Just before National Police Week, the president seemingly just couldn’t miss yet another chance to wrongly slam peace officers. In a statement Friday, two days before the start of National Police Week, President Joe Biden expressed gratitude to the country’s fallen police officers and stated that his administration would work to support local law enforcement through the aftermath of COVID-19, following in the footsteps of those who came before him. And yet, as promising as the first part of his statement was, the president almost immediately used it to unceremoniously slam law enforcement. Just after declaring that his administration would work to ensure law enforcement has “the resources and research tools they need to do their jobs successfully,” and that it would “continue to bolster initiatives that protect our law enforcement officers’ physical safety,” “This year,” Biden said, “we also recognize that in many of our communities, especially black and brown communities, there is a deep sense of distrust towards law enforcement; a distrust that has been exacerbated by the recent deaths of several black and brown people at the hands of law enforcement.”
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The risk is even more crime, as individuals who commit serious crimes remain free due to political correctness. As we’ve witnessed, radical far-left ideas don’t stay in the universities. They spread throughout society, and find their way into legislation and governance. And so it is with identity politics, an ideology with Marxist underpinnings that erases individual responsibility and posits racial conflict as the key driver of society. Now, the Liberals are fully embracing identity politics in the justice system, with consequences that could be dire. As we’ve witnessed, radical far-left ideas don’t stay in the universities. They spread throughout society, and find their way into legislation and governance. And so it is with identity politics, an ideology with Marxist underpinnings that erases individual responsibility and posits racial conflict as the key driver of society. Now, the Liberals are fully embracing identity politics in the justice system, with consequences that could be dire. “The fundamental goal is to make the system fairer and more just for all Canadians,” Justice Minister David Lametti told CBC News.
Controversial Bill C-10 is heading to the justice minister for a second review of whether it impacts Charter rights, a day after Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault issued contradictory statements about whether Canadians’ social media accounts will be regulated under the bill. Konrad von Finckenstein, former chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, said the government has not been clear what the broadcasting bill, and the various amendments the government has put forward in recent weeks, will do. “By now everybody seems confused, and I think nobody knows anymore what this is, and where this is leading and what you’re trying to achieve,” von Finckenstein said in an interview. “We can see that the Minister of Heritage himself is struggling to answer some really basic questions about this bill,” Harder said during the committee meeting. “And so if he himself doesn’t have a full understanding of what this legislation does, and does not do, and is not able to clearly communicate on that point, then I’m confused as to why this committee would be expected to have a clearer understanding of this piece of legislation.”
Abu Obeida, spokesperson for Hamas’s military wing, said the rocket attack was a response to what he called Israeli “crimes and aggression” in Jerusalem. “This is a message the enemy has to understand well,” he said. He threatened more attacks if Israel again invades the sacred Al-Aqsa compound or carries out evictions of Palestinian families in a neighbourhood of East Jerusalem.
Ottawa trying to divert racialized youth from courts, create national Indigenous justice strategy Advocates for justice system reform are welcoming new proposals from the federal government to address the overrepresentation of black and Indigenous individuals and other racialized groups in the criminal justice system. In the recent federal budget, the government pledged $216.4 million over five years, and $43.3 million each year after that, to divert black and Indigenous youth and young people of colour from the courts. The government also is proposing to give $21.5 million over five years to organizations that offer free public legal education and services to racialized communities, and to spend $26.8 million to help provinces maintain immigration and refugee legal aid support for asylum seekers.
The Trudeau Government failed to consider any violent left-wing protest groups associated with urban riots and bombings when compiling its annual list of banned terrorist groups, True North has learned. According to a new document exclusively obtained by True North, the Department of Public Safety did not provide any records to the Minister on a long list of Antifa-affiliated groups who operate in Canada. Antifa is a violent far-left movement whose followers organize riots and openly call for violence against anyone they believe is a “fascist” — a broad and ill-defined classification that has included veterans, police officers, security guards, military personnel, store owners, journalists, conservatives, Trump supporters and anyone who isn’t adequately woke. Antifa members have been arrested in cities across North America and Europe for the destruction of property, arson, uttering threats, assault, incitement and even murder.