Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Trudeau et l'incapacité de livrer

  

Le gouvernement Trudeau et l'incapacité de livrer



Justin Trudeau et les ministres de son cabinet à leur arrivée lors de la cérémonie d'assermentation le 4 novembre 2015
Justin Trudeau et les ministres de son cabinet à leur arrivée lors de la cérémonie d'assermentation le 4 novembre 2015 Photo : La Presse canadienne/Justin Tang
ANALYSE – Il était un temps, au début du mandat du gouvernement Trudeau, où le mot à la mode était « deliverability » ou, en français la « productibilité », qu'on pourrait définir par la capacité de livrer que ce soit une promesse électorale ou un programme gouvernemental.

Un texte de Michel C. Auger

Midi info
 

À la retraite d’été du Cabinet, en août 2016, on avait même fait venir le gourou mondial de la productibilité, sir Michael Barber, qui avait averti le gouvernement que le plus difficile était à venir.
Comme toutes les notions à la mode, la productibilité finit par ne plus être aussi attrayante après un temps. Mais force est de constater que, depuis quelques mois et particulièrement ces dernières semaines, le gouvernement Trudeau a un sacré problème avec sa capacité de livrer des politiques cohérentes et susceptibles de bien fonctionner.

Bref, il ne suffit pas d’avoir une grande idée politique, il faut voir venir d’avance les critiques, puisque le diable est, comme toujours, dans les détails.

On a déjà vu le fiasco de la politique culturelle où la commande politique de ne pas imposer une supposée « taxe Netlfix » est venue enlever sa crédibilité à l’ensemble, même si la ministre du Patrimoine canadien Mélanie Joly ne semble toujours pas voir le problème.
C’est un peu l’inverse dans le dossier de la légalisation de la marijuana.


Actuellement, les actions du gouvernement viennent nuire à son objectif de sortir le crime organisé du commerce du cannabis et d’enrayer le marché noir.
À la conférence des premiers ministres tenue cette semaine, le gouvernement Trudeau a proposé une taxe d’accise de 1 $ le gramme, dont les profits seraient divisés moitié-moitié entre Ottawa et les provinces.
Mais, comme le faisait remarquer le premier ministre de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard Wade MacLauchlan, le prix au marché noir dans sa province est de 6 $ le gramme et une taxe de 1 $ va contribuer à rendre le pot légal hors de prix.

Les provinces, il ne faut pas l’oublier, devront payer pour des magasins ayant pignon sur rue et des employés qu’on devra payer.
Voici un cas, donc, où une nouvelle idée du gouvernement Trudeau nuira à son objectif ultime.


L'équité fiscal

Les ennuis avec la capacité de livrer du gouvernement ne s’arrêtent pas là.
Le ministre des Finances, Bill Morneau, a toutes les difficultés du monde avec un projet de réforme qui visait le louable but de renforcer l’équité fiscale. Pas nécessaire de rappeler ici que l’équité fiscale est précisément ce qui a coulé la politique de Mme Joly.

Très vite, on s’est rendu compte que ce n’était pas une réforme qui visait seulement le groupe des 1 % les plus riches, mais que certains des impacts touchaient directement la classe moyenne, comme la capacité pour un petit entrepreneur de mettre un peu d’argent de côté pour les mauvais jours ou celle des fermiers de partager leurs revenus avec les membres de leur famille.

Ainsi, un peu partout, depuis quelques semaines, on voit le gouvernement qui peine à donner des résultats, après des mois de grands et de beaux discours.

Personne ne doutera que le dossier autochtone est une authentique et sincère priorité pour le gouvernement. Sauf que c’est aussi celui où la productibilité manque le plus.
Que ce soit l’Enquête nationale sur les femmes et les filles autochtones disparues et assassinées, qui n’en finit plus d’avoir des difficultés de départ, ou le ministère des Affaires autochtones et du Nord lui-même, qu’on essaie maintenant de scinder en deux pour tenter d’obtenir des résultats.

Encore une fois, le gouvernement Trudeau n’est pas le premier à essayer de faire avancer le dossier autochtone et nul ne doute de sa bonne volonté. Mais sa capacité de livrer n’est guère meilleure que celle de ses prédécesseurs jusqu’à maintenant.

La même chose est vraie en matière d’environnement. Il y a quelques jours à peine, la commissaire à l’environnement et au développement durable, dans son rapport, disait que le gouvernement devait arrêter de faire des discours et commencer à agir et que même entre les ministères fédéraux, la coordination était déficiente.

Avec le résultat que le Canada n’est pas en voie d’atteindre ses objectifs de réduction des gaz à effet de serre, objectifs qui avaient été fixés par le gouvernement de M. Harper!
Le moins que l’on puisse dire, c’est que ça commence à faire beaucoup de dossiers où le gouvernement a du mal à tenir ses promesses.

Plus simplement, on pourrait dire qu’il a du mal à gouverner.

Michel C. Auger  

    Wednesday, October 4, 2017

    Testimony of Air Force Vet, Russ Cooper, to Heritage Committee on M-103

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    hello I'm Russ Cooper and I'm here at
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    the Canadian War Museum
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    I'm a retired military and civil
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    aviation pilot who is looking forward to
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    his retirement years as I enjoyed more
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    time with family and friends
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    unfortunately I had to put these plans
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    aside when Member of Parliament across
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    Khalid came up with her motion m103 I
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    did so because I saw embedded within the
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    motion the seeds of the curtailment of
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    Canadian free speech rights I came to
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    this conclusion on the basis of my
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    security background in both the Canadian
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    military and in follow-on security work
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    as an analyst I guess you could say that
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    I gained a deep respect for the Charter
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    rights of freedoms and Canadian values
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    during my 28-year career as a as a
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    military fighter pilot after all I had
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    the benefit of enjoying those freedoms
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    every day of my life but more than this
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    I had the opportunity to fight for the
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    projection of these values abroad
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    against tyrannical regimes I was honored
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    to have had the ability or the
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    opportunity to do so as I believed that
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    Canadian rights and freedoms are secured
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    by a long line of citizen soldiers who
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    have made efforts and sacrifices to
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    preserve those rights freedoms and
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    values I decided to join the debate back
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    in January of this year when I kicked
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    off a nationwide petition which turned
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    out to be quite successful it garnered
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    upwards of twenty seven thousand
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    signatures from Canadians across the
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    nation and these were everyday folk and
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    they expressed extreme concern with the
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    use of the term Islamophobia they didn't
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    like the fact that the term was
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    undefined and it might have the
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    potential to raise Islam above all other
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    religions in Canada and allow them the
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    protections against being criticized or
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    commented on in the public square
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    Canadians were also of a mind that they
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    were very surprised and somewhat shocked
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    that their own government would accuse
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    the nation and its citizens of systemic
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    racism and religious discrimination how
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    could this be the case when Canadians
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    are so welcoming
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    of an ever-increasing number of
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    immigrants refugees foreign workers and
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    students from all races all religions
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    and all points of origin over the past
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    several decades it just didn't make
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    sense
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    now Canadians can be forgiven for
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    thinking that the term of Islamophobia
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    is problematic after all they've seen
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    the effects of fighting Islamic Osama
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    phobia a tale out in the European
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    experience as one that involves the
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    curtailment of free speech rights there
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    are many many examples that show this
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    there's a case of United Kingdom police
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    advising Facebook users that they better
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    watch themselves or they might find
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    themselves in jail the Mayor of the City
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    of London commissioned a task force to
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    track down Internet users who were
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    annoying others in Ireland an Irish
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    pastor was charged with hate speech for
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    criticizing Islam in Germany a
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    photojournalist was jailed for six
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    months because he had the temerity to
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    publish an historical photo that showed
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    Adolf Hitler shaking hands with a Grand
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    Mufti of Jerusalem
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    now some Canadians might say this is not
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    in the cards for Canada we live in
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    different circumstances we have
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    different laws but this assumption might
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    very well be false for it as a fact that
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    Canadian and European human rights
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    legislation very much are founded on
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    international declarations and covenants
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    that have evolved in the international
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    environment since the in the post-world
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    War two ERA prime among among these is a
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    United Nations Declaration of Human
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    Rights of 1948 and the International
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    Covenant Covenant of Civil and Political
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    Rights of 1966 these two instruments
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    underpin all of Canada's and Europe's
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    Human Rights legislations
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    even as they've moved the balance from
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    free speech to hate speech from one that
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    prescribed incitement to violence to one
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    that censure is not only incitement to
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    violence but incitement to hostility and
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    discrimination as well this is of great
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    concern
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    the wording of the this wording was
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    picked up in the International Covenant
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    of Civil and Political Rights and was
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    very concerning its vagueness was very
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    concerning to the United States of
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    America who ratified the sea CPR on
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    condition that its wording wording could
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    not be taken to authorize or require any
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    restrictions in freedom of speech or
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    Association here we see a fork in the
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    path we see the Americans going down a
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    free speech path and we see Canadians
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    and Europeans going down a path that's
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    more accommodating to those who are
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    offended or take offence so we see here
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    that things that are happening in Europe
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    might very well happen in Canada because
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    of the similarity of our human rights
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    legislations and underpinnings now it's
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    important to note that while this was
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    human rights the legislation was
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    evolving on both sides of the Atlantic
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    it was also being paralleled by a
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    separate system that was spearheaded by
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    the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
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    and they chose to put Sharia law at the
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    center of their human rights efforts
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    they determined that Sharia could be the
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    only the only the sole source of
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    reference for human rights in in Islam
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    this was explicitly stated in the OIC 's
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    Cairo declaration of 1990 it was a Cairo
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    declaration on human rights in Islam and
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    since that time the organization has
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    been very busy aggressively lobbying the
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    international community to embed Sharia
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    blasphemy and slander laws within their
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    Muslim and non-muslim legislative
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    organizations this is of great concern
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    the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
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    scored a big success in 2011 would have
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    helped engineer United Nations
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    resolution 16/18
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    this resolution swept up the the wording
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    of the ICCPR but it went beyond that to
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    say that all persons whether
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    individually or in communities had the
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    right to manifest their belief or
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    religion in worship observance practice
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    and teaching this raises a question if a
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    religion teaches the
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    it's criticism is forbidden is a host
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    nation responsible for recognizing and
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    accommodating that proposition this is
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    not a moot point for Canada because
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    resolution 16/18 is a consensus
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    agreement Canada is a signatory to that
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    consensus and they are obligated to
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    consider resolution 16/18 when they make
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    human rights legislation on a national
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    level
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    now Canadians don't like the term
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    Islamophobia but they also don't like
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    the assumptions in logic that underpin
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    motion m103 namely that we are
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    systemically racist and we are religious
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    discriminators they read OC the evidence
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    for this even though the proponents of
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    m103 point to the Quebec City mosque
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    attack of January of this year as being
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    evidence of such discrimination and even
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    white supremacy the fact is at seven
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    months after the event no hate or terror
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    charges have been laid in addition to
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    this Canadians understand that there is
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    a wide secretive cloak placed over the
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    whole Proceedings of this mass murder
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    and it's very unusual because this is a
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    story of international scale and
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    Canadians just don't understand why no
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    one is talking about it the other fact
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    that Canadians are worried about is that
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    data is being used in a cherry-pick
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    fashion to affirm the fact that
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    Canadians are religious discriminators
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    the most used fact is the one that comes
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    out of the stats can report that says
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    that eight incidents against Muslims has
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    increased 61% over two year period now
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    while it is true that that might be the
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    case the context is missing in the fact
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    that the absolute numbers are involved
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    are 99 in 2014 and 159 in 2015 that's a
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    61% increase but then again these are
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    negligible numbers and given the
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    population of Muslims in Canada to be
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    approximately 1 million people it's
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    insignificant you could say that one
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    case one year followed by two cases of
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    next year as a hundred Senate increase
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    but the truth is is that the situation
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    is neither remarkable or unstable
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    in summary Canadians do not like the
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    term Islamophobia they feel it needs to
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    be discarded because it bears with it
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    the potential to curtail free speech
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    rights they also do not like
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    the motion the underpinnings of the
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    motion in that they don't believe that
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    the country is systemically racist or
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    that they're all religious
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    discriminators they feel that these
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    assumptions need to be studied seriously
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    by an authority that is impartial
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    independent and competent an authority
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    that is capable of determining the
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    balance between the free speech rights
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    of individuals in Canada and the rights
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    of minorities in Canada not to be
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    offended thank you very much for your
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    consideration of this testimony I think
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    it's quite important because I really
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    believe that the fate of Canadian free
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    speech rights are at stake
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    you