The Search for New Recruits In a Large Body-Count Conflict
"The body is turning into a public good [in Russia]."
A woman's body is a producer of children, and a man's body is the ability to pull the trigger."
Andrew Makarychev, professor University of Tartu, Estonia
Russian soldiers during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade . Photo: Valya Egorshin/AFP
In
Russia recently the government doubled sign-up bonuses for contract
military personnel. Social media and city streets are covered with
recruitment advertisements. A new law makes official what Moscow had
already countenanced; allowing criminal suspects to avoid trial should
they enlist. They can join those already in prison who had been promised
commuting of sentences if they agree to join the military in Ukraine.
A child crawls as she plays on the paving stones of Red Square in central
Moscow, in front of St. Basil's Cathedral. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)
Russia's
Vladimir Putin decreed that a national priority is the increase of
births among the population. A new bill was introduced to outlaw
advocacy for a lifestyle unencumbered by offspring. These campaigns form
part of the Kremlin's efforts to enlist Russians in the country's
campaign to prevail over the West. In the short term, the army requires
more soldiers, in reflection of the 1,000 daily casualties in its
Ukraine war of attrition.
Russia
needs more people to give support to an increasingly isolated economy,
to reduce reliance on immigration, and provide the recruitment pool for
future wars. Russia's military was mandated by Mr. Putin to a 180,000
increase in service members to 1.5 million serving in the military. An
ambition which would give Russia the second-largest military in the
world after China's.
"It
is necessary to take care of the population, to increase the fertility
rate. To make it fashionable to have many children, as it used to be in
Russia in the past -- seven, nine, ten people in families",
said Mr. Putin, waxing nostalgic. Of course he is also nostalgic about
Russia's past glories and revels in the thought of a return to the USSR,
with himself as the new Stalin.
To
boost the population of a nation where the fertility rate has
diminished over the years, and continues to be far lower than
replacement deems ideal at a time when childbirth is at its lowest in a
quarter century, declining by 1.8 million since 2020, women giving birth
to their first child can expect a gift of $6,700. Lawmakers a month ago
introduced a bill to "prohibit the propaganda of the conscious refusal to have children" bolstered by fines up to $50,000.
Ukraine
does it differently. Military recruitment officers now raid
restaurants, bars and a concert hall in Kyiv to check military
registration documents, detaining men not in compliance. Kyiv's Palace
of Sports following a concert spawned video footage aired on media
outlets showing officers stationed outside the concert hall doors to
intercept men as they exit. The video shows that some men were forcibly
detained by officers.
Moment Ukrainian men yell 'get away from me' as they are dragged out
of nightclubs and restaurants by army recruiters during targeted raids
Upscale
shopping centre Goodwine, and Avalon, a popular restaurant received
similar attention. These raids reflect Ukraine's desperate requirement
for fresh recruits in a nation where all men 25 to 60 are eligible for
conscription and men between 18 and 60 are not permitted to flee the
country. Laws in April lowered the draft-eligible age for men from 27 to
25, with some draft exemptions done away with. Across other Ukrainian
cities raids were conducted in clubs and restaurants; Kharkiv and Dnipro
included.
Men
eligible for military service since spring must input information into
an online system; failure to do so has consequences in penalties. In the
meantime, a Russian-controlled oil terminal in the partly-occupied
Luhansk region that provides fuel for Russia's war machinery was struck
by the Ukraine military. According to Russia's Defence Ministry, 47
Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed by its air defence
systems Saturday. The Ukrainian air force for its part, announced air
defences shot down 24 of 28 drones launched against Ukraine overnight.
A woman walks next to a house heavily damaged by a Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Saturday. (Reuters)
Canada's Immoral/Political/Social Distancing from Israel
"The Canadian government made some important and timely statements but the actions it has taken have not been supportive."
"Doing
that [putting in place an arms embargo on Israel] in the midst of a
just war that Israel is prosecuting as it exerts its right to
self-defence means rewarding Hamas. While it is not the intention, it
ends up being the effect."
"I
am under constant security protection. After October 7, my wife and I
attended the March for Israel in Washington, D.C. When we flew back to
Montreal, security asked us not to leave the airport. Security personnel
spoke to me and informed me of what has been characterized as imminent
and lethal threats."
Irwin Cotler, Montreal Liberal, former Attorney General of Canada
In a still of a video posted online, protesters at a pro-Palestinian rally
are seen burning a Canadian flag as some chant 'death to Canada, death
to the United States and death to Israel.' (Jarryd Jäger/Western Standard)
"We are Hezbollah and we are Hamas!"
was chanted in Vancouver on the first anniversary of the horrendous
October 7, 2023 organized Palestinian terrorist attack in southern
Israel that saw thousands of terrorists along with ordinary Palestinian
citizens flood across the border from Gaza into Israel with the
intention of mass slaughter. And mass slaughter is what occurred that
day, with the savage killing of 1,200 mostly civilian Israelis, from
infants to the elderly, alongside mass rape and mutilation of Israeli
girls and women.
While
normal people are aghast at the devastating human loss and anxious to
have the Israeli girls, women, elderly men and others still in captivity
as hostages in Gaza -- tormented, tortured and threatened with rape and
death -- returned to Israel, in Canada, Palestinians, other
Muslim-Canadians and their leftist 'progressive' champions are satisfied
that these barbaric acts of vicious sadism merely represent the
entirely forgivable acts of defiance of an oppressed people, shaking the
bars of occupation.
People write in chalk outside of a building
during a pro-Palestine rally marking the anniversary of a Hamas attack
on Israel in Vancouver, B.C., Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. THE CANADIAN
PRESS/Ethan Cairns
Mass
'protests' against Israel's very existence continue in the streets of
Canadian cities. Harassment of Jewish neighbourhoods and persecution of
Canadian Jews have become so normalized that it leads to the real
potential of unstoppable violence. Unstoppable because no authorities
appear to be the least bit concerned that by not taking action against
violent speech those that engage in it are encouraged to go further in
their unlawful pursuits of delegitimizing an entire people and the
country representing their interests.
At
the federal level -- which is where the crackdown on illegal marches
closing off thoroughfares, taking over public arenas, creating totally
hostile atmospheres and indulging in slanderous statements against
Jewish Canadians, using the word 'Zionist' as a vile pejorative,
inviting Jews to return to Europe where they purportedly belong, and not
in their ancestral geography where their presence is an irritant to
peace in the opinion of religious/social/ethnic bigots -- nothing is
done to dissuade antisemitic hordes from their zealotry of Jew-hate.
Foreign
Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada’s goal right now ‘is to make
sure there is no full-scale war in the Middle East.’ CBC
When
the Conservative Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre judges Canada's
Minister of Foreign Affairs in the House of Commons of being a tool of
Palestinian terrorism in her attitudinal declarations, he is accused by
Melanie Joly of being a Nazi. His charges of "pandering to Hamas supporters" by the Trudeau government are deemed out of line in Parliament, when he is merely pointing out the obvious.
The
lack of reaction of the Liberal government to acts of social
dysfunction on the part of pro-Hamas crowds has led to actual violence,
as when for the second time a Jewish parochial school for girls was
shot up in Toronto several days ago.
From
being a firm advocate for and supporter of the State of Israel under
the Conservative leadership of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
Canada has undergone a sea change of allegiances where the current
Trudeau-led government of Canada now votes against Israel's interests at
the United Nations, where the government at home fails to protect a
loyal ethnic minority against the verbal predations of a much larger
ethnic/religious group whose numbers have multiplied in the last few
years, leading to division and hostility.
Following
the October 7, 2023 savage pogrom in southern Israel when farming
communities were reduced to ashes after being pillaged, residents
killed, wounded or taken hostage, survivors forced to flee for their
lives, world leaders and those in the G7 of developed nations, travelled
to Israel as a demonstration of their solidarity with a fellow
democracy severely wounded. Heads of government of the United States,
Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, the
United Kingdom, along with the head of the European Union and Japan
travelled to Israel to commiserate with its misfortune. Canada's leader
did not.
Israel
now knows whom, on the world stage, of its fellow democracies can be
relied upon. Canada is not alone in its distancing from Israel for there
are others whose original support has slowly dissipated, but Canada
stands alone in its loud and disturbing official position that has
decided Canadian Jews can look after their own affairs in security and
safety from the disequilibrium brought to them by a demographic of vile
Jew-haters, among whom the majority of the Trudeau cabinet appear to fit
comfortably within.
Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau, who spoke Wednesday to G7 leaders about the situation in
the Middle East: 'As an
international community we have to continue to do everything we can to
call for peace and stability.' CBC
"We are engaged in a battle between democracies and tyrannies."
"Democracies should stand together. In that sense, Canada has not been sufficiently supportive [of Israel]."
Irwin Cotler
"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expressed concern about
Israel’s policies, saying that he has no immediate plans to invite his
Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu to the country."
"Speaking
to reporters on Thursday, Trudeau reiterated Canada’s opposition to
Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which are illegal under
international law."
“We recognize the violence going on right now. It is difficult for
people across the region — both Israelis and Palestinians,” the Canadian
prime minister said."
“We’re calling for de-escalation and peace and working through some
of the flashpoints that are happening. Canada has a longstanding
position that settlements and the settlement process is illegal. And we
need to stand against that.”
"Trudeau added that, while Canada is a “steadfast” friend of Israel, the two countries have points of disagreement."
“We’re also very concerned about the judicial reforms that the Israeli
government is determined to move forward with,” Trudeau said, adding
that he will encourage Netanyahu to seek “greater consensus” for the
plan."
"[T]he
plaintiffs plead that the Samidoun Defendants have committed offences
including, but not limited to, providing or collecting property for
terrorist activity, providing or collecting property for the benefit of
persons facilitating or carrying out terrorist activity, participating
in the activity of a terrorist group, leaving Canada to participate in
the activity of a terrorist group, and facilitating terrorist activity."
Statement of Claim in Ontario Superior Court of Justice
"[Criteria
enabling the federal government to list a terrorist entity is if the
person or group in question has] knowingly acted on behalf of, at the
direction of or in association with an entity that has knowingly carried
out, attempted to carry out, participated in or facilitated a terrorist
activity."
Canada's Criminal Code
"Samidoun
is knowingly acting on behalf of, at the direction of or in association
with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist
group under the Criminal Code."
"This qualifies Samidoun for a terrorist listing."
"Why hasn't this happened?"
Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong
"These are resistance fighters."
"These are our heroes. These are those who are sacrificing so that we can live and speak and struggle and fight."
"These are the people whose blood is being shed to defend humanity and to defend the world."
Charlotte Kates, international coordinator for Samidoun
"The
expiration of her conditions of release will allow her to continue to
initiate hate and division against the local Jewish community."
"If
we value respect, inclusion, and diversity the Crown must approve and
lay the charges recommended by the Vancouver Police Department."
Ezra Shanken, CEO, Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver
Samidoun,
a clearly terrorist-supporting group that has established itself in
Vancouver with branches elsewhere across Canada, has declared itself a
solidarity network for Palestinian prisoners. Its founder, Khaled
Barakat, married to Charlotte Kates, Samidoun leader, also happens to be
identified as a senior figure in the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine, itself a listed terrorist organization in Canada, the
U.S., Israel, the U.K. and the European Union. Yet this group that has
been at the forefront of organizing countless pro-Hamas demonstrations
across Canada, enjoys charitable status in Canada.
And
irrespective of its representation of a proscribed terrorist group
listed as such in Canada, the federal Liberal government refuses to
address the issue of allowing such a group to operate in Canada, despite
the social upheaval it has been part of, in demonizing Israel and
harassing Jewish Canadians. There are, in fact, Muslim Members of
Parliament at the ministerial level that had signed a contract with
Khaled Barakat to conduct instructive human rights sessions for various
government departments, until it was revealed that the man had a
background linked to terrorism.
The
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has an established record
of having pioneered the carrying out of assassinations, suicide
bombings, hijackings and murders. Shortly following Germany expelling
Kates and Barakat, they established Samidoun in Vancouver as the
headquarters of its global operation. A number of Members of Parliament
have called upon the federal government to designate Samidoun for what
it is, a terrorist organization. Muslim MPs will resist that, and the
Trudeau Liberals will not go out of their way to alienate the large and
growing Muslim-Canadian demographic, since it's a poor vote-garnering
technique.
At
a Samidoun-organized commemoration of the glories of the October 7,
2023 slaughter of 1,200 Israelis, the savage mass rape of Israeli girls
and women, their pitiless mutilation and torture, and the abduction of
250 Israeli children, elderly, women and girls on its one-year
anniversary when protesters burned the Canadian flag while chanting
'death to Canada', 'death to the United States', and "we are Hezbollah and we are Hamas", declaring 'Death to Israel'.
Samidoun was 'mourning' the death of Hamas's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, vowing its intention to continue its "...jihadist path [and] follow [Nasrallah's] methodology".
While Justin Trudeau's government has failed to advance remedial action
against the rancid antisemitism that Samidoun and other pro-Hamas
groups in Canada relish exhibiting in the public arena, Canada's
Conservative Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre vows that when he
becomes prime minister he will quickly intervene to declare Samidoun an
outlawed terrorist group.
In a still of a video posted online, protesters at a pro-Palestinian
rally are seen burning a Canadian flag as some chant 'death to Canada,
death to the United States and death to Israel.' (Jarryd Jäger/Western Standard)
"So,
if burning a Canadian flag, if calling for the death of Canadians, if
fomenting hate in this country and most of all being a front for an
already-listed terrorist organization is not enough to put them on the
[federal government's terrorist] list, then what the hell is it going to
take for them to ban them?"
Liberal-Led Government of Canada Policy on Israel-Hamas Conflict: Clear as Mud
"Canadians will honour their memories. We stand with Jewish people. We will not relent until the last hostage returns home."
"We all in this House, I hope, are against any form of antisemitism or any form of discrimination."
"I hope, even more negotiations at a negotiating table where there are Israelis, Hamas and Qatar, which is present ... as a moderator."
"Our policy is clear: We will not have any form of arms or parts of arms be sent to Gaza. Period."
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly
Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly speaks in
the Foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on
Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
In her own words, discretion thrown to the winds, Melanie Joly admitted that her anti-Israel policy revealed through the aftermath reactions of the October 7 atrocities committed by Palestinian terrorists in southern Israel, Canada's minister of foreign affairs' actions and reactions have been motivated by her anxiety for re-election and her longer-range ambition to lead Canada as prime minister. With an eye to her constituents, and a critical mass of Muslim demographics in her riding of Montreal. Quebec is regarded as one of the two Canadian cities most populated by Muslim-Canadians.
The inclusion, respect for, safety and security of the much smaller Jewish-Canadian population not quite as urgent as the need for Melanie Joly to secure her place in Canada's political history, in her regard and actions. "Thomas, have you seen the demographics of my riding?" was the reaction to former NDP leader Thomas Mulcair's questions interviewing the minister for a CTV column when he spoke related to her Israel-Hamas conflict position.
"I was astonished to hear such a candid admission that very local politics were playing such a role in shaping Canada's foreign policy on this highly complex and sensitive issue", Mr. Mulcair wrote afterward. His question was geared toward eliciting an explanation from Canada's minister of foreign affairs relative to her government's lack of attention and action in not responding to the pro-Hamas rallies that have been roiling Canadian cities and the threats they comprise to the safety and security of the Canadian Jewish community.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said in the House of Commons that Joly "continues to pander to Hamas supporters", for which he was barred by the Speaker for the rest of the day, from speaking. A question period exchange was the impetus when Mr. Poilievre made note of the celebratory rallies in Canadian cities marking the first anniversary of the October 7 massacre in Israel.
"Will the government clearly and unequivocally condemn these genocidal chants from hateful mobs on our streets?", he pressed. In turn, Joly accused Poilievre of playing politics. This, from a foreign minister who has gone out of her way to spearhead conspicuously anti-Israel foreign policy during the year following those attacks in southern Israel. Although she is on record that Israel has a right to defend itself, she has taken pains to condemn the Israeli response against the Hamas pogrom; effectively supporting a terrorist group whose covenant is the destruction of the Jewish state.
Before a full month had elapsed after the slaughter of Israelis and hostage taking, Joly called for negotiations between Israel and the commanders of Hamas. Her soft reaction to Hamas places her in direct opposition to Canada's Minister of Defence Bill Blair, who fully supports the Israeli goal to destroy Hamas and its genocidal plans to murder Jews: "Quite frankly, Hamas has to be eliminated as a threat not just to Israel but to the world. They are a terrorist organization." Ceasefire calls, he understands, will accomplish nothing, since Hamas has no intention of laying down its arms.
Hamas, on the other hand, is mindful of Canada's generosity and empathy with its position on Israel, as evidenced by Canada's newly adopted hostility to Israel's need to defend itself from a Medieval death cult. Hamas expressed its appreciation when Canada supported a UN vote that called for a unilateral Israeli ceasefire in Gaza. Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad cited Canada's vote: "We welcome these developments and consider them in the right direction toward isolating the fascist Israeli government globally."
Joly's full approval of a Canadian embargo on military exports to Israel followed, despite that Canada never has provided military aid to Israel. Israel has signed purchase contracts of military goods from Canadian suppliers such as parts for their F-35 fighter jets; one of 60 countries that signed similar contracts. Until March when Joly exercised her authority to negate and nullify such contracts with Israel for gear as innocuous as night-vision goggles.
A proportionally large Arab and Muslim population dignifies the Montreal riding of Ahuntsic-Cartierville which Joly represents. The riding of 114,410 people in the 2016 census had 7,130 residents for whom Arabic is their first language; the vast majority were native French speakers. Recently, mass Islamic prayers were conducted in public in Parc des Hirondelles, leading the borough mayor to announce she would consider enacting a blanket ban on public religious events.
While Monreal's Jewish community held several memorials honouring those who
were killed and taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023, pro-Palestinian
protests took to the streets over Israel's retaliatory military
campaign. CBC
"The terror apologists' celebration of the solemn occasion of October 7 as 'resistance' and an opportunity to target Canadian Jews is a testament to the Trudeau government's laissez-faire approach to crime, national security, immigration and integration."
"By failing to give law enforcement greater powers to crack down on protesters' intimidation and harassment of Jews and others, the government has enabled repugnant behaviour to escalate."
"Moreover, with Canada battling a teen terrorism problem, these protests are fertile grounds for radicalization."
Joe Adam George, national security analyst, Middle East affairs, contributing writer, Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Montreal Imam Adil Charkaoui's speech has drawn broad condemnation for inciting an anti-Israel mob from the Centre for Israel and
Jewish Affairs. (Adil Charkaoui/X)
Suddenly the Canada that celebrates itself for its peaceful, tolerant multiculturalism has become a country no longer recognizable. Cradling to its bosom a large contingent of the population to the tune of 1.8 million Muslims whose presence totally eclipses the much smaller demographic of Canadian Jews numbering 300,000 nation-wide. Jews in Canada also vastly pre-dated the entry of Muslims as Canadian citizens and landed immigrants; in a sense mirroring the situation in the Middle East in the contested geography popularly known as 'Palestine', an area of traditionally Judean ancestral heritage that local Muslims originally from Syria and Egypt claim as theirs.
Jews first arrived in Canada in 1760. It took another 120 years before the first Arabs arrived, pre-dating a Muslim influx to join the Arab Christians that had come before, roughly following the end of the First World War, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire. World Jewry now stands at about 16 million, in contrast to the Muslim empire with well over a billion people. Islam is considered to be the fastest-expanding religion in the world, at the present time. Militant, political Islam has pinpointed Jews as their universal enemy, picking up where German fascism left off.
And in Canada the results have over the years simmered covertly in Muslim suspicion and distrust of Jews. It has taken a combined Palestinian terrorist pogrom, an organized mass murder and rape of Israeli Jews in a horror of marauding psychopaths in their thousands who hunted down, raped, mutilated and slaughtered Jews on October 7, 2023, to reveal the deep hatred, contempt and violence in the minds of majority Muslims and Arabs worldwide on a rampage of antisemitic rage that has taken over the streets of world capitals. In some of the countries of Europe, governments have acted to protect their Jewish populations from harassment, threats and violence.
Such has not been the case in Canada, as day by day since that horrendous atrocity in southern Israel across the border from Gaza, marches, protests and viral gatherings have assembled to indulge in clearly criminal activity to chant inventive against Jews in Canada as Israel has become a target of diabolical slander meant to isolate it while raising doubts in the minds of onlookers, many of whom are prepared to give credence to such slanders as 'apartheid' and 'genocide' being committed by the Jewish State that is a model of accommodation to other faiths and ethnic groups.
Israel has been attacked by proxy militias loyal to the Islamic Republic of Iran in its Shiite Axis of evil intentions whose focus is the elimination of Israel and the death of Jews everywhere. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Quds division, has formed, trained and armed terrorist groups from Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Yemen, Syria and Iraq in a web of antisemitism and the aspiration to destroy the Jewish State, attacking Jews internationally through terrorist plots of lethal violence.
Roving crowds of 'pro-Palestinian' sympathizers who align themselves with the Hamas supporting diehard Jew haters demand a ceasefire, while also shouting 'Intifada', and 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free', chanting that Jews should leave Canada and go back to Europe, the charnel-house of the Holocaust, denying Jewish indigeneity to the Middle East, where Israel sits upon its ancestral patrimony. And so Jews are verbally assault, violently threatened, synagogues and Jewish parochial schools fire-bombed and shot at, Jewish businesses defaced.
Protest encampment at McGill University’s campus in Montreal. (Peter McCabe/Reuters)
And Canadian governments at all levels appear to be blind to the situation, while some among them go out of their way to be helpful and accommodating to the hordes of antisemites, whose focus on Jews strums a familiar chord in some of those authorities' own inner feelings of racist rage. "We don't want two states! Bring us back to '48!", shout many of the anti-Israel protestors, since the fact is just that; Palestinians do not, and never did, envision themselves in a parallel state with that of Israel. Only the elimination of Israel and the freeing up of the land for sole Palestinian possession suits them; both the West Bank and Gaza.
A bit of an awakening has resulted with the anti-Zionist mob ever emboldened by the lack of consequences to their group psychopathology, when there is no action from government authorities or officers of the law, persuading the haters that there are no penalties for their criminal actions and as such enticing them to be more open over the extent of their pathology. Palestinian youth collectives, at the direction of foreign agents paid by Qatar and Iran, continue their raving and organizing of anti-Israel, anti-Jew marches without interference.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered in downtown Montreal in October
2023. In November, Montreal police received a complaint about speeches
made during those demonstrations. (Danielle Kadjo/Radio-Canada)
Honouring Hamas and Hezbollah leaders who have died as 'martyrs' as 'great men and 'heroes'. In 2011 the Macdonald-Laurier Institute study of Muslim public opinion in Canada discovered a small minority only of Canadian Muslims unequivocally rejected Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime. Among them 35 percent would not reject al-Qaeda. Recent immigrants, migrants and refugees who have arrived in Canada under the Liberal government's generous invitation to find haven in Canada from their own governments' depredations, now support the terror they fled, because it targets Jews.
Half of the current 1.8 million Muslim demographic in Canada immigrated from 2011 onward to the present. These newcomer protesters from Lebanon, Syria and Iran came to Canada to escape the terrorist groups that targeted them, the very same terrorists they celebrate, while living in Canada. A mosque in Windsor, among many others in Canada glorified the "resistance" and "martyrs fighting Israel". Muslim youth radicalization in Canada is becoming a problem that uncontrolled immigration is not helping.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside the fenced in area of an encampment on the
University of Toronto campus on May 2, 2024, in Canada. Photo by Cole
Burston/AFP via Getty Images.
"A year on from the October 7 attacks, the results of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's 'post-national' Canada experiment do not bode well for the country's future."
"Canadian values and national security are under attack, and our leaders are doing nothing about it. The Trudeau government's appeasement of terror apologists has failed Canadian Jews."
"Canada now has parallel societies and mainstreamed violent extremism -- both of which have become the new normal."
Joe Adam George
"Cross-national surveys conducted in the years before the current
Israel-Hamas war show that Canada was among the world’s least
antisemitic countries, in the same league as Sweden and the Netherlands.
To see whether this remained true during the Israel-Hamas war, I
conducted a survey
in February 2024 involving four independent samples of Canadians: 1,121
non-Jewish adults, 1,010 non-Jewish university students, 414 Jewish
adults, and 312 Muslim adults. For non-Jews, I provided a battery of
statements about Jews, half positively worded, half negatively worded,
calculated an average score, and found little change in attitudes toward
Jews since the period before the war. Some 87 per cent of non-Jewish
Canadians have positive attitudes toward Jews".
"Yet police-recorded hate crimes against Jews have skyrocketed in
Canada since the war began. For example, in Toronto, the number of hate
crimes against Jews jumped 75 per cent between 2022 and 2023, with the
post-Oct. 7 period responsible for most of the increase. In Toronto in
2023, Jews were the victims of 78 per cent of all police-reported hate
crimes based on religion. Muslims took second place at 17 per cent."
In Retrospect, Stephen Harper Nailed Justin Trudeau
Stephen J. Harper 2023 Greg Southam/Postmedia
"If we're going to be the kind of country that starts going into deficit even when the economy is growing ... we know in the past that is a recipe for permanent deficits."
"Once you lose the anchor of a balanced budget you're always under pressure to just send more and not cover it."
"Trudeau's deficits will not be small. Mr. Trudeau has made tens of billions of dollars of spending promises; he said the budget will balance itself, he has no idea what he is talking about when it comes to these things."
Then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper, 2015
A video is in circulation in which former Prime Minister Stephen Harper foretells what the reign of a Liberal government under an aspiring Leader of the Liberal Party would bring to Canada; economic ruin with a massively ballooning public debt, and an insidious infiltration of socially unstable immigrants from Muslim countries whose numbers would destabilize Canadian society and politics. Mr. Harper's perspicacious reading of the character of Justin Trudeau and his all-too-obvious (but for the majority of the Canadian electorate) failure-in-waiting as a head of government has been proven by time.
During the 2015 election campaign that brought Canada the misfortune of a Trudeau government, Mr. Harper prognosticated quite accurately, making specific predictions relating to a Trudeau government and what it would mean to Canada. All of his projections in accurately reading Justin Trudeau's failures-in-waiting have indeed come to pass. What's more, the magnitude of their failures have divided Canadians, placed Canada in jeopardy on every conceivable level, from public safety, rising crime rates, public displays of racist hatred, economic disasters, runaway immigration rates, provincial disaffection, any number of Liberal scandals, and more, much more.
Before the election, the Liberals assured the electorate they would operate "a modest short-term deficit" in their first three years of governing, and immediately afterward return a balanced budget by 2018. A maximum of $30 billion in new federal debt was envisaged. "Nothing's going to magically balance the budget after three years" correctly observed Mr. Harper. Nine years later, the federal debt has doubled; $616 billion in 2015, at currently over $1.232 trillion.
Thousands of people march
through the streets of Toronto on Saturday in a pro-Palestinian
demonstration to mark one year of war in the Middle East. Nick Lachance/Toronto Star
It is in the immigration levels imposed on Canada by Trudeau's 'post-national' DEI, Critical Race Theory government that is also truly outstanding. Hundreds of thousands are brought into Canada annually, for a new average of 500,000 new immigrants year-by-year. And virtually nil security checks. A number of incidents highlighted criminals or would-be terrorists entering Canada, reflecting an absence of security screening protocols of any reliability. This is the new Canada that Justin Trudeau has imposed upon Canadians.
"[At a 2015 leadership debate criticism was levelled against the Conservatives for failing to have a sufficiently open asylum policy reflecting refugees from the ongoing Syrian civil war.]"
"These guys (Liberal and NDP leaders, Trudeau and Mulcair respectively] would have had, in the last two weeks, us throwing open our borders and literally hundreds of thousands of people coming without any kind of security check or documentation."
"Death to Canada, Death to Israel, Death to the United States"
"Decisions
to place an entity on the terrorist listing are made based on the
advice of our security and intelligence services, who are continuously
assessing entities for possible listing."
"With
respect to Samidoun Palestinian Solidarity Network, the Government of
Canada is examining the evidentiary record available and considering all
options."
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc spokesperson
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks
in the House of Commons in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
Marking
the first anniversary of the Palestinian terrorists' hideously savage
attack on Israeli civilians -- from infants to the elderly, women and
girls to border-station soldiers, when thousands of Palestinian
terrorists stormed farming villages and the Nova Music Festival in
southern Israel, with no lack of evidence given the videos taken and
proudly distributed by Hamas terrorists on social media of sadistic
horrors being perpetrated -- Samidoun, a 'charitable' organization with
status in Canada organized a protest marked for its vindictive hatred
against not only Israel and Jews, but Canada itself.
Videos circulating online show a masked woman leading a crowd of hundreds at the Vancouver Art Gallery leading chants of "death to Canada, death to the United States and death to Israel", showing Canadian flags being burned and trodden upon. "We've seen what happens when these groups aren't taken seriously",
said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. He has promised that if his
party is elected in the next general election, as Prime Minister, he
would outlaw the group and place them on Canada's terrorist list
alongside Hamas and Hezbollah and the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine, which he adds Samidoun is a front for.
Anti-Israel protesters burn a Canadian flag outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on Monday, October 7, 2024.Photo by @MelissaLantsman/x.com
Public Safety Canada defines the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine as an "Islamist communist group" for which establishing a Palestinian state and "the destruction of Israel"
is their reason for existence. It further notes that this was the first
of the Palestinian groups to form "suicide squads". Samidoun, posing as
a charitable group, has been given charitable status by Revenue Canada
despite Jewish community groups pointing out the obvious, that it shills
for the PFLP.
Through
its chapters established across Canada, Samidoun gains attention
through its public statements and the actions taken by its supporters,
championing Hamas and the attack of last October in southern Israel.
Charlotte Kates, the group's international coordinator, delivered a
speech directly following the October 7 pogrom in which she praised the
attack as "heroic and brave". She was arrested and directed that she
must not participate in rallies or protests.
Outside
the House of Commons, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre highlighted
her comments, mentioning she had appeared on Iranian television to
repeat her statements in support of terrorism against Israel. Following
which she visited Tehran where she was applauded and awarded a 'human
rights' recognition award. Her very words and sentiments are in direct
quotation of the Islamic Republic of Iran whose proxy militias include
Hamas, Hezbollah and the Yemen Houthis; all of whom, in her opinion are
'heroes'.
Samidoun, Mr. Poilievre said to reporters, is prohibited in Germany, and acts as "a front for an already banned terrorist group", in reference to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Samidoun website identifies as a network of "organizers and activists working to build solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in their struggle for freedom".
It isn't that long ago that one of the Liberal government's scandals
hit the front pages when it was revealed it had signed a contract with
Khaled Barakat, a director of Samidoun, and Kates's husband, whom
Israel's secret service identifies as a senior figure in the PFLP. Hired
by Heritage Canada to lead discussion groups on human rights.
Mr.
Poilievre challenged the government of Justin Trudeau to list Samidoun
for what it is: a terrorist entity. Listed, a group's assets become
frozen and it then becomes a crime for anyone to assist them in their
mission. He then accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of doing
precisely nothing in the face of flourishing hatred directed against the
Canadian Jewish community by organizations such as Samidoun.
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, he pointed out, had refused to condemn phrases such as "from the river to the sea", despite their obvious intents.
The
slogan has a readily defined purpose, referring to the destruction of
Israel, thus freeing up Israel's ancestral geography to be entirely
taken over by the Palestinians who themselves have made it clear they
have no intention whatever of suing for a two-state solution; their
solution is one state, and it is all Palestinian. The phrase "from the
river to the sea", claims supporters of Palestine, is nothing other than
a call for freedom for the Palestinians.
Protestors wave Palestine flags outside Queen’s Park during demonstration. (OTR/Laviza Syed).
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