Category: Sackville’s Memorial park

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funds medical research in Canada.

This national funding agency is composed of 13 virtual institutes.

Each of these institutes is led by a Scientific Director who benefits from the advice of “Institute Advisory Boards” (IABs).

These Institutes are the following: Aging, Cancer Research, Circulatory and Respiratory Health, Gender and Health, Genetics, Health Services and Policy Research, Human Development, Child and Youth Health, Indigenous People’s Health, Infection and Immunity, Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis, Neurosciences, Mental Health, and Addiction, Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes, Population and Public Health. These Institutes work both independently and in collaboration with each other and/or with international institutes or agencies, etc.

As you can see above, one of these excellent institutes is called the Indigenous People’s Health. Its Scientific Director is currently Dr. Carrie Bourrassa who acknowledges “the leadership of previous IPH Scientific Directors Dr. Malcolm King and Dr. Jeff Reading who helped shape the Institute” (https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/8668.html). Bambi had the honour to meet/interact or collaborate with Dr. King (what a scientist!).  

Over the past years, there has been a debate around sex or gender differences among Canadian researchers and their access to funding. Some wondered if female scientists were less likely to be funded than male scientists because of systemic barriers. The answer turned out to be no. However, there were differences related to men and women’s styles. Perhaps choices of words in writing letters within applications. Perhaps more importantly, there was also a difference related to the more aggressive competing style of men. The latter tended to apply to funding competitions in the next competition immediately following a failure (where women preferred to wait and perhaps improve their chances with this strategy, etc.). OK, this problem was solved fast. There was no systemic discrimination against women. Plus, there is a whole institute devoted to gender and health.

Now, Mr. Trudeau’s government, seems to want to religiously apply the DIE religion (to use the sarcastic term of Dr. Gad Saad from Montreal, Québec) to every aspect of the public service sphere and even in the private sector. DIE stands for Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity.

Indeed, look at what our government wants to demonstrate now… It is launching an initiative called “CIHR online discussion on systemic racism in Canada’s health research funding system” (https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/52258.html). Can you imagine? The underlying idea here seems to show that our funding system is filled with systemic racism.

If the same excellence criteria are applied to all applicants to a certain grant application and peer reviews are conducted in a thorough way, looking for EXCELLENCE, period (scientific merit and clinical impact/significance), why should we worry about a so-called systemic racism in our health funding agency? Please keep also in mind that any competition with the CIHR (or with other governmental funding agencies) starts with a check of conflicts of interests (http://www.science.gc.ca/eic/site/063.nsf/eng/h_90108244.html?OpenDocument).

Plus, look at our outstanding IPH Institute mentioned above, isn’t it amazing that we have a full Institute, which mission is to “play a lead role in developing research capacity in the First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities, and will support partnerships and alliances between Indigenous communities and health research groups at the local, regional, national and international levels. IIPH supports health research that respects indigenous values, beliefs and cultures, while generating new knowledge to improve the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Peoples”. IIPH also fosters capacity building in graduate students pursuing careers in Indigenous health research and promotes partnerships with Indigenous Peoples.

Among its impressive achievements, there is the Indigenous Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative. Indeed, under the leadership of IIPH, and in collaboration with four other institutes, the CIHR developed an initiative called Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI). There is another much appreciated support of IIPH of the CIHR’s Transition in Care Initiative (TiC), co-led by four institutes (including IIPH) in collaboration with four others. Last but not least, there is the contribution of IIPH to the Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research.

As you can see, the IPH Institute has played a leading role within the CIHR and even worldwide in great research initiatives! It is one of our Canadian prides, despite our sad history of abuses and de-culturation ☹… and residual contemporary racism.  

To conclude this post with an old story (already shared on this blog) to show what Bambi thinks of all this wokeism religiosity: Whenever she applies to funding or completes governmental applications, she refuses to answer those extra questions on her ethnolinguistic background, etc. For her, this is no one’s business. She is Canadian, period. For instance, recently, Bambi accepted an invitation to participate in a research project (as a participant). One of the demographic questions was about ethnic background. The list of answer options was literally endless, with funny categories and even sub-categories. Bambi skipped the list to its very end. Luckily, there was a category called “Other”. She chose it and managed to insert on the form the words: “A proud Canadian :)”.

OK, seriously now, merit and only merit should be our criterion. Yes, we need an equal and fair access to opportunities for all (no discrimination there, support to those in need, etc.). However, we cannot and should not guarantee the outcomes of competitions in life. Once we do that, we set ourselves for scientific mediocrity. Is this what Mr. Trudeau really wants? Likely not. So, why doesn’t he stop and reflect before getting too excited by fancy ideologies, like DIE, wokeism, etc.? 

Her name is Ms. Zeina Kanjo. Bambi has never heard of her before, although she was a famous Lebanese model well liked in real life and online. Look how beautiful and full of life she was… Yes “was“. Not even “is” and surely “not will be anymore” :(.

According to l‘Orient Le Jour, Ms. Zeina Kanjo is “the new victim of domestic violence” in her country, Lebanon, “seven years after the adoption of a bill on domestic violence”, called Bill 293, which was amended in 2020″ (https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1250381/zeina-kanjo-nouvelle-victime-de-la-violence-conjugale.html).

Zeina (or Ms. Kanjo) is surely and sadly not the last victim. Others will follow. Unlike the story told in the song below, she did not even have the time to spend years in an abusive spousal relationship. She got married 6 months ago only to a man who apparently was very jealous. Some Lebanese and many international media are circulating a recording between him and a woman called Ruba, who is the sister of Ms. Zeina Kanjo. This recorded phone conversation took place after the tragedy. Bambi will not get into the details as this is not the purpose of this post.

Her heart goes to Ms. Kanjo’s family… and if she may, she would like to honour Ms. Zeina with a beautiful Lebanese song (with sub-titles in English) powerfully denouncing the tragic problem of domestic violence. The song is by Ms. Karol Sakr and it is called “Khallas” (Bambi had an earlier post about this relatively still new song). Bambi is also thinking of the wonderful novel of her own sister, Ms. Roula Douglas entitled “Chez nous c’était le silence“, even if that story had a happier end.

“Khallas” means “enough“. Another Arabic word for it would be “Kafa” (the latter is the name of an excellent NGO that helps victims of domestic violence in Lebanon). Who knows? Perhaps Ms. Zeina Kanjo’s last word was actually “KHALAS” when her tender spouse put his hand on her mouth to make her lower her voice because it was early in the morning (as per his own words in the recording).

To conclude this post on a note of hope of change of mindsets and practices in men-women relationships in some places around the world (with real patriarchy issues!), see how this good man (from another country than Lebanon) is talking about this tragedy. Thanks to him and to the majority of men who are good guys and who refuse to see their fellow men mistreating (or even killing!) their spouses, sisters, mothers, etc. (sometimes hiding behind what they call honour). Some of these men go out of their way to protect women from harm. In addition to bills, we need more and more of these men… and women (who, as mothers, are the first educators of both men and women).

Rest in peace Ms. Kanjo. May your memory be eternal.

Ms. Karol Sakr’s new song, “Khalass” (“ enough” in Arabic), is about domestic violence

Whether we think highly of Ms. Kamala Harris or not (Bambi doesn’t, but she would have written the same post, even if she did), why do we seem to be behaving like in the Middle East? A place where populations under dictatorship make their leaders holy, even framing them in large pictures in public places There, a political leader is deliberately being presented to the people of a country “as a great person who should be admired and loved” (as per the definition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary)?

You may wonder why Bambi is saying so, thinking she is interfering in the US politics. Well, no, make no mistake please. The story is 100 percent made in Canada. Now, we have a cartoonist from Winnipeg, called Mr. Kaj Hasselriis, who created a comic book series called “Politikids“, which tells childhood stories about some of Canada’s leaders. Well, guess what? His latest product is entitled “Kamala in Canada“. It recounts Ms. Harris’ (new VP of the USA) time living in Montreal when she was younger.

Mind you, in her own autobiographical book, it seems that she talks about Montreal without any passion and in a very brief way. For her, it was a cold place (winter) she did not want to move to, as a teenager, and where she had trouble with the French language.

To come back to the book in question, well the news was all over the Canadian media. Here are just two of the numerous examples:

In English (CTV News):

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg-cartoonist-gaining-fame-for-comic-on-kamala-harris-1.5280828

In French (La Presse):

https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/litterature/2021-01-21/kamala-au-canada-une-bd-dans-les-celebrations.php

We even learned later that this book is now “in the US Embassy inauguration swag bag“:

Winnipegger’s book on Kamala Harris ends up in U.S Embassy inauguration swag bag

Why are we getting into the cult of personality like that, like the Middle East? And if we are starting with this now, what will we do down the road in 2/3 or 4 years and especially around the next US Presidential elections?

Is the USA a foreign country, after all? Unless Canadians (especially English-Canadians) see themselves as an extension of their neighbour. This is starting to remind Bambi of powerful Syria and smaller Lebanon…

You may be wondering why the title of this post is about Canadian naivety? Perhaps you already know that. Perhaps not. This description is a common stereotype that comes from the mouth of immigrants… and, like other stereotypes, they are partly grounded in truth. This is why, new immigrants, regardless of their birth country (often in trouble), appreciate the goodness of Canadians, but they see it as a double-edged sword: One one hand, it is beautiful. On the other hand, it could put people at an increased risk manipulation at a population level (especially in those who may lack critical thinking. Make no mistake, this has nothing to do with the educational level. On the contrary actually… ). Yes, Canadians are highly educated in general… but to what extent are schools, college/university campuses, and mainstream media opinions still a rich intellectual place to learn critical thinking?

Bambi is thinking mainly about English-Canada, but sadly this phenomenon is now becoming increasingly common in Québec as well, which is perhaps a clear sign that the situation has reached worrisome levels across our beautiful country.

Even and especially if Bambi had been a admirer of Ms. Harris, she would have found this cult of personality both odd and of concern. Who knows? Perhaps because Bambi has always resisted such practices when growing up during civil war. She has never gone to visit or applaud to the current President in her younger years, even if he opened his Presidential palace and called it “the House of the people“. Bambi did not despise him. She just refused to make a public figure holy. Period. She was a teenager and yet she resisted peer pressure. Mind you, she did not like the other powerful alternative neither. Indeed, as she shared once on this blog the following story: when she was the delegate of her class, “she stoop up to militiamen who came to take school kids to applaud to a certain politician in another school (this was during civil war). Bambi told those guys: “We are not sheep and we are not going with you”. Well, the youth of all the schools had to attend in the end. This was not negotiable. Bambi did the following then: She went to hide in the washroom in order not to be forced to go with the crowd, against her will.”

So, to conclude this post, Bambi wishes the new administration Biden-Harris all the best. She wishes them and their beautiful country well. However, she refuses to make anyone holy, neither them nor our own Mr. Justin Trudeau, former/newer Governor General, or any other public figure (whether “BIPOC” as they call them or not… remember she is supposed to fit in this rather funny acronym)!

Mr. Biden is in much rush to re-enter a nuclear deal with Iran (with the latter setting the conditions). As a reminder, he even began negotiating with Iran even before Mr. Trump finished his term.

Now, we learn from Naharnet that Mr. Biden is freezing F-35 jets to the UAE and weapons to Saudi Arabia to take the time to think in order to ensure that “U.S. arms sales meet our strategic objectives of building stronger, interoperable and more capable security partners.”

It is hard not to suspect that the two moves are likely related, given that one entity is the enemy of the two others. One must add that one entity (Iran) is military expanding in the Middle East to the point of pushing some countries into the arms of Israel (their historic enemy) through the Abraham Accords. Plus, look at Lebanon. In reality, it is like an Iranian colony now (without the official title, of course).

Add to all this the American so-called “existential” climate and environment executive orders. Taken together, we can guess where the US new administration is heading. Indeed, from far, and in the short-term at least, it seems to be in a position of weakness. Bizarre as when we are in a negotiation process, we usually have our maximum potential of power. If the US appears weak now, imagine how it will be in the end down the road: Not very promising for the safety of the Middle East, and thus the world. Not very promising for the clean air and water (from missile testing or possible conflicts). Plus, the US will eventually become increasingly dependent on foreign oil (like Germany or France with Russia)… but at least, it will have a good conscience with the climate whilst pleasing those stakeholders who often earn a good living to generate theories that can ultimately weaken economies, even if it is in the name of “climate justice” or to protect “Mother earth”, etc.

Of course, all the above is ultimately the US choice, as a country. Bambi is posting on this only because it is directly affecting our Canadian oil and gas sector, in pandemic times on top of that.    

You may be in total disagreement with Bambi. Some have been busy lately calling pipelines odd names like “racist” or even “white supremacist” ?. Who knows? You may not have an opinion on this or do not care. You may also feel for all those workers losing their jobs yet be ecological and happy now, like Mr. Blanchet (as per his tweets).

To conclude this post with her own opinion, Bambi will say the following: She may be wrong, but she believes that, despite its (or Trudeau’s?) globalist ambitions, Canada is/remains a smaller player in both the world’s economy and global pollution. So why have we increased the carbon tax? And why are we so radical in our positions on pipelines forgetting the risk of train tragedies like the horrible Lac Mégantic disaster? What will we do, if God forbid, another similar tragedy takes place in another part of the country? Finally, as far as the Middle East is concerned, Bambi is sad to see Iran’s increasing hegemony on her birth country :(. When will Lebanon be finally truly sovereign and not dependent on all the powerful countries of the world, including its neighbours or… Bambi’s neighbour?

https://thehill.com/policy/international/536585-biden-faces-deadline-pressure-on-iran-deal

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/278935-biden-freezes-uae-saudi-arms-sales-for-review

A big thanks to the Bloc Québécois, and especially to Mr. Yves-François Blanchet (for this motion) and all our good Canadian lawmakers, including Mr. Trudeau himself (for his vote).

All the media of the world reported the great news. Here is one example from France 24: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210128-canadian-lawmakers-vote-to-grant-citizenship-to-saudi-blogger

However, for unknown reasons, we are hearing now that our PM is refusing to execute this injunction. This is apparently strange because Mr. Trudeau is a good-hearted man/father who likely enjoys his image of defender of oppressed people and minorities… and here he has a case of true oppression.

As a reminder, Mr. Raif Badawi is a blogger like Bambi. Yes, he is still in jail in Saudi Arabia. Remember that he was sentenced to 1000 lashes, a 10 year sentence, and a fine of 200,000 Saudi Arabian riyals (CAD $69,381). Even if he gets out of jail, he cannot leave his country to join his family in Sherbrooke, PQ, Canada for at least 10 years. His kids are growing up without him nearby. He and his spouse have not seen each other for God knows how long. All this because he was accused of blasphemy. Can you imagine? Bambi had wished Saudi Arabia had Bill 21 like Québec… but this is not how things work in this country in the Middle East unfortunately.

Indeed Saudi Arabia has Islam as the state religion. Not any type of political Islam. Despite its latest many modern reforms (e.g., yes, women can drive now!), Saudi Arabia is associated with Wahhabism (a very hardcore conservative movement within the Sunni branch of Islam). In the past, it has caused problems to Saudi Arabia for reasons we all know too well ( http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/244737) , especially if we did not voluntarily lose our memory (i.e., the 911 tragedy is just one example).

Now let’s come back to Mr. Trudeau. Why is his government doing this? Is it for some political calculations ahead of any elections? Is it to punish Ms. Haidar for supporting the secular Bill 21 in Québec (see earlier post on the topic)? Is it because he is lacking courage ahead of an international meeting? Is it to serve the interests of our neighbour with regard to Saudi Arabia? Or is because of Canada’s interests or issues with Saudi Arabia? Is it because the Prince himself may be under pressure by the sweet Islamists of his country? Oh, by the way, who killed journalist Jammal Kashoogi in the utmost horrible and stupid way (in the embassy of his country in Istanbul, Turkey)?

To conclude this post, if Mr. Trudeau himself, or you as a reader, can guess the answer to the latter question, it means that Mr. Badawi deserves the Canadian citizenship… and NOW please! So, Mr. Justin Trudeau, please read the tweets of your colleague below. Mr. Blanchet posted a straightforward short message in French. Please listen to your colleague. He is speaking on behalf of Ms. Haidar (and indirectly on all of us).

Thank you Mr. Trudeau for your consideration.

Contrary to many others, Ms. Ensaf Haidar knows radical religiosity sadly too well. This is why she defends Québec’s secularism bill 21

On this World Press Freedom Day, a refreshing documentary on China by the CBC… from 2012, along with hypocritical blahblahblah by Ms. Chrystia Freeland

Bambi shares your loss, Dearest Maya, Carla, Nayla et al. in Lebanon, Canada, the Netherlands, and France. May your uncle rest in peace and may his smaller family in Beirut find inner peace. May the Head Nurse, cousin of your mom Carla/Nayla, also read in peace. Thanks to her for her long service.

Thanks to journalist, Ms. Roula Douglas (who recently lost five people in a single day, including two students), for sharing this BBC NEWS short documentary on Lebanon’s struggle with the management of the coronavirus pandemic on top of multiple crises (financial crash and the resulting revolution of October 17, 2019, capital control, poverty/famine, no new Government since the explosion of August 4, 2020, and the regional increasing threats and hegemony of one powerful heavily armed group, etc.). This video shows us that some patients are being refused in more than three, four or even up to seven hospitals because of lack of beds. Thanks to the Lebanese Red Cross for its incredible volunteering work and to all the hospital healthcare providers who are beyond tired!

Lebanon is getting ready to receive its first batch of vaccines in February. If all goes as planned without much further delays, this country seems to have a relative good vaccine strategy. The country is targeting an 80% vaccination rate. The access to the vaccine will be free of charge and not mandatory. It will be accessible to everyone, even to those who cannot leave their homes (disability, illnesses, other, etc.). The latter will receive the vaccine in their own homes. If Bambi understood well, there are two official public health committees responsible for overseeing the vaccination of refugees (Syrian and Palestinian citizens). At least on papers and, of note, in an electronic platform of registration (in its 2nd or third day of operation), all seems to be put in place well in order to be effective in the implementation phases.

Bambi hopes that the Lebanese historic efficacy in times of crises will prevail over other undesirable factors like any disorganization, temptation of identity politics or power-related temptation, cheating, delays beyond the usual, or misinformation.

Good luck to tiny, bankrupt, and exhausted… yet always eternal Lebanon! Hang on!

Bambi has always been an optimistic deer since her early years of life and throughout a very long civil war in her birth country. She remained like this in her late teenage years in our beautiful yet changing country (sadly for the worse).

She is still positive when it comes to the pandemic. Eventually, like any other crises in life, it will come to an end in one way or another.

This being said, she would not lie to you. She is worried about our long-term future post-pandemic, and she is not talking about the economic disaster awaiting us.

She is talking about our collective silly times filled with toxic ideologies (i.e., wokeism) and identity politics. You are only holy if you are of this or that colour, of this or that gender, of this or that religion, etc. Accept this and shut up. Otherwise, you risk being called racist… or cancelled.

Bambi has always told herself that this (ideologically toxic) pendulum will eventually shift. People will come to their senses. They will dare to question the new, absurd societal orthodoxies of the so-called wokeism (or postmodernism? Or whatever it is called).

That was what she told herself at first, but sadly not anymore.

What we are observing is an ideological bulldozer in action, not a pendulum.

If the bulldozer does not use its brake, it will crush us all.

If you do not believe Bambi, just think what schools are teaching our kids or de-teaching them… and us. In some places, they keep repeating mantras over and over. In other historic community organizations, they don’t want to sing our national anthem anymore (Yak… how racist, they may think), and across Western countries, we see mobs destroying historic figures, with the tacit endorsement of those in power. Can you imagine a lower level of self-respect than that?

Indeed, when a society stops acknowledging its past (with its faults), celebrating its milestones, and believing in itself and its civilizational or cultural future, it is hard to remain optimistic… unless our youth will surprise us by waking up, and saying no to the radicalism of all this.

Bambi will try to explain herself. If wokeism is like a secular religion, it will take people from within organizations (governments, universities, other places) to wake up and say it is too much. Enough is enough. It would be like Muslims saying no to Islamism (political Islam), for instance.

Why are we allowing mysterious yet destructive forces to divide us, one against the other. We are no longer Canadian citizens or human beings. We must only see each through the lens of identity politics (or racial socialism) and only focus on one reduced aspect (i.e., blacks versus whites, settlers versus indigenous, illuminated versus retrograde, righteous “racialized” versus the racists, disgusting men (not any males, usually, white males, one must say… because it would be racist otherwise) versus women, trans versus God knows what (it is hard to keep track of all the new genders), people who sign emails or names on TV screens with pronouns and all those who do not care as long as they are called and being respected.

No, we cannot be all the above at once… or not care about any whilst at the same time respecting everyone. As they say, we can only be anti-racist (when we are white) otherwise we would be racist… and racism can only go in one direction only. Otherwise it would be racist.

Do you also see the stupidity of all this? Or are you afraid to agree because you would be a horrible citizen deserving self-flagellation for repentance of original sin?

If you think Bambi is exaggerating, please read the following. Sadly, the author is a journalist who graduated from one of our Canadian schools. As for the professor reported in one of the articles, this individual is holy. How could he/she be otherwise when a BIPOC [yes again that stupid acronym that Bambi is supposed to fit in 🙂 or 🙁 ]?

If this is not ideological brainwashing, what is it then? Can someone tell Bambi please?

https://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/10318263-guilty-of-doing-something-racist-or-problematic-ask-yourself-these-questions/

https://www.toronto.com/news-story/10073062-terms-about-whiteness-you-should-know/

Bambi would like to react to a Letter to the Editor published in the New Wark Times (of Sackville) entitled “Opinion: No future in fossil fuels, Trudeau should act now to protect workers”

To begin with, it is always informative to read opinions. Thanks to Ms. Stearns-Anderson for sharing her thoughts and thank you Mr. Wark for publishing this as Letter to the Editor.

Here is the full text for you (taken from: https://warktimes.com/2021/01/29/opinion-no-future-in-fossil-fuels-trudeau-should-act-now-to-protect-workers/). Bambi will bold the text she will comment on.

“By Vallie Stearns-Anderson

Dear editor,

In response to US President Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline, economist Jim Stanford made an interesting statement. Stanford said: “it is now undeniable: fossil fuels will disappear from most uses in the foreseeable future. And fossil-fuel industries will never again be an engine of economic growth and job creation in Canada.”

This is something that the climate movement and Indigenous land defenders in Canada have been saying for a very long time but, now, we’re hearing it from economists too.

For some reason, however, the message still hasn’t reached Prime Minister Trudeau and politicians like Jason Kenney who remain convinced that there is a pathway toward building this project.

Instead of trying to save this doomed pipeline, maybe Canadian politicians should get to work in service of the workers they claim to support. In the 2019 election, Trudeau promised to deliver a Just Transition Act that would support workers through the transition to a green energy economy with new jobs and retraining programs. It feels like this would be a good time to follow through on that promise.

Sincerely,
Vallie Stearns-Anderson
Sackville NB

Note: This is the first letter to the editor Warktimes has published. Readers usually express their views in the comments section. Occasionally however, readers may wish to comment on topics not covered in a previous article and in such cases, a letter to the editor would be appropriate.”

End of the text here.

You may be curious to see the picture in question, please bear with Bambi. She will first reply to the three bold sections of the letter for her own fun (she knows no one cares for such “retrograde” opinions in our “Sweet Little (and holy) Sackville”).

First, the writer seems to be putting all the Indigenous citizens in the same basket, assuming that all members of every group think the same. How is that possible? When in Bambi’s same family, all three siblings do not think the same ??

Seriously, Bambi means that some workers in this sector are Indigenous and they do not want to lose their jobs or they want pipeline projects to earn a living from whilst ensuring a better safety to their fellow citizens (in comparison to train transportation of fossil fuel) and awaiting a transition to a renewable energy.

So, the association between “the climate movement and “Indigenous land defenders in Canada” may not be existent (or fully existent) for all, as this statement wants us to believe. For some, it is. For others, it is not. Yet for others, it is somewhere in-between: Preferring to get to renewable energy, but until scientific discoveries and commercialization, we still have at least 100 years ahead (and Canada is far from being a leader in this area…). Plus, we may lack fossil fuel until then, who knows?

Second, when Ms. Stearns-Anderson tells us that politicians need to work for the workers, this seems very noble. With this regard, let’s see what workers want to say to our leaders… Yes here is the promised picture, thanks to the friend who took it ?:

If everyone recalls, when the pro-pipeline protest convoy of workers braved the cold all the way from the West to Ottawa to express themselves to our leaders, Mr. Trudeau snubbed his nose at them. If Bambi recalls (and she may be wrong), Mr. Maxime Bernier (from the PPC party) was the only leader who went out in the cold to greet them. Worse than that, our media tried to portray them as a being “racist” (maybe some were, who knows? However, this applies to any group).

Third and last, Bambi agrees with Ms. Stearns-Anderson, our PM seems to be talking the talk, but not walking the walk. We definitely need a “Just Transition Act that would support workers through the transition to a green energy economy with new jobs and retraining programs”.  

To conclude this post, Bambi has a question for both Ms. Stearns-Anderson and Mr. Trudeau: Why don’t they spend more time on the technological aspects of renewable energy to actually make it happen?

First here is an official statement by our federal government as well as interviews and tweets by our Canadian Heritage Minister, the Honourable Mr. Guilbeault:

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/statement-by-the-prime-minister-on-the-fourth-anniversary-of-the-fatal-shooting-at-the-centre-culturel-islamique-de-quebec-804670675.html

Regulatory framework to monitor hate speech online is coming soon: minister

Second, is it normal for a (minority) government to unilaterally resort to such legislation in a democracy?

Why aren’t Canadian citizens concerned, like Bambi?

The irony of all this is that our government is shamelessly using a VERY SAD day like today (i.e., memory of the mosque tragedy in Québec city) to make us swallow their legislation.

Even Lebanon, with all its issues, did not resort to such nonsense.

Bambi is speechless…

Who needs another Lac Mégantic rail disaster in Canada?

Bambi will never ever forget this disaster that took place on July 6, 2013, neither her parents who heard about the tragedy from as far as Beirut before starting their trip all the way back to Canada (to Sackville, NB).

If you have forgotten, 42 citizens got killed and five remained missing. The whole downtown area was destroyed. If Bambi is not mistaken, this may have been the fourth deadliest rail accident in Canadian history (see the short video below, as a reminder).

Now, in an article published in the National Post (by Mr. Jessy Snyder), we can read following: ‘It’s a big threat’: U.S. aims to shut down another cross-border pipeline — Line 5 to Ontario. Line 5 is yet another point of contention between the U.S. and Canada on the energy file after President Joe Biden revoked a permit for Keystone XL”

Will our politicians know how to stand up for Canada’s safety and economy?

What will they do now with the second dramatic outcome of the Biden-Harris administration’s so-called “existential” executive orders on climate and environment?

Will Mr. Trudeau tell us again that we need “to look past Keystone XL pipeline to areas of mutual Canada-US alignment“?

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/look-past-keystone-xl-to-areas-of-mutual-canada-u-s-alignment-trudeau-suggests-1.5278192

Bambi hopes that he is not talking about the alignment of blind globalism, of any political shenanigans with interest groups over the interests of one’s own country, and of… wokeism.

Sarcasm aside, Bambi still wants to remain positive. Politely, she will thank you Mr. Trudeau et al. for any sincere effort to truly stand up for Canadians!