Hypocrisy of the Left

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California Town Cancels Women's March Due to 'Overwhelmingly White' Participants
https://pjmedia.com/trending/califo...rch-due-to-overwhelmingly-white-participants/

“Do as I say, not as I do” is the prog motto.


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


OH THAT IS rich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Who would EVER think white people would have a good point to make on anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Cliffy

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LIE-berals have reached such a point of gravy grabbing madness that they do not understand any longer what is causing their public failures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The point not covered is that we should not be creating refugees anyplace if we are selective about who we let an dhow we don't. Mire rich criminals become residents that poor criminals. If it covered them as well I would have had a longer reply.
 

spilledthebeer

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I call B.S. on that ALLEGED $8.4 billion spent on Indigenous Affairs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


During the term of LIE-beral prime minister Chretien- the Native Affairs Ministry was spending over $13 billion dollars on basic support for natives on reserves- with other dept`s and provincial govts kicking in money for roads and electrical supplies, education and the like!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And $4 billion a year from feds to fight homelessness??????????????????????????????????????


That sounds wrong- I would like to see more proof -OF AN HONEST SORT- meaning NOT the self serving CRAP LIE-berals serve up to make themselves look better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


After all- homeless shelters and welfare are MUNICIPAL responsibilities so how did the feds get involved in supporting the homeless???????????



LIE-berals have amply demonstrated that WE CANNOT TRUST THEIR NUMBERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And we all recall how Our idiot Boy Justin was reduced to shouting "RACIST" at the Quebec woman who asked him when he would be compensating the Quebec govt for costs incurred in caring for the teeming swarms of illegals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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Lawmakers’ Charity Didn’t Give Out A Single Scholarship, Top Pols Hide Financials
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/31/...-single-scholarship-top-pols-hide-financials/

Do as I say, not as I do.




Oh, no need to look outside Canada for examples of Fake Charity and greed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


All we have to do is ask what steps LIE-berals have taken to close the tax loop holes exposed in the notorious PARADISE PAPERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Or we could ask what tax loop holes have been closed since we discovered that our LIE-beral finance minister Bill Morneau has "neglected" to pay taxes on a French Villa he happens to own!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Consider:






Here is an article illustrating yet again just how utterly poisoned is ALL LIE-beral policy and moral value! With some comments of my own in brackets):

Bill Morneau’s French villa controversy couldn’t have come at a worse time: Editorial 21/39. Toronto Star Editorial Board.

Just when it seemed Finance Minister Bill Morneau couldn’t be any less credible a salesman of Ottawa’s proposed small-business tax reforms, CBC News revealed last week that for two years, whether through inadvertence or something worse, the finance minister effectively kept secret a holding that provides his family significant tax advantages.© Adrian Wyld

(It is amusing that LIE-beral friendly Red Star news people should refer to new LIE-beral taxes as “reform” when they are nothing but a new LIE-beral raid on already over taxed Cdns! Calling the changes ‘reform” falsely suggests some sort of improvement when it clearly is NOT! Only vote buying LIE-berals and their gravy hungry Hog allies will benefit from the changes! AS I have said before I think it is a gross conflict of interest and unacceptable!)

The revelation that Bill Morneau failed to disclose to the federal ethics watchdog one of his private corporations – a company that, in a dreadful bit of optics, owns a villa in the south of France – could not have come at a worse time for the embattled finance minister or his government’s foundering project of tax fairness.

This news surely will not soothe the incorporated professionals who are understandably confused about why they, of all possible targets, have been selected as the first front in the push for tax fairness.

Rather, it feeds the narrative being proffered by federal Conservatives that there is something hypocritical about Morneau going after doctors and farmers rather than, say, large publicly traded companies like Morneau Shepell, the human-resources firm that the minister once ran.

(Something hypocritical about Morneau and LIE-berals? There is the UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR! This French Villa crap is not a one off thing- it is STANDARD LIE-beral policy!)

(Consider the “Shawinigate” scandal and the Adscam scandal that rocked the LIE-beral Jean Chretien govt! Chretien was caught out lying about his connection to a Shawinigan Hotel owner with a criminal past- with Chretien helping to funnel govt loans to the guy- loans he had previously been turned down for by civil service Hogs because of his suspect/ criminal past! But Our Jean saved the day- got the guy his loan but Jean did NOT save any tax payer money! The hotel is struggling and the loan repayment in jeopardy at last report.)

(Chretien also handed out gobs of cash to Shawinigan area furniture makers- supposedly to buy new equipment and create jobs, market new furniture lines and and etc- and NONE of the money was used that way! ALL the money was used to subsidize shipping costs of existing products to send Quebec furniture into Ontar-owe and screw over Ontari-owe manufacturers!)

(And we can look at the vile LIE-beral Human Resources/adscam crap in which THREE BILLION DOLLARS of our tax money disappeared without a trace- although a bunch of LIE-beral bagmen were spotted around the country carrying GOBS OF CASH obtained- somewhere? But a couple of `former` LIE-beral friends went to jail! And the REALLY funny part of the adscam? When Chretien retired and LIE-beral Paul Martin took over, he assured the public the money would be found and he swore that “if any had been taken and used incorrectly- that the LIE-beral party would pay back that money- even if it was as much as one hundred thousand dollars”! Yes- three billion missing and Mr. Dithers is talking about MAYBE paying less than one percent of the LIE-beral THEFT!)

(And LIE-beral Martin does Not have clean hands himself! As finance minister under Chretien- Martin re-wrote a number of tax laws to hit Cdn corporations hard if they decided to bail out of Canada as it slid into recession. And Martin left enough loopholes in his own laws to let him move his Canada Steamship Line holdings worth hundreds of millions of dollars out of Canada WITHOUT the bother of paying any taxes- the ones lesser mortals MUST PAY!)

(And we have the fine example of more LIE-beral virtue as displayed by the Ontari-owe Wynne-bag govt! Wynne-bag is to be congratulated- its not every day that a large majority of Cdns publicly state you are running the most shamelessly corrupt govt EVER! With FIVE police investigations running simultaneously!)

(And what of Our idiot Boy Justin? That silver spoon socialist who daily escapes the fate of Pinocchio! Our idiot Boy tells all manner of fibs and yet his nose does not grow! The idiot has lied about his holiday at the private island of Aga Khan. Then lied about the cost. Then lied about lying about the cost. And now he is caught yet again and must spin a NEW web of lies about his Aga adventure!)

(Our idiot Boy seems to think that truth is detrimental to democratic govt since he employs it so seldom! He promised to “save the middle class” and hit them with new taxes and fees. Promised to “reduce small business taxes” and instead `froze` those taxes and then de-listed a whole series of business tax deductions. Promised to give cities cash to improve transit- and has only supplied a dribble of money for basic repairs. Promised a grand new overture to natives with the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Inquiry- and turned it into a flop! Promised to be environmentally sensitive- and even David Suzuki has publicly lamented the TOTAL LACK of LIE-beral action! LIE-berals talk so bravely about being more kind and gentle than other politicians and then turn around and demand that poor retail workers pay taxes on that bargain bag of hot dogs made with mystery meat and yummy chemical Nitrites and a host of not good for you preservatives- as if it is workers fault that its all they can afford after paying all their taxes! And all the time Morneau was HIDING his tax free villa! And one has to wonder what other crap LIE-berals are hiding? Even as THEIR LIST of entitlements grows ever larger and as our national debt soars!)

In an attempt to get the largely sensible package of reforms back on track, Morneau is expected to announce a number of needed tweaks on Monday. But whatever good this does will no doubt be undermined in part by stories of the minister’s undisclosed company, its villa in Provence and the inheritance tax benefits they provide. As ever with this debacle, Morneau has made his important job much harder than it needed to be.

(Largely sensible? HAHAHA!!! LIE-berals are killing off small businesses with their greed! It is small business that creates most of the jobs in Canada! It is small business that takes the most risks to create and market new products! Small biz gets the least amount of govt grants compared to major corporations who threaten to leave Canada unless they get gobs of cash from govt! Bombardier has picked up over a BILLION DOLLARS IN GRANTS and the most notable thing they have done with that cash is give their senior people some spectacular bonuses! What a bargain! Especially since Bombardier seems so busy sucking up govt money that they have missed three separate deadlines for producing desperately needed new streetcars for Toronto! With a LIE-beral judge telling angry TTC chiefs that “NO, you cannot cancel the Bombardier contract and buy streetcars someplace else- you have to stay with Bombardier”! A cynic will ask: “Is this judicial choice based on law or on a need to cover LIE-beral backsides”?)

But the implications of this revelation go beyond the fate of the current package of reforms. Whether this was an ethical lapse or a more mundane oversight, whether Morneau sought to dodge his obligations or he simply holds so many companies that he’s unable to remember them all, this story feeds the lingering sense that this government is increasingly out of touch with ordinary Canadians.

(One mistake is just that- a mistake written off to being forgetful- but a whole series of “forgetful” issues is NOT a mistake- it has become a dedicated LIE-beral way of doing business in a fashion that ordinary Cdns think is dangerously corrupt!)

As trust in government declines, so, too, does tolerance for anything that looks like entitlement or corruption. The public trust depends not only on integrity, but also on the appearance of integrity. This is particularly important at a moment when, by necessity, the government is looking to close unfair and ineffective tax loopholes and thus ask certain people to pay more. Yet the Trudeau government has been consistently careless on such matters. In the best case, Morneau’s failure to disclose is another example of this.

(Unfair tax loopholes? The ones CREATED BY LIE-berals? The `loopholes` would not need closing if LIE-berals were not quite so desperate to BUY civil service Hog votes-their only loyal supporters- according to The Fraser Institute! LIE-berals are so desperate to cling to power at any price they are willing to bankrupt the country with their efforts to satisfy ENDLESS HOG GREED! It is madness that must not continue- for the sake of future generations already burdened with huge govt debts- before they are even born!)

Perhaps, when you’ve travelled in powerful circles for much of your life, as both Morneau and the prime minister have, surrounded by players and influencers, it becomes hard to see how such lapses are perceived by people outside the bubble.

(OR perhaps they have decided they are ENTITLED to do as they please because they are “anointed” and supreme beings - as described by Professor Thomas Sowell- and can ignore the whining, petty peasants?)

Perhaps that’s also why Trudeau failed to grasp the optics of taking a government jet to the Aga Khan’s private island for a family holiday last winter. Or why the government was so slow to realize that its cash-for-access fundraisers created the damaging appearance of privileged access.

(The LIE-beral cash for access crap is nothing but a retread of the Pierre Trudope economic policy of dealing with large corporations instead of small business! Get a few corporate CEO`s in the room and you can bribe them to see things your way. But get small business owners into the room and you have a mob with frequently competing needs and desires- its much harder to herd small business owners than large corporations as the Trudope family knows! Besides, large corps are quite often unionized and that extra layer of financial influence- go along with union policy or get fired- makes for even more control of large corps! It means that union heads and CEO`s are easily herded into LIE-beral corrals against the benefit of ordinary people- but LIE-berals do not care- just so long as they cling to power!)

This insensitivity is not simply a political problem. The resurrection of old questions about Liberal entitlement is dangerous not only for the party, but also for the country. For the essential project of tax reform to succeed, and indeed for government to be a force for good, Ottawa must seem to be worthy of the public trust.

(Tax “reform” would not be such a critical priority if we had not been spent into bankruptcy by LIE-beral/Hog greed! Bankruptcy is poisonous and iut makes people crazy when the money runs out-as it HAS for Cdns!)

When, on the other hand, more and more ordinary citizens come to feel their elected officials are out of touch with their concerns, tax reform is all but doomed, democracy is corroded and, as we have been reminded in recent years, demagoguery is nourished.

As Morneau fumbles, the stakes are truly high.
 

Danbones

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After what we went through funding our homeless shelter here where I volunteer, I can say Cliffie's article is completely full of Shit.

you get that cliffy ?
COMPLETELY.

It took us 4 years to go from a church basement completely funded by charity to a real building 3/4ths funded by charity. Now we used to be able to handle 30 people per night, now to qualify in all for federal aid, we can only by law help 15 at a time...and we get veterans more often than we should. Part of the 1/4th that isn't charity comes from the fact we have space to rent out in this new building. Maybe 10% comes from the feds here...but our capacity has been reduced to half.

Clinton: Send some immigrant kids home
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Orlando Santa
6 months ago
Wow surprised CNN hasn't taken this down. In light of the recent fake outrage about Donald Trump.

Proof Hillary Called For A Wall With Mexico First

Hillary & Dems Support Trump’s Border Wall!

Did Bill Clinton sound like Trump on immigration?

He sure did.

Obama Signs $600 Million Bill to Secure Border
 
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spilledthebeer

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After what we went through funding our homeless shelter here where I volunteer, I can say Cliffie's article is completely full of Shit.

you get that cliffy ?
COMPLETELY.

It took us 4 years to go from a church basement completely funded by charity to a real building 3/4ths funded by charity. Now we used to be able to handle 30 people per night, now to qualify in all for federal aid, we can only by law help 15 at a time...and we get veterans more often than we should. Part of the 1/4th that isn't charity comes from the fact we have space to rent out in this new building. Maybe 10% comes from the feds here...but our capacity has been reduced to half.

Clinton: Send some immigrant kids home
from the comments:
Orlando Santa
6 months ago
Wow surprised CNN hasn't taken this down. In light of the recent fake outrage about Donald Trump.

Proof Hillary Called For A Wall With Mexico First

Hillary & Dems Support Trump’s Border Wall!

Did Bill Clinton sound like Trump on immigration?

He sure did.

Obama Signs $600 Million Bill to Secure Border




Poor LIE-beral minded SAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


People ARE SICK AND TIRED of hands grabbing at what little the GREEDY GOVT has left them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


WE could give away everything we own and it would still not be enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And there is the heart of your LIE-beral problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


In a world were LIE-beral taxes and costs are rising WAY FASTER than our incomes- most of us ordinary people are DISGUSTED with how careless LIE-berals are with OUR LIVES AND WELFARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals are so busy BUYING votes from illegals and from anti white bigots that they have not noticed the dangerous ground swell of discontent among the suddenly not so silent majority!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


We are now going to TELL YOU what we feel like paying and what we feel we can afford!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Here is an article illustrating that Trump is right in wanting to end Muslim immigration to United States. With some comments of my own in brackets):

New York City to install 1,500 metal barriers to combat terrorist vehicle rampages

From Associated Press. Published: January 2, 2018. Updated: January 2, 2018 2:37 PM EST

Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ News/ World

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NEW YORK — Hundreds of new protective barriers will be permanently installed in Times Square and other locations around New York in an effort to block vehicles from hitting pedestrians after deadly attacks last year on crowds.

The city is spending $50 million on protective measures including the installation of 1,500 metal barriers, or bollards, in key locations around the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday.

(This is just ONE proactive action in one single city! How much has been spent all across North America to minimize the amount of damage that mad dog Muslims may do to us?)

Known around the world for the New Year’s Eve ball drop, Times Square is crowded most days with tourists, costumed characters, sightseeing bus hawkers and office workers.

A car rests on a security barrier in New York’s Times Square after driving through a crowd of pedestrians, injuring at least a dozen people, Thursday, May 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

In May, a man said by police to be high on drugs drove through crowds for more than three blocks, killing an 18-year-old tourist from Michigan. The vehicle was eventually stopped by one of the squat metal barriers.

Temporary concrete blocks were put up along the Seventh Avenue sidewalk while city officials weighed a long-term solution and considered banning vehicle traffic from the area all together.

We know we have to do even more to keep people safe and that's why we conducted a review on how best to secure our streets and public spaces, and we formulated a plan of action.
Mayor Bill de Blasio

Then, on Halloween, an Islamic State-inspired attacker drove down a busy bicycle path near the World Trade Center, authorities said. He killed eight people before he wrecked his rented truck and was shot by police.

Barriers were also placed there to keep cars out of the bike path.

“In 2017, New Yorkers witnessed the horrible capacity of people willing to do us harm, whether it was in our subways, on our bike paths or in Times Square,” the Democratic mayor said. “We know we have to do even more to keep people safe and that’s why we conducted a review on how best to secure our streets and public spaces, and we formulated a plan of action.”

(Here is a fun question: what right do foreigners have to immigrate to places they desire to ATTACK? Who says WE MUST resign ourselves to LIE-berals handing out citizenship papers to people who HATE US?)

The rollout will begin in March. Meanwhile, the temporary blocks already set up will remain in place.

“People have to be able to get around but they have to be safe at the same time,” de Blasio said.

City officials didn’t specify what other locations will be fortified, beyond the bike path and Times Square, but said there would be barriers set up in all five boroughs.

(LIE-berals who believe implicitly in open borders as Our idiot Boy Justin does- should know they are defying the will of the majority and will come to a bad end at election time! This is why Our idiot Boy is doing all he can to rig our elections in his favour!)

(The LIE-beral position in Canada is now so bad that Our idiot Boy has approved adding loop holes into election access and voter ID regulations! In the last election- in 2015- thousands of DEAD PEOPLE VOTED!)

(The LIE-beral govt has just revived VOUCHING- in which people who don’t have proper voter ID are allowed to vote anyway- by a civil service union Hog- who hates Conservatives! to let total strangers cast ballots in critical ridings where the race is very tight and may be swayed by only a few votes is a DELIBERATE LIE-BERAL UNDERMINING of our democracy!)

(Even worse- some LIE-berals have publicly advocated that we should allow ILLEGALS to vote- simply because they live in our cities and use our services too and thus ought to be counted as “consumers” - just like REAL CITIZENS!)

(LIE-berals even go so far as to claim that illegals should be allowed to vote since “they pay taxes too”!!! LIE-berals IGNORE the reality that illegals PAY NO TAXES - for health levy, for Unemployment Insurance, for Canada Pension Plan- simply because THEY ARE NOT REGISTERED in the govt computers!!!)

(And in related news- a number of people on temporary work visas in Canada- and thus NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE- HAVE in fact received voter registration cards that WOULD ENABLE them to vote!)

(We should ask: does this represent a clerical error by civil service Hog clerks reviewing tax forms and dumping the information into voter registration slots without considering eligibility?)

(Or is this carelessness with voter registration something MORE SINISTER- are LIE-beral SCHEMERS seeking to give as many third world types AS POSSIBLE a chance to influence our elections- and reward LIE-berals with their voter support!)

(We KNOW that the LIE-beral MyDemocracy web site was deliberately set up so that a voter could either “like” or “love” the proposed LIE-beral electoral reforms! And we KNOW that LIE-berals have been SHAMED by public response to their electoral reforms that would have paralysed our parliament and turned it into an out of control spending machine- with no off switch!)

(And we KNOW that always SHAMELESS LIE-berals have created a new web site where people can comment on gun control- with NO RESTRICTIONS on who can comment or how many times they may comment! The LIE-beral version of “honest debate” on crime in Canada is allowing any fool from around the world to PRETEND they are Cdn and to influence OUR LAWS!)

(LIE-berals are so shameless they do not even restrict the number of times a person may comment on the gun web site- thus allowing a small group to post multiple times and PRETEND to be a large group in hope of influencing public opinion with their DECEIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)!

(WE know that LIE-beral electoral reform was designed to paralyse our parliament and turn it into an out of control spending machine in the CHAOTIC Italian style! Italy has had something like 67 govts in 65 years and there is NO long term planning for anything is being done there- since politicians are so busy trying to save their places on the gravy train!)

(National Geographic Magazine has stated that fully 80 percent of the Italian economy operates BEYOND the reach of govt regulators! And one has only to look at the collapse of that big Italian highway bridge last summer to recognize how dangerous a sloppy govt can be! That Italian bridge got NO maintenance, it rusted out and fell down and killed people!)

(So far we Cdns have been more careful than the Italians! The Champlain Bridge in Montreal is rusting out and govt has responded by closing two of the four lanes to reduce weight and strain!)

(The Gardiner Expressway in Toronto is rusting out as well and govt Works Crews patrol it constantly looking for dangerous cracks and loose concrete that can main or kill when it falls!)

(LIE-berals are so desperately greedy they will endanger our lives and poison our democratic process just so they can increase the odds that they can remain aboard their wonderful gravy train!)
 

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‘ASIMIL8’ licence plate is hurtful whether it is about Star Trek or humans, government emails say

Whether “assimilation” is by fictional aliens in the television series Star Trek or in real life against Indigenous people, the meaning is the same and should never have been approved for a personalized licence plate, a senior executive with Manitoba Public Insurance says in internal email.
The unusual government discussion of alien species came during panicked discussions by senior staff at the non-profit Crown corporation that approves and issues the province’s licence plates after social media buzz about a Star Trek fan’s personalized plate “ASIMIL8.”
The government immediately cancelled the plate in 2017, after two years of it decorating Nicholas Troller’s truck. For Troller, the phrase is associated with the Borg, a partially cybernetic group of protagonists in the science-fiction series. The Borg grow by assimilating new species into its collective.
His plate was surrounded by slogans reflecting the Borg’s other catchphrases: “We are the Borg” and “Resistance is futile.”
Troller filed a court challenge in 2017, supported by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, a conservative non-profit organization that defends constitutional freedoms through litigation.
As part of the court process, government emails from staff at Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) were recently filed in court.
The communications show the plate was cancelled not after a formal complaint but when a social media post was spotted by a government employee. Further, the plate should never have been issued in the first place, Ward Keith, vice-president of communications with MPI, said in emails.
“Are there other plates out there that we need to be concerned about? We need a complete listing for review,” Keith wrote in an email April 24, the day he learned of the plate.
“This is really, really serious and we are considering serious disciplinary action for those who were involved and contributed to approving a plate that is so obviously inappropriate at a time when there was significant media coverage about the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, etc …”
Even after he heard Troller’s explanation that it was a Star Trek reference and not meant as an offensive message about Indigenous people, Keith said it made no difference.
“Even with the rationale he provided, the meaning is the exact same regardless of what race — human or alien — it applies to. My only concern is if we get asked why we issued it in the first place. We are still vulnerable.”
Alarm bells started ringing when a fellow Manitoba government employee saw a Facebook post about the plate and forwarded it to MPI on April 24, 2017, asking: “Is this a real MPI-issued plate?”
By day’s end, a whirlwind of emails had ensued, stretching into the evening.
“I hope the people involved in this mess now see why we take this stuff so seriously and expect some common sense judgment to apply — or at the very least, following our own procedures,” Keith wrote.
Bosses at MPI were asking how the plate passed through the committee set up to stop inappropriate plates from being issued. The documents include a long list of plates that were refused, including INJIN, DRG DLR, and HITNRUN.
The committee, the emails say, searches requested words on the online slang repository Urban Dictionary.
“An Urban Dictionary search was done on the slogan and no hits were found. No concerns were raised to the committee about the slogan,” wrote Dave Burns, manager of licensing services.
In response, Carla Hocken, Registrar of Motor Vehicles, sent a link to the website’s entry on assimilation that defined it in racist terms. Burns replied: “I can’t say with certainty why that entry in the Urban Dictionary wasn’t called out.”
The day after MPI staff heard of the plate, Troller was called to return the plate to any MPI bureau. He said he wouldn’t be able to do that until the end of the week.
“We can’t wait the week,” Burns wrote later that day. Hocken, he said, “wants the plate off the road immediately.”
When Burns called Troller to retrieve the plate, Troller hung up on him, the emails say. Troller asked who had complained but wasn’t told.
The emails show that a complaint was filed, but it came after the decision was already made to pull the plate. It came after an Ontario woman saw the plate on Facebook.
MaryAnn Wilhelm, of Owen Sound, Ont., the outreach director for the NDP’s Aboriginal Commission, said in an interview with National Post she found the ASIMIL8 plate offensive, especially in a province with a large Aboriginal community.
“When I came across this photo on social media, it was pretty blatant to me,” she said. Most people would see it as a racist sentiment rather than a science-fiction reference, she said.
“I was very comfortable going ahead and filing the complaint.”
Once the media learned of MPI’s demand to return the plate, the MPI emails went into overdrive. When CTV asked for comment, debate over “scripting” and messaging ensued and whether a spokesperson should speak on camera. They wondered if CTV might “kill” the story.
“Ward doesn’t want us doing an interview,” Burns wrote on April 27.
Later that day, Troller seemed to accept he had lost the plate and requested a replacement with a different Star Trek reference.
He asked for: LOCUTUS. (The name of an important Borg character.)
The department said he could have it for free — as long as the ASIMIL8 plate was returned and the new plate approved by MPI.
A court date in the challenge has not yet been set.