Even people like myself who, “occasionally“ criticize the present government are united in praise of their unquestioned strengths and virtues. On some things they are really good. Efficiency, for example. Once they decide to overlook something, it’s overlooked. They waste no time whatsoever on second thoughts.
A less stalwart and confident government having obviously decided that the epic clog-up at Pearson airport, earning rare headlines as “the worst in all the world” wasn’t — you know — really, a big problem, might have had distracting second thoughts. Might have changed their minds and set about a full-bore, all-speed-ahead, we’re-on-this-and-nothing-is-going-to-stop-us till it’s fixed.
And that would have meant a loss of needed energy and focus on the more important stuff. Plastic picnic forks would have slipped under the radar, two billion unplanted trees would be even more unplanted, and goodness knows if it would ever have occurred to them to introduce the ArriveCan app, which even as I write is being toasted by enthusiastic travellers in every arrival airport lounge in Canada.
Pick a course and stay with it is their motto, and do they ever live up to it. Monitoring fertilizer of western farmers, another great example. Ottawa is an expert on fertilizer. Even with the House of Commons shut down, its production of it is a marvel. On this subject they made up their minds, and with that efficiency I am commending, skipped all consultation with the relevant agricultural ministers, and ploughed it through.
Even people like myself who, occasionally, criticize the present government are united in praise of their unquestioned strengths and virtues. On some things they are really good. Efficiency, for example. Once they decide to overlook something, it’s overlooked. They waste no time whatsoever on...
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On what is dubiously termed “anti-hate” they are at their most efficient. Liberals might be purblind mice on some subjects but they are eagle-eyed when it comes to hate-thought, hate-speech and in their conviction that Canada is a burrow of “systemic racism.” And so when they move on this they move with a cheetah’s impulsion.
Canadian Heritage knows the danger when it feels it, and it was Canadian Heritage, under Diversity and Inclusion Minister Ahmed Hussen, who doled out $133,800 to a group called Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), to, as the Canadian Press put it, “build an anti-racism strategy” for Canadian broadcasting. On “anti-racism” no government has ever been as efficient as the current one. They, as the great cat poem states “search it here, they search it there, they search it everywhere.”
Efficiency of this kind has its perils. And it is to Quillette’s
Jonathan Kay to whom all credit must go for alerting everyone else to one of the largest perils, in what I will kindly call “over-efficient” anti-racism and anti-hate evangelism. It can end up producing more than it finds.
Take the case of Laith Marouf, to whom Minister Hussen directed those funds. Mr. Marouf, as Kay has documented from his Twitter account, has a pungent style: “You know all those loud mouthed bags of human feces, aka the Jewish White Supremacists; when we liberate Palestine and they have to go back to where they come from, they will return to being low voiced bitches of their Christian/Secular White Supremacist Masters.”
Just the voice you want from an “anti-hate” specialist. (I wonder what he thinks of the Catholic Rosary.) “Low voiced bitches” has that real “fight hurtful language wherever you find it” tone. Though for real love-infused sweetness I don’t think you can top “loud mouthed bags of human feces.”
Canadian Heritage really knows how to hunt out the very best “anti-hate” virtuosos. Compliments of Kay again we find the government-financed Mr. Marouf reflecting on PM Trudeau, Canada, and (if I may) one of its most endearing citizens, Irwin Cotler.
How’s this from the sweetheart and sweeter mouth of an “anti-hate” specialist. “The Jewish White Supremacist Summit hosted by Apartheid Canada PM, Justin Trudeau, was the brainchild of Irwin Cotler, the Grand Wizard of Zionism in this colony. Notice that he looks like a dick without makeup, as he spews his bullshit.” If this isn’t an ode to Inclusion and Diversity, I know nothing about odes.
Minister of Diversity and Inclusion Hussen, meantime, a full week after Kay gave this warped social warrior some attention, now tells Canada he is looking into the matter. To quote a brilliant tweet: “What’s to look into?”
Well there is one thing to look into. And that is how your department with its overwhelming commitment to anti-racism managed to find and fund a sewer-source of what exactly your department was set up to fight. If Mr. Kay, who doesn’t have the resources of a whole government department can search Twitter, how did you possibly come to hire this man? Who said Yes? Who examined CMAC? Or is all you require in such matters that someone merely says they are “anti hate” and the words alone are enough. Efficiency again.
One more post from this Mother Teresa of kindness and anti-racism: “I have a motto: life is too short for shoe laces, or for entertaining Jewish White Supremacists with anything but a bullet to the head.”
Here’s another motto: A ferocious commitment to virtue-signalling should exercise the brain more than the mouth. And while I’m at it, campaigns against anti-hate could do with a lot of self-examination.