Oppostiton parties are in such disarray Ford knows the timing is good. Politicians love campaigning and making promises. Especially a summer election when it is so nice to be outside.
WE really need to get rid of this guy
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Oppostiton parties are in such disarray Ford knows the timing is good. Politicians love campaigning and making promises. Especially a summer election when it is so nice to be outside.
Trudeau believes he's the chosen one
Author of the article:Lorrie Goldstein
Published May 25, 2024 • Last updated 3 days ago • 4 minute read
A good way to understand what drives Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a book written almost three decades ago by the great American conservative thinker Thomas Sowell titled, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy.
Obviously, Sowell wasn’t writing about Trudeau — but he was writing about the contemporary liberal mindset of politicians like Trudeau.
In a Canadian context, this is not a new observation.
The first time I wrote about it was in a 2015 column, “Trudeau, the anointed one,” a month after he won the election that brought him to power.
National Post columnist John Ivison made the same observation in his 2019 book, Trudeau: The Education of a Prime Minister.
As Sowell writes, “the vision of the anointed is not simply a vision of the world and its functioning in a causal sense, but is also a vision of themselves and of their moral role in the world. It is a vision of differential rectitude” or righteousness.
“What a vision may offer, and what the prevailing vision of our time emphatically does offer, is a special status of grace for those who believe in it. Those who accept this are deemed to be not merely factually correct but morally on a higher plane.
“Put differently, those who disagree with the prevailing vision are seen as being not merely in error, but in sin … the benighted are to be made ‘aware,’ to have their ‘consciousness raised,’ and the wistful hope is held out that they will ‘grow.’ Should the benighted prove recalcitrant, however, then their ‘mean-spiritedness’ must be fought and the ‘real reasons’ behind their arguments and actions exposed.”
Describes Trudeau to a tee, doesn’t it?
In an extract from Stephen Maher’s upcoming book on Trudeau, The Prince: The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau, published in the Walrus, Trudeau made it clear that what drives him politically — and what motivates him to want to lead the Liberals into the next election — is that he believes Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is “not merely in error, but in sin.”
“He’s been around this place a long time,” Trudeau said.
“I have never seen the drive to service. What is the call to build the country? I’ve seen a tremendous, cut-throat competitor, someone who’s willing to do whatever it takes to win, to score points, to make the goal. And there’ve been politicians in all parties who do that, but that’s never been what drives me. I just see it as such a fundamental choice in what kind of country we are, who we are as Canadians … And that is what the next election is going to be … As a competitor, as a leader, as someone committed to this country, being there for that conversation with Canadians touches me at the core of what I feel my purpose is in stepping forward into politics.”
This is “Après moi, le déluge” (“After me, the flood”) thinking, originally attributed to Louis XV of France in the 18th century.
Trudeau’s breathtaking lack of self-awareness in these comments — his apparent unawareness that he constantly divides Canadians against each other in pursuit of votes, whether the issue is the pandemic, the carbon tax, the future of Canada’s oil and gas sector, immigration, gun control, law and order or drug decriminalization — would normally suggest he can’t be serious.
That he can’t possibly sincerely believe he is somehow above the no-holds-barred partisan politics he accuses Poilievre of practising.
But as Sowell explains about those seized with the vision of the anointed, “These are not merely debating tactics. People are never more sincere than when they assume their own moral superiority.”
Indeed, it is the vision of the anointed that emboldens Trudeau to accuse others of racism when he can’t remember how many times he donned blackface; to accuse opponents of unethical conduct when he has repeatedly violated the federal conflict of interest act, to accuse Canadians opposed to his carbon tax of being uncaring about the planet, despite his own massive carbon footprint.
As Sowell observes, “one reason for the preservation and insulation” of the vision of the anointed “is that it has become inextricably intertwined with the egos of those who believe in it.
“In order that this relatively small group of people can believe themselves wiser and nobler than the common heard, we have adopted policies which impose heavy costs on millions of other human beings, not only in taxes but also in lost jobs, social disintegration and a loss of personal safety. Seldom have so few cost so much to so many.”
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Author of the article:Lorrie Goldstein
Published May 25, 2024 • Last updated 3 days ago • 4 minute read
A good way to understand what drives Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a book written almost three decades ago by the great American conservative thinker Thomas Sowell titled, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy.
Obviously, Sowell wasn’t writing about Trudeau — but he was writing about the contemporary liberal mindset of politicians like Trudeau.
In a Canadian context, this is not a new observation.
The first time I wrote about it was in a 2015 column, “Trudeau, the anointed one,” a month after he won the election that brought him to power.
National Post columnist John Ivison made the same observation in his 2019 book, Trudeau: The Education of a Prime Minister.
As Sowell writes, “the vision of the anointed is not simply a vision of the world and its functioning in a causal sense, but is also a vision of themselves and of their moral role in the world. It is a vision of differential rectitude” or righteousness.
“What a vision may offer, and what the prevailing vision of our time emphatically does offer, is a special status of grace for those who believe in it. Those who accept this are deemed to be not merely factually correct but morally on a higher plane.
“Put differently, those who disagree with the prevailing vision are seen as being not merely in error, but in sin … the benighted are to be made ‘aware,’ to have their ‘consciousness raised,’ and the wistful hope is held out that they will ‘grow.’ Should the benighted prove recalcitrant, however, then their ‘mean-spiritedness’ must be fought and the ‘real reasons’ behind their arguments and actions exposed.”
Describes Trudeau to a tee, doesn’t it?
In an extract from Stephen Maher’s upcoming book on Trudeau, The Prince: The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau, published in the Walrus, Trudeau made it clear that what drives him politically — and what motivates him to want to lead the Liberals into the next election — is that he believes Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is “not merely in error, but in sin.”
“He’s been around this place a long time,” Trudeau said.
“I have never seen the drive to service. What is the call to build the country? I’ve seen a tremendous, cut-throat competitor, someone who’s willing to do whatever it takes to win, to score points, to make the goal. And there’ve been politicians in all parties who do that, but that’s never been what drives me. I just see it as such a fundamental choice in what kind of country we are, who we are as Canadians … And that is what the next election is going to be … As a competitor, as a leader, as someone committed to this country, being there for that conversation with Canadians touches me at the core of what I feel my purpose is in stepping forward into politics.”
This is “Après moi, le déluge” (“After me, the flood”) thinking, originally attributed to Louis XV of France in the 18th century.
Trudeau’s breathtaking lack of self-awareness in these comments — his apparent unawareness that he constantly divides Canadians against each other in pursuit of votes, whether the issue is the pandemic, the carbon tax, the future of Canada’s oil and gas sector, immigration, gun control, law and order or drug decriminalization — would normally suggest he can’t be serious.
That he can’t possibly sincerely believe he is somehow above the no-holds-barred partisan politics he accuses Poilievre of practising.
But as Sowell explains about those seized with the vision of the anointed, “These are not merely debating tactics. People are never more sincere than when they assume their own moral superiority.”
Indeed, it is the vision of the anointed that emboldens Trudeau to accuse others of racism when he can’t remember how many times he donned blackface; to accuse opponents of unethical conduct when he has repeatedly violated the federal conflict of interest act, to accuse Canadians opposed to his carbon tax of being uncaring about the planet, despite his own massive carbon footprint.
As Sowell observes, “one reason for the preservation and insulation” of the vision of the anointed “is that it has become inextricably intertwined with the egos of those who believe in it.
“In order that this relatively small group of people can believe themselves wiser and nobler than the common heard, we have adopted policies which impose heavy costs on millions of other human beings, not only in taxes but also in lost jobs, social disintegration and a loss of personal safety. Seldom have so few cost so much to so many.”
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Poilievre and Trudeau agree on very little. But they are united in one way: their mutual hostility
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GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau believes he's the chosen one
A good way to understand what drives Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a book written almost three decades ago by Thomas Sowell.
Trudeau: Following the science, listening to the experts, but not really. Two recent incidents indicate that he does neither. First off was the little experiment in BC with full drug decrimming. It wasn't the decrimming that's the issue, it was what came after. I can't think of ANY scientist worth a spit that would suggest the best way to combat addiction is to give addicts free drugs. Which I've mentioned elsewhere.
The 2nd incident is "listening to the experts". In 2022 before Trudeau massively increased immigration to Canada, his govt's very own immigration dept warned him that the numbers were way to high to be sustainable and would only further exacerbate the housing crisis. I guess they just didn't have the same supreme level of expertise as Groper's own imagination did.
Which makes the rest of the "science" he's following and "experts" he's listening to rather suspect. They either suck at their jobs like Trudeau or he simply ignores them when they don't confirm what he wants to hear.
Here's the thing. Trudeau is a megalomaniac and megalomaniacs tend to listen to no one but themselves. They're so fucking full of themselves they can't even contemplate the thought that they might be wrong about something.
The 2nd incident is "listening to the experts". In 2022 before Trudeau massively increased immigration to Canada, his govt's very own immigration dept warned him that the numbers were way to high to be sustainable and would only further exacerbate the housing crisis. I guess they just didn't have the same supreme level of expertise as Groper's own imagination did.
Which makes the rest of the "science" he's following and "experts" he's listening to rather suspect. They either suck at their jobs like Trudeau or he simply ignores them when they don't confirm what he wants to hear.
Here's the thing. Trudeau is a megalomaniac and megalomaniacs tend to listen to no one but themselves. They're so fucking full of themselves they can't even contemplate the thought that they might be wrong about something.
Yeah but "smart" govt's profit from it. Stupid govts give out free drugs so there's no profit and no real benefit. Well, there is profit. Big Pharma getting a chunk of taxpayer money to pay for the "free" drugs.
The profit comes from CUPE and provincial Union member votes.
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Woman's testimony begins in ex-Woodstock mayor's sexual assault trial
Two-term former mayor Trevor Birtch entered not guilty pleas Monday
Author of the article:Jane Sims
Published May 27, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 5 minute read
Former Woodstock Mayor Trevor Birtch faces a total of six sex charges.
Former Woodstock Mayor Trevor Birtch faces a total of six sex charges.
She thought it was going to be a romantic Valentine’s Day date with her boyfriend at a cozy London spa.
Her partner was then-Woodstock Mayor Trevor Birtch. He had pulled out all the mid-pandemic stops on Feb.14, 2021, and convinced his friend, who happened to be the owner, to give him a suite at the Idlewyld Inn.
“I really thought it was going to be something special,” the 45-year-old woman testified Monday at Birtch’s sexual assault trial.
There were no other guests at the inn. Birtch had run her a bubble bath, lit candles and poured her wine. He already was in bed when she got out of the tub and climbed in beside him.
“And that’s when things went south really fast,” she said.
Instead of snuggling and watching a movie, the woman said Birtch began trying to move her head toward “his anatomy.” She resisted and he kept trying.
Then Birtch stopped and was angry, she said. “What good are you, then?” she testified he said to her. “I shouldn’t have brought you here.”
She testified he kicked her out of bed, got out himself and then yanked on her leg and hair and threw her out.
Birtch, 48, who served two terms as mayor until he was defeated in fall 2022, entered not guilty pleas to two counts of sexual assault and one count of assault involving the woman, with whom he was having an intimate relationship in 2021. Her identity is protected by court order.
He sat in the courtroom beside his defence lawyer, James Battin, while the woman answered questions from assistant Crown attorney Artem Orlov through a closed-circuit TV feed.
Orlov told Superior Court Justice Michael Carnegie that, at this point, she will be the only Crown witness. Battin said he would be calling Birtch and one other witness.
The charges involve three incidents involving the woman and Birtch. In two of them, the Valentine’s Day rendezvous and a day-long ride on country roads, she refused to perform a sex act. The third incident involved her consenting to the same sex act while in his bedroom, but, when things got too aggressive, she was unable to withdraw her consent.
Consent is clearly an issue in the case. So will be the photographs tendered into evidence showing extensive bruising on her arms and knee, which she said was caused when Birtch forcibly removed her from his car after the rural ride and threw her across a gravel parking lot.
She testified she took those photos an hour after she was injured and she never sought medical advice.
Birtch, she said, “was like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” He could be “Mr. Wonderful, just the most caring and compassionate person ever and in a split second, it’s a monster.”
The woman said she and Birtch met at a community function where he asked her out and gave her a wink. “I thought he was being a nice, friendly mayor,” she said.
They began to communicate on social media and began their relationship in April 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. It progressed rapidly.
At the time, she said Birtch was going through a divorce. He had no place to live, so he kept clothing and a toothbrush at her place and eventually moved in with his parents.
She said Birtch helped her out financially and was a reliable, comforting partner. “The Trevor that I fell in love with . . . was not the same Trevor by the end of it. I don’t know why,” she said through tears.
But, she said, there always were rumours about other women in Birtch’s life and he was a heavy drinker, with Devil’s Cut bourbon his drink of choice. He became angrier, she said, starting on Valentine’s Day 2021.
On that day, Birtch picked her up – she said he shouldn’t have been driving because he was drinking – and they drove to London. She was told to leave her phone and purse in the car.
Everything was great until the incident in bed. She hadn’t been “a good girl,” as he called her. She said she tried to sleep on the bathroom floor and once got back onto the edge of the bed. She told him she wanted to go home and she said Birtch told her: “I’ll bring you home when I’m good and ready.”
The next day, she said he drove the long way home and he seemed to soften up. But the anger returned when they reached her home. “I should have brought somebody else and now I know where I’m going,” he told her, she said. She didn’t hear from him for several days.
The relationship re-kindled within days.
That summer, she said they were out for a country drive and stopped several times for sexual activity. At about midnight, they stopped at a little stone church. They were talking about his family issues when he undid his pants and tried to push her face toward his crotch.
The woman said she resisted, angering Birtch. Then, as Birtch was trying to push her out of the car, she got out to urinate in a corn field.
“Are you sure you’re not going to be a good girl for daddy?” she said he asked her when she returned. When she said she wanted to go home, he drove away, leaving her behind with no cell service or clue where she was.
He was very angry, she said, and had “the same expression I’d seen on his face on Valentine’s Day. There was rage and there was anger.”
He returned 40 minutes later and made her ride in the back seat part of the way back to her apartment, where she said she wanted to have a conversation. Instead, he pulled her out of the car, causing the bruises, and sped away.
The relationship was back on days later, she said. In December 2021, she went to his home where she said she consented to a sex act, but found herself trapped in his clutches while in the middle of it and unable to cry out to stop and break free.
Afterward, she said Birtch was sobbing uncontrollably, saying that he loved her and “he didn’t mean to hurt me, but he couldn’t help it.”
The relationship did not continue once the woman said she saw another woman leaving Birtch’s house.
She went to the police in February 2022 after three of her vehicles had their windows broken with a baseball bat. She said she had suspicions about who did it, but wouldn’t tell police.
She was staying with a friend at an all-women’s residence when Birtch showed up looking for her. The friend called police.
She said she hesitated to go to the police because Birtch, as mayor, sat on Woodstock’s police board, and she didn’t go for medical treatment because Birtch sat on the hospital board.
“I just wanted Trevor to go away. I just wanted to live my own life. I didn’t want to be the reason he lost everything,” she said.
The defence is slated to begin cross-examination on Tuesday.
jsims@postmedia.com
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Two-term former mayor Trevor Birtch entered not guilty pleas Monday
Author of the article:Jane Sims
Published May 27, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 5 minute read
Former Woodstock Mayor Trevor Birtch faces a total of six sex charges.
Former Woodstock Mayor Trevor Birtch faces a total of six sex charges.
She thought it was going to be a romantic Valentine’s Day date with her boyfriend at a cozy London spa.
Her partner was then-Woodstock Mayor Trevor Birtch. He had pulled out all the mid-pandemic stops on Feb.14, 2021, and convinced his friend, who happened to be the owner, to give him a suite at the Idlewyld Inn.
“I really thought it was going to be something special,” the 45-year-old woman testified Monday at Birtch’s sexual assault trial.
There were no other guests at the inn. Birtch had run her a bubble bath, lit candles and poured her wine. He already was in bed when she got out of the tub and climbed in beside him.
“And that’s when things went south really fast,” she said.
Instead of snuggling and watching a movie, the woman said Birtch began trying to move her head toward “his anatomy.” She resisted and he kept trying.
Then Birtch stopped and was angry, she said. “What good are you, then?” she testified he said to her. “I shouldn’t have brought you here.”
She testified he kicked her out of bed, got out himself and then yanked on her leg and hair and threw her out.
Birtch, 48, who served two terms as mayor until he was defeated in fall 2022, entered not guilty pleas to two counts of sexual assault and one count of assault involving the woman, with whom he was having an intimate relationship in 2021. Her identity is protected by court order.
He sat in the courtroom beside his defence lawyer, James Battin, while the woman answered questions from assistant Crown attorney Artem Orlov through a closed-circuit TV feed.
Orlov told Superior Court Justice Michael Carnegie that, at this point, she will be the only Crown witness. Battin said he would be calling Birtch and one other witness.
The charges involve three incidents involving the woman and Birtch. In two of them, the Valentine’s Day rendezvous and a day-long ride on country roads, she refused to perform a sex act. The third incident involved her consenting to the same sex act while in his bedroom, but, when things got too aggressive, she was unable to withdraw her consent.
Consent is clearly an issue in the case. So will be the photographs tendered into evidence showing extensive bruising on her arms and knee, which she said was caused when Birtch forcibly removed her from his car after the rural ride and threw her across a gravel parking lot.
She testified she took those photos an hour after she was injured and she never sought medical advice.
Birtch, she said, “was like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” He could be “Mr. Wonderful, just the most caring and compassionate person ever and in a split second, it’s a monster.”
The woman said she and Birtch met at a community function where he asked her out and gave her a wink. “I thought he was being a nice, friendly mayor,” she said.
They began to communicate on social media and began their relationship in April 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. It progressed rapidly.
At the time, she said Birtch was going through a divorce. He had no place to live, so he kept clothing and a toothbrush at her place and eventually moved in with his parents.
She said Birtch helped her out financially and was a reliable, comforting partner. “The Trevor that I fell in love with . . . was not the same Trevor by the end of it. I don’t know why,” she said through tears.
But, she said, there always were rumours about other women in Birtch’s life and he was a heavy drinker, with Devil’s Cut bourbon his drink of choice. He became angrier, she said, starting on Valentine’s Day 2021.
On that day, Birtch picked her up – she said he shouldn’t have been driving because he was drinking – and they drove to London. She was told to leave her phone and purse in the car.
Everything was great until the incident in bed. She hadn’t been “a good girl,” as he called her. She said she tried to sleep on the bathroom floor and once got back onto the edge of the bed. She told him she wanted to go home and she said Birtch told her: “I’ll bring you home when I’m good and ready.”
The next day, she said he drove the long way home and he seemed to soften up. But the anger returned when they reached her home. “I should have brought somebody else and now I know where I’m going,” he told her, she said. She didn’t hear from him for several days.
The relationship re-kindled within days.
That summer, she said they were out for a country drive and stopped several times for sexual activity. At about midnight, they stopped at a little stone church. They were talking about his family issues when he undid his pants and tried to push her face toward his crotch.
The woman said she resisted, angering Birtch. Then, as Birtch was trying to push her out of the car, she got out to urinate in a corn field.
“Are you sure you’re not going to be a good girl for daddy?” she said he asked her when she returned. When she said she wanted to go home, he drove away, leaving her behind with no cell service or clue where she was.
He was very angry, she said, and had “the same expression I’d seen on his face on Valentine’s Day. There was rage and there was anger.”
He returned 40 minutes later and made her ride in the back seat part of the way back to her apartment, where she said she wanted to have a conversation. Instead, he pulled her out of the car, causing the bruises, and sped away.
The relationship was back on days later, she said. In December 2021, she went to his home where she said she consented to a sex act, but found herself trapped in his clutches while in the middle of it and unable to cry out to stop and break free.
Afterward, she said Birtch was sobbing uncontrollably, saying that he loved her and “he didn’t mean to hurt me, but he couldn’t help it.”
The relationship did not continue once the woman said she saw another woman leaving Birtch’s house.
She went to the police in February 2022 after three of her vehicles had their windows broken with a baseball bat. She said she had suspicions about who did it, but wouldn’t tell police.
She was staying with a friend at an all-women’s residence when Birtch showed up looking for her. The friend called police.
She said she hesitated to go to the police because Birtch, as mayor, sat on Woodstock’s police board, and she didn’t go for medical treatment because Birtch sat on the hospital board.
“I just wanted Trevor to go away. I just wanted to live my own life. I didn’t want to be the reason he lost everything,” she said.
The defence is slated to begin cross-examination on Tuesday.
jsims@postmedia.com
Former Woodstock mayor pleads not guilty to sexual assault charges
Two-term former mayor Trevor Birtch entered not guilty pleas Monday in London to two counts of sexual assault and one of assault.
House Speaker survives latest attempt by Tories to force resignation
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Mickey Djuric
Published May 28, 2024 • Last updated 13 hours ago • 2 minute read
OTTAWA — House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus has survived a vote put forward by the Conservatives to remove him from his position.
The effort to oust Fergus failed by a vote of 142-168 after the NDP sided with the Liberals, with both accusing the Conservatives of undermining democracy and its independent institutions.
This is the third time in less than eight months that the Conservatives have called on him to step down.
They insist Fergus is too partisan after several incidents including his decision last month to expel their leader, Pierre Poilievre, from the House after he called the prime minister a “wacko.”
The Conservatives also asked Fergus to resign after a video tribute to the Ontario Liberals’ departing interim leader in which Fergus wore his Speaker’s robes was shown to a provincial party convention in December.
The most recent move comes a week after the Liberal party uploaded a video to its website that promoted a summer barbecue event featuring Fergus that used partisan language without getting Fergus’s consent.
Manitoba Conservative MP James Bezan said earlier Tuesday that the Speaker has lost the goodwill and trust of the House.
“In baseball three strikes you’re out, and we’ve got the Speaker on three different occasions, or actually this is the fourth occasion, that he has done partisan activities, and given partisan speeches,” Bezan said in the House.
After the latest incident involving the website invitation, the Speaker’s office provided a copy of the original information for the event, which did not include any partisan language.
The Liberal party apologized to Fergus for the post after New Democrats demanded it.
The Tories urged the NDP to vote with them to oust Fergus but NDP House leader Peter Julian had said it wouldn’t happen.
“I find it very disturbing the Conservatives are attacking everything they don’t control,” he said.
The Bloc Quebecois voted with the Tories, but the Liberals and NDP had enough votes to defeat the motion.
Government House leader Steven MacKinnon said the Opposition vote was meant to delay government work and create distrust in democratic institutions.
“What they seek to do is create chaos and create disorder,” MacKinnon said in the House earlier Tuesday.
Fergus declined to comment.
“It won’t be appropriate for me to comment on something that’s before the House,” he said.
Following the video incident, Fergus apologized and said the video was intended for a longtime friend and wasn’t supposed to be played in public.
A House of Commons committee looked into it and recommended disciplinary action but not that Fergus be fired. He was fined $1,500.
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Mickey Djuric
Published May 28, 2024 • Last updated 13 hours ago • 2 minute read
OTTAWA — House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus has survived a vote put forward by the Conservatives to remove him from his position.
The effort to oust Fergus failed by a vote of 142-168 after the NDP sided with the Liberals, with both accusing the Conservatives of undermining democracy and its independent institutions.
This is the third time in less than eight months that the Conservatives have called on him to step down.
They insist Fergus is too partisan after several incidents including his decision last month to expel their leader, Pierre Poilievre, from the House after he called the prime minister a “wacko.”
The Conservatives also asked Fergus to resign after a video tribute to the Ontario Liberals’ departing interim leader in which Fergus wore his Speaker’s robes was shown to a provincial party convention in December.
The most recent move comes a week after the Liberal party uploaded a video to its website that promoted a summer barbecue event featuring Fergus that used partisan language without getting Fergus’s consent.
Manitoba Conservative MP James Bezan said earlier Tuesday that the Speaker has lost the goodwill and trust of the House.
“In baseball three strikes you’re out, and we’ve got the Speaker on three different occasions, or actually this is the fourth occasion, that he has done partisan activities, and given partisan speeches,” Bezan said in the House.
After the latest incident involving the website invitation, the Speaker’s office provided a copy of the original information for the event, which did not include any partisan language.
The Liberal party apologized to Fergus for the post after New Democrats demanded it.
The Tories urged the NDP to vote with them to oust Fergus but NDP House leader Peter Julian had said it wouldn’t happen.
“I find it very disturbing the Conservatives are attacking everything they don’t control,” he said.
The Bloc Quebecois voted with the Tories, but the Liberals and NDP had enough votes to defeat the motion.
Government House leader Steven MacKinnon said the Opposition vote was meant to delay government work and create distrust in democratic institutions.
“What they seek to do is create chaos and create disorder,” MacKinnon said in the House earlier Tuesday.
Fergus declined to comment.
“It won’t be appropriate for me to comment on something that’s before the House,” he said.
Following the video incident, Fergus apologized and said the video was intended for a longtime friend and wasn’t supposed to be played in public.
A House of Commons committee looked into it and recommended disciplinary action but not that Fergus be fired. He was fined $1,500.
House Speaker survives latest attempt by Tories to force resignation
The Conservatives are demanding House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus be forced from his chair by next Monday.
Justin Trudeau's half-brother says Liberal leader doesn't want to get re-elected: 'Canadians are pissed off'
'Justin's like the captain of the hockey team. He's not the manager of it, he's not the owner of it'
Author of the article:Mark Daniell
Published May 31, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 4 minute read
As Justin Trudeau’s popularity continues to slide, his half-brother Kyle Kemper doesn’t think the beleaguered leader is looking to get re-elected as prime minister.
Kemper, who has been critical of his sibling’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, sat down with Tucker Carlson earlier this month to discuss, among other things, Trudeau’s deeply unpopular tenure as Canada’s leader.
“You think your brother will get re-elected?” Carlson asked.
“I don’t think he wants to … some of the latest stuff, it’s really sad. It’s not a way to live,” Kemper replied in a clip that has been viewed over 3.3 million times on X. “I’m out here fighting for freedom and speaking for freedom and liberty, and Justin is not a free man. They just showed him trying to go to an event a couple of days ago and there were probably 50 cops as his escort because Canadians are pissed off. It’s angry out there, folks. It’s not a good look.”
Kemper said his brother is so unpopular that he can’t drive a car or go out for dinner in a restaurant.
“You make a big sacrifice when you enter into that public arena, and he’s entered that public arena and at the beginning it was all sunshine and rainbows. But now it’s dark and there’s a lot of negative energy.”
But Kemper had a message for people who are upset with Trudeau’s policies, which saw the Liberals recently impose a carbon tax on Canadians.
“Justin’s like the captain of the hockey team. He’s not the manager of it, he’s not the owner of it,” he said.
Carlson asked Kemper who he thought was running things, to which Trudeau’s brother replied corporations, pharmaceutical companies and the military industrial complex.
“Canada has gotten so much poorer,” Carlson said. “I didn’t go for a few years because of COVID, but I was there this winter and it’s a poorer country. It’s much more expensive. People’s standard of living is dropping.”
Carlson then wondered aloud how, as Canadians are getting poorer, Trudeau could send billions to the Ukraine in a “war across the world that has no benefit to them at all.”
Kemper said the government spending is “unsustainable.”
The discussion comes amid a new poll that suggests nearly half of Canadians think Trudeau is sticking around — despite declining support — because he likes being prime minister.
Kemper made headlines at the height of the pandemic when he openly questioned COVID vaccine mandates and criticized Trudeau for his handling of the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.
“Invoking the Emergencies Act is reckless and unjustified,” Kemper told the Toronto Sun in a 2022 interview. “By threatening the bank accounts of all convoy supporters, they are setting a tyrannical precedent and these actions should be condemned regionally, nationally, and internationally. This will sow distrust in our financial institutions.”
In his conversation with Carlson, Kemper, who was suspended from Twitter for calling the coronavirus vaccine “fake,” said there had been “many warning signs that there would be a mass injection campaign coming at some point.”
“Then you see, with the COVID-19 scenario, everyone painting, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear around the virus, and hope, hope, hope, hope around the vaccine … something’s amiss here … all the sudden, public officials, like my brother, out there being effectively salesmen for the pharmaceutical industry,” he said.
Kemper refused to take the vaccine and wouldn’t vaccinate his five children. “I’m not willing to expose myself to something that could be very dangerous,” he said.
But Trudeau’s half-brother, born to Margaret Trudeau and her second husband, Fried Kemper, in 1984, when the future prime minister was 12, said that he was always worried about what could happen while his brother was in power.
“In the wake of 9/11, we saw the all the nations of the world kind of come together underneath this anti-terror plan and this war on terror. Now, we (had) the war on COVID.”
Kemper said he loves his brother “through and through.” But said that Trudeau “like the attention and the leader of the show.”
“When he had the opportunity to follow in his father’s footsteps and become the prime minister of Canada … he was helped in that journey,” Kemper said. “He’s an amazing person, and he was able to connect with so many people … (but) once this COVID and vaccine thing took place and the words he was using, I don’t know if they were coming from his heart of coming from a teleprompter … I don’t think he’s abusing power. I think power is just … being abused. We’ve seen it, whether it’s Justin or Boris Johnson, Jacinda Arden, or Joe Biden.”
mdaniell@postmedia.com
torontosun.com
'Justin's like the captain of the hockey team. He's not the manager of it, he's not the owner of it'
Author of the article:Mark Daniell
Published May 31, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 4 minute read
As Justin Trudeau’s popularity continues to slide, his half-brother Kyle Kemper doesn’t think the beleaguered leader is looking to get re-elected as prime minister.
Kemper, who has been critical of his sibling’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, sat down with Tucker Carlson earlier this month to discuss, among other things, Trudeau’s deeply unpopular tenure as Canada’s leader.
“You think your brother will get re-elected?” Carlson asked.
“I don’t think he wants to … some of the latest stuff, it’s really sad. It’s not a way to live,” Kemper replied in a clip that has been viewed over 3.3 million times on X. “I’m out here fighting for freedom and speaking for freedom and liberty, and Justin is not a free man. They just showed him trying to go to an event a couple of days ago and there were probably 50 cops as his escort because Canadians are pissed off. It’s angry out there, folks. It’s not a good look.”
Kemper said his brother is so unpopular that he can’t drive a car or go out for dinner in a restaurant.
“You make a big sacrifice when you enter into that public arena, and he’s entered that public arena and at the beginning it was all sunshine and rainbows. But now it’s dark and there’s a lot of negative energy.”
But Kemper had a message for people who are upset with Trudeau’s policies, which saw the Liberals recently impose a carbon tax on Canadians.
“Justin’s like the captain of the hockey team. He’s not the manager of it, he’s not the owner of it,” he said.
Carlson asked Kemper who he thought was running things, to which Trudeau’s brother replied corporations, pharmaceutical companies and the military industrial complex.
“Canada has gotten so much poorer,” Carlson said. “I didn’t go for a few years because of COVID, but I was there this winter and it’s a poorer country. It’s much more expensive. People’s standard of living is dropping.”
Carlson then wondered aloud how, as Canadians are getting poorer, Trudeau could send billions to the Ukraine in a “war across the world that has no benefit to them at all.”
Kemper said the government spending is “unsustainable.”
The discussion comes amid a new poll that suggests nearly half of Canadians think Trudeau is sticking around — despite declining support — because he likes being prime minister.
Kemper made headlines at the height of the pandemic when he openly questioned COVID vaccine mandates and criticized Trudeau for his handling of the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.
“Invoking the Emergencies Act is reckless and unjustified,” Kemper told the Toronto Sun in a 2022 interview. “By threatening the bank accounts of all convoy supporters, they are setting a tyrannical precedent and these actions should be condemned regionally, nationally, and internationally. This will sow distrust in our financial institutions.”
In his conversation with Carlson, Kemper, who was suspended from Twitter for calling the coronavirus vaccine “fake,” said there had been “many warning signs that there would be a mass injection campaign coming at some point.”
“Then you see, with the COVID-19 scenario, everyone painting, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear around the virus, and hope, hope, hope, hope around the vaccine … something’s amiss here … all the sudden, public officials, like my brother, out there being effectively salesmen for the pharmaceutical industry,” he said.
Kemper refused to take the vaccine and wouldn’t vaccinate his five children. “I’m not willing to expose myself to something that could be very dangerous,” he said.
But Trudeau’s half-brother, born to Margaret Trudeau and her second husband, Fried Kemper, in 1984, when the future prime minister was 12, said that he was always worried about what could happen while his brother was in power.
“In the wake of 9/11, we saw the all the nations of the world kind of come together underneath this anti-terror plan and this war on terror. Now, we (had) the war on COVID.”
Kemper said he loves his brother “through and through.” But said that Trudeau “like the attention and the leader of the show.”
“When he had the opportunity to follow in his father’s footsteps and become the prime minister of Canada … he was helped in that journey,” Kemper said. “He’s an amazing person, and he was able to connect with so many people … (but) once this COVID and vaccine thing took place and the words he was using, I don’t know if they were coming from his heart of coming from a teleprompter … I don’t think he’s abusing power. I think power is just … being abused. We’ve seen it, whether it’s Justin or Boris Johnson, Jacinda Arden, or Joe Biden.”
mdaniell@postmedia.com
Justin Trudeau's half-brother says Liberal leader doesn't want to get re-elected: 'Canadians are pissed off'
With his popularity in free-fall, Kyle Kemper doesn't think his half-brother Justin Trudeau is looking to get re-elected as prime minister.
Federal government posts $50.9 billion deficit for 2023-24 fiscal year
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Published May 31, 2024 • 1 minute read
OTTAWA — The federal government ended the 2023-24 fiscal year with a deficit of $50.9 billion.
The result for the April-to-March period compared with a deficit of $41.3 billion reported for the same stretch of its 2022-23 fiscal year.
Government revenues were up $13.7 billion, or 3.2 per cent, to $444.8 billion, reflecting higher personal income tax, Goods and Services Tax and other non-tax revenues, but partially offset by lower corporate income tax revenues.
Program expenses, excluding net actuarial losses, for the fiscal year totalled $440.6 billion, up 3.1 per cent from $427.4 billion.
Higher interest rates pushed public debt charges up 35 per cent to $47.5 billion from $35.2 billion a year earlier.
Net actuarial losses totalled $7.6 billion compared with $9.8 billion in the same period last year.
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Published May 31, 2024 • 1 minute read
OTTAWA — The federal government ended the 2023-24 fiscal year with a deficit of $50.9 billion.
The result for the April-to-March period compared with a deficit of $41.3 billion reported for the same stretch of its 2022-23 fiscal year.
Government revenues were up $13.7 billion, or 3.2 per cent, to $444.8 billion, reflecting higher personal income tax, Goods and Services Tax and other non-tax revenues, but partially offset by lower corporate income tax revenues.
Program expenses, excluding net actuarial losses, for the fiscal year totalled $440.6 billion, up 3.1 per cent from $427.4 billion.
Higher interest rates pushed public debt charges up 35 per cent to $47.5 billion from $35.2 billion a year earlier.
Net actuarial losses totalled $7.6 billion compared with $9.8 billion in the same period last year.
Federal government posts $50.9 billion deficit for 2023-24 fiscal year
The federal government ended the 2023-24 fiscal year with a deficit of $50.9 billion.
Tories, NDP sling mud amid squabbles over Speakers’ neutrality
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Published May 31, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
OTTAWA — A third member of the House of Commons leadership team is in the hot seat as accusations fly over allegedly partisan online posts featuring MPs who sit in the Speaker’s chair.
The squabbles over chair-holders’ neutrality — and parties’ hypocrisy — have been dominating the lead-up to a parliamentary summer break.
Conservatives are chiding the NDP for posting the title of assistant deputy Speaker Carol Hughes on a party website near donation buttons, and for touting her election to that position in a press release on its website nine years ago.
The Tories raised those concerns as they responded to the NDP’s own questions over the impartiality of the deputy Speaker, a Conservative MP.
Chris d’Entremont asserted he had no knowledge that a photo of himself in his Speaker’s robes had been used to advertise a Conservative riding event on social media, and promised the post would be deleted.
That, in turn, came after Speaker Greg Fergus survived a third Conservative attempt to have him removed, over a post advertising a summer barbecue event that featured partisan language.
The veritable merry-go-round of dubious partisanship snipes at Speakers of all stripes shows no signs of stopping.
The Liberal party apologized to Fergus over the post, which advertised his presence at the event but which his office said it did not approve. A motion to remove Fergus was defeated in the House of Commons, with the NDP and Liberals voting against.
As debate over the post featuring the Conservative deputy leader ensued late Thursday evening in the House, the Tories’ deputy House leader, Luc Berthold, encouraged NDP members to “get their own affairs in order.”
He went on to detail quibbles over how the assistant deputy Speaker is represented on the NDP’s website, then argued their complaint over d’Entremont was nothing but a “petty, short-sighted partisan attack.”
NDP House leader Peter Julian, who had earlier this week accused the Tories of participating in a “disturbing undercurrent” of disdain for Speakers, was none too pleased by Berthold’s intervention.
“I have been in this House for 20 years and that is surely the dumbest question of privilege I have ever seen,” he said.
The Speaker — in this case, Fergus — rose to ask that Julian, whom he described as an “experienced member,” withdraw the comment.
The New Democrat did so, said, “I am not even going to dignify that with a response,” and pivoted back to accusing the Tories of a double standard.
He said just as the Liberal party apologized, the Conservative party should apologize over the d’Entremont post.
“In both cases, we should, as parliamentarians, consider the matter closed.”
The Conservatives did not immediately respond to questions about whether the party plans to say sorry to the deputy Speaker.
Julian seemingly couldn’t help himself from ending with a parting shot — “I would tell my Conservative colleagues to start acting like adults” — after which Fergus said he would take it all under advisement, and the House placidly resumed legislative debate.
In an interview Friday, the NDP House leader accused the Conservatives of weaponizing the role of the Speaker for political gain.
He said the NDP only brought up the indiscretion involving d’Entremont to highlight a double standard.
Julian added he worries the accusations against the people who occupy the chair threaten the institution of the Speaker’s role in the House of Commons.
But the one bright spot of the squabble is that it has brought the rules about what the Speaker can and can’t do into much sharper focus, he said, which will likely help preserve the integrity of the role in the future.
“It is alright for a Speaker to do fundraising in their own riding and in other ridings as well,” Julian said Friday.
“But they can’t use the trappings of the House of that position, and certainly they cannot be partisan in how they approach it.”
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Published May 31, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
OTTAWA — A third member of the House of Commons leadership team is in the hot seat as accusations fly over allegedly partisan online posts featuring MPs who sit in the Speaker’s chair.
The squabbles over chair-holders’ neutrality — and parties’ hypocrisy — have been dominating the lead-up to a parliamentary summer break.
Conservatives are chiding the NDP for posting the title of assistant deputy Speaker Carol Hughes on a party website near donation buttons, and for touting her election to that position in a press release on its website nine years ago.
The Tories raised those concerns as they responded to the NDP’s own questions over the impartiality of the deputy Speaker, a Conservative MP.
Chris d’Entremont asserted he had no knowledge that a photo of himself in his Speaker’s robes had been used to advertise a Conservative riding event on social media, and promised the post would be deleted.
That, in turn, came after Speaker Greg Fergus survived a third Conservative attempt to have him removed, over a post advertising a summer barbecue event that featured partisan language.
The veritable merry-go-round of dubious partisanship snipes at Speakers of all stripes shows no signs of stopping.
The Liberal party apologized to Fergus over the post, which advertised his presence at the event but which his office said it did not approve. A motion to remove Fergus was defeated in the House of Commons, with the NDP and Liberals voting against.
As debate over the post featuring the Conservative deputy leader ensued late Thursday evening in the House, the Tories’ deputy House leader, Luc Berthold, encouraged NDP members to “get their own affairs in order.”
He went on to detail quibbles over how the assistant deputy Speaker is represented on the NDP’s website, then argued their complaint over d’Entremont was nothing but a “petty, short-sighted partisan attack.”
NDP House leader Peter Julian, who had earlier this week accused the Tories of participating in a “disturbing undercurrent” of disdain for Speakers, was none too pleased by Berthold’s intervention.
“I have been in this House for 20 years and that is surely the dumbest question of privilege I have ever seen,” he said.
The Speaker — in this case, Fergus — rose to ask that Julian, whom he described as an “experienced member,” withdraw the comment.
The New Democrat did so, said, “I am not even going to dignify that with a response,” and pivoted back to accusing the Tories of a double standard.
He said just as the Liberal party apologized, the Conservative party should apologize over the d’Entremont post.
“In both cases, we should, as parliamentarians, consider the matter closed.”
The Conservatives did not immediately respond to questions about whether the party plans to say sorry to the deputy Speaker.
Julian seemingly couldn’t help himself from ending with a parting shot — “I would tell my Conservative colleagues to start acting like adults” — after which Fergus said he would take it all under advisement, and the House placidly resumed legislative debate.
In an interview Friday, the NDP House leader accused the Conservatives of weaponizing the role of the Speaker for political gain.
He said the NDP only brought up the indiscretion involving d’Entremont to highlight a double standard.
Julian added he worries the accusations against the people who occupy the chair threaten the institution of the Speaker’s role in the House of Commons.
But the one bright spot of the squabble is that it has brought the rules about what the Speaker can and can’t do into much sharper focus, he said, which will likely help preserve the integrity of the role in the future.
“It is alright for a Speaker to do fundraising in their own riding and in other ridings as well,” Julian said Friday.
“But they can’t use the trappings of the House of that position, and certainly they cannot be partisan in how they approach it.”
’Surely the dumbest’: Tories, NDP sling mud amid squabbles over Speakers’ neutrality
A third member of the House of Commons leadership team is in the hot seat.
SO he can only get it up once every 2 weeks?Kim Jong Un recruits 25 new virgins every year for ‘pleasure squad’
Author of the articleenette Wilford
Published May 03, 2024 • Last updated 2 days ago • 2 minute read
Kim Jong Un takes time out of his busy schedule to select 25 virgin girls a year to personally entertain him in what a North Korean defector called his “pleasure squad.”
Yeonmi Park, 30, told the Daily Star that officials would “visit every classroom” and “even go to schoolyards in case they missed someone pretty.”
It wasn’t all about attractiveness, however; Park added that the girls’ political loyalty also played a factor on whether they chosen.
Park claimed she was scouted twice for the so-called honour but wasn’t picked in the end because of her “family status.”
She explained “they eliminate any girls with family members that have escaped from North Korea, or have relatives in South Korea or other countries.”
If given the green light, the next step for the young women is a medical examination to ensure they are, in fact, virgins.
Candidates who move on are then subjected to more invasive tests where even the tiniest defect, like a small scar anywhere on the body, will get them disqualified.
Once only a “handful of girls” are left, they are sent to Pyongyang to see if they make the final cut.
If selected, their “only reason to exist is to please the dictator,” Park said.
She said for many, life in North Korea is so grim that parents welcome their daughters being recruited in the hope they might enjoy a better quality of life.
Park, who fled North Korea for China in 2007 at the age of 13, has amassed more than 1.1 million subscribers on YouTube with her tales of life inside the dictatorship.
She moved to the United States in 2014 and became an American citizen eight years later, even writing a book about her search for freedom in the U.S. after defecting.
Park also mentioned that Jong Un has very specific taste, and opts for women who are “slender,” “taller” and more “western-looking.”
Within the pleasure squad, there are three different divisions, she added.
The first group are trained to massage, the second bunch specialize in entertainment such as singing and dancing, while the third bevy of women make up the “sexual activities division,” and have to not only be intimate with the tubby tyrant but his inner circle as well.
The most beautiful girls are reserved to attend to the dictator essentially as sex slaves, while the less attractive members must cater to the needs of low-ranking generals and politicians.
“They have to learn how to please these men,” Park said. “That’s their only goal.”
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Kim Jong-un 'picks 25 virgin girls every year' to be part of 'Pleasure Squad'
A woman who fled from North Korea to China in 2007 aged 13 says she was scouted by recruiters for a 'Pleasure Squad' of girls that would be used for sex by Kim Jong-Undailystar.co.uk
Kim Jong Un recruits 25 new virgins every year for ‘pleasure squad’
Kim Jong Un selects 25 virgin girls a year to personally entertain him in what a North Korean defector called his “pleasure squad.”torontosun.com
Probably good those kinds are childless. Another generation of parasites would be difficult for us to care for.
To compound the problem, when our NDPee Premier finally admitted this was a bad idea and wanted it scaled back to at least removing crackheads right to do whatever drug they wanted in parks and hospitals, the enablers union got a far left judge to declare that not letting them shoot up in public in fringed on a druggies rights and may be harmful to their health and safety. No mention of the rights, health, or safety of the law abiding taxpayers that work and play in these areas. Oddly enough, a law abiding taxpayer is not permitted to smoke a cigarette or drink a beer in any of these places.
Holy Fuck! LOLJustin Trudeau's half-brother says Liberal leader doesn't want to get re-elected: 'Canadians are pissed off'
'Justin's like the captain of the hockey team. He's not the manager of it, he's not the owner of it'
Author of the article:Mark Daniell
Published May 31, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 4 minute read
As Justin Trudeau’s popularity continues to slide, his half-brother Kyle Kemper doesn’t think the beleaguered leader is looking to get re-elected as prime minister.
Kemper, who has been critical of his sibling’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, sat down with Tucker Carlson earlier this month to discuss, among other things, Trudeau’s deeply unpopular tenure as Canada’s leader.
“You think your brother will get re-elected?” Carlson asked.
“I don’t think he wants to … some of the latest stuff, it’s really sad. It’s not a way to live,” Kemper replied in a clip that has been viewed over 3.3 million times on X. “I’m out here fighting for freedom and speaking for freedom and liberty, and Justin is not a free man. They just showed him trying to go to an event a couple of days ago and there were probably 50 cops as his escort because Canadians are pissed off. It’s angry out there, folks. It’s not a good look.”
Kemper said his brother is so unpopular that he can’t drive a car or go out for dinner in a restaurant.
“You make a big sacrifice when you enter into that public arena, and he’s entered that public arena and at the beginning it was all sunshine and rainbows. But now it’s dark and there’s a lot of negative energy.”
But Kemper had a message for people who are upset with Trudeau’s policies, which saw the Liberals recently impose a carbon tax on Canadians.
“Justin’s like the captain of the hockey team. He’s not the manager of it, he’s not the owner of it,” he said.
Carlson asked Kemper who he thought was running things, to which Trudeau’s brother replied corporations, pharmaceutical companies and the military industrial complex.
“Canada has gotten so much poorer,” Carlson said. “I didn’t go for a few years because of COVID, but I was there this winter and it’s a poorer country. It’s much more expensive. People’s standard of living is dropping.”
Carlson then wondered aloud how, as Canadians are getting poorer, Trudeau could send billions to the Ukraine in a “war across the world that has no benefit to them at all.”
Kemper said the government spending is “unsustainable.”
The discussion comes amid a new poll that suggests nearly half of Canadians think Trudeau is sticking around — despite declining support — because he likes being prime minister.
Kemper made headlines at the height of the pandemic when he openly questioned COVID vaccine mandates and criticized Trudeau for his handling of the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.
“Invoking the Emergencies Act is reckless and unjustified,” Kemper told the Toronto Sun in a 2022 interview. “By threatening the bank accounts of all convoy supporters, they are setting a tyrannical precedent and these actions should be condemned regionally, nationally, and internationally. This will sow distrust in our financial institutions.”
In his conversation with Carlson, Kemper, who was suspended from Twitter for calling the coronavirus vaccine “fake,” said there had been “many warning signs that there would be a mass injection campaign coming at some point.”
“Then you see, with the COVID-19 scenario, everyone painting, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear around the virus, and hope, hope, hope, hope around the vaccine … something’s amiss here … all the sudden, public officials, like my brother, out there being effectively salesmen for the pharmaceutical industry,” he said.
Kemper refused to take the vaccine and wouldn’t vaccinate his five children. “I’m not willing to expose myself to something that could be very dangerous,” he said.
But Trudeau’s half-brother, born to Margaret Trudeau and her second husband, Fried Kemper, in 1984, when the future prime minister was 12, said that he was always worried about what could happen while his brother was in power.
“In the wake of 9/11, we saw the all the nations of the world kind of come together underneath this anti-terror plan and this war on terror. Now, we (had) the war on COVID.”
Kemper said he loves his brother “through and through.” But said that Trudeau “like the attention and the leader of the show.”
“When he had the opportunity to follow in his father’s footsteps and become the prime minister of Canada … he was helped in that journey,” Kemper said. “He’s an amazing person, and he was able to connect with so many people … (but) once this COVID and vaccine thing took place and the words he was using, I don’t know if they were coming from his heart of coming from a teleprompter … I don’t think he’s abusing power. I think power is just … being abused. We’ve seen it, whether it’s Justin or Boris Johnson, Jacinda Arden, or Joe Biden.”
mdaniell@postmedia.com
Justin Trudeau's half-brother says Liberal leader doesn't want to get re-elected: 'Canadians are pissed off'
With his popularity in free-fall, Kyle Kemper doesn't think his half-brother Justin Trudeau is looking to get re-elected as prime minister.
Working on a new verse for O Canada. Whadaya think?
With bleary eyes
We're forced to rise
We've given up all hope
And you would too
If it was you
'Cuz our PM is True Dope
With bleary eyes
We're forced to rise
We've given up all hope
And you would too
If it was you
'Cuz our PM is True Dope
In high school, (which we mostly were) we rewrote oh Canada to Oh Cannabis.
Oh Cannabis
Our plant strong and free
Oh Cannabis we stand on guard for thee.
Have to think for a while about the rest of it.