Canada General Discussion (2019-)

[Ⓐnarchy in the ☭☭☭P!]

Example A of how gun control does not stop mass killings. 

Homocides in America per 100,000 people with guns: 4.46(1)
Homocides in Canada per 100,000 people with guns: 0.52(2)

And that's even accounting for the massive amount of guns which are smuggled across the U.S.-Canadian border every year.

Your ideology is a joke disproven by all verifiable and objective facts.

>Be Canadian
>Get stabbed

"Good thing I wasn't shot with a gun!"

The real reason our homicide rate is so much lower is because up until recently Canadians just weren't as murderous as Americans. We had far fewer shootings even when Canadians could own a fully automatic weapon completely unlicensed (1954) or with a license no more difficult to get than a handgun license (1955-1976), and none of the major gun control legislation had any real impact on homicide rates.

If Canadians wanted to go out and kill random people at the same rate Americans do then our vaunted gun control would do nothing whatsoever to stop them but it might stop people from defending themselves against an attacker.

[Ⓐnarchy in the ☭☭☭P!]

The Speaker takes the blame

"Accept full responsibility"? Well how about this for a thought experiment, if a conservative member of parliament was caught honoring a domestic Nazi would Mr. Rota consider a token apology enough?

The Cons were honoring him as well. The description of fighting against the Russians in WW2 should have been enough for anyone to take a pause.

Yep I am aware which is why I added domestic Nazi, as practically all of them will exuse anything when geopolitics in involved, whereas a more typical story of "conservative legislator supports far right figure" is the kind of thing that ends with resignation, deplatforming, cancelation... Etc which Liberal leadership will certainly not apply to thenselves.

The term "Nazi" has been overused online to an absolutely criminal extent, so lets be absolutely clear about what we're talking about here.

This guy is not a "far right figure". He didn't make anti-semitic comments online or advocate for the AfD. He volunteered to join the LITERAL WAFFEN SS, pledging his eternal allegiance to LITERALLY ADOLF MFING HITLER. When the real Canadian heroes stormed Juno Beach it was this "Canadian hero's" outfit that systematically tortured and executed Canadian prisoners. Thanks to Himmler's brave "anti-Russian freedom fighters" my great-grandmother's village is famous not for delicious watermelons but for being the site where over ten thousand innocents were liquidated by the Einsatzgruppen.

The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, euphemistically referred to by the Speaker as the "First Ukrainian Division",

surrounded the village Huta Pieniacka from three sides,” the report to Poland’s government- in-exile explained. “The people were gathered in the church or shot in the houses. Those gathered in the church – men, women and children – were taken outside in groups, children killed in front of their parents. Some men and women were shot in the cemetery, others were gathered in barns where they were shot.”

The 14th SS Galicia is also implicated in other atrocities in four other Polish villages, according to historians.

This guy is a literal war criminal. I can't believe this needs to be said explicitly but this is in a completely different category from some hyperbolic bozos in the European Parliament. The only possible way he could have been less deserving of a commendation from Parliament is if he moonlit as a Death Camp guard or was part of an exchange program with Unit 731.

Frankly this whole sh**tshow is a fantastic argument for the existence of God, because it must have taken divine intervention for the last 98 year old Waffen SS vet left in Canada to somehow come to the attention of the Speaker of the House and pass through however many interns to get him on the floor next to Zelensky receiving a unanimous standing ovation. Surely God must have clouded the MPs judgement for not a single one to think back to high school history class about who "fought the Russians in WW2"

Putin is surely thanking Rota for producing the best piece of propaganda imaginable for him completely free of charge. The Polish ambassador is already demanding an apology:

https://twitter.com/WitoldDzielski/status/1706062594719559948

Obviously Rota should resign. In a sane world Trudeau and Freeland would resign too but clearly that's never going to happen.