WOKERATI HIJACK THE HIJAB DEBATE

Quebec’s Bill 21, which proscribes visible religious symbols in many public-sector jobs — popular with Quebec francophones, unpopular with Quebec and Canadian anglophones — was passed in 2019, but it wasn’t until October that a test case emerged in the public school system. In an act of civil disobedience abetted by Bill 21-dissenting school administrators, substitute teacher Fatemeh Anvari, who wears the hijab, was assigned to a homeroom Grade 3 class at Chelsea Elementary School.

When Anvari was duly removed from the classroom (and assigned elsewhere, not fired), it seemed to come as a great shock to many anglo commentators that the government had actually enforced its own law. So the incident sparked yet another round of condemnation of the law as “discriminatory,” which is objectively true, and “Islamophobic,” which it is not, since the law discriminates against all visible religious symbols. Objectively, one can only say that the law discriminates in favour of strict secularism and against all religious messaging from anyone in a “position of authority.”

 Anvari is relying on her freedom-of-religion right for public sympathy. But she complicated matters by admitting that she does not wear her hijab as a “positive Islamic duty,” but rather on “identity” grounds, for “reasons of resistance.” The hijab is for Anvari, then, a political statement, something comparable to the keffiyeh, a form of sartorial lamination, which has become for Palestinian activists and their political allies a de rigueur statement of resistance to Israel’s presence in the Middle East.

DND STILL STUMBLING OVER REPLACEMENT HANDGUNS

 Canadian soldiers won’t be getting replacements for their Second World War-era pistols until well into 2022.  Canada has been trying to buy a new handgun for the army since at least 2011, but has continually run into problems.

The federal government hopes to have its program to buy new pistols to replace the Browning Hi-Power handgun back on track by the spring, but there are no guarantees that will happen.

The procurement process was derailed in November, when the Canadian International Trade Tribunal ruled in favour of an Ottawa firm that complained the competition was rigged.

FAIL: TRUDEAU'S GUN BUY BACK

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal cabinet outlawed “assault-style” weapons with the wave of a pen on May 1, 2020 – no House of Commons debate, no Parliamentary committee review – the RCMP estimated there were between 90,000 and 105,000 such firearms in the country.

This is a ridiculously low estimate. In just the last 12 months before Trudeau’s infamous order-in-council, legitimate Canadian gun owners legally purchased nearly 30,000 AR-15s – the most popular of the guns the Liberals would ban.

As of mid-December, just 160 of the banned guns had been turned in for destruction.

That’s fewer than two-tenths of 1%.

YEAR END FACTS LIBERALS GLOSSING OVER

 To hear Prime Minister Trudeau and Finance Minister Freeland tell it, everything is rosy with Canada’s economy. Indeed, Minister Freeland recently said Canada is “ready, as a country, to come roaring back.” That’s good rhetoric, but what about the facts? As 2021 ends, here are a few year-end facts Canadians should understand.

For starters, the government forecasts inflation-adjusted economic growth at 4.0 per cent in 2022, 2.1 per cent in 2023, 1.9 per cent in 2024 and 1.8 per cent in 2025. That’s not exactly “roaring back”—more like a positive bump followed by a fizzle.

And in fact, the Canadian economy has been underperforming for more than a decade. A recent study by Philip Cross, former chief analyst at Statistics Canada, found that economic growth has been lower over the past 10 years than in any decade since the 1930s. Before COVID, Canada ranked near the bottom among advanced countries (30th out of 38) on average economic growth from 2015 to 2019.

LIBERALS THREATEN TO PUNISH THE DISOBEDIENT

 Jobless Canadians who refuse to get vaccinated for COVID-19 could be shut out of unemployment benefits, warns Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough.

Speaking to Canadian Press, Qualtrough said as long as there’s a public health emergency, unvaccinated workers who lose hours or their job may not be eligible for employment insurance benefits.

The policy is intended to keep workplaces open and free of COVID outbreaks, and encourage vaccine uptake, Qualtrough said.

COVID TESTING HAS BECOME RIDICULOUS

Indeed, Omicron may or may not be extremely contagious. That’s hard to know because the CDC, after announcing that 73% of all COVID cases in America were now Omicron, backtracked and now says that only 23% are, with the remainder being the Delta variant. But if these cases are the Delta variant, they must be pretty darn mild if they’re indistinguishable from Omicron and cases are dropping.

In any event, it’s entirely possible that COVID has been grossly overcounted from the beginning. That’s because it turns out that the PCR test was unable to distinguish between COVID and the flu. Democrats insisted that the flu vanished because of the masks and social distancing but it now appears the flu dropped off the radar because all cases were misclassified as COVID.

And of course, there’s the little problem that vaccinated people are the ones most likely to get Omicron. Thankfully, they’re not getting very sick but that fact utterly destroys the narrative about the unvaccinated keeping COVID alive in America.

CLINTONS' SHADY DEALS IN HAITI

   Almost none of the money given in aid ended up going to the people who need it the most — instead, it went to foreign governments, private companies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as the Red Cross.
   The U.S. Ambassador to Haiti at the time, Kenneth Merten, sent a cable to Hillary Clinton’s State Department entitled, “The Gold Rush Is On.” Out of the nearly 1500 contracts, just 23 were awarded to Haitian companies — nearly 40 percent of the contracts were awarded to companies in the Washington, D.C. area.
   Very recently, the former president of the Haitian Senate, Bernard Sansaricq, issued a statement blasting the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation. It reads:
Sadly, when an earthquake rocked the nation of Haiti in 2010, corruption moved in faster than the help so desperately needed. Today, the people of Haiti are still suffering despite the billions of dollars that have flowed into the Clinton Foundation.