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I Give You The Exemplary, Virtuous Smiley-Face Justin Trudeau ... Please Take Him

"The two leaders discussed Canada-Uganda bilateral relations and other areas of mutual interest, including human rights, the refugee situation in sub-Saharan Africa, and regional security."
official readout, Prime Minister Trudeau's meeting with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni

"Whether you're a person of religious views or a person who just doesn't want to have an opinion, the government through this action is compelling belief."
"That has a certain totalitarian feel to it. [If government wants to foster a pluralistic society where diversity is respected it must uphold fundamental freedoms of all Canadians] even when those fundamental freedoms are exercised in a way that goes against what the government believes."
"[Compelling belief is a] tendency that one can see in totalitarian societies. You're saying a person's citizenship is not as valid, or you're marginalizing them by saying, 'you're outside the tent'."
Andrew Bennett, former federal Religious Freedom envoy

"We will respect the capacity of individual countries to make their decisions about foreign policy. But for Canada's purpose, we make our decisions around foreign policy [relating to the Trump administration's and Israel's opposition to the Iran nuclear agreement] here in Ottawa, not in Washington, not elsewhere."          Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 

Justin Trudeau's government has added an attestation to the application handed out to prospective summer-student-employment employers whose hiring of students is subsidized in a special program the government has operated for many years. Those subsidies were given to a wide variety of churches, social support groups, charitable organizations and small business holders to encourage the summer hiring of students. Any applicants who fail to check off the attestation that they respect human rights -- code for support a woman's right to abortion -- is disqualified.

Leading church groups and others who oppose abortion rights to find that they have been shut out of government support to help pay the salaries of students they look to hire for the summer to run all manner of temporary social programs having nothing whatever to do with abortion rights. This clear discriminatory short-changing has been seen as democratically offensive even by those who support abortion rights for women. Justin Trudeau, celebrating himself as a staunch feminist and supporter of women's rights imposing his views on an entire population.

This advocate of human rights and supporter of LGBTQ2S will see him receiving recognition through the presentation of the 2018 Egale Canada Leadership Award, as "an outspoken supporter of LGBTQ2S rights in Canada and around the world". The award to be formally presented to him later this month. When in fact, when he had the opportunity to confront a major persecutor of gays, a country where Human Rights Watch in 2018 reported that President Museveni "continues to violate free association, expression, and assembly rights of gays", failed to do so.

Instead, commending his Ugandan counterpart on the country's willingness to offer haven to war-scarred South Sudanese. And talking trade with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. In contrast, his predecessor, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, reacted to Uganda's threats in 2014 legislation to make homosexuality punishable by life imprisonment by vocally criticizing the legislation. John Baird, foreign affairs minister at the time, urged Uganda to discard those punishment plans, going so far as to fund local LGBTQ activists in Uganda and helping pay their legal training to fight the legislation.

With U.S. President Donald Trump declaring his decision that his country is withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran's nuclear weapons, Justin Trudeau saw fit to chide both the United States and Israel for their stance on defying the decision of the European Union, Great Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany in co-signing the agreement, regarding it as a temporary safeguard against Iran's ongoing measures to attain nuclear explosives, while at the same time acknowledging the stop-gap measure it is which does nothing to defang Iran's terrorist proclivities.

Just as the United Kingdom, France and Germany are anxious to preserve their trading alliance with Iran for the lucrative quality of its value to their economies, evidently more than content to overlook the capricious and dangerous Iranian involvement in Middle East destabilization, so too is Justin Trudeau anxious to re-establish diplomatic and trade ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran, ties that his predecessor, in view of Iran's dreadful human rights record and interference in Canadian politics chose to shutter.

Labels: Canada, Hypocrisy, Justin Trudeau

posted by Pieface @ Friday, May 11, 2018