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Even the United States has noticed that he often behaves as if he is running for Congress
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June 6, 2022 • 3 hours ago • 8 minutes reading • 158 comments Prime Minister Trudeau may have a habit of giving the green light, whose only obvious goal is to win political points in the United States But on the other hand, they put him in Rolling Stone, that once. Photo by Handout
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The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal recently noted that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seems to be continuing to do and say things for the sole purpose of impressing Americans. “One of the oddities of Canadian politics is that its Liberal Party politicians so often sound like they’re running for office in the United States,” it said.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cannot get enough of American politics. He knows he doesn’t need the Canadian gun robber. Pistols in Canada now require federal clearance.https://t.co/GJFAp7aDqR
– Opinion of the Wall Street Journal (@WSJopinion) on 3 June 2022
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Canadian politics is never too far from its equivalent in the US, but there has indeed been an awful lot of liberal action in recent months that doesn’t really make sense unless you consider the Liberals’ desire to earn points in front of the American public (or Canadian public, who watches too much CNN). For example…
CONSTANTLY DETERMINE THAT ABORTION IS IN DANGER
It is difficult to think of a Western country that fears more deeply its anti-abortion movement in Canada. There are no abortion laws in Canada; a fact that makes us extraordinary even among the depraved nations of abortion in Europe. However, the consistent public position of the Conservative Party of Canada since its founding in 2004 is that whatever their personal views on the issue, they will never introduce legislation that violates the status quo.
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Of the six Conservatives currently running for leader, five (including the two favorites) have vowed not to publicly touch abortion with a 10-meter rod. The leader of the Conservatives in the last federal election said he was “for choice”. Even Canada’s leading far-right option, the People’s Party of Canada, has vowed not to legalize abortion.
In the face of all this, Trudeau has consistently campaigned for the idea that access to Canadian abortion is somehow at risk, as in selected US states. The Liberal Platform for 2021 says that “conservatives want to abolish access to abortion.” And when news surfaced that the U.S. Supreme Court was ready to overturn Rowe’s ruling against Wade banning abortion bans at the state level, it took Trudeau just a few hours to tweet that “every woman in Canada has the right to a safe and legal abortion. “
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The right to choose is the right of the woman and only the woman. Every woman in Canada has the right to a safe and legal abortion. It’s time for men to stop telling other men that it’s good for them to decide what women can or can’t do with their bodies.
– Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) July 31, 2021
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BAN ON CANADIAN WEAPONS TO STOP MASS SHOTS IN AMERICA
Trudeau referred directly to a recent mass shooting at an elementary school in Uwalde, Texas, in his decision this week to “freeze” the sale or transfer of guns. It was not mentioned that the shooting was actually with a long pistol. Or that Uwalde is in the United States and therefore not subject to Canadian law. Or that shooting would almost certainly have been prevented in Canada because of our existing grid of laws that are actually quite good at screening mentally ill gun owners. Or that gun shootings in Canada were almost entirely carried out with smuggled American firearms, which are now illegal.
The high drive of American progressives to counter the mass shooting by banning the AR-15 rifle also had a clear impact on Trudeau’s policies. The AR-15 was already a limited firearm in Canada, but the Liberals issued a 2020 order banning this and approximately 1,500 other long weapons similar to the AR-15, even if they may differ dramatically in ability and speed. on fire. In particular, this particular order was issued in response to a mass shooting in Nova Scotia carried out with smuggled American firearms.
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IMPORTING THE CULTURAL WARS OF THE SAME WITH RACE
By almost every measure, Canada’s main racial divide is between native and non-native Canadians. Indigenous Canadians earn significantly less, have an average life expectancy of 15 years earlier, and are disproportionately victims of unequivocally racist attacks, such as a Thunder Bay woman who was fatally hit by a towed trailer thrown by a moving car.
But especially since black protests and riots are important in the United States in the summer of 2020, the Trudeau government has often framed Canadian racial relations as influenced by the legacy of slavery and segregation. Although African slavery in Canada ended 40 years earlier than in the United States – numbering in the hundreds instead of millions – liberals introduced anti-racist training in the civil service, which mentions slavery more often than Indian resident schools.
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Trudeau also tends to give a public response to every major racial incident in the United States, while ignoring any number of Canadian equivalents. When white supporters marched through Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, Trudeau issued a statement saying that “we know that Canada is not immune to racist violence and hatred.” When protesters gathered in Ottawa in June 2020 against the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Trudeau rushed into the crowd and knelt.
We know that Canada is not immune to racist violence and hatred. We condemn it in all its forms and send support to the victims in Charlottesville.
– Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) August 13, 2017
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SOLVING A PROBLEM WITH EXECUTIVE DEPRIVATION THAT DOES NOT EXIST
Sentence reform is a major problem in the United States for the sole reason that it has more prisoners than anyone else. Even after some slight steps toward sentence reform, the United States still has a higher share of its citizens in prison than any other nation on earth and is not even close.
This is not the case in Canada. According to the World Prison Brief, we are actually at the bottom of the countries when it comes to prison rates. According to their latest census, Canada ranks 143rd in terms of the number of people in prison per capita.
Countries are color-coded according to the percentage of prisoners per capita by 2018. Note the lightness of pink in Canada. Photo from Our World in Data
That’s why when activists raise the issue of sentencing in Canada, they usually want more than that. This came several times during the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women, when commissioners hinted that chronically lenient sentences of perpetrators of violence “lead to violence against indigenous peoples.”
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Nevertheless, the Trudeau government has focused on reforming US sentences with Bill C-5. The proposed legislation will eliminate mandatory minimum penalties for many violent crimes, including “firearms robbery”, “intentional firing of firearms” and “firearms extortion”. In particular, given the arms smuggling crisis in Canada, it will also reduce sentences on six arms trafficking charges.
ADMISSION OF 60,000 ILLEGAL BORDER MEANINGS FOR TRUMP CONNECTIONS
Canada has never faced major migrant crises along its southern border. We had occasional rusty ships appearing on the West Coast, full of migrants from South Asia, but the Canadian border has never seen a statistically significant number of people illegally crossing with luggage in tow.
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That changed in 2017, when thousands of migrants began to cross what Ottawa would call “irregular” border crossings. These were unguarded sections of the US-Canada border, such as Roxam Road in Quebec, where migrants crossed into Canadian territory illegally before seeking refugee status. The checkpoints emerged entirely to circumvent the Safe Third Party Agreement, according to which applicants for refugees at the US-Canadian border were rejected on the grounds that they were already …
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