One of the sub-plots from the 2015 election is about to get a rerun as the UK decided to revoke citizenship from “Jihadi Jack” Letts, who has joint-UK and Canadian citizenship. That essentially leaves him with only Canadian citizenship – dumping their problem on our laps (likely in contravention of international law, incidentally). And that means a return to Trudeau’s decision to revoke a Conservative law that would have had a similar effect in Canadian law, because as you may recall, “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian.”
In case anyone was wondering how @AmarAmarasingam and I feel about this UK policy see link in thread to our previous opo. Short version: it’s weak ineffective buck passing.
The UK is offloading its problems onto other countries. This time that country is Canada. #cdnnatsec https://t.co/AfXKkKcc61— Leah West (@leahwest_nsl) August 17, 2019
Where this will be compounded with the Conservative talking points that Trudeau thinks that returning fighters are “powerful voices” that can be reformed with podcasts and poetry lessons – which is a gross distortion of both Trudeau saying that people who were de-radicalised (not returning fighters) could be those powerful voices in their communities, and de-radicalisation programmes themselves, which again, are not for returning fighters but preventing people from taking that step once they’ve been radicalised. And lo, they will talk about how “naïve and dangerous” the notion that returning fighters can be de-radicalised is, when all of the things they point to are about de-radicalising people before they leave the country or do something violent here. But why should they let truth get in the way of a narrative?
Meanwhile, Letts’ parents are imploring the Canadian government to do something, and they are prepared to move here if that helps, but it also leaves questions as to what Letts may be charged with – though there is no evidence he was actually involved in any fighting. Nevertheless, it’s a problem the UK dumped on us that will become a partisan election issue, with all of the nonsense that entails.
Good reads:
- Justin Trudeau and other federal and provincial leaders marched in the Montreal Pride parade on Sunday. Andrew Scheer was again absent.
- Chrystia Freeland sent out a joint statement with the EU about the protests in Hong Kong, and was accused by the Chinese embassy of “meddling.”
- DND held a second dedication ceremony for the Afghanistan War memorial at DND Headquarters, this time inviting the families of the fallen soldiers.
- Veterans Affairs assures us that they have better vetting in place for social media after the V-E Day gaffe where they depicted a German soldier.
- Elections Canada says that because Maxime Bernier denies climate change is real, it could mean third parties ads about it could be deemed “partisan” in the writ period.
- Former staff of former Senator Don Meredith have been hopping for compensation for his harassment, but the process has been dragging for years.
- Maxime Bernier held a convention for his party delegates this weekend, and assured them he’d be in the debates.
- Chantal Hébert isn’t keen on the NDP’s arguments that Maxime Bernier should be barred from leaders’ debates because of his politics.
- In the weekend Globe and Mail, I argued that politicians cutting their own pay is a hollow gesture that only serves to devalues public life.
Odds and ends:
I forgot to send the link out to my latest video earlier in the week, so here it is:
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The irony here is that if Scheer and his band of bandits were to win a majority in October Jihadi Jack will be their problem. Should be worth a few laughs as the tories try to screw themselves out of that conundrum. I would like to see trudeau put the screws to Johnson big time in an economic way at their upcoming tete’ a tete’. Can you hear the Brits saying last week….”send him to the colonies old chap!” I say let him bunk in with mommy and daddy and rot his way forward.
Gavin McInnes is a terrorist with Canadian citizenship living abroad. His jihad group just launched another attack on Portland over the weekend. Oh, but no one dares utter a peep about what to do with him because people might start connecting the dots as to who gave him a megaphone in the first place… hm, could it be Andy’s campaign manager? The Cambridge Analytics “computer geek” who helped Ezrat launch his platform of hate? Why did Andy pay a visit to the old country a few years ago in the first place? Why *does* he think Brexit is so cool?
The man is sick and full of hate. Steev Harpertine trained his Sith apprentice well. Darth Scheeria evidently wants Jack to share a cell with Trudeau because that’s the blood the Ruble Media base is calling for. Tale of two audiences: the Twitter mob wants prison. On Facebook they want capital punishment. Off with his hair — er, head! So to placate the orcs, Sheriff Andy called the RCMP again and is now accusing Trudeau of “obstruction of justice.” I called this months ago. SNC is a rerun of “Crooked Hillary’s Emails” and now we’ve gotten to the “Lock ’em Up” phase. This perverse populist Finkelstein BS reeks of Harper’s revenge. Wasn’t he “advising” on Brexit, the worst disaster for Britain since the Blitz and one that weak Andy says is “cool”? The present state of humanity even in a place like Canada just makes me root for the climate crisis to hurry up already. Bruce Anderson of Abacus Data ran an informal Twitter poll a couple days ago: what do you fear more, rising fascism or climate change. I don’t have a Twitter account myself but I would have chosen rising fascism. At least the coming floods would take care of the likes of Boris, Donald, Andy and their neanderthal Vanilla ISIS base once and for all.