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[Canadian Politics] Supreme Court rules on interprovincial sour grapes
SwashbucklerXX
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Canadian Politics, eh?
So these hosers finished up a thread while Parliament was on vacation over the summer. That means we're getting a desperation theme: Canadian Federal Politicians with Cute Cuddly Animals!
It was harder than I thought.
But not when it comes to the Prime Minister!
Here's Justin Trudeau, Liberal PM of Canada. Foreigners love him! Canadians love to be ambivalent about him! But he doesn't hesitate to denounce Nazis and he sure looks good cuddling pandas, so we'll keep him.
And here's the newly minted leader of the Conservative opposition, Andrew Scheer. He's so newly-minted I couldn't find any pictures of him cuddling animals, so this is what we get. Hey, I'm not the one who called him "Stephen Harper with a smile." He did that to himself!
Update, October 2017: Ontario MPP Jagmeet Singh has become the new leader of the NDP! Here he is with a pet CBC personality.
Did you know the Bloc Quebecois has a new leader? I had to look it up, which I believe makes me an official Western Canadian now. Her name is Martine Ouellet and despite having been in provincial politics for some time, she appears not to have cuddled any animals on-camera.
Of course we can count on Green Party leader Elizabeth May to have a genuine animal-cuddling picture!
Canadian Cude and Cuddly Animal News!
BC just outlawed grizzly bear trophy hunting starting in 2018. I recommend against cuddling grizzly bears, though.
Moose v Canada 150 Tulip Display
Record number of whooping crane births in NWT this year!
Calgary Rescue Beavers Become Best Buddies
Bears, beavers, moose... yep, we got 'em all.
In conclusion,
https://youtu.be/T0N4APXmVjk
So these hosers finished up a thread while Parliament was on vacation over the summer. That means we're getting a desperation theme: Canadian Federal Politicians with Cute Cuddly Animals!
It was harder than I thought.
But not when it comes to the Prime Minister!
Here's Justin Trudeau, Liberal PM of Canada. Foreigners love him! Canadians love to be ambivalent about him! But he doesn't hesitate to denounce Nazis and he sure looks good cuddling pandas, so we'll keep him.
And here's the newly minted leader of the Conservative opposition, Andrew Scheer. He's so newly-minted I couldn't find any pictures of him cuddling animals, so this is what we get. Hey, I'm not the one who called him "Stephen Harper with a smile." He did that to himself!
Update, October 2017: Ontario MPP Jagmeet Singh has become the new leader of the NDP! Here he is with a pet CBC personality.
Did you know the Bloc Quebecois has a new leader? I had to look it up, which I believe makes me an official Western Canadian now. Her name is Martine Ouellet and despite having been in provincial politics for some time, she appears not to have cuddled any animals on-camera.
Of course we can count on Green Party leader Elizabeth May to have a genuine animal-cuddling picture!
Canadian Cude and Cuddly Animal News!
BC just outlawed grizzly bear trophy hunting starting in 2018. I recommend against cuddling grizzly bears, though.
Moose v Canada 150 Tulip Display
Record number of whooping crane births in NWT this year!
Calgary Rescue Beavers Become Best Buddies
Bears, beavers, moose... yep, we got 'em all.
In conclusion,
https://youtu.be/T0N4APXmVjk Want to find me on a gaming service? I'm SwashbucklerXX everywhere.
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I did not. I have heard literally nothing from the Bloc since the last election. Not a single peep. I'd all but forgotten they were there.
She was acclaimed as leader, hasn't resigned her seat in the National Assembly, and she's not planning to seek a seat in the HoC via by-election. So it seems like there's a decent chance we may never hear anything from the Bloc ever again.
No idea if it's lining up with the Boston rallies on purpose or not, but hopefully the day goes by without it blowing up.
I'm anxious about another one of these showing up in Halifax. The last one fizzled out like the pathetic flash in the pan it was, but I worry about people getting more fired up about a rematch. Blah.
(https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/08/17/almost-7000-migrants-have-walked-into-quebec-since-canada-day.html)
Yeah Rempel. Letting people freeze to death in the winter sure would be a very effective way to discourage refugees from coming to Canada. I don't understand why we're not doing that either. Why didn't Harper use the resource of Canadian winters and the process of doing nothing to ensure only those with legitimate claims are entering Canada, again??
The question is, do the Conservative really believe that there's no processing of refugees and that they are automatically accepted, or are they just trying to create the impression that there's no processing of refugees and that Canada is getting flooded by new immigrants for some obscure reason.
Well, I'm using "question" in the rhetorical sense here. They are clearly trying to encourage xenophobia and to win the xenophobic vote.
Urg. At least I still have two acceptable parties at the federal level.
I am shocked, shocked, that it turns out a right-wing party is full of and catering to vile racists and bigots. Who would have expected that from conservatism? I'm sure somewhere the principled conservatives will take a stand against this.
I'm not sure if this is rhetorical... because back when Harper was PM the US had not yet elected a full-on white supremacist to the presidency who encouraged fucking Nazi rallies and terrorist attacks in his damn country, so there wasn't a stream of thousands of scared refugees fleeing north from the USA and forced to enter illegally to avoid being turned back under the "safe third country" agreement. This is a problem that literally did not exist even one year ago.
The principled conservatives already did something to take a stand - we voted for someone else.
It sounds like that went well for the counterprotesters at least! I'm a little worried for how the one in Quebec City is gonna go down tomorrow, though.
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There's essentially zero evidence of racists or nazis actually showing up.
One nazi showed up, did the nazi salute, and bike cops quickly rounded him up and removed him.
It went about as well as it could have gone.
And I haven't even done my exhibition, "The Dreadful History of Justin Trudeau's Facial Hair" yet.
I love the video with the jazz band playing and the counter-protestors dancing and cheering and generally having a good time. Like, it is way more fun to not be busy hating people.
I also wonder how much of the CBC's elder readership is very confused at those off-the-cuff references to Pepe the Frog and Kekistan. I envy people who don't know what that crap is.
La Meute (Anti-immigration alt-right group in the province.) and the counter protesters clashed. Not a whole lot of info came out, but apparently it's the counter-protest that's been declared illegal while La Meute's been more discreet?
I'm not going to assume anything just yet, but i feel like this isn't good overall.
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The racist fuckers who defame wolves have police protection, while those counter-protesters do not.
My understanding is that there's two counter-protests, only one of which was declared illegal, and that was after this set of counter-protesters went after the police keeping them from going after the wolf defamers.
Looking at CBC's investigation of the group, they aren't racist, but nationalistic and islamophobic. Any racist post is quickly dealt with by their moderators. The anti-protesters looked to be far more violent, and unlike the La Meute wore masks and bandanas to hide their faces. The anti-protesters also attacked the media.
From the images and videos I'm looking it at the La Meute won the image battle.
I mean, La Meute did get rid of the few members who were seen at Charlotteville. They're certainly not an openly white supremacist organization.
But I don't like nationalistic movements. I don't like islamophobia. I don't like that group's ideas on expulsing all immigrants.
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There isn't a difference here.
Yep. They are just very good at enforcing message discipline and keeping just within the limit of the law. The gaggle objective is no different from the nazi's down south, they are just better at presenting a "clean" image, so that people like Frostwood can fool themselves into supporting them, or at least opposing their opponents.
EDIT: just so it's clear, the word "meute" means "wolfpack", with the same connotations of "attack in group" and "vicious animals" present in English. That's not the name of a pacifist group.
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I was admiring their handiwork, the group was very disciplined in not engaging with the anti-protesters and seemed relatively mellow compared to the people in all-black get ups who looked like professional protesters. They also have a pretty cool symbol to go with their group.
What I saw was a dangerous political party forming, if I'm right they will probably replace the PQ in a few years.
Fair enough on the second, although "replacing" is probably not the right word, and the CAQ is a more likely target if there's replacement.
In the case of this specific xenophobic excursion, they are opposed to Haitian refugees, so even ignoring this Islam is not a race thing (hint: they don't object to white converts), it's racism.
Nope, zero difference because what they discriminate against is their perception of what a muslim is. Specifically, brown people.
Also, you don't get praise for being "only" islamaphobic.
Congratulations, you're a anti immigration, anti Muslim hate group and not a purely racist hate group. Do you want a Fucking medal?
And by "Interviewing", i mean they were grilling him. He did not want to "denounce" the violent counter protests because those weren't part of the counter-protest he organized and, like, the interviewer gave him a hard time about all this. As a spokesperson for a specific group of people, he felt it wasn't his place to denounce people outside of his group.
This feels like such a fucking double standard.
This was a huge victory for La Meute and it steams my cabbage something fierce.
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I think you're exaggerating here. They are not forming a political party. They have none of what it takes: no economic agenda, no social agenda beyond "fuck immigrants", no political expertise or cloud, no public support, and most importantly no stated interest in making one.
They came out of yesterday looking decent by comparison to the Black Bloc morons using violence and vandalism, but that minor victory will be forgotten soon enough.
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