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I seem to hear this phrase a lot, and it seems to apply most often to institutions being run by the most painfully liberal people in Canada. You know, places like galleries and museums, theater companies and university campuses. They're constantly confessing or being accused of supporting white supremacy. I mean, to hear them talk every university campus in Canada has been rife with white supremacy, racism and "oppression" for decades now. It appears that the only way to get rid of racism, oppression and white supremacy is to lock up all the liberals. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/chair-of-national-gallery-of-canadas-board-of-trustees-defends-journey-of-transformation-following-controversial-staff-dismissals https://www.uwindsor.ca/antiblackracism/ https://humanrights.ca/sites/prod/files/2020-08/A-FullReport_EN.pdf https://president.ubc.ca/homepage-feature/2020/06/01/together-against-racism/ https://www.westernstandard.news/news/toronto-university-engages-in-segregation-by-creating-black-students-space/article_a9269928-74bf-11ed-90b5-cba1b047dbb9.html https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/royal-bc-museum-closing-3rd-floor-for-decolonization-effort

It won't, though. Investigators said they seized 27 handguns and more than 300 rounds of ammunition. Salhia said a number of those guns had their serial numbers "obliterated" or "altered," which he called a common tactic to prevent police from tracing illicit firearms. Police said they traced 20 of the 27 guns to the U.S., including Florida, Ohio and Michigan. Salhia said police think the other seven guns also came from the U.S. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/police-seize-handguns-drugs-in-alleged-ontario-u-s-criminal-takedown-1.6022070 “Out of 107 firearms that you see, 83 of them were successfully traced. Of those 83 guns that were traced, 100 per cent of them were identified as illicit firearms coming in from the United States and into Canada,” said Inspector Ahmad Salhia.[ii] https://www.newmarkettoday.ca/police-beat/100-gang-members-living-in-york-region-police-say-6066936#:~:text=Of those 83 guns that,led by York Regional Police.

The first Type 26 frigate built by BAE systems in Scotland is now in the water. Canada hopes to one day be able to build a similar vessel, though as we've only been working on it for a decade or so it will be at least another ten years before our own Type 26 is launched. https://www.forces.net/services/navy/new-type-26-frigate-hms-glasgow-takes-water-first-time

I don't believe in race based laws. I don't believe in excusing someone's vicious brutality because of what he experienced earlier in life. Would you forgive Hitler because of the trauma he suffered in WW1?

We're such suckups and bleeding hearts over the past we feel more sympathy for a homicidal lunatic who cut the throat of a blind man on the train for fun than we do towards his victim. https://calgaryherald.com/news/crime/man-who-slashed-strangers-throat-on-ctrain-avoids-federal-prison-judge-considers-fasd-diagnosis

Not quite equivalent. We have to clean up the mine. We don't have to treat natives like fragile children who have to be carefully protected, nurtured and have all their decisions made for them by us. I'm not clear on the scope of the question. What would be done differently about native schools? Or what would be done differently to integrate natives? I'll assume the latter. And the answer to that is difficult because we face the problem that the majority of the representatives of natives are quite content, thanks very much, with the present system. They and their families are at the top of the pyramid and have little reason to want that pyramid torn down and replaced with something that wouldn't pay them nearly so well or give them any real power. A professor whose name I forget said something once about how the leaders of disadvantaged minority groups rarely have much interest in pursuing goals which might result in promoting the disadvantaged minority and moving them into harmony with the whole because if that succeeds they no longer need those leaders. Which means you're going to have to overcome almost certain opposition from native chiefs and go over their heads to the natives themselves in proposing solutions that would result in abandoning the reserve system and the Indian Act in favor of a change which would be challenging and tumultuous but result in a better life in the long run. And certainly a better life for their kids. You need to overcome fear of the unknown, reassure people that they'll have something to fall back on. It ain't going to be easy, and would require determination for a long-term solution which none of our leaders have so far shown much inclination for. They are not separate nations. That is a polite fiction, like an adult patting a child's head and congratulating them on some terrible creation they've just presented you with. Most of these 'nations' are under 2,000 people strong. That's not a nation. It's barely a village. Not to mention separate nations don't need to have 100% of their bills paid by someone else. Quebec, btw, is not a nation either, but that's a whole other argument about political cowardice. A nation without a sense of shared identity is brittle and will fracture at the stress lines and dissolve into violence under pressure. Of course there would eventually be cost savings. Do you imagine Canadians are going to put up with paying their way forever? It's going to last only until the majority of power brokers in parliament are not white. Once the Asians take over - and they will inevitably take over given immigration and birth levels) natives are going to be faced with some pretty goddam harsh choices because I've never met a non white immigrant who had ANY sympathy for natives (I'm sure there are at least some who do). And the ones with the least sympathy are the ones whose culture is most demanding of hard work. And yes, I'm aware Jagmeet Singh makes all kinds of mouth noises about supporting natives, but he's a trust fund rich boy who operates on an ideological level quite different from most people.

Like this one? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/women-infantry-forget-about-it-says-female-marine-officer-flna878323 The times haven't changed in regard to what kind of person would be most likely to be persuaded to join the military. And that type is predominantly male and born and raised in Canada to parents born and raised here.

It's Huff post, one of the few media organizations which makes the Toronto Star seem centrist. And of course, it plays with figures and charts, largely because, as the PBO says in their report Absolute dollar impacts often skew to higher income groups, as these groups have larger tax obligations. Income-weighted benefits, as depicted in Figure 1-4, are most commonly broadly or progressively distributed. The financial gains from cumulative PIT and GST/HST changes since 2005 skew toward households with larger incomes when measured in absolute dollar terms. However, measured as relative gain to after-tax and transfer income, tax regime changes have been progressive, overall Trudeau's efforts on behalf of SNC Lavalin were primarily out of fear that letting them be prosecuted would hurt the Liberals electorally in Quebec. Macleans. Put a stop to what? Educating natives? There was only about a thirty year period when it was mandatory for native kids to attend residential schools. And even then it wasn't very well enforced as only about a third of native kids during that time attended residential schools. What, you think we'll be signing treaties with people within our borders in future? Nothing Canada can do is going to have the slightest impact on climate change. Except it's generally the Left which wants to continually increase the scope and size of government, and its power and effect, and influence on our lives.

I, personally, am not. That does not mean Canada as an entity is not, however much I resent my being asked to pay for things people did before I or my parents arrived. I mean, when the UK and Canada were mistreating natives here my people were being mistreated just about as much if not worse back home. Never got any restitution for that either. It was the goal of residential schools. And many people who advocated it did so for laudable motives. They weren't the native haters but the progressives of their time. That doesn't mean they didn't do things with a heavy hand, or get prior agreement for everything or were terribly sophisticated in what they did. But let me ask you, would the story of residential schools be as bleak if they had been much more carefully supervised so that there wasn't mistreatment, and if the deaths by disease had been as negligible then as now? The intent HAS to be to integrate people into the community, fast or slow, natives or immigrants Otherwise you don't have a nation and you're buying future trouble, quite possibly violent trouble. The efforts at 'reconciliation' to date appear to have done the opposite, and instilled nothing but a sense of victimhood and further resentment in the native community. I have issues aplenty with our own culture. It's far from perfect. But the way to modify/adjust it is a separate question to the necessity of integrating everyone here into something like a sense of shared identity. I am not commenting on the worthiness of native cultures, by the way. But if people from around the world can come here and not entirely lose their culture over generations, yet still integrate (think Irish, Ukrainians, Italians etc.) then so can natives. BUT... everywhere around the world where people are separated from the whole, have no work to speak of, and simply exist on government handouts the culture becomes bleak, with no purpose in life but sex and drinking. People need a reason to get up in the morning. Doing nothing but passing time wears on your soul. Well, obviously the natives have to eventually pick up their feet and start sharing the load with the rest of us. So yes, one of the goals is eventual cost reduction. But to start with (probably for a period of some decades) you'd see increased costs. Short term pain for long term gain, so to speak.

Please don't tell me what I do and do not want to talk about unless I've said it. Have I ever said "I don't want to talk about it"? Don't you think my posting on this indicates I DO, in fact want to talk about it? Here's what I don't want to talk about: I don't want to talk about paying endless amounts of money to indigenous people for an endless amount of time while they waste their lives away on isolated reserves without jobs or any other economic sustenance other than handouts from government. You don't 'fix' the residue of past troubles by taxing me to pay people to do nothing. The only path to 'fixing' the residue of the past is finding a way to incorporate/integrate natives into the greater community of Canada. Jesus Christ, if people from Uganda to Uzbekistan, from Bangladesh to Bolivia can come here, find out how to survive, learn our language and customs someone tell me why natives can't. What is so special about their 'culture' that it's more important to preserve that than letting them have actual lives with purpose, meaning and responsibilities? How many centuries do you think we ought to keep natives on reserves? Will another hundred years do it? Two hundred? Five hundred? How much longer are they to be treated like some kind of hothouse flowers that can't survive anywhere but in special soil constantly watered with billions of cash dollars?

Trudeau's time in office is marked by an obsession with income redistribution. Even his climate change initiative is more about income redistribution than climate. I'm not saying he's very GOOD at it, but that seems to be his focus. Reversed and shrank. This is from your favorite politician but he quotes (with a link) the PBO report and other statistics. https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/poilievre-harper-not-trudeau-sr-actually-reduced-poverty Why in Christ's name would I suggest either of those two were progressives? The only power Trudeau cares about is his. In pursuit of that he has been doing whatever he thinks will endear himself to the Left, be it by redistributing income, pretending to care about climate change or drag queens, or all his phony photo ops suggesting he's a 'regular guy'. There's an interesting link I came across while looking for information on the residential schools. It makes the distinction between policies that the government never intended to be beneficial to people, like locking up the Japanese in WW2 or the Chinese head tax, and residential schools, which they felt would actually benefit natives. It was the progressives who supported the schools. https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/the-many-canadians-who-thought-residential-schools-were-a-good-idea

I agree but the UN doesn't do that. The UN's human rights council spends half its time investigating Israel and none of it on China . I feel like I'm not the least bit responsible for past injustices. I also feel like those who were, in the past, acting as morally and ethically or more morally and ethically than almost everyone else in the world at that time shouldn't be cast as evil people because moral and ethical standards have changed since then.

You have me pegged as farther to the Right than I actually am. In reality, like most people, I veer wildly back and forth across the line on any given subject. The above makes no sense unless you put the word 'not' in accidentally. Like Trump, Trudeau's primary concern is his own well-being. He goads the Right in the same way and for the same reasons Trump goaded the Left - to endear himself to his base. That's why he does things which make no particular sense, like his recent gun legislation, or going to glad hand at a drag queen show. He's 'owning the contards' in the same way Trump 'owns' the libtards. They're two sides of the same shitty coin. The wealth gap lessened under Harper but I don't believe you'd call him Left wing. Trudeau is no dictator. He's a shallow, callow narcist like Trump with no particular aim but enhancing his popularity. Yeah, well, too bad some adults scared your grandson with phony stories. Even by the 1950s 90% of native kids were attending day schools on the reserve, and it stopped being mandatory to send native kids anywhere. So unless your grandson grew up before the 1950s (which would make you awfully old) I'd say you should be making nasty faces at his teachers for misleading him. As for older family members and friends raped by their teacher - I can't recall a single attempt at prosecution. Maybe because there was never any evidence and such stories were only invented in order get a payout. Then again, kids of all races were sexually abused by teachers, coaches, priests and doctors back in the day without anyone paying attention.

I don't believe the UN is communist. But I do believe there are 190 members of the UN, most of them in the developing world, most of them willing to sell their votes on any given issue that doesn't personally concern them. So in that sense it's kind of a useless organization. And I've yet to see anything they come up with which merits much respect. Four thousand dead, mostly of TB and other diseases, over a hundred year period is not genocide. Nor can ideas like 'cultural genocide' be retroactively applied against people from a hundred years earlier.

The Left is not a monolith. But this kind of thing is being pushed by many, many members of the Left and ONLY the Left. And not isolated cranks but the Prime Minister and top ministers in his government as well as provincial governments like that in BC and school boards right across Canada who are teaching lies to their kids and teaching them to be ashamed of Canada.

An interesting combination of articles written by the Kays today. Not a coincidence, I'm guessing. First, this one from Jonathan Kay mentioning how ridiculous our country has gotten over the mostly false allegations of 'genocide' against natives. The Left in Canada has embraced this story to such a degree it's become a religion. Anyone daring to contradict it is a blasphemer and guilty of 'denialism'. In many countries, such as Poland, Russia, and Turkey, it is considered bad manners (or even a criminal act) to speak candidly of such nations’ real historical sins. But in Canada, the officially sanctioned fictionalization of history now runs in the opposite direction—toward apocalyptic self-incrimination. Even as hundreds of thousands of immigrants and refugees flock to Canada every year, we are required to embrace the lurid conceit that our country may be described in the same moral breath as (actual) genocidal states such as Nazi Germany and 1994-era Rwanda. A group of scholars even tried to get Canada prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity (with predictable results) Welcome to Canada the nation of genocidaires And then the second item, by Barbara Kay, details the attacks on a teacher for daring to contradict the prevailing 'wisdom', despite his remarks being brief and truthful. Here a school board is firing a teacher for telling his students, who were upset at the thought of all those children being 'murdered and tortured', that in fact, they mostly died of diseases like tuberculosis. Which is absolutely true, but apparently truth is not what Canadian schools are interested in teaching these days. In her above-mentioned report, Radomski concluded that, “regardless of Mr. McMurtry’s intent,” his expressed opinion that the deaths were due to disease was “inflammatory, inappropriate, insensitive and contrary to the district’s message of condolences and reconciliation.” Indeed, she found it inculpating that, “He left students with the impression some or all of the deaths could be contributed (sic) to ‘natural causes’ and that the deaths could not be called murder.” Her finding, therefore, was that McMurtry was guilty of “extremely serious professional misconduct.” Most unjustly. https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fnationalpost.com%2Fopinion%2Fas-this-b-c-teacher-found-out-even-speaking-the-truth-in-class-is-enough-to-get-an-educator-cancelled

Did I take your job? Nine years ago. We didn't have trouble with recruitment back then for some reason. Yes, it actually is. Women are not physically suited for most combat roles. Does it bother you that most young women prefer to be doctors and teachers than scientists or engineers? Would you force them into a role they don't want? On the contrary, the military's recruitment efforts have been focused on visible minorities and women since Trudeau came to power. Gee, I wonder if that isn't another factor in the recruitment crisis they're experiencing. The recruitment efforts of police forces have been similarly focused for many years. And most police forces are shorthanded now, ,unable to recruit enough people.

So my next to last post wondered what children were being taught today about Canada's past (and America's). Well, in the Post today, comes an example of not only what children are being taught but what happens to anyone who dares to contradict the Canada-hate being taught to children here. The same thing is going on in the US, of course. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/as-this-b-c-teacher-found-out-even-speaking-the-truth-in-class-is-enough-to-get-an-educator-cancelled To remove paywall https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fnationalpost.com%2Fopinion%2Fas-this-b-c-teacher-found-out-even-speaking-the-truth-in-class-is-enough-to-get-an-educator-cancelled

Doesn't matter. There's no equipment for the m to use anyway. Sweden greatly increased its military spending and reinstated conscription in light of what they saw as a growing threat from Russia about five years or so ago. Despite being a quarter of our size hey have more tanks, more fighters, more submarines and more ships than we do.