At least that's what I thought back in 1967, when I was in seventh grade.
Posted on 02/25/2020 12:07:06 PM PST by rktman
Last Tuesday, with the blockade of the Canadian rail system by indigenous protests having already been underway for 12 days, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a speech in Parliament about the need for patience and listening to other points of view. “We are creating a space for peaceful, honest dialog with willing partners,” Trudeau said. Later he added, “What is the alternative? Do we want to become a country of irreconcilable differences where people talk but refuse to listen? Where politicians are ordering police to arrest people.”
Trudeau’s smug tone and vague message did not go over well with Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer who called it “a word salad” and “the weakest response to a national crisis in Canadian history.” For daring to disagree, Scheer was kept out of a meeting of party leaders to discuss the situation. “Mr. Scheer disqualified himself from constructive discussions with his unacceptable speech from earlier today,” Trudeau explained.
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“Where politicians are ordering police to arrest people.”
We call those ‘Red Flag’ laws here in the states.
His dad was a leftist tool too, but when the Frenchies killed that ambassador he brought the army out and kicked arse.
Canadians love this sort of passive-aggressive nonsense.
It makes them feel superior to Americans, which is something they desperately long for. Many Canadians are absolutely obsessed by it, and think of very little else.
Too late.... The ‘activist’ (i.e. layabouts with not much else to do.) are setting up blockades everywhere now... Roads, trains, highways.... They don’t care and Trudeau encouraged it.
“Do we want to become a country of irreconcilable differences where people talk but refuse to listen?”
What a pile of stinking tripe!
Of course it’s the other side that has irreconcilable differences, and by listen he means do what I want or else.
Some Canadian kid in my high school (in Caracas) named all the US presidents and then challenged me to name the Canadian premiers. What I should have said was, “Who cares?”...
Yet when you tell the truth about Islam or Bruce Gender, politicians will be ordering police to arrest people. But real issues, let them fester.
Doright (Dudley)
LOLOLOL!!!
doug macKenzie
bob macKenzie
That was in October 1970. The separatist FLQ kidnapped Quebec Labour Minister and Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross. That prompted Pierre Trudeau to invoke the War Measures Act, which permitted mass arrests and suspended the writ of habeas corpus. LaPorte’s body was found seven days after his kidnapping and the War Measures Act being invoked (he was strangled and left in the trunk of a car). James Cross survived his ordeal.
This declaration and whether or not it was appropriate to do so continues to provoke considerable debate. I recall watching a documentary in which it interviewed someone who was arrested at his home and given an indefinite detention simply because he was a labour activist in Montreal and really had nothing to do with separatism. Therefore, one could argue that the Trudeau government overreacted with all of this and gave separatism even more legitimacy in the eyes of Quebecers (along with the corrupt practices of the provincial Liberal government) that led to the election of the Parti Quebecois led by Rene Levesque in 1976.
Western Canada and Greater Idaho should create a new country. Then I’ll pull up stakes and move there.
At least that's what I thought back in 1967, when I was in seventh grade.
“Do we want to become a country of irreconcilable differences where people talk but refuse to listen?”
I wonder if he said this before or after he kept Scheer out of meetings because he disagreed.
I don’t know who I loathe more....Trudeau or Obama. It’s a whole lot of loathing.
Ah....habitat....takes me back....still around I think.
Well 0 is out of office.....Turdough however is still swinging for the fences.
O might be out of office, but I have no doubt he is working harder at undermining the country than he EVER worked as president.
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