Leaf/pol/ - The Downward Spiral

So Sup Forums, time for some good old fashioned Canadian news thread.

Starting with our PM crying like a bitch again:

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>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a tearful apology Tuesday to members of the LGBTQ community for actions taken by the government against thousands of workers in the military and public service during the Cold War.

>It has also earmarked more than $100million Canadian (US $78million) to compensate members of the military and other federal agencies whose careers were sidelined or ended due to their sexual orientation, part of a class-action settlement with employees who were investigated, sanctioned and sometimes fired as part of the so-called 'gay purge.'

>The government also introduced legislation that would allow people to apply to have their criminal convictions for consensual sexual activity between same-sex partners erased from public record.

Other urls found in this thread:

cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/permanent-resident-health-care-costs-immigration-1.4221930
cbc.ca/news/politics/hussen-immigration-medical-disability-1.4414274
canadahaitiaction.ca/content/trudeau-government-announces-20-million-donation-clinton-foundation
cbc.ca/news/politics/private-refugee-sponsorship-soros-un-1.3769639?cmp=rss
unvis.it/cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/permanent-resident-health-care-costs-immigration-1.4221930
cicnews.com/2017/11/canada-welcome-nearly-one-million-new-immigrants-through-2020-119798.html
cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/deradicalization-canada-isis-fighters-program-1.4414999
ctvnews.ca/canada/evangelical-couple-says-adoption-application-was-scrapped-over-their-views-on-lgbt-1.3667448
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/moazami-sues-kosher-food-1.4358996
ctvnews.ca/politics/feds-to-announce-payout-of-800m-to-indigenous-victims-of-60s-scoop-1.3621015
thestar.com/news/canada/2017/10/26/three-canadians-tortured-in-syria-receive-31-million-settlement-from-ottawa.html
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youtube.com/watch?v=JeaVBNHf--c
ctvnews.ca/politics/house-passes-marijuana-legislation-bill-moves-to-senate-1.3696405
news.ontario.ca/mag/en/2017/09/ontario-releases-safe-and-sensible-framework-to-manage-federal-legalization-of-cannabis.html
ctvnews.ca/canada/pot-activist-jodie-emery-slams-ontario-s-insane-monopoly-plan-1.3582062
globalnews.ca/news/3783776/justin-trudeau-outlines-tax-on-marijuana/
cbc.ca/news/politics/canopy-growth-pot-producer-tax-plan-1.4329045
parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-6/third-reading
ipolitics.ca/2017/12/03/poll-suggests-canadians-back-urban-gun-ban/
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FREE healthcare for every scumbag war criminal refugee from Africa and Middle East
Not for Americans though
>Americans denied permanent residency because of daughter's special needs

cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/permanent-resident-health-care-costs-immigration-1.4221930

>A U.S. family of six who have built a business in Canada want to stay here but have been denied permanent residency because of the potential costs of treating the youngest child's health problems
>Karalynn was deemed inadmissible to Canada on health grounds stemming from her global developmental delay and ADHD, the letter said. As a result, all family members were deemed inadmissible to Canada.

Should note, that we'll eat the cost of immigrant healthcare so long as its Africa/Middle east...

cbc.ca/news/politics/hussen-immigration-medical-disability-1.4414274

>Canada is committed to ditching a policy that rejects immigrants because they're sick or disabled and could be a drag on the health system, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says.

>Calling it an "important and sensitive" issue, Hussen said the government will look at all options to revamp the 40-year-old policy, which bars entry to applicants when they could be costly to public health or social service systems.

>Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel said a big part of the problem with the current provision is that it is unfairly and unevenly applied by immigration officers. She urged Hussen to ensure increased training and service standards to ensure officials are following the rules consistently.

>However, it is a consideration in assessing an applicant who has financial means to defray costs of medication or services that are not publicly funded, such as HIV antiretroviral therapy.

I'm thinking of going to Canada to get a free sex change, can I come leafs?

CSIS has confirmed at least 60 ISIS militants, who have seen combat, have returned and disappeared into the public. That said, on the ISIS fighters who return, we are going to "forgive" them, not charge them with anything they did on foreign soil and attempt to "reintegrate" them.

On another note, Omar Khadr is appealing his bail conditions. He wants:
>free unfettered travel in Canada - no longer required to report in
>internet restrictions completely lifted
>communications with family restrictions lifted/no supervision

canadahaitiaction.ca/content/trudeau-government-announces-20-million-donation-clinton-foundation
>The Canadian government is donating 20 million dollars to the Clinton Foundation. The money will distributed over four years to assist in sexual and reproductive health programs in Nigeria.

cbc.ca/news/politics/private-refugee-sponsorship-soros-un-1.3769639?cmp=rss
>Canada is forming a partnership with the United Nations and billionaire George Soros to help other countries implement their own version of Canada's private refugee sponsorship program.
>will offer countries "tailored advice" on how to adapt and implement the refugee programs.
>The joint initiative between the government of Canada, the UN High Commission on Refugees and Soros's Open Society Foundations will have a kick-off meeting in Ottawa in December, the release said.
>Soros contributing funding to the project.

>legislation that would allow people to apply to have their criminal convictions for consensual sexual activity between same-sex partners erased from public record
I'm not really opposed to this one.

Archived
unvis.it/cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/permanent-resident-health-care-costs-immigration-1.4221930

our new Immigration minister Ahmed Hussen Sup Forums?

>born in Somalia
>is a muslim
>lived there until 16
>comes to Canada as a Somali refugee
>spent the next 3 years in Hamilton, Ontario
>then he moved to Regent Parks, Ontario
>was Dalton McGuinty's personal assistant
>is current president for the Canadian Somali Congress
>he co-sponsored a bill to force police to register IMEI numbers on cell phones and force carriers to check a stolen phone registry
>his speciality is refugee rights and immigration law
>he doesn't live in his riding
>the only debates he shows up for are televised ones
>he tried to claim that the reason he didn't live in the riding was because it was "too expensive"
Keep in mind he is a lawyer and his riding is one of the cheapest housing prices
>he moved the constituency office next to the city dump

The Immigration Minister is also given the power to personally intervene on "compassionate grounds" for immigration cases caught up in the courts because people tried to lie and cheat the system. McCallum did it several times to reunite families who lied about having kids/spouses.

He has consistently voted "Yea" to Bill C-6 to amend the Citizenship Act. Which will:
>prevent us from removing citizenship from terrorists
>remove the requirement to reside in Canada for citizenship
>limit the need of a national language to between 18-54
>reduce the number of days physically present to become a citizen
>allow the minister to seize any papers he believes fraudulent, improperly obtained or improperly used

>the number for 2018 will not dip below the "new normal" of 300,000 newcomers that was set in 2017
>"Vision 2020," what it called a "bold" three-year plan to address growing demographic shifts underway in the country, calling for increased numbers in the economic, family and refugee categories
>Ontario expects immigration to be its main source of future labour force growth in the next 25 years, particularly for the working population

Nearly one million new immigrants will settle in Canada between 2018 and 2020, under what Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen has labeled “the most ambitious immigration levels in recent Canadian history.”

The ambitious target has been set in the government’s new multi-year Immigration Levels Plan, which was tabled in the House of Commons on November 1. Economic migrants will make up the majority of new permanent residents admitted to Canada, with most economic newcomers set to immigrate through the Express Entry immigration selection system. Targets for the economic categories generally — as well as Express Entry specifically — will increase every year until 2020.

Under the plan, 310,000 new permanent residents will settle in Canada in 2018. This target will be increased to 330,000 newcomers in 2019, with a further 340,000 to settle in 2020.
cicnews.com/2017/11/canada-welcome-nearly-one-million-new-immigrants-through-2020-119798.html

CANADA: Federal government not tracking interventions with returning ISIS fighters

cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/deradicalization-canada-isis-fighters-program-1.4414999

>But the government doesn't know how many radicalized people are actually being spoken to, or who they are

>But Venkatesh has an unconventional outlook on the problem of terrorism, telling CBC that jihadi terrorism is not the main terrorist threat facing the West — although he didn't say which groups or ideologies are.

>The GTI, based on data collected at the University of Maryland, lists 19 of the world's 20 most deadly global terror acts in 2016 as having been carried out by groups inspired by Islamic fundamentalist ideologies

>In its 2016 report, Quebec's Centre listed 119 interventions in cases of "politico-religious radicalization" — typically Islamist — as opposed to 11 in cases of extreme right-wing indoctrination.

>Public Safety Canada says it can't provide statistics because the centre does not directly intervene with radicalized individuals.

ctvnews.ca/canada/evangelical-couple-says-adoption-application-was-scrapped-over-their-views-on-lgbt-1.3667448
>Good Christians refused the right to adopt kids by NDP communist government in Alberta


An evangelical Christian couple is accusing Alberta of discrimination, claiming their application to adopt a child was rejected over their religious views on gay marriage and homosexuality.
The Edmonton married couple say they submitted their application last year and passed a required course for potential adoptive parents.
But during a followup by officials this year, the couple say they ran into trouble when they answered questions about sexuality.

"The casework supervisor explained that our religious beliefs regarding sexuality were incompatible with the adoption process," says an affidavit filed in support of an application for a judicial review of the government's decision.
"The casework supervisor said this stance was the 'official position of the Alberta government."'

cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/moazami-sues-kosher-food-1.4358996
>Reza Moazami, convicted of luring 11 teens into prostitution and sentenced to 23 years jail time is suing the Attorney General of Canada — claiming he was wrongfully denied kosher meals in prison.

>Moazami was found guilty on 30 charges in 2015, including sexual exploitation, sexual assault and living off the avails of prostitution.

>His 11 victims ranged in age from 14 to 19, and his case was the first human-trafficking conviction in the province.

>The claim states Moazami is half Jewish and strictly abides by his religious principles — those that conform with Jewish dietary law.

>Moazami's notice of claim seeks $250,000 in relief from the Attorney General of Canada for negligence and breached duty of care.

Have a bump, I'm personally feeling super blackpilled.

Fidel’s son is a little biatch.
How can you leafs stand it?

Ah, it’s the faggot who jerks off to his own proxies, can’t even muster enough positive spin to bring up Scheer.

"The federal government has agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to survivors of the '60s Scoop for the harm suffered by Indigenous children who were robbed of their cultural identities by being placed with non-native families, The Canadian Press has learned.
The national settlement with an estimated 20,000 victims, to be announced Friday by Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett, is aimed at resolving numerous related lawsuits, most notable among them a successful class action in Ontario."

ctvnews.ca/politics/feds-to-announce-payout-of-800m-to-indigenous-victims-of-60s-scoop-1.3621015

So yeah, 800 million more to the natives.

El Maati, a Toronto truck driver, was the first of three men to be arrested when he travelled to Syria in November 2001 for his wedding and was stopped at the Damascus airport. He was transferred to Egypt two months later and was jailed there for more than two years.

In 2010, El Maati told the Star he was shackled, beaten and jolted with electrical shocks on his back, legs and genitals while he was detained in Egypt.

Almalki, a Syrian-Canadian dual citizen who works as a communications engineer, was arrested in May 2002, also at the Damascus airport, and detained for 22 months.

In December 2003, Nureddin was arrested by Syrian officials as he crossed into the country from Iraq, where he was visiting family. The Toronto geologist was held for 33 days.

In March, the Liberal government announced it had reached a settlement and Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale apologized to Almalki, El Maati and Nureddin for “any role Canadian officials may have played” in what led to their arrests and torture.

>While the government still refused to say how much it would pay each of the men on Thursday, the $31.25-million settlement was revealed in government accounting documents tabled in the House of Commons on Oct. 5 and quietly published online.

thestar.com/news/canada/2017/10/26/three-canadians-tortured-in-syria-receive-31-million-settlement-from-ottawa.html

>Ex Guantanamo Bay captive suing Canada for $50M for alleged complicity in torture

>“My current situation is really bad, I am struggling to survive,” Ameziane, 50, said from near Algiers. “I was repatriated from Guantanamo and left like almost homeless. I couldn’t find a job because of the Guantanamo stigma and my age, so a settlement would be very helpful to me to get my life back together.”

>In a draft statement of claim obtained by The Canadian Press, Ameziane seeks damages of $50 million on the grounds that Canada’s security services co-operated with their U.S. counterparts even though they knew the Americans were abusing him.

>“For many years, I had the idea of suing the Canadian government but didn’t know how and honestly didn’t know it was possible until I read the news about the settlement of Omar Khadr, who was my fellow inmate in Guantanamo Bay,” Ameziane said.

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I like how we're giving the American refugees welfare.
>Quebec just cut somewhere between 4000 to 5000 welfare checks for American illegals
>amount varies based on family/conjugal
>lowest possible amount is 643

Older news, number is just getting bigger but that's more than 2 mil per month on American refugees. We're currently up to 13000+ migrants so its realistically closer to 8 million per month.

>millions more given to native
Surely they will make better use of it this time, build their communities, educate themselves, train themselves and weed themselves off government dependency. Surely they won't just drink it away like they did all those other times...

In 2016, we spent in the 4th quarter alone:

324 million on restoring and renewing international assistance
249 million on expanding immigration

This was not including:

100 million every month on syrian refugees
645 million in additional foreign aid after the 10% increase
65 million in humanitarian aid
785 million to fight Aids/Malaria/TB in africa
13 million to vietnamese farmers
15 million to job training in Africa
650 million on increasing access to abortion globally
112.8 million to haiti and french africa
12.5 million to africa for support of democracy/inclusion/gender equality
130 million to liberia/sierra leone/guinea for ebola
450 million for UN Peacekeeping (in order to attempt to grab seat)
14.25 million to Indonesia for infastructure
2.65 billion to developing nations to fight climate change
And this is all on top of the 4.9 billion we spend in foreign aid per year

Our foreign aid budget is typically 4.9 billion per year. Everything in that list was additional to the 4.9 billion budget. So in 2016, we actually spent closer to 11.355 billion on foreign aid.

Even if we assumed, that all those various numbers I listed were the "normal" foreign aid budget listed as 4.9 billion - as you suggested, they still add up to at least 6.4 billion, meaning the first year under his rein, he spent 130% of the typical 4.9 billion budget.

God forbid when I update this for 2017. Cause its gonna be higher, what with giving 800 million to the natives, putting the American illegals on welfare etc.

This is who is in charge of renegotiating NAFTA.

Chrystia Freeland, Minister of International Trade, Foreign Affairs Minister
>BA in Russian Studies, Masters in Slavonic Studies
>career prior was as a journalist
>as a journalist criticized Russia's "brutality" in dealing with the Chechens
>got banned from Russia and was fucking proud of it
>called the democratically elected Viktor Yanukovych's presidency illegitimate and supported his ousting
>supported the Maiden protests
>supports the new Ukrainian government
>blames Putin for Ukraine's current state
>called on Canada to ban travel from the previous ukrainian government's officials
>called on Canada to confiscate personal assets owned by previous ukrainian government's officials and their families
>thinks Angela Merkel is a good politician
>thinks antagonizing/opposing Putin are good ideas
>is a self-professed globalist
>has met with George Soros several times and highly regards him
>believes that in order to work in public affairs/public policy you need to think in international context because national boundaries are too narrow
>cried on camera when the Canada-EU trade deal wasn't going her way
>made a serious fool on Bill Maher's show
youtube.com/watch?v=JeaVBNHf--c

It gets worse.She wants to renegotiate with a focus on gender equality, LGBT rights - in particular trans rights, cultural sensitivity and climate change. She has already demanded the U.S. pass “a federal law stopping state governments from enacting right-to-work legislation“.

CANADA: Federal government not tracking interventions with returning ISIS fighters

cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/deradicalization-canada-isis-fighters-program-1.4414999

>But the government doesn't know how many radicalized people are actually being spoken to, or who they are

>But Venkatesh has an unconventional outlook on the problem of terrorism, telling CBC that jihadi terrorism is not the main terrorist threat facing the West — although he didn't say which groups or ideologies are.

>The GTI, based on data collected at the University of Maryland, lists 19 of the world's 20 most deadly global terror acts in 2016 as having been carried out by groups inspired by Islamic fundamentalist ideologies

>In its 2016 report, Quebec's Centre listed 119 interventions in cases of "politico-religious radicalization" — typically Islamist — as opposed to 11 in cases of extreme right-wing indoctrination.

>Public Safety Canada says it can't provide statistics because the centre does not directly intervene with radicalized individuals.

On Legal Marijuana:

ctvnews.ca/politics/house-passes-marijuana-legislation-bill-moves-to-senate-1.3696405
>Bill C-45 received final approval Monday in the House of Commons, passing by a vote of 200-82.
>The federal NDP supports the government's legislation, which was amended to scrap a requirement that home-grown marijuana plants be less than 100 centimetres tall and to require that legislation for cannabis edibles and concentrates be brought forward within a year.

news.ontario.ca/mag/en/2017/09/ontario-releases-safe-and-sensible-framework-to-manage-federal-legalization-of-cannabis.html
>The LCBO will oversee the legal retail of cannabis in Ontario through new stand-alone cannabis stores and an online order service. This approach will ensure that there will be only one legal retail distributor for cannabis in Ontario and alcohol and cannabis are not sold alongside each other.
>Illicit cannabis dispensaries are not and will not be legal retailers. The province will pursue a coordinated and proactive enforcement strategy, working with municipalities, local police services, the OPP and the federal government to help shut down these illegal operations.

ctvnews.ca/canada/pot-activist-jodie-emery-slams-ontario-s-insane-monopoly-plan-1.3582062
>“They’re going to spend hundreds of millions of tax dollars setting up a massive bureaucracy to try and reinvent a wheel that’s already rolling and spinning quite fine,” Emery told CTV Power Play on Friday. “It’s insane.”
>Emery was referring to the storefront marijuana dispensaries that have been popping up across the country. Ontario’s plan seeks to aggressively shutter such businesses.
>“The government and the police win and the taxpayers and dispensaries and the patients all lose,” she said. “This monopoly will ensure there’s not enough money, there’s not enough jobs… It’s going to deny Ontario resident the ability to grow the economy with independent retailers.

On Legal Marijuana's taxation:

globalnews.ca/news/3783776/justin-trudeau-outlines-tax-on-marijuana/

cbc.ca/news/politics/canopy-growth-pot-producer-tax-plan-1.4329045

>new sin tax
>$1 on sales up to $10
>10% on sales over $10
>on top of this you pay the province's sales taxes

So for example, if you live in Ontario and buy more than $10 worth of weed, it'll cost me 10% sin tax + 13% HST on top of my purchase. So yeah 23%.

Jesus fuck I'm almost positive I know that girl...

Bill C-6 : fast tracking the Canadian citizenship process for refugees and immigrants

>(a)remove the grounds for the revocation of Canadian citizenship that relate to national security;
>(b)remove the requirement that an applicant intend, if granted citizenship, to continue to reside in Canada;
>(c)reduce the number of days during which a person must have been physically present in Canada before applying for citizenship and provide that, in the calculation of the length of physical presence, the number of days during which the person was physically present in Canada before becoming a permanent resident may be taken into account;
>(d)limit the requirement to demonstrate knowledge of Canada and of one of its official languages to applicants between the ages of 18 and 54;

parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-6/third-reading

The amendment will make most Syrian refugees eligible to vote in the next federal elections in 2019. From November 2015 to January 2017, over 40k Syrian refugees have arrived in Canada. Literally importing liberal voters.

Speaking at a Panel Discussion Showcasing Best Practices for the Admission of Syrian Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland (March 2016), John Mccallum, then the Minister of Immigration, said the following: “We also had a processing machine at home where people, when they arrived, it would take one hour to become landed immigrants, permanent residents, health cards. And they will – 90 percent of them will be full citizens within four years.”

>90 percent of refugees will be full citizens within four years

Bill C-6 additionally eliminates the language and knowledge requirement for immigrants and refugees over 55. There are no requirements for children of future citizens. These people will still have Canadian citizenship and the benefits that come with it...

>White South African family’s refugee bid rejected, accused of boosting case with ‘racist propaganda’

>The claim of the family of six was based on being white South Africans at risk of persecution due to their race, namely Afrikaners

>A white family from South Africa has had their refugee claim for asylum in Canada rejected, having been accused of submitting “white-supremacist hate literature” to bolster their claims of violence by the black majority in their homeland

>Eric Williams Endre and Sonja Endre, a married couple, along with two of their children and Sonja’s parents, all came to Canada in 2016 to visit relatives living here and made refugee claim 10 days later.

>The Endres said they were victims of carjacking in 1995, were assaulted on their farm by four black men who entered their home and robbed them in 2004, had their home burglarized in 2013, their car stolen from outside their house in 2014 and, that same year, three black men tried to steal Sonja’s cell phone while she was working.

>The Immigration and Refugee Board denied them refugee protection, saying there was no reliable evidence they were attacked due to their race, and it was more probable they were attacked for economic reasons — to steal their possessions.

>The Endre family appealed to the Federal Court of Canada, the latest challenge by white South Africans seeking asylum in Canada in post-apartheid South Africa.

>They argued the IRB failed to adequately consider the children’s circumstances. They said their children cannot safely play in parks in South Africa; one was bullied and had been taken out of school; and their mother could not walk with her children without fearing they could be assaulted, raped or killed.

>Defending the IRB’s decision, the government argued concerns for the children were based on “patently unreliable racist propaganda.”

>A government lawyer said the fear of white children being raped by blacks was highly offensive as the information the family relied on was “white-supremacist hate literature” that should be ignored.

>In deciding the appeal, Justice René LeBlanc, said the refugee claim offered no evidence the state of South Africa is incapable of offering protection for their children from rape or murder.

He denied the appeal.

>Canada accepts few refugee claims by South African citizens. So far this year, none have been accepted. In 2016 there were 12, in 2015 there were 18, in 2014 there were two and none in 2013.

ipolitics.ca/2017/12/03/poll-suggests-canadians-back-urban-gun-ban/

>According to the poll, conducted by Ekos Research Associates for The Canadian Press, 69 per cent of those surveyed agreed with the statement “I think that there should be a strict ban on guns in urban areas.”

>The Liberals also pledged to require enhanced background checks for anyone seeking to buy a gun, and prospective buyers must also show a license. Those who sell guns would, among other things, be required to keep an inventory of stock and sales.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said work is underway on related legislation.

“It is an important topic and efforts in the past in dealing with a topic that has the potential to, in some places, be controversial has ended up foundering,” he said.

“When I put forward the legislative package I want to make sure that it’s a package that will succeed. That’s my objective and we’ll get it done.”

Assorted Trudeau fuckery

Most Canucks seem level headed. It's the very vocal minority that seem to be giving all of you a bad rap. Timbits are great but you gave us shit like Justin Bieber and Trudeau and for that you should all get raked.

this kills me, wish we had paramilitary groups to start kidnapping and cutting heads off these people, start with Ahmed.