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First, our Prime Minister delivered a virtual address to the UN General Assembly on September 25, 2020. In it, he dared to criticize Iran (as per an earlier post by Bambi, video by CTV News). He even mentioned the people of Beirut. Thanks again Mr. Justin Trudeau.

Even when targeted by two Russian pranksters (thinking he was talking to Ms. Greta Thunberg :)), Mr. Trudeau answered all the questions well. Actually, he did not make any faux-pas. He even answered questions better than he usually does with domestic journalists.

Of note, as per BBC, this phone call was recorded a few days after the “Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 had been shot down after taking off from the Iranian capital of Tehran, amid escalating tensions between Iran and the US. All passengers and crew on board the flight were killed, including 57 Canadian citizens” (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55062943).

Keeping this in mind, it is not a secret to anyone that Mr. Biden wants to revive the Iran nuclear deal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action.

Well, below is a France 24 interview with Mr. Anthony Blinken, USA President-Elect Biden’s pick for Secretary of State (Blinken is a loyal colleague from his own party’s establishment). This interview is old, from May, 2019. Bambi just discovered it.

You can watch Mr. Blinken sounding very convinced of Iran’s good faith with regard to the nuclear deal to the point where he seems to trust the Iranian regime more than his own fellow American government, if that makes any sense :).

Bambi wrote the above sarcastic comment, even is she loves diplomacy (she prefers it to aggressive methods, which should be a last resort, when everything else fails).

She also understands someone’s attachment to an agreement, which may be perceived as own little “baby”.

Mr. Trump may have taken the USA out of that deal because of evidence showing that Iran was still building its nuclear weapon (even if it signed the deal)? Could it be? Not just because he wanted to undo the legacy of Mr. Obama et al., although the latter is highly possible with all leaders, especially narcissistic ones who find it hard to recognize any good achievement by others they do not agree with?

At least, Mr. Blinken admitted in the interview in question that Mr. Trump was consistent with himself in achieving his electoral promises, including this one.

And now, Mr. Biden will likely do the same. He will undo the more aggressive policy against Iran to a return to a softer one he will call multilateral, collegial, etc.

All the good words of the world could be said about diplomacy and good collaborations. Bambi is usually the first to applaud such efforts (especially being raised in a chaotic civil war). However, the sad reality is that nothing will stop Iran, not even the good diplomatic words/deals of our good world leaders.

Indeed, Bambi toured the news sites from this country (in English) and those by the Hezbollah. You can notice the happier tone to have Mr. Biden, as President-Elect. We could also read the words of Mr. Nasrallah making fun of Mr. Trump’s defeat (even, if the legal fight of the latter is not over yet). In an earlier post, Bambi mentioned how Iran was too fast to inform Mr. Biden of its intentions to come back to the deal. This means that the latter was too good for Iran, no?

Bambi also heard about supporters of the Hezbollah dancing on the streets of Beirut when they read the news about Mr. Biden being the President-Elect (not Mr. Trump). What does this tell us?

In all honesty, Bambi is writing this post and she does not care about neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Biden. She cares about people more than politicians, especially when the latter lack courage, wisdom, or humility to recognize sterile political outcomes.

Instead, she cares more about the Lebanese people who will live with the consequences of the decisions of the Bidens, the Trumps, the Blinkens, and the Nasrallah’s of this world.

She cares about the innocent Iranian people who would sadly be the first to pay the price, whether under sanctions or under a future nuclear bomb that will threaten the whole region (including Beirut).

She cares about our neighbours, the USA people whom she respects and likes.

A soft, diplomatic approach is usually the wisest method with the majority of people or nations in life. However, soft methods can be taken advantage of by more vicious entities or toxic personalities.

Iran is scientifically clever (it could develop the nuclear bomb) and is determined (you can move mountains when you have faith in your will). In contrast, despite its power, the USA may be too naïve or too taken by its globalist (and idealistic) agenda, with all due respect to both Mr. Biden and Mr. Blinken (who speaks great French, plays the guitar, is a great servant of his country, and knows Lebanon well).

To conclude this post, Bambi thanks them and wishes them the best, even if she has her doubts. Whilst doing so, she prays that their decisions will keep her loved ones safe(r)!

In what world do we live, when in the middle of a pandemic with devastating public health and economic issues, an article in our state media about “offensive language” of (male) politicians?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/mla-language-legislature-colleagues-nb-1.5812896

With all due respect to Ms. Megan Mitton, who called her like this? Can she tell us ??

Bambi thought that by a second term, she would have developed a thicker skin.

What’s wrong with lady? Isn’t this a noble title? What’s wrong with being young ?? Did she prefer “old lady” instead?

For over a decade and perhaps 15 years, Bambi thought “Ma petite Madame” was said to her in public places (e.g., by cashier in supermakets, etc.) because she is small. It turned out that no, it could be said to any woman, even tall ones. She was happy to know that, even if she did not mind it if it wasn’t the case (she is indeed smaller than average French-Canadian “ladies”).

As for her Green MLA colleague, Mr. Kevin Arsenau, since when “our Indigenous people” is disrespectful and with a colonial attitude? Bambi may have used that term in front of immigrants (and she is an old one… yes old not “young” as in “young lady” ?!). She thinks she may have even used it before “First Nations” once even, and her ancestors are surely not settlers in this country. They are “Indigenous” maybe (as Phenicians?).

Seriously now, there is something tender with the word “our” and something “inclusive”, on the contrary. At least, this is how Bambi perceives it because she does not spontaneously attribute bad intentions to people she communicates with or people who talk about her or about a facet of her complex identities.

Are those Green politicians now playing on words to create a sort of discomfort in not only their peers, but also in their society? We also now become even more politically correct that way? For Bambi, this is a form of combined control and superficiality. This is even dangerous, if pushed to the extreme in a society. It can eventually create strife.

There is no country in the world that doesn’t have its own tensions between groups. We are blessed in NB to be as harmonious as we can be, despite our issues. Some countries have issues between Shia or Sunni Muslims. Other countries have issues between people of African descent and others of European origins, etc. Yet other between more secular majority/ies and the most religious minorities (e.g., Israel, Lebanon, and perhaps now France, etc.). This is why a concept like “systemic racism” is a catch-all term that can be used as weapon in any country, not just the USA or ours.

All this being said, can we please focus on the more pressing issues in life?

For instance, Ms. Megan has at heart issues like housing. This is concrete. This is highly important in people’s daily lives, more than a word said here or written there. Please Ms. Megan keep your good work and let go the superficial issues that distract us from what matters the most for us: Actions to improve our lives.  

In other terms, can you please, as Opposition, hold Mr. Higgs’ government accountable to us, the taxpayers?

Thank you!

First of all, if you are francophone or francophile with a good memory, chances are you can still know how to sing the famous “Au Claire de la lune” lullaby you learned from your loved ones or from school.

Bambi has fond memories of her now 26-year-old nephew Michael who was born in Montreal. At the time of this story, he was a toddler. His mom (hi Roula :)) checked on him after putting him to sleep. Well, when she did so, she caught him waving to the moon, through the window, whilst telling it: “Au revoir Lune” (or good-bye Moon, in English :)), before closing his eyes to sleep. Cute, isn’t it?!

Well, first, here is the lullaby (in case you forgot it or do not know the French version of “Under the Moonlight“):

Finally, just to make you smile (and perhaps sing like Bambi did?), here is the Lebanese amusing version of “Au Claire de la Lune“! Bambi discovered it whilst working, thanks to her preferred Lebanese-American internet radio.

Who knows? Just like Michael, perhaps those funny singers enjoyed chatting with the moon when they were young boys :)?

Enjoy!

Everyday, we (and Québeckers in particular!) are bombarded with messages of being bad, of being racist, of being discriminators.

What a POWERFUL article by Mr. Martineau. Merci/Thank you.

Like this journalist, Bambi is fed up.

Enough is more than enough!

Below is a quick translation of Mr. Martineau’s article published yesterday in the Journal de Montréal:

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/11/22/plus-capable

“A message to all those who take advantage of the forums offered to them to say that Québeckers are racist, intolerant, narrow-minded, chauvinist, sectarian, cautious, and closed to others.

If you find life so hard in Québec.

If you think Québec is such a terrible place.

If you are in so much pain.

Go, what the hell!

Jump on a plane and go to milder skies!

We’re not holding you back…

Shame on Amnesty International

I think I am correct when I say that I am not the only one who is fed up with these insults.

For some time now, it seems like the one who will hit the hardest on the head of Québeckers.

Until Amnesty International gets down to it, claiming in an odious ad that Québeckers discriminate against all those who are not called Tremblay or Roy!

Don’t you have dictatorships to condemn, dear friends of Amnesty? Political prisoners to be released? Torturers to denounce?

The people of Québec are among the most welcoming ones in the world.

Talk to the Haitians we have welcomed with open arms. To Vietnamese boat people. To the Chileans who fled the Pinochet dictatorship.

To the Algerians who chose to move here because they were fed up with the Islamists.

And to the Iraqis, yes, Adib, the Iraqis who came here so that they could finally live in peace and see their children thrive, be successful, shine – and, who knows? maybe even fill halls and be applauded at Sunday High Mass by French-speaking white Catholics who will treat them as friends, compatriots and equals” [Bambi will allow herself to add the following: Mr. Adib Alkhalideh, a famous artist, told viewers of Radio-Canada, the French CBC, that he feels “humiliated” in “Ville Saint-Laurent” where he resides and “on TV”. Funny as Bambi lived there for 15 years. She has cousins and friends who happily still reside there. The last time she checked, no one was “oppressed” or “microaggressed”, regardless of his/her mother tongue, religion, or other parts of their complex identities). Mind you, this part of Montreal has been tenderly called “Saint-Liban” (Saint Lebanon), as it is filled with all sorts of old and recent immigrants from all over the world, mostly from this tiny Mediterranean Arab country].

“Fed up with seeing people who have taken full advantage of the generosity and openness of Québeckers to, once settled in, spit in our face.

The bare minimum

All you are being asked is to speak our language and not to wave your religion like a flag when you work for the state and you are an authority figure.

Is it so appalling?

Do you know any regions of the world where it is as good to live as here?

I imagine if your home country was so beautiful, so egalitarian, so generous, if it defended the rights of its citizens so well and if it treated its minorities so well, you would not have decided to leave everything to settle here, thousands of kilometres from your native land, from your parents, from your friends.

Would it be too much to ask you to take advantage of your forums to praise our generosity, sometimes? Our benevolence? Our clemency? Our charity? Our openness?

We are not asking for much. Just stop dragging us through the mud.

We are a minority.

And a minority is fragile.

It is quite normal that we want to protect our culture, our language, our ways and customs.

Do you know all the struggles, all the fights that our parents, our grandparents and our great-grandparents had to lead so we can still be here?

Integration is a two-lane highway. We have duties to you.

But you have them toward us too.”

If you think Bambi is exaggerating, please take the time to watch the CBC video within this article?

It is entitled “University students, faculty push for anti-bias training“.

The faculty member interviewed, called Dr. Nadia Abu Zahra, even uses the term “anti-oppression“. Wow :)!

Does her language make any sense to you, in all honesty?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/carleton-university-diversity-training-1.5801201

In all her non-politically correct honesty, Bambi is no longer surprised to see the deepening level of our collective insanity in our Canada and world. She is just sad about it.

When will all this stop?

Perhaps it would be more constructive to society to consider defunding the CBC, instead of our police?

Today is the Lebanese Independence Day.

A day filled with mixed emotions. From patriotic love to pride, from sadness to hope… and back to love of a country that is struggling to exist, even if it is there to stay, rise, and shine again!

Independence from whom? From what?

How can we be truly independent of regional forces some have aligned Lebanon with to a suffocating extent?

How can we be truly independent when we have so many crises to deal with?

How can we really be independent when we have a government morally and financially corrupt… and bankrupt?

How can we be independent when our loyalty is more to an ideology than to our country?

Ironically, Independence Day # 77 seems to be about the independence of the Lebanese population from its disconnected mafia-like government…. whilst awaiting the true independence from the internal militia forces controlling it?

Here is the CBC article that told us about the words of the Honourable Ms. Dunn:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/aboriginal-affairs-minister-promises-action-racism-1.5810256

Why is she using these buzz words, regardless of her plan or response to the request for a public inquiry?

Why is she doing this to her province and country?

Why can’t she have her own mind and not repeat the latest slogans of our world?

By the way, why is she minimizing cancer as as potentially fatal chronic health condition?

As a proud New Brunswicker and as an old immigrant of 30-years who lived in three different Canadian provinces, her choice of words is a turn off for Bambi and it will be to many of the potential newcomers to our beautiful province.

People from birth countries filled with deadly or silly ideologies are allergic to the “systemic” collective stupidity of our times.

MANY of them, traditionally Liberal voters, moved from those parties that endorse political correctness to that extent. They just want to preserve both their sanity and their beautiful new country.

They want to work hard and earn a living.

They want to be/remain as free as possible.

They do not want to be at the mercy of the control of systemic silly ideologies.

Yes, racism exists and it will always exist. Yes, we need to address and prevent it.

However, to tell Bambi that all our systems are “ingrained” with “systemic racism“, she does not buy it, sorry.

She has been involved in several of our systems and she has not observed any cancer (only the cancer of political correctness or collective insanity of our times).

A quick reaction to the following CBC article:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/black-indigenous-demonstration-ottawa-laurier-nicholas-1.5809445

Today, Mr. Trudeau warned us about the high numbers of coronavirus cases. He even wisely psychologically prepared us a while ago for the necessity to cancel our large Chritsmas gatherings.

Why don’t we listen to him and to Dr. Tam? And to our local Premiers and their experts? Why don’t we listen to the increasing statistics here and there… and everywhere?

First of all, it would be wise not to resort to demonstrations and to sit-ins, especially in hot spots, regardless of the noble cause of the time.

Second, in this particular story unfolding in Ottawa, the demonstration in question is against the so-called “systemic” racism.

Without knowing all the details of this story, and again regardless of the good intentions of our youth wanting a better just world, Bambi feels like commenting on two particular points:

ONE: The following sentence by the demonstrators: ” The Crown’s cowardly decision not to appeal officially sanctions police violence and white supremacy against Black, Indigenous and People of Colour and people with disabilities in Ottawa.”

Isn’t this sentence perhaps a stereotype of its own? Please take the time to read it twice, as Bambi did. In all honesty, does it make sense to you?

Why are we once again emptying words from their sense and amalgamating all these beautiful folks together? Is this sentence a sort of a victimhood contest? Or jointly, the victimhood status is even holier… or the police is nastier? Bambi is asking, even if she is supposed to be included in the sentence, as a “deer of colour” .

SECOND: Bambi is concerned by the demands of the demonstrators because, in the longer term, it could result in an outcome comparable to one of Lebanon’s serious security problems: The existence of pockets of “no-law” zones where the Lebanese police and army are afraid to enter. When they do so, blood is shed.

Is this what these demonstrators want for their capital/country?

Specifically, in Bambi’s non-expert citizen opinion, demand # 1 combined to demand # 2 are not only unrealistic. Taken together, they are a formula for a national disaster.

No citizen with common sense likes to see the police slipping up or abusing it power. We all benefit from a well-reformed police service. We all win when there is harmony between the police and the public.

This being said, let’s not fool ourselves, our society is safer when it has police services.

This is why Bambi prefers our legitimate, far from perfect, police services to any other alternative(s) because its mission is to keep us safe. She is saying so based on a 17-year second life in tiny Lebanon out of which 15 years of her childhood and teenage years where spent in an ugly civil war.

In Bambi personal, non-expert citizen’s opinion, our PM did not set the wisest example to young Ottawa (and Canadian) citizens when he took the knee with the crowd. Ironically, in his picture that toured the world, one could see that he was being protected by police officers :)). Yet, despite the faux-pas, Bambi hopes to see Mr. Trudeau using both wisdom and compassion (i.e., as a father and former teacher) to help the demonstrators come to their senses?

To conclude this post, yes it is possible to demand improved police forces, but without throwing the baby with the bathwater!

Dr. Mathieu Bock-Côté’s article was published in the Journal de Montréal last week:

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/11/12/la-tentation-raciste-de-jeunesse-jecoute

Here is quick translation by Bambi…

The article begins with the following tweet from the organization in question (since then, it has been deleted under pressure of the remaining Québeckers with common sense).

The tweet above means the following: “There are many things that you can do as a young white, to recognize your privilege and fight against racism as a ally to racialized persons in Canada. Learn more about this”.

In that same tweet, under the girl’s picture, the words read as follows: “Being white, what should I know about white privilege? – jeunessejecoute.ca

Under this weird tweet, Dr. Bock Côté’s original French article includes a sentence that reads as follows: “Kids Help Phone uses the plight of teenagers to force an anti-white discourse.”

Like the author, Bambi finds this tweet not only racist and disgusting, but also incredibly sad. What ideologies are we brainwashing our young kids with? Who is funding this? Or no need for funding anymore, the brainwashing is too deep?

This being said (Bambi could not help it!), let’s go back to Dr. Bock-Côté’s article….

“The story begins on Twitter. I was snooping around on Tuesday when I came across a tweet from Kids Help Phone, the pan-Canadian organization that claims to offer a listening ear to anxious and distressed youth. It’s a noble mission, of course.

But Kids Help Phone took advantage of this tweet to push young “whites” to acknowledge their “white privilege” in a guilt-ridden fashion. The tweet led to the organization’s website, where there was a page featuring racialist slogans that recast anti-racism on white hatred, in addition to making the latter the highest form of love of humanity. Being white is wrong, it’s dirty. Do you get it?” [In Bambi’s mind, all this is meant to divide the American society further, likely to weaken it and even create a strife… a bit like the sad story of Lebanon during its ugly civil war. Americans must be smart enough to be lucid. Only lucidity can help counter evil forces].

“Shabby

I am rarely surprised by this kind of news. For a long time, I have studied the question of multiculturalism and political correctness in all their dimensions, and I see coming what we modestly call their excesses. But this time, I confess my surprise. I had never imagined that an organization meant to serve young people in distress without embarrassment would instrumentalize their woes in the most abject manner. I was disgusted. Taking advantage of a teenager’s distress to force him/her to swallow the woke potion and the political correctness is lousy.

I imagine the scene. A young man phones Kids Help Phone. He confesses his pain of living to the telephone operator, who stops him. – Are you white? – Yes. – You must recognize your white privilege! Just by the colour of your skin, you participate in systemic racism. Repent, become an ally of minorities! – Uh, but I’m really not well, I’m calling you because … – Shut up ! When you’re white, you shut up, if not you talk just to criticize yourself. Then the youngster hangs up.

On social media, the reaction was fierce to the point where Kids Help Phone deleted its tweet and removed the “white privilege” page from its site. Simple common sense? I’d rather bet on the fear or funk. Of course, I archived everything in screenshots. Above all, do not claim victory too quickly. Because many discovered at the same time that Télé-Québec is promoting propaganda and indoctrination videos intended for schools to “explain” to students the concepts of “white privilege” and “systemic racism”.

Let’s also not forget all the other courses that teach them to feel microaggressed. in all circumstances, leading to situations like the one we experienced at the University of Ottawa recently.

Tele-Québec

We then wonder why “young people” repeat these slogans. But because they are at the heart of the American ideological porridge that they are constantly given to consume! The political leader who will clearly assume the fight against political correctness and its repeated ideological aggressions will find wide support in an exasperated population [this is precisely why a classical liberal like Bambi found herself voting for Mr. Bernier at the last federal elections. Like Dr. Mathieu Bock-Côté and likely like a large silent minority, she is fed up]. I insist: he should not resist it passively, but fight it frankly. Québeckers have the right to demand that we stop funding those who spit on them out of their taxes.“.