Canada General Discussion (2019-)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Talking of Trudeau Sr., has there been much discussion, given everything, of his record on Native affairs, particularly that time he tried (admittedly without success) to legally abolish Native peoples as peoples? And I do believe that the minister who he used as the hatchet man for that is still alive. Has anyone asked him for a quote?

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https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1591506506536882177

This seems bad.

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https://twitter.com/CanadianPolling/status/1635429972339826688

Um...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What's with the Greens? I was under the impression they weren't the ""Anti-Zionist and we totally aren't anti-Semites because we only say we're against "Zionists" while posting what are basically anti-Semitic screeds with simply with the word "Jews" replaced with "Zionists"" types like so many American leftists are.

Well this is voters and not members, and there's often a critical difference there.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

In other news, the twitter account of the leader of Canada's third largest party is no longer visible in India as part of the government's latest crackdown on the Khalistan movement.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Canadian politics remains a world-leader at the creation of euphemism, doesn't it? 'Meaningful and difficult conversations' - fantastic!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

There are some significant communities that used to exist in Ukraine and eastern Poland which no longer do because of Hitler. I think they might have had an opinion.

A few years before he died, a very ill David Lewis visited the town of his birth - Svisloch (now Svislach) not far from Białystok but now part of Belarus - on behalf of The Toronto Star. The town had been overwhelmingly Jewish when he grew up there, but as he noted for the paper, there were none left now: everyone had been killed, his extended family included. Anyway.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This, of course, is the most absurd part of all: actually managing to find a living Waffen SS veteran, when now, like all veterans of the War, they're slightly rarer than hen's teeth.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The important thing to note about the collapse of the Grand Banks fishing industry was they continued to fish for cod at increasing rates (and were encouraged to by the federal government of the day) even after warnings were issued by every possible environmental body in the 1980s. Which is why the scale of collapse was much worse than in the North Sea, where action was taken earlier and where stocks have partially and tentatively recovered.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Canadians are skilled at doublethink on issues such as this, so people will find ways of indicating that it is an issue they are very concerned about without seeming to be at surface level.