that it’s hard to see much connection to the people. King Charles can’t even get his coronation launched. The Canadian public seem asleep both to their traditions and the importance of representative democracy, so they made this bed by allowing this to happen — perhaps until the next election, though I’m skeptical. And yes, America is looking relatively wise right now, even with their zombie President and radical left EDI government (which looks similar to ours).

One would hope, in a rational society, that since the MP’s are elected by the people to represent their interests, including the PM, and the PM appoints the Governor General (monarch’s representative in Canada), that would indicate that loyalty to the Crown is loyalty to the people, especially since the monarch is considered the final last resort of the people if Parliament begins to work against the interests of the people. I won’t get into the fact that our Governor General is the PM’s hand-picked puppet. CSIS seems to be saying that the MP’s, including the PMO, are not a disinterested party in this Chinese interference because they have benefited from it and likely looked the other way. The price of this Faustian bargain, of course, is that our Liberal leadership are now beholden to the Chinese and inextricably linked to the various tethers of clubs, associations, “police stations”, study groups, news media, etc. that are funded and installed by China. The bigger problem for Canada is that this kind of influence could take hold, grow, and endure. Even in the days of Chrétien there was mounting concern about the amount of power held within the PMO. Even then the word “dictatorship” was used by intellectuals to describe how the PM ruled: the whipped votes, reliance on unelected advisors, and so on. I think that tendency has only grown under the Telford-Trudeau PMO and Cabinet. That this quasi-dictatorship appears to be in bed with China is a serious concern for Canadian democracy.

Eww

Canadians can’t handle anything anymore? Language is placed in the same category as violence? Now the head of HR in Markham is suspended for saying the full “N-word” when using it in the context of describing racism in an anti-racist case study. How sensitive are people now, yes all people of all races? What a spineless city in an increasingly spineless country. This is the return to superstition and witch trials. Don’t utter Voldemort. No wonder youth throw derogatory words around inappropriately. It’s the forbidden fruit fetishized through rap. People have lost their minds under EDI direction. Of course the CBC can’t get enough: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6781265

Putting Canadians further into debt by using their money to buy their votes is the Liberal way under Trudeau who says, “the debt will take care of itself.”

That’s quite an acrobatic technique you’re applying to defend Trudeau. How many years did you spend in the circus?

I thought Alberta was the last sane province in Canada, but it appears the entire country is overrun by the radical left.

But which soldiers will guarantee the peace, male or female? How many of the engineers who build the structures and infrastructure that most people would consider comfortable and well-equipped are female? Valuing one gender over the other causes problems

Why is therapy to deal with dysphoria any worse than surgery, hormone blockers, etc.? The issue I have with your views Mike is that you’ve already bought the ruling political perspective before the debate has started. At the extreme we could call this brainwashing because I don’t think you’re aware of how steeped in specific ideologies your perspectives are. If one is raised in a communist society I would expect similar unconscious biases. The truth is that the only reliable basis for gender is biological. All else is surgery, dress up, and feeling very strongly about a “gender”. It’s fine to say that out of compassion and respect people should be nice towards trans people, and people can even play along with the lie to “affirm gender”, but don’t make people deny what they know and don’t compel speech. This student had a right to speak out and there’s no guarantee that his mic wouldn’t be turned off if he attempted to raise his concerns about use of the girls’ washroom by a trans person at a school board meeting. That’s the big take away for me from all of this. How did this enforced policy arrive without debate or public mandate? How did it become okay to shut down dissenting opinions? How did questionable gender identities become enshrined as human rights in Canada without an open, reasoned debate and the kinds of detailed adjustments that characterize much less radical legislation with fewer implications? We know that the trans kids are protected here. Their faces and identities haven’t been shared. All we hear are knee-jerk negative reactions from the left-wing Canadian group think about how the kid who was expelled for his views wore a red hat that looks like a MAGA hat. Even if it was a MAGA hat, why would that matter? Canadians have come to accept a degraded democracy where free speech is shut down in the name of fear of cancellation. It’s not even about safety, because our fear of offence has made it impossible to enforce rules that prevent violence or put dangerous people behind bars. What a strange country.

This all could’ve been headed off if a single non-gendered washroom was provided for self-identified trans or non-binary and the student who complained was told that it’s fine to express opinions but to do so in a respectful way. Barring this student from school because of his views is a violation of constitutional rights because Catholic secondary school in Ontario is publicly funded and open to any students just like the public high schools. The fact that the school muzzled and removed this student is the major issue. The trespassing business and conservative media outrage was the likely outcome that could’ve been avoided. The “trans” kid has full protection here, even though the Catholic Church only recognizes biological gender. The two big mistakes were forgetting the raison d’être of a separate Catholic system (which could lead to its demise if there’s no recognition of catechetical beliefs) and failing to protect the human and Charter right to freedom of speech. If the argument can now persuasively be made that Canada has no right to free speech, it raises the very compelling argument, what’s the value of the Canadian constitution? The trans kid’s “rights” were clearly well protected here. It actually raises questions about left wing political privilege and discrimination against people with conservative and/or religious beliefs in Canada. It also raises questions about how much safety is really valued, in this case the safety of the girls using washrooms, if protecting it runs afoul of left wing political beliefs or gender studies ideology.

Yes one can deny reality. Just don’t persecute people for refusing to deny reality.

I’ll stick with biological gender. Feel free to make up your gender.

And?

Feeling does not a gender make. Biology dictates gender. Saying otherwise is affirming dysphoria, a psychological disorder according to the latest DSM. Now, if you think that pretending that someone is a different gender because it makes a trans person feel better is good, that’s an argument. Biology doesn’t lie, but people certainly can and do lie. Nevertheless, gender affirmation of trans people must remain a choice. Making people lie is unethical and unscientific.

Trans people want to be perceived as a different gender from their real one. It’s called pretending. Out of desire or sympathy people play along, but that’s what they’re doing.

How does worrying about females’ safety and well-being make one “transphobic”? As for your reference to non-biological gender as scientific, it is not. Non-biologically-based gender is pseudoscience. Using cosmetic surgery to make one appear as a different gender is just that. It’s not biological reality.

It’s publicly funded education

Yes, people are that stupid. Imagine the most fringe left ill-informed communist and/or gender identity activists within the Democrat party running America. That’s Canada. The country doesn’t even have free speech. I’m not sure it can be fixed either, because opposition is basically banned, declared a “human rights” violation by the same lunatic activists who run all our institutions now, from the courts to the education system. The Governor General herself is an EDI activist who the PM installed. All inquiries into government mismanagement are run by Liberal cronies. The government-funded media won’t report on any of this in a critical way that an honest person would equate with a free press.

Catholic education is constitutionally protected in Canada. Expressing a Catholic opinion is protected. Also, why would a student have to be restricted from having an opinion? You really think that’s fine? At least we know you don’t support free speech. If a student doesn’t support the mixing of races, there will be plenty of refutation of such beliefs by the vast majority of people. That’s what an open society allows.

Mike always takes the side of using power to squelch opposition, no matter whether it’s against constitutionally protected rights or a matter of morality. He will cite a rare counter-example that isn’t really analogous. The problem with this level of justification for mistreatment is that it enables more of it. These kinds of oppression have become normalized in Canada. People have no recourse to criticize or push back because they can lose their jobs or be de-platformed in some other way. The right not to be offended (which doesn’t exist) is used to prevent people from expressing opinions (which it appears is no longer a right in Canada). Canada doesn’t have free speech and is a weak democracy.

No, he was expelled from Catholic school for expressing Catholic beliefs and protecting the safety concerns of females who use female washrooms. It’s supposed to be a legal requirement to attend school. Trespassing is clearly the enforcement tool that this moral coward of a principal used to prevent this student from attending school. This all could’ve been solved by making a single non-gender washroom available to the trans student.

Canada is probably too far gone now, because the average person in Canada is scared to say what they think at work or in school now. Basically Canada is run by the radical left across all parties. I’m not sure the Conservatives would take a different stance from the Liberals because the Liberals have enshrined views that are basically lies in human rights legislation.

He was expelled first for opposing a biological male using a girls’ washroom after girls expressed concern. What’s more startling is that the Catholic Church doesn’t recognize any gender except the biological one with which one is born, so this school is openly heretical.

Birds of a feather…Not looking forward to Biden’s visit and love-in with Trudeau. Biden must know there’s blood in Trudeau’s water over China.