JUST Desserts

Steyn On-line ^ | June 3, 2019 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

Parliamentary note: As I write, I'm still scheduled to give evidence to the House of Commons Committee on Justice and Human Rights, along with Lindsay Shepherd and John Robson, bright and early tomorrow morning, Tuesday, at 8.45am in Ottawa. However, over the weekend there were dramatic ructions around "JUST", as the committee is apparently abbreviated. On Friday, Faisal Khan Suri of the Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council appeared and decided to link Quebec mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette to "conservative commentators". Michael Cooper, the Tory Vice-Chair of the committee (and presumably the chap who issued the invitations to Lindsay, John and me) then told Mr Suri he "should be ashamed" and read a portion of the Christchurch shooter's "manifesto" in which the killer said he liked the Chinese political system and rejected "conservatism".

Everyone else got the vapors, and by Saturday evening Andrew Scheer, Conservative Party leader, had removed Mr Cooper from the committee for the following crime:

Reading the name and quoting the words of the Christchurch shooter, especially when directed at a Muslim witness during a parliamentary hearing, is insensitive and unacceptable.

So the Insensitive One has been booted and, assuming the hearing proceeds, I'll either be looking across the room at an empty chair where young Cooper used to be or facing some entirely new member. For the moment, the meeting remains open to the public, so if you're in the general vicinity of Canada's capital do come along and say hello. We'll be in the Wellington Building, just across the street from Parliament.

[dp0622]

I could go for just desserts :)

I eat dinner just to get it out of the way anyhow!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I'd say Scheer is a big disappointment; but I neverchad high enough expectations to be disappointed. He's nothing but a tool of the dairy cartel. (I doubt many Americans understand what I'm alluding to. It's too inexplicable.)

[Joe 6-pack]

Key Lime Pie. It’s my weakness.

[dp0622]

NEVER had it.

I will try it in your honor at a diner this weekend :)

[ClearCase_guy]

Canada has been loony for awhile but they’ve gotten positively scary recently. Really over the top rejection of all Western values.