In the event you have been cut off from the news cycle, I became the story yesterday as MP Garnett Genuis raised a point of privilege, and said that I made him feel “unsafe.” While I won’t comment much further until the Speaker makes a ruling on this, I have selected a few tweets from the day about the incident.
https://twitter.com/EmmMacfarlane/status/1573021640413548545
Either their basic literacy skills are appalling, or they're disingenuous liars playing blatant politics over a reporter they see as antagonistic to them. Take your pick.
— Emmett Macfarlane 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 (@EmmMacfarlane) September 22, 2022
It'd have been especially good in a context where "violent rhetoric" had *actually* been directed at someone. https://t.co/F98S54Eo0u
— Emmett Macfarlane 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 (@EmmMacfarlane) September 22, 2022
The MP's complaint is such a gross distortion of @journo_dale 's tweet it's sickening. Sometimes I look at the difference in debate in early 80s hansard, compared to the cesspit of today's Parliament and wonder why we all seem not only to stand but condone it w/ our votes. https://t.co/eHT2STYla9
— Kerri Froc (@KerriFroc) September 22, 2022
One cannot be violent towards an *idea*. The suggestion the @journo_dale was advocating violence towards a person is absurd and the PPG should disassociate itself from the absurd position put forward by @StPierreGu https://t.co/YJmC4fXkww
— Robert Glasgow (@TheTradeLawGuy) September 22, 2022
The irony of the snowflakes asking for a safe space. So much projection. https://t.co/e78RoOVmWd
— Steve Saideman (@smsaideman) September 22, 2022
Noticing the pearl-clutching response by the Parliamentary Press Gallery to an ill-advised journo’s tweetreferencing an old movie title —
vs the off-the-wall bonkers conduct of far-right media flame-throwers.
Which has been ignored for years.
— Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻 (@Garossino) September 22, 2022
https://twitter.com/Garossino/status/1573058396278099970
lol no it shows y’all need to enter phylum chordata with the rest of us.
even if you think Dale’s joke was in fact directed at a particular person/generally irresponsible, this entire campaign against him has been ginned up by a professional shitposting proxy for the CPC https://t.co/nV92IDHdoI
— Supriya Dwivedi (@supriyadwivedi) September 22, 2022
He didn’t threaten you, you preposterous fraud. https://t.co/w9iC3f5oto
— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@acoyne) September 22, 2022
https://twitter.com/dgardner/status/1573087699262918656
Ukraine Dispatch, Day 211:
While the operational pause on Ukraine’s counterattack continues, they have been engaged in recovering bodies that have been unburied for months from earlier in the invasion. It also looks like a high-profile prisoner swap has been arranged, that will include some of the defenders of Mariupol.
Good reads:
- Mélanie Joly says she’s not in favour of a Russian visa ban, because it will trap dissidents and those avoiding being conscripted to fight in Ukraine.
- Steven Guilbeault says Canada doesn’t need a windfall tax on energy companies because we already have a carbon price and strong regulations.
- Sources™ say the government is going to lift border restrictions and make use of ArriveCan optional, but are still undecided on mask mandates for planes and trains.
- The government has named career diplomat Jennifer May as the new ambassador to China, nine months after Dominic Barton’s resignation.
- The planned statutory review of cannabis legalisation is finally getting underway, a year late, with an expert panel to be named soon.
- A Commons committee looked into the costs of the catering on the Governor General’s trip to the Middle East, and lo, catering monopolies charge a lot of money.
- Stephanie Carvin examines whether or not we’re really seeing a cyber war in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- Heather Scoffield ponders the decline in home ownership shown in census data.
- Susan Delacourt remarks on the first QP showdown between Poilievre and Trudeau as the fireworks that weren’t, and sees that as maybe not a bad thing.
Odds and ends:
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Viz ‘stable genuis’–perhaps you written in Anglo-Saxon since English gives these dweebs such a difficult time.
Funny how the Conservatives didn’t have anything to say about one of their senators urging truckers to “roll over every last Liberal in the country” in 2019. They’re such worthless hypocrites.
https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/david-tkachuk-united-we-roll-ottawa-convoy_a_23674517