According to a CBC poll, 75% of Canadians want more skilled labour immigrants. In the same poll, 57% of respondents say Canada should not be accepting more refugees.
The Trudeau government immediately called the trend “worrying”, but there’s a much a bigger discussion to be had here.
No, the majority of Canadians aren’t racist. True North’s Anthony Furey thinks Canadians want to talk about vetting and integrating immigrants but are worried about the hordes of leftists who will demonize them.
Michael Cooper, the Conservative MP who was removed from the House of Commons Justice Committee by Andrew Scheer, is threatening to sue The Hill Times for a column which he says defamed him.
“This mischaracterization of Mr. Cooper’s actions is blatantly untrue,” his legal team wrote.
The column, written by activist Farheed Khan, titled “Scheer’s speech on diversity doesn’t match his actions,” takes aim at Cooper over a May meeting in which he quoted the Christchurch mosque shooter’s manifesto while correcting a claim made by committee witness Faisal Khan Suri. Cooper claims that Khan’s arguments are factually untrue.
The allegations have not been tested in court.
Much of the criticism directed to Cooper is based on the notion that he brought a copy of the killer’s manifesto into the committee, which Cooper says is patently false.
“Mr. Cooper did no such thing. To the contrary, Mr. Cooper was quoting from a piece written on www.realclearpolitics.com, an American political website, ” his lawyers said. “This mischaracterization of Mr Cooper’s actions is blatantly untrue [and] has brought him into public odium and contempt.”
Portions of Cooper’s remarks to Khan Suri have been purged from the official audio and transcript records of the committee proceedings following a Liberal motion at a subsequent meeting.
Khan Suri, who tried to make a connection between conservatism and violent extremism. Cooper read into the record that Brenton Tarrant, the Christchurch terrorist, rejected conservatism and praised communist China.
Cooper also spent as much time in his testimony speaking about another leftist mass-shooter, from the United States.
It isn’t just the Canadian government trying to use “hate speech” as an excuse to clamp down on the internet. France, the United Kingdom and the European Union are looking at their own regulations to do the same. In the UK, however, with whom Canada is co-hosting a media freedom conference next week, the government is exploring creating a regulatory body to force social media companies to provide support services for those “harmed” by online speech, and to “disrupt” companies that don’t comply with government speech restrictions.
True North’s Andrew Lawton explains.
Andrew will be at the press freedom summit next week thanks to the support of True North donors. We can’t do this work alone, and the mainstream media won’t do it at all. If you can support our campaign to protect free speech, please do: https://tnc.news/lawton-heritage-club/
A Canadian citizen who helped plan an attack in 2009 has been sentenced to 26 years in an American prison.
A Brooklyn federal court sentenced Faruq Khalil Muhammad ‘Isa, an Iraqi-Canadian dual-citizen, for his role aiding the attackers in a suicide bombing that killed five American soldiers in Iraq.
“These five families will never be whole again,” said Becky Johnson, whose son was killed in the attack.
The judge had no sympathy for ‘Isa, hoping that the sentence will act as a deterrent to those looking to take part in planning attacks.
“There’s no excuse for even trying to kill American soldiers,” she said.
The judge noted that while she believes ‘Isa deserves a life sentence, she was forced to give only 26 years under federal guidelines.
The judge spoke at length about the difficulty of successfully building cases against those who commit terrorism abroad. Locating witnesses and procuring evidence can be nearly impossible and stopped ‘Isa from facing more serious terrorism charges.
Their concerns echo concerns made by members of Canada’s law-enforcement community as the Trudeau government appears to be looking for ways to repatriate ISIS fighters who are imprisoned in Iraq and Syria.
After ‘Isa’s sentence is completed in the United States, he will be deported to Canada.
Under the Harper government, dual-citizens sentenced for terrorist acts have had their Canadian citizenship revoked, thus protecting Canada from extremists after their release.
In 2016, however, the Trudeau government enacted Bill C-6, which protects terrorists from losing their Canadian citizenship.
Another man with a similar situation, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, worked with the terrorist group that committed the 2009 Mumbai attacks, killing 166.
Rana could be back on Canadian soil as early as 2021.
BY: ANTHONY FUREY
The headlines at home give Canadian readers the impression that all of our current troubles with China are happening on our soil and all involve trade.
Whether it’s the detention of Meng Wanzhou, the potential Huawei ban or the halting of meat imports, they all read like issues happening on this side of the globe, distinctly Canadian stories told from a Canadian perspective.
But that doesn’t tell the whole story. Canada is also involved in a delicate chess match taking place in international waters in the vicinity of China – and as our involvement grows so do the stakes.
The state of the media industry is such that foreign correspondents are generally a thing of the past. The only time Canadian reporters venture abroad is alongside the Prime Minister, on Canadian government flights. But Matthew Fisher – formerly of Postmedia and now a fellow with Massey College – does it old school, having spent decades out on the field as a witness to history. And he’s still at it, currently touring on the Canadian warship HMCS Regina as it travels throughout Asia.
A couple recent experiences Regina has had in waters around China show that our issues with Beijing aren’t just isolated to Huawei and trade. They’re escalating in military matters as well.
Last week it was reported that Regina transited through the Taiwan Strait, the narrow body of water that separates the independent nation of Taiwan from mainland China. While most of the world considers this waterway international waters, China considers it their own. This is largely because Beijing also considers Taiwan their own, a wayward province that they want to absorb into their country.
The Chinese military has also attempted to lay claim to large portions of the South China Sea and has militarized a number of small islands that the international community says were not theirs to take.
While American naval vessels have more frequently conducted freedom of navigation exercises in the region and through the Taiwan Strait, Canada typically doesn’t.
That we made this voyage now, during the Huawei mess, will only further frustrate Beijing. And that’s not a bad thing.
It’s important we show that China doesn’t get to write the rules of the game – not when it comes to our telecom system, not when it comes to our judicial system and certainly not when it comes to international waters.
There’s already been a bit of blowback. Fisher reports from on board HMCS Regina that on Monday a pair of Chinese fighter jets buzzed the Canadian warship, flying within 300 metres of the ship’s bow. The intentions are clear: We’re on to you. We’re watching you. We don’t like your presence here.
It’s completely acceptable for the military of one country to pay close attention to the operations of another country’s military when close to its shores. But China’s actions go beyond mere observation. They’re trying to assert their total dominance and preferred control of the region, something Canada must not accept.
Tensions have been increasing in the South China Sea for years and now Canada is a part of those tensions.
Crown prosecutors are arguing that Ayanle Hassan Ali should be officially labelled a terrorist for his 2016 attack on Canadian soldiers in a North York recruitment centre.
Ali was found not criminally responsible after the court concluded that the man was schizophrenic.
On March 14th, 2016, Ali entered the centre and attacked several soldiers with a large kitchen knife and was charged with several counts of attempted murder, assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm and carrying a weapon. All nine charges were considered “for the benefit of, at the direction of or in association with a terrorist group.”
A judge acquitted Ali on the nine terror charges claiming that the Criminal Code doesn’t have the means to capture “lone wolf” attackers.
Federal prosecutors are now challenging that assumption in the Ontario Court of Appeal.
“The trial judge’s interpretation impedes the ability to arrest and charge the lone wolf,” claims a statement by crown lawyers.
“A lone actor who commits an act of serious violence for a religious or ideological purpose, intending to intimidate the public, should be stigmatized with a Section 83 terrorism conviction.”
Due to the judge’s decision, Ali is currently not legally considered a terrorist despite several pieces of evidence pointing to the religious motivation behind the attack.
In one diary entry, Ali claimed that he had a “licence to kill”.
“One soldier is all it takes, just one,” wrote Ali.
Paramedics who arrived on the scene also heard Ali say that Allah had sent him “to kill people.”
Ali is currently being held in a secure ward at Hamilton’s St. Joseph’s Healthcare where he is being treated for his schizophrenia.
The environment is important, but it’s rarely, if ever, the top priority for Canadian voters. This is why Justin Trudeau’s and Catherine McKenna’s incessant alarmist rhetoric about climate change will come back to haunt them.
True North’s Andrew Lawton sets the record straight.
Official figures from the Canada Border Services Agency show that only 866 out of 45,000 border crossers have been successfully deported from Canada after failing to meet asylum requirements.
“Everyone ordered removed from Canada is entitled to due process before the law and all removal orders are subject to various levels of appeal,” said Border Security spokesperson, Emmanuelle Cadieux.
In accordance with Canadian law, applicants who fail to meet asylum requirements can exhaust all potential legal options of appeal before they can be ordered for deportation.
From January to March 2019, nearly 3,000 people crossed into Canada illegally. Most crossings take place along Quebec’s border with the United States, but are also regularly taking place in British Columbia as reported on by True North.
Faced with the reality of an overwhelming backlog of applications the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada has recently announced that it no longer can eliminate the backlog but only manage its growth.
Currently, the backlog is expected to grow to 100,000 individuals in the next two years alone.
With a backlog of that size, applicants could potentially wait up to five years before ever getting a decision on their asylum claims.
A majority of asylum claimants originate from countries like Nigeria, Haiti, Colombia, Turkey and others. Applications by Mexican Citizens are also on the rise at an alarming rate. In 2018, Canada had a 1,000 per cent increase in asylum claims from the country.
Out of those, some are expected to be highly dangerous criminals and cartel members who have slipped through Canada’s border with fake passports and have fallen off the radar of police.
According to Canadian authorities, 400 Mexican cartel hit men and drug traffickers have entered the country illegally and are being searched for by police.
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Once again, an official from the United Nations has said that Canada and other countries have an obligation to repatriate ISIS fighters imprisoned in Iraq and Syria.
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet told the UN Human Rights Council that all members of the genocidal terrorist group should be given “fair trials” by their home countries or released immediately.
Nations, including Canada, “must assume responsibility for their nationals,” she said.
“I urge all states to assume responsibility for their nationals, and to work together to provide resources to help the relevant authorities and actors in Syria and Iraq to address urgent humanitarian needs.”
There are about 190 ISIS fighters with Canadian citizenship imprisoned in the Middle East, most of them held by Kurdish rebels in Syria.
As the United Nations does not recognize the authority of many of these groups to hold prisoners, they would like to see them be repatriated to their country of origin, even though this will not guarantee that they will ever face justice.
This is not the first time a UN official has pushed nations to repatriate violent radicals.
UN rapporteur Agnes Callamard was brought on CBC radio in January to tell Canadians
that they are legally required to return ISIS fighters to their communities.
“I believe it has a legal obligation to do so, if those foreign fighters are currently held in Syria by a non-state actor, in this case, a Kurdish group,” she said.
The biggest concern for Callamard was that these ISIS fighters may face the death penalty in Iraq and Syria, which the UN strongly opposes.
Despite committing genocide on multiple groups and denying citizens the rights laid out in the UN’s “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” it appears the UN’s priorities are with the wellbeing of ISIS fighters.
Law enforcement officials within Canada has made it clear that prosecuting ISIS fighters in Canadian courts would be difficult.
Most countries have so far refused to repatriate any of their fighters, judging that local authorities would best prosecute the terrorists.
