Here is yet another sign that the “modernization” of Saudi Arabia is more appearance than reality.
“Saudi Arabia expels Canadian ambassador and freezes all trade after Ottawa calls for jailed activists to be freed,” by Khaleda Rahman, Mailonline, August 6, 2018:
Saudi Arabia said it was expelling the Canadian ambassador and had recalled its envoy in protest at Ottawa’s vigorous calls for the release of jailed women’s rights activists.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry also said it would freeze ‘all new business’ between the kingdom and Canada. Some 10 percent of Canadian crude oil imports come from Saudi Arabia.
On Monday, the kingdom gave the Canadian ambassador 24 hours to leave the country, in an abrupt rupture of relations over what it slammed as ‘interference’ in its internal affairs.
‘The Canadian position is an overt and blatant interference in the internal affairs of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia,’ the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in an extraordinarily aggressive statement posted on Twitter.
‘The kingdom announces that it is recalling its ambassador to Canada for consultation.
‘We consider the Canadian ambassador to the kingdom persona non grata and order him to leave within the next 24 hours.’
The ministry also announced ‘the freezing of all new trade and investment transactions with Canada while retaining its right to take further action.’
It added: ‘Any further step from the Canadian side in that direction will be considered as acknowledgment of our right to interfere in the Canadian domestic affairs.
‘Canada and all other nations need to know that they can’t claim to be more concerned than the kingdom over its own citizens.’…
The move, which underscores a newly aggressive foreign policy led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, comes after Canada demanded the immediate release of human rights campaigners swept up in a new crackdown.
Marie-Pier Baril, a spokeswoman for Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, said Canada was ‘seriously concerned’ by Saudi Arabia’s actions.
‘Canada will always stand up for the protection of human rights, very much including women’s rights, and freedom of expression around the world,’ she said in a statement. ‘Our government will never hesitate to promote these values and believes that this dialogue is critical to international diplomacy.’
The dispute appears centered around tweets by Canadian diplomats calling on the kingdom to ‘immediately release’ women’s rights activists recently detained by the kingdom….
mike9a says
“Here is yet another sign that the “modernization” of Saudi Arabia is more appearance than reality.”
Sober people knew this from the day the cult started.
Tom says
First Trudeau’s idiotic virtue signalling, demanding “rights” be included in negotiations for the NAFTA trade agreement with the USA and Mexico, derailed those talks.
Second, Trudeau went to China and demanded “rights” be included in negotiations for a trade deal between Canada and China. In response the Chinese sent him packing without any deal, while at the same time signing a deal with Alaska for $50,000,000,000, that’s fifty billion dollars for one US state.
Now Trudeau’s government have once again destroyed a trading relationship between Canada and Saudi Arabia who are important trading partners for Canada.
Trudeau and his stupidity, and his lack of ability to understand that dictators and despots don’t care about his “feminism” and virtue signalling, is seriously damaging the Canadian economy and Canadians’ economic future.
By destroying our economy and allowing uncontrolled illegal migration across our border Trudeau is laying the groundwork for a collapse of our country, leaving it ripe for takeover by the forces of George Soros and the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.
Trudeau and his (barely) masked Muslim Brotherhood front group within his Liberal caucus are taking Canada down the road of a failed state.
He and his hordes of left wing, Islamist sympathizers, must go in 2019 if Canada, as we know it today, is to survive.
Halal Bacon says
he will be gone, he is still not ready
Terry Gain says
If Trudeau approved the Ambassador’s statement, this is the first good thing Trudeau has done in office. Now Canadian ambassadors in Egypt, Pakistan and Syria need to speak out against the human right abuses in those countries, especially the persecution of Christians.
With a lot of luck all of those ambassadors will be sent home and the current ruination of Canada caused by Muslim immigration may be temporarily halted until we get a better PM in October 2019.
Tom says
The place to demand human rights is the UN. That organization has been hijacked by despotic countries’ representatives. Taking back the control of the UN should be the battle, not trying to go it alone and destroying our Canadian economy in the process. Trudeau is too stupid to realize this.
Terry Gain says
No Tom. The place to demand human rights is everywhere, including the UN and especially when speaking to perennial human rights violators like Muslims and leftists.
Not trading with the Saudis does not destroy our economy.
I refrained from direct criticism of you after your erroneous first comment and gave you an opportunity to correct it. You blew it.
gravenimage says
Absolutely agree, Terry.
mortimer says
Feminists took a look at the Muslim misogyny, more ferocious than all misogynies, and then they decided they would do nothing about it.
In the past, the Soviets at first pretended to LOVE MUSLIMS (all the while, they were destroying thousands of Orthodox churches through Russia), when the church had been thoroughly decimated, they turned their attention to destroying Islam, closing madrassahs and mosques and exiling Muslims to cold Siberia. THEY TURNED ON MUSLIMS and on ISLAM IN THE NAME OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS !!!
Is Jihadi Justin now turning on his erstwhile Muslim Brotherhood friends??? Did he ONLY NOW figure out that ISLAM HATES WOMEN except as compliant sex slaves? Is he so moronic, or so DEVIOUS?
gravenimage says
Tom–with all respect–the idea that we should ignore the horrors of Shari’ah in Dar-al-Islam is *very* questionable. Even if you care nothing for the victims, the idea that this will not effect us is mistaken.
Saudi Arabia was involved with 9/11, and has been plotting violent Jihad ever since.
This is not actually a good thing.
And it seems that you agree with the sanguinary Saudis that we should sneer at human rights. Very disturbing. Do you actually have any problem with the idea of living under brutal Shari’ah law?
Tom says
Of course I abhor the Saudi’s and their disdain for civil rights. As I oppose any attempt to introduce Sharia anywhere in the west. This is obvious from my history of posting on Jihadwatch.
My assertion as I have posted above is that the issue of civil and human rights is one that can only be successfully addressed by a united national front ie The United Nations Human Rights Council.
Wrestling control back from the Saudi’s and other despotic members, who have recently taken control of that council, should be the battle, not just posturing, that has no chance of success but certainly has the potential of damaging the Canadian economy.
That said Trudeau and his government have a very clear agenda to damage the Canadian economy and culture and to have a borderless country.
Their agenda is driven by their alliegance to George Soros and influenced greatly by the Muslim Brotherhood.
This latest move is merely one more step in achieving their goal.
Trudeau and his MB supporting caucus are my main concern here and how they are clearly attempting to create damage to our economy through either inept government or intentional subterfuge.
gravenimage says
Tom wrote:
Of course I abhor the Saudi’s and their disdain for civil rights. As I oppose any attempt to introduce Sharia anywhere in the west. This is obvious from my history of posting on Jihadwatch.
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That’s what I thought, Tom–that’s why I was unpleasantly surprised by your above post.
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My assertion as I have posted above is that the issue of civil and human rights is one that can only be successfully addressed by a united national front ie The United Nations Human Rights Council.
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Uh…is this a joke? Hideous human rights violators have served on this council and its predecessors, including China, Pakistan, and–yes–Saudi Arabia.
If you are saying that human rights depend on the very violators of human rights, then they will never exist.
But the free West–including Canada, save for a few ugly slips–*have* been practicing human rights, despite your claims.
We do not need human rights violators to approve our practicing of human rights.
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Wrestling control back from the Saudi’s and other despotic members, who have recently taken control of that council, should be the battle, not just posturing, that has no chance of success but certainly has the potential of damaging the Canadian economy.
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I think the United States was right in isolating Iran for decades. I wish we had done that with more of Dar-al-Islam. I do not believe that our sucking up to the very terrorists who are murdering us is good for our economies.
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That said Trudeau and his government have a very clear agenda to damage the Canadian economy and culture and to have a borderless country.
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Trudeau has an ugly history of appeasing Islam. I very much doubt he had anything to do with actually calling Saudi Arabia out on its human rights violations.
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Their agenda is driven by their alliegance to George Soros and influenced greatly by the Muslim Brotherhood.
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No offence, but the idea that the Muslim Brotherhood is behind criticism of Muslim human rights abuses simply makes no sense.
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This latest move is merely one more step in achieving their goal.
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How does calling Saudi Arabia out on abusing women achieve their goals?
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Trudeau and his MB supporting caucus are my main concern here and how they are clearly attempting to create damage to our economy through either inept government or intentional subterfuge.
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No, I don’t believe that the Muslim Brotherhood is standing up for women, nor do I believe that supporting basic rights for women is “subterfuge” of the West.
Wellington says
I put zero faith in the UN (Useless Nations). The best thing any decent country could do where the UN is concerned is withdraw from it. The UN needs to go the way of the League of Nations, another useless international organization which preceded the UN.
Rather, if there is going to be any kind of effective international body, the FIRST REQUIREMENT for joining is that there exists in each country that becomes a member freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion. Hell, even the UK wouldn’t qualify anymore were this the standard let alone any Islamic country, most Latin American nations, most Asian nations, et al. Without liberty being paramount, any international organization designed to protect human rights is a farce from the get-go.
Jackie Drewes says
Well said Tom Election time is coming up and Trudeau is looking for ways to gain Canadians support. Yet his agenda is not for Canada but to ruin it and make it a post nation with his far left socialist globalist agenda. To bring Canada down to such weak state economically and in such huge debt while flooding this country with illegal migrants all part of globalist takeover plan to take away our culture heritage and self determination. Trudeau continually double speaks and the left wing main stream media in Canada funded largely by globalist elites continually trying to make Trudeau and liberals look good and covers up or diverts as much as possible their sunami wave of wrongdoings. The mainstream media such as CBC push globalist Trudeau liberal agenda 24/7 no longer seeking and giving unbiased factual journalism.and this has been going on with CBC for decades. The CBC babies Trudeau.and all left wing media in Canada copying left wing media news from far left democrat globalist puppet biased media in States are continually bashing Trump never telling all good things he is doing to literally brainwash the Canadian public politically. We are collectively being dupped by mainstream media. time to say no to listening to them and find other sources of information to make informed view. Our enemy in Canada is globalist takeover agenda with the likes of George Soros influencing Trudeau and the mainstream left wing media. If we had authentic news by simple common sense Trudeau would be ousted and put in place a long time ago. Trudeau double speaks continually ie demands human rights and free speech for Saudi Arabia but works to repress our freedom of speech and conscience at home in Canada.; and ie he previously rebuked someone for saying the female genital mutilation was barbaric saying it was too harsh to say that. His muslim immigration minister was going to quietly take a clause that the previous gov’t had put in citizenship guide that said that female genital mutilation was not allowed in Canada out but with large opposition of conservative MPs that became aware of it I believe didn’t take it out. Trudeau uses main stream media bashing Trump continually to start fisty standing up to Trump to get canadians support when its been left wing media exagerations and mis information in media to brainwash canadians to begin with. Asking another gov’t to give leniency to someone is different from telling a foreign gov’t how they should run their country. Trudeau is one dangerous idiot and his buddy Soros whos globalist agenda is to cause chaos and violence in western democracies.with sending people in such as Antifa violent grp. to promote protests funded by him and promoting mass floods migrants to destabilize democracies and then forming legal organization to protect these migrants is all for globalist takeover at expense of Canada as nation and canadians. We must say No to mainstream media propoganda and no to violent protestors and Soros and no to our incompetent PM.Trudeau.Trudeau has now for months been having l000s and l000s of illegal migrants just walk over our borders and has RCMP carry their bags in. balking our once good immigration system and he is doing nothing to stop it, opening the way for terrorists, drug addicts and thieves etc. to come in and stressing our our social services, housing schools and medical facilities and putting huge debt on our future generations with huge debt. not counting the great security risks and huge cost to taxpayers of what will be promoting in long run a police state in Canada.The UN won’t help as it is globalist puppet too now promoting mass migration to western democracies and having 38 is it muslim countries on board now at UN and having muslim countries heading human rights council constantly targeting Israel. Its a joke and unbelievably biased council. The UN is now flawed and can’t be trusted to have positive influence on our western democracies even admitting that the climate change agenda was really a tool to take wealth from western democracies and redistribute it not the climate change to help environment agenda.as portrayed. The UN promotes globalist takeover agenda . Trudeau cares about his narcissitic self and having seat at UN. The very last people he cares about is the canadian taxpayer that works hard to pay the canadian bills.in taxes. He works to get votes from special interest grps he lavishes with our debt money for votes and all those who want freebies by now wanting to institute a gauranteed annual income paid for by more gambling casinos he says. More to bring down our beautiful country and it will surely put us in more huge billions of debt.to lead Canada to bankrupsty. This man doesn’t care about this country nor canadians just dictatorial power and control. He is leading Canada to be like Venezuela and look what socialism has brought to it. Vote this narcissitic bullying so called feminist twit out while we still have a country left and stop listening to main stream lying media. Its fake news if there ever was any. if he was really for womans rights he would not have been supporting female genital mutilation in any way. He’s a hypocrite as feminist too.When he got in trouble for many years past making unacceptable advances to journalist he changed his tune to protect himself and had one set of rules for himself and another set of rules for members of his caucus he turfed due to sexual allegations.
gravenimage says
Jackie–with all respect–i *do not* believe that condemning the horrors of Shariah are “part of globalist takeover plan”. Just the opposite, in fact.
Agha Ali Arkhan says
That’s Islamophobic.
Indiana Tom says
Other countries need to call out the Saudis on the stupid Wahabinist things they do, but they won’t. They are our best buds, don’t cha know.
On the flip side, the Russians always gives Iran and pals a free pass.
gravenimage says
Grimly likely, Indiana Tom. That’s why I am applauding the Canadian Ambassador here.
If Canada has any convictions, they will not send a new ambassador until these victims have been freed. I realize this is unlikely in the extreme, though.
Dan says
Come on, Turdolt.
Put your fem-MALE-ist butt on the line.
REAL men do what’s right DESPITE personal cost.
Unless you’re just worried about loosing your Muslim voters, you spineless hypocrite.
Rarely says
Trudeau is getting a taste of reality. It’s a shame (for Canada) that he has to learn while in office.
It should become more and more apparent that Arab muslim positions do not “fit” well with the far left’s agenda. The far left will eventually find (and hopefully “see”) that they are being duped into allying with the Palestinian cause which has absolutely nothing “left” about it.
Terry Gain says
The Palestinians are virulently anti-Jewish. This is the quintessence of leftism.
gravenimage says
Not every Leftist is antisemitic. All too many are, though.
infidel says
ha ha ha.. what a joke this modernization of Jehaadi Saudi is turning out to be, I had caught on the very first time these rabid animals talked about modernization and throwing wool over the eyes of free world.
gravenimage says
I just hope enough in the West are paying attention.
KWJ says
This is typical Saudi bullying with OPEC dollars and Westerners cave in while they consider Western ambassadors, et al as slaves and mock their bending over for Saudis. Western countries need to stand up to this extortion. KSA meddles in our affairs-everything to funding political candidates to Islamization and funding Islamic groups, but it even goes deeper than that. The OIC are demanding too.
This is years of bending over for them, protecting their royalty even when they have tortured and killed Americans in the past and all because of oil and hegemony issues when we don’t need their oil-they need us more than we need them. Then they want us involved in their fights.
If it weren’t for US weapons companies and money-grubbing politicians and whomever makes money off of them, we would put our foot down and have some self-respect.
I have listened to them bully England and they run all these ports there.
The OIC has made all these demands regarding Muslim immigrants for their Hijra. They have investments in Twitter, Facebook, Fox News even, funded Islamic law schools st our top universities and such bastions of liberalism take the money while Islamic low is antithetical to women’s rights, tolerance, plurality, personal rights, etc. Politicians and greed have allowed this. Every time the West gives into their bullying they laugh and get warped pleasure in their doing this just as Islam has historically gets honor by conquering and subjugating people aka dhimmis, not by building and creating things but by winning.
Even Israel works with them while Saudi imams spread hatred of Jews and other non-Muslims. They contribute barely noting to UNWRA for the Palestinians and yet Europe does this Euro-Arab dialogue. You should read all the OIC speeches and conferences at the UN, etc. Lying about history, wanting to change our books and the whole denial of their own history and much bs. They are obsessed with Islamophobia.
Yazidi women taken as sexy slaves by ISIS have said even Saudis have bought them. God knows what has happened to them and how they’re treated and abused. The perversion includes children too as “that’s their culture.”
It’s a yoke to be thrown off. The US should pull out our soldiers from there protecting this lunacy. And we discovered and developed their oil…
gravenimage says
+1
Ernie says
+1
Jack Flag says
Meanwhile in “Saudi” Britain an elderly pensioner is fined by a court for sending a “racist” letter to a Muslim MSP (Member of the Scottish Parliament) saying Islam is “evil” and “demonic”. “Derogatory” remarks were made about the prophet Muhammad.
The pensioner described the Koran as “a jumbled rambling book of scientific and historical inaccuracies”.
Prominent MSP, Anas Sarwar, is never slow to bleat about “racism” in the media.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-45087317
gravenimage says
Appalling, Jack.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Did Saudis threaten Canada with 9/11-style attack? Some believe they did… ”
https://www.rt.com/news/435237-saudi-threaten-canada-terrorism/
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/06/blue-tick-saudi-twitter-account-makes-veiled-terror-threat-against-canada/
gravenimage says
Now *that* is disturbing, Flavius.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
An unintended benefit from the Trudeau government’s knee-jerk virtue signaling (condemnation of Saudi Arabia): about a thousand Saudi students studying in Canada have been told by Saudi Arabia to immediately take their studies to another country. About a thousand Mohammadans will be leaving Canada. Yeah!
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Correction: several thousand.
gravenimage says
Saudis expel Canadian ambassador for calling for release of women’s rights activists
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Even though it did no good, kudos to the Canadian Ambassador for speaking out against this barbarism. All of those in the West should be doing so.
David M says
He must be one of the few not bought & paid for by the Saudis.
Linda says
As for Saudi reforms, I saw one video interview with a Saudi national who said the reforms would be carried out Saudi Arabia’s way, not the West’s way.
As for Canada under Trudeau, move over Venezuela! Here we come! Can anybody say, “Failed state”?
gravenimage says
This ambassador is Dennis Horak. Kudos to him!
Proud Kaafir says
Trudeau is a joker. He thinks he can handle and reason with Muslims. He has laid out a welcome mat for the Muslims in his country and now he can speak to them and they will listen. What is this diplomatic condemnation of human rights? It is a soft nudging that you should consider the following points and he thought he could show himself as a just and impartial judge. He wanted to show that he accommodates the Muslims demands and at the same time he is strict with their wrongdoings like a strict father figure. But Muslims accept only one way traffic. They will reject all the responsibilities on them and keep demanding their side of the bargain all the time.
Relic says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy0rYUvn7To
Krishna says
there can be modernization only when country is secular
Eur says
The Saudi government pays the studies and the stay to thousands of Saudi students. These students are accompanied by their families. Those thousands of people have been ordered to leave Canada and many will move to the United States.
Elizabeth Thorne says
NOT TO WORRY…. 2019..…… Once we get rid of the “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” Liberal government, starring Justine Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland–hubby writes for the NYT, Irqa Khalid-M-103, Omar Alghabra, Salma Zahid, Arif Virani, Majid Jowhari, Ali Ehsassi, Yasmin Ratansi, AHMED HUSSEN, Maryam Monsef, Marwan Tabbara, The Muslim Brotherhood/Cair, all the Shari’ah lovers, Bill Blair–halfwit and climate Barbie, we might survive as a country.
Elizabeth Thorne says
Testing, Testing
Politicianophobia says
The One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest Liberal government will be gone in 2019. So sick of all the idiots.
Jackie Drewes says
IIs getting towards election time in Canada and globalist puppet Trudeau is trying to gain votes as he is down in polls.The mainstream media in Canada is our enemy in that they continually push politically biased globalist agenda as they are mainly owned by globalist elites. They and especailly CBC network continually are 24/7 liberal propoganda machine covering up diverting from negatives re Trudeaus wrong doings and continually try to baby him.and find ways to promote and further his so called feminist globalist agenda. The CBC gets millions of extra funding of our canadian tax dollars from Trudeau and liberal party. Terrible. They and other mainstream media in Canada are not only not giving whole story and authentic news but interfering in our democratic electoral process. We become brainwashed to globalist propoganda and stop being able to use critical thinking. ie The very left wing democrat globalist mainstream media in States sends its news to left wing mainstream media in Canada which it relays to us. They give 24/7 Trump bashing and are not telling whole story ie that the economy in US is booming 4.l% GDP in last quarter and lots of jobs there now. Now in recent poll 50% of americans support Trump and really love him for sticking up for the USA and american citizens. Trudeau is not sticking up for Canada nor the canadian taxpayer relegated to last place on his list if on at all. threatening our economy and weakening the country with billions of extra debt and working to make Canada a post nation to take away our culture heritage and self determination and be taken over the likes of his buddy George Soros in a globalist takeover. Part of that plan is promoting l000s and l000s of illegal migrants to just walk into Canada and RCMP told to carry their bags in balking our once good immigration system. Trudeau uses the anti trump brainwashing to give fisty rebutal to Trump to make public forget all his wrongdoings and vote for Trudeau in upcoming election. Trudeau thinks with media babying him he can get away with it. Stop listening to mainstream media as gospel as its not giving authentic news. Look to other news sites to get more informed information so you can use critical thinking instead of being like robot. instead of what previously was only one way of thinking allowed the globalist politcally correct one. Trudeau double speaks; he acts like he is for human rights in Saudi Arabia but is oppressing human rights and freedom of speech in Canada. Also there is difference in asking country to be lenient with someone incarcerated and trying to tell another country how to run their country. Another example of double speak ; he calls himself a feminist yet when someone called female genital mutilation barbaric Trudeau replied it was too harsh to say barbaric. Then as time went on he flip flopped with it. Also when accused of making sexual unwanted advances to female journalist from years ago he made excuses for it and was giving one set of rules for himself and another set of rules for the MPs he turfed from caucus for sexual allegations. Trudeau works for his own agendas not Canadas and to get enough approval to get seat at UN.by into billions of our tax debt money to UN and other countries as more important than his job to stick up for Canada and work for canadians as PM. The UN now is flawed and is not working for western democracies but for globalist takeover of them. They even admitted that climate change was tool they used to take wealth away from western democracies and redistribute them to other countries.not for purpose being promoted of helping environment. The UN promotes open borders to flood western democracies with l00s of l000s of migrants to weaken democracies for globalist takeover.Large amt of terrorist attacks rapes and thefts etc. from culture clashes resulting from this is secondary to them and people killed or maimed etc. is just fallout that has to be put up with for their agenda. as in EU which is mess from it happening there. The UN now has 38 is it muslims countries on board with their own interests and many are on human rights council at UN and are constantly targeting Israel. The UN has become terrible flawed and should not be looked to to dictate a sovereign countries interests. Canada stop being brainwashed by left wing media telling you what to think say and do and say no to it. Yes it is now fake news and CBC is the worst in Canada. To save Canada Trudeau has to go and Butts and his globalist liberal MP puppets.
Jackie Drewes says
Robert Spencer I just ordered your book and will look forward to reading it.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Turdeau’s only virtue-signaling; the $15 Billion deal to sell them tanks is still on!
Politicianophobia says
Marie-Pier Baril, spokeswoman for Foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland, said: “Canada will always stand up for human rights, very much including Women’s rights, and freedom of expression around the world.” What a lot of absolute horse pucky. What does she have to say about the Imam in London, Ontario, the head of the terrorists group, Hibz ut-Tharir, Imam Mazim Abdul-Adhim, calling for Shari’ah law in Canada–to hell with Canadian law. Does M-103 apply to him and all the other Imams spewing hate? What about all the people breaking the law coming across the border? This Liberal government will always stand up for anyone who is not Canadian and breaks the Canadian laws. What the hell kind of a message are these idiots sending to Canada’s youth? 2019 no Liberal left standing–no party status.