The Idiots at the Helm

From the Conservative Treehouse:

Chrystia From Canada Recaps Canadian Trade Position At the End of Wednesday…
August 29, 2018

The *tell* is within: “we have agreed not to conduct our negotiations publicly.”

Remember, U.S.T.R. Lighthizer, Jared Kushner, Secretary Ross and the U.S. team have never made a public comment about internal negotiations, ever. The only trade team that has discussed the dialogue, and specifically their individual terms within the dialogue, is Justin from Canada’s team, specifically Chrystia Freeland. This has been a weakness of team sparkle socks all along because it highlights their political prism.

So when princess rainbow sparkles and Justin back away from talking about their unicorn demands they are signaling a shift from a political prism toward a more economic-based set of determinations. Essentially, their political approach has failed; they are weakened.



“what both sides need” interpreted: Justin and Chrystia are trying to gauge the best retreat from the position of political damage. I’m going to hold-off on expanding consequences to Canada joining until I see if they *actually* do join. However, the biggest part of the U.S./Mexico agreement would eliminate Canada’s ability to use the NAFTA loophole.



The auto-sector (rules of origin) requirements are factually more difficult for Canada to meet than Mexico. Auto companies in Canada will have to change their supply chain completely because Canadian auto assembly plants have a higher content of Asian parts.

Here’s the part of the new agreement that applies:

The United States and Mexico have concluded substantive discussions on new rules of origin and origin procedures, including product-specific rules for passenger vehicles, light trucks, and auto parts. This update to the rules of origin will provide greater incentives to source goods and materials in the United States and North America.

Key Achievement: Increasing Regional Value Content Rule

This deal encourages United States manufacturing and regional economic growth by requiring that 75 percent of auto content be made in the United States and Mexico.

The rules will:

Incentivize billions annually in additional United States vehicle and auto parts production.

Help to preserve and re-shore vehicle and parts production in the United States.

Transform supply chains to use more United States content, especially content that is key to future automobile production and high-paying jobs.

Close gaps in the current NAFTA agreement that incentivized low wages in automobile and parts production.

If Canada joins on to the above agreed terms, they will save most of their current auto-manufacturing. However, many Canadian car manufacturers will likely have to open ancillary component manufacturing to meet the rules-of-origin threshold; that will likely lead to more component manufacturing and assembly in the U.S.

Think about it? If you are a company supplying an auto manufacturing plant currently in Canada: where are going to safely put your facility (physical plant expansion), given the renewed regulatory and compliance process; and the nature of a six year review for trade-deal continuance? Answer: In the U.S.

In addition to the above, to join the U.S-Mexico agreement Canada will have to:

- open their telecommunications and banking sector (eliminate non tariff barriers).
- eliminate soft-wood (lumber) and aeronautics subsidies.
- begin a process of lowering their assembly use of Chinese/Asian goods.
- eliminate protectionist tariffs on dairy and farm products.

The bottom line is that Canadian workers will gain considerably if Justin and Chrystia sign on to the current deal. Yes, it would require several industries within Canada to restart (Steel, Aluminum, Coal, etc.); however, that’s a benefit to the Canadian worker, not a loss.

The big challenge is within the protectionist barriers Canada would have to give up. Liberal Canada likes to have governmental control over several segments of their economy; loosening regulations and opening up to a free market means less control for the planning authority…. you know, that pesky free enterprise thing.

Tots and Pederasts

Image from the Art Gallery of Mississauga's Facebook page

Event publisized on the AGM website: ‎Fay and Fluffy's Storytime at AGM Tot Spot:

Friday, September 21, 10:30-11:30 am
We are sooooo very excited for our next AGM Tot Spot! Join us on Friday, September 21 from 10:30 - 11:30 am for lotsa laughs through storytelling with our very special guests. Drag stars Fay Slift + Fluffy Soufflé invite you and the kids in your life to a special event with books and fun! Fay & Fluffy's Storytime is great for kids and adults of all ages.

From Fay and Fluffy's website:

JP (Fay) + Kaleb (Fluffy) are both drag performers and experienced child educators. By day JP is an educator with the TDSB. Kaleb is currently an independent Cultural Producer, but is also a child care provider, has worked as a “manny” for years, and had his own home daycare called the Trail Mix Playgroup (cuz we’re a little nutty but we’re good for you). [Source: Fay and Fluffy's Storytime: Reading is FUN -damental]

From my series "Promoting Homosexuality as Multiculturalism"

Maxime Bernier: Quebecois

Perhaps it is only a Quebecois conservative (see previous post) who viscerally understands the fallacies of multiculturalism, Canada's official position for the past several decades, where the "anything less (anything less than multiculturalism) is racist and discriminatory" has been ingrained into the fabric of the society.

Bernier was active on his twitter page over the last few days. Here is an example of one of his tweets:

@MaximeBernier Aug 21

“Why have we become fearful of confronting in the public square issues that are openly discussed in people’s homes and places of work?”

...It's not racist to question multiculturalism in Canada

And another (earlier) tweet here:
@MaximeBernier 12 Aug 20182

5/ Trudeau’s extreme multiculturalism and cult of diversity will divide us into little tribes that have less and less in common, apart from their dependence on government in Ottawa. These tribes become political clienteles to be bought with taxpayers $ and special privileges

Berner is of course not as "hardline" as his critics mae him out to be. He started this series of six tweets on August 12 with this:

1/ Trudeau keeps pushing his “diversity is our strength” slogan. Yes, Canada is a huge and diverse country. This diversity is part of us and should be celebrated. But where do we draw the line?

Still in this climate of political warfare, he made a bold move. He is now starting a new party to pursue his positions.

"...intolerant toward the Québécois de souche"

Diane Blaine: Québécois de Souche (Old Stock Quebecker)

As [Trudeau] leaves the stage, the video shows the woman head directly toward him, demanding to know if he is “intolerant toward the ‘Québécois de souche,’” a racially loaded term about the purity of bloodlines that refers to Quebecers who can trace their ancestry back to the earliest French settlers.

The above excerpt is from a report on Trudeau's latest attempt to spread his "multiculturalism" ideology. Here is the video.

Here is the full interaction:

DIANE BLAIN: When will you give back the $146 million to Quebec? I’d like your response. I’m a senior, and I’d like a response.

JUSTIN TRUDEAU: Madam, thank you for being here this evening, thank you very much for your support. I’m very happy to have you here. You ask what we can deliver for seniors. Madam, we delivered an increase in the guaranteed income supplement of $1,000 per month, by $1,000 per year, for seniors on their own, the most vulnerable.

MALE HECKLER (repeatedly): We are not in Mohawk territory.

BLAIN: That’s not what I asked you. We need the $146 million for Quebecers.

TRUDEAU: We invested billions of dollars for the Canada Child Benefit, which makes an enormous difference in the lives of families around the province and the country.

BLAIN: We’re asking you for the $146 million for Quebecers that you gave to illegal immigrants.

TRUDEAU: Madam, one of the things that is important, madam, in politics is to listen. My friends, it is listening that counts. We are in dialogue.

MALE HECKLER (repeatedly): We are not in Mohawk territory.

Trudeau faces off with hecklers. (Carl Brochu/Facebook)

BLAIN: But you are not answering me.

TRUDEAU: Sir, you are in the course of saying things that are anti-Indigenous, it isn’t very nice, it isn’t very polite.

BLAIN: Answer me.

TRUDEAU: We are here to share, to dialogue, I am looking forward to listening to you.

BLAIN: Answer me, Mr. Trudeau.

TRUDEAU: On the condition that you listen to me now, madam. You have something to say, madam? Go ahead.

BLAIN: Answer me, I want to know when you will give us back the $146 million that we paid for your illegal immigrants.

TRUDEAU: OK, madam.

BLAIN: It’s us who paid for that.

TRUDEAU: This intolerance regarding immigrants does not have a place in Canada. This intolerance of diversity, you do not have a place here.

(Cheering)

BLAIN: Hey. Trudeau. Trudeau.

TRUDEAU: Madam, Canada was built by waves of immigration that were welcomed by the First Nations, who showed us how to build a strong society, and the people who come here, generation after generation to build stronger communities, this is what makes us stronger as a country and, madam, your intolerance does not have a place here.

MAN OFF CAMERA: Yes, she’s making threats. Get her out of here.

MAN IN WHITE SHIRT, BLACK VEST: Are you making threats?

Blain was approached by a man in a black vest, who later identified himself as a police officer, after someone in the crowd said Blain was making threats. (Carl Brochu/Facebook)

TRUDEAU: We are Liberals here, we know that diversity is a source of strength, never a source of weakness and madam, your fear, your fear of others, your intolerance does not have a place among us tonight. Thank you very much, my friends. Thank you for being here, thanks for working hard and uniting people because we see that there will be intolerance in the coming months. There will be attacks in the coming months.

BLAIN: I have another question.

TRUDEAU: But you must know that strength is to unite and not to scream, not to spread fear, not to spread intolerance, madam.

BLAIN (repeatedly): Are you tolerant of Québécois de souche [white French Quebecers]?

MALE HECKLER (repeatedly): We are not in Mohawk territory.

TRUDEAU: Yes madam, I am tolerant of all perspectives, it is you, madam, who is intolerant, and you don’t have a place in this beautiful gathering of Liberals. Thank you, friends.

(Cheering. Trudeau descends from stage and begins shaking hands with people in the crowd.)

BLAIN: Have you spread intolerance towards Québécois de souche?

PERSON IN CROWD: [Swearing] Shut up, damn it.

BLAIN: Go ahead and give your hand to this Trudeau.

WOMAN IN CROWD: No, but it’s enough, really.

(Crosstalk)

WOMAN IN CROWD: She’s going in there.

(Blain approaches Trudeau.)

After his remarks from the stage, Trudeau walked through the crowd, shaking hands. (Carl Brochu/Facebook)

BLAIN: Mr. Trudeau are you tolerant of Québécois de souche?

TRUDEAU (repeated three times): Madam, your racism has no place here.

BLAIN: Answer me. You have no place in Quebec. Do you understand? You have no place in Quebec.

TRUDEAU: Excuse me, madam. I’m a proud Quebecer, madam, I’m a proud Quebecer.

(Shaking hands)

TRUDEAU: Thank you, it’s lovely to see you.

Blain approached Trudeau and challenged him for his attitude toward ‘Québécois de souche.’ (Carl Brochu/Facebook)

(Trudeau continues shaking hands, cameraman leaves crowd and joins Blain who is being questioned.)

CAMERAMAN: Look at what they’re doing with the woman. Look at what they’re doing.

OFFICER WITH BASEBALL CAP: Do you have a piece of ID with you?

BLAIN: No.

OFFICER WITH BASEBALL CAP: Now you’re going to come with me.

BLAIN: No.

OFFICER WITH BASEBALL CAP: Now come with me.

Another police officer tried to remove Blain from the crowd. (Carl Brochu/Facebook)

BLAIN: Let me go, you’re hurting me…. Let me go, look I’ll bruise.

(Crosstalk)

CAMERAMAN: She wasn’t threatening anyone. She just wanted to speak.

BLAIN: I wasn’t threatening anyone. I have the right to express my opinion to Mr. Trudeau. Let me go. Did you understand me? Let me go.

CAMERAMAN: You have no authority to hold this woman, you have no authority.

BLAIN: Hey, you gave me a bruise, look.

(Another man approaches, wearing a badge.)

(Inaudible)

BLAIN: What happened? Well, I just asked Mr. Trudeau some questions, that’s all.

OFFICER WITH BADGE: And then what happened?

Blain had words with the officer, saying she was only asking questions. (Carl Brochu/Facebook)

CAMERAMAN: She has the right to her opinion.

BLAIN: You don’t have to arrest me because I asked questions.

OFFICER WITH BADGE: You’re absolutely right.

OFFICER WITH BASEBALL CAP: Do you have a piece of ID on you?

BLAIN: No, I don’t, leave me alone, that’s twice you’ve asked me.

OFFICER WITH BASEBALL CAP: What is your name?

BLAIN: You won’t know, I don’t want…

OFFICER WITH BASEBALL CAP: I’m a police officer, ma’am.

CAMERAMAN: What is the number of your badge, we want to have it.

OFFICER WITH BASEBALL CAP: 62945. I’m a police officer (inaudible) with the RCMP, ma’am, I’m not finished with you.

BLAIN: Yeah, but I’m finished, because you hurt me. Hey. You hurt me. Look at the bruise you gave me.

Blain said her arm was bruised after the altercation with the officer. (Carl Brochu/Facebook)

(Blain walks away.)

MAN IN CROWD: We’re witnessing the freedom of expression in Quebec.

(Blain is approached by officer again.)

BLAIN: I had the right to ask a question to Mr. Trudeau and he calls me intolerant, it’s him who is intolerant with the Québécois de souche.

OFFICER WITH BADGE (inaudible) You’re excited.

BLAIN: Oh no, I’m hysterical, I’m a woman. A man who says his opinion has balls but a woman who expresses her opinion is hysterical. Leave me alone.

(Blain walks away from officer.)

CAMERAMAN: You only talked, you didn’t make any threats.

BLAIN: No, but, hey Mario. (inaudible) Yes, you didn’t hear me? A crowd of police officers arrested me and look he gave me a bruise.

Philippians Chapter 4

4 Therefore, my dearly beloved and longed for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

2 I beseech Euodias and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

3 And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women who labored with me in the Gospel, with Clement also and with my other fellow laborers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

4 Rejoice in the Lord always; and again I say, “Rejoice!”

5 Let your moderation be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

6 Fret not about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.

7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things.

9 Those things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me, do; and the God of peace shall be with you.

10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for me hath flourished again; though ye always cared, ye lacked opportunity.

11 Not that I speak in respect to want, for I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

13 I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me.

14 Notwithstanding, ye have done well that ye participated in my affliction.

15 Now ye Philippians know also that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.

16 For even in Thessalonica, ye sent time and again unto my needs.

17 Not that I desire a gift, but I desire the fruit that may abound to your account.

18 But I have all, and abound; I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, a sweet fragrance, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

19 But my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

20 Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me greet you.

22 All the saints salute you, chiefly those who are of Caesar’s household.

23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Refuge of Sinners

Laura Wood of The Thinking Housewife has the following entry which I've posted in full, including the image.

Virgin in Adoration (detail), Fra Filippo Lippi

“SOMETIMES we doubt; often enough we have failed to be faithful to grace; and so we think ourselves unworthy to receive God’s help. But that is precisely why God has given us our heavenly Mother, to whom He turned over the whole order of His mercy, as though He wished to protect us from His justice. A way has been pointed out to us; and so long as we walk therein we can always obtain God’s grace. Never must we say that henceforth grace is beyond our reach.

Even if we have serious sins on our conscience, we can rise again. All we need is to turn to the Immaculata. So, let the sinner who has fallen come to her in full confidence. Don’t concentrate your thoughts only on yourself. Saint Paul said: I can do all things in Him Who strengthens me, and in the same way we can say, ‘I can do all things, thanks to her who gives me strength.'”

—- Fr. Maximilian Kolbe

Incremental Shifts of Paradigm

Left: Jasmine Noseworthy Persaud, wish, 2016, digital illustration
Right: Harmeet Rehal, khaar, 2017, digital still

Images above from the current exhibition at the Art Gallery of Mississauga
UNRULY: Jasmine Noseworthy Persaud | Harmeet Rehal
Curated by Anu Radha Verma | XIT-RM Project Space
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 28, 6 - 9 PM
Exhibition on view: June 28 - August 26, 2018

About UNRULY:
UNRULY is a conversation between two local queer and trans artists of colour, a creative intervention that contends with the (dis)embodied ways of moving through home, space, belonging, community, binaries and boundaries. Jasmine Noseworthy Persaud and Harmeet Rehal’s bodies of work coalesce in the XIT-RM, inviting the visitor to see, feel, experience and question. Each artist examines and confronts the way ‘being,’ surviving and thriving is (im)possible for the queer, trans, disabled, racialized individual, in the suburbs, in ‘community,’ and in the season(s) when they are expected to be ‘proud.’ What could an inquiry into the said/unsaid rules look like? What would disrupting the traditional feel like? Let’s imagine, produce and nurture these possibilities.

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I was going to post on Sarah Jeong but Kristor over at the Orthosphere had already done so and so much better.

"I am the most pacific, equable person I know. I have reason to understand myself as competent at combat – as fairly lethal, should I need to be. But I abhor fighting. I have studied fighting, and have trained in martial arts. But I never think about it. Fighting – as distinct from the martial arts – is just not an item of my psychic furniture," writes Kristor, then continues to tell us about his dream of war.

You see he (the collective) is the wrath of Jeong.

I was going to post on Jeong's personal life (her childhood, her formaton, her education, etc...) but Kristor had written a poetic anc prophetic essay. (Kristor had a tendency to over-dramatize but in this case he has used his talent exceptionally.)

I have amply documented the iniquities of Mississauga, where I live for now. I have best described it by looking at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, about which I have amply written, as the canary in the coalmine; as a reference for what we are to expect incrementally, point by point, exhibition by exhibition, in our cultural climate.

In my own way I have also fought: asking difficult questions at gallery panels; writing on Reclaiming Beauty with well-documented, referenced articles about the wrong direction that art has committed to taking; about the complete absence of a Christian worldview (as the majority of Western art has had over the centuries) in the AGM's exhibitions; and finally how pagan and anti-God elements have entered the gallery's exhibitions and members.

Satan doesn't go easily and I have been tarnished in the city of Mississauga. My name is plastered all over the Peel Region Police's "wanted" list, certainly provided by the AGM staff (I got a warning from them to "be careful" when I enter their "premises."). I know this because the mall security (who are part of the Peel Police) watch me and some even follow me. Just the other day, after I entered a store and asked the woman for information which she thoroughly ignored being on some call (my retail experience, and I have had some, is that you drop the call with "Could you hold a minute?" or tell the live customer in front of you "Could you just give me a minute?" rather than let her stand for minutes (on end). I was about to leave but had already spent 15 minutes waiting and what's another 15? By the time she got to me I was angry. I just waived my hand and walked out. No "service." A couple of minutes later a security guard with the Sikh turban that is now part of the Canadian police force landscape, walks towards me and says "Hello."

I looked up and said nothing. Then I turned and walked off to finish the business that I came to do.

Unbelievable! "Hello!"

If police want a conversation with you it simply means that they wish to diffuse what they see as a problem.

So Mississauga is slowly turning into a fascist state where mall retailer etiquette has been thrown out the window and any reaction to that becomes a criminalizable offence!

Welcome to the Brave New World. Or better yet to The New 1984!

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 1 Corinthians 15:10

Ethnicity and Unity

From Lawrence Auster's The View From the Right, a discussion on ethnicity and unity.
Posted on January 8, 2010

More interesting discussion on the topic at the post.

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Kidist writes:

I think I may have told you this already, but I left Ethiopia (with my younger brothers and parents) when I was nine years old. My father was stationed in Paris, in UNESCO, and we were sent about six months later to England to attend boarding school in southern Kent.

I left for University at 17 to the States, and later, my Dad was posted in New York’s UNESCO office. Once I completed that education, we all immigrated for good to Canada.

So, I have lived most of my life outside of Ethiopia. My Western experience is extensive and full—I was in my school choir throughout my time in England, and later in college; I studied piano until I was 21; I kept on playing and singing for much longer; I studied both ballet (until 13) and modern dance (into my 20s). I speak (pretty good) French. While in Paris, I must have been the only Ethiopian girl who was a fixture in the museums and galleries.

When I came to Canada, I decided to leave behind my science studies (biology/human nutrition) and pursue a “cultural” degree. I went to film/photography school for four years. Disillusioned with “art” I left that and started my training in textile design.

Since then, I have been as immersed in culture as I can be.

This is what makes me unique amongst immigrants:

- My isolated childhood from other Ethiopians while in France and England.

- My love for and immersion in the greatest of European culture when still a young girl—English choral music, and French art galleries and museums.

- By the time I had arrived in the States and Canada, I was too impressed with European culture to accept people’s denouncement of its inferiority, its oppressive nature, and other negatives.

- Without being presumptuous, it is my Amhara background, which has a history of leadership and civilization, that helped me to make analogies with what whites are going through in a multicultural society, which wishes to destroy whites in order to equalize everyone. This is what the communist regime in Ethiopia tried to do to Amharas.

- Also, my art education—music, dance, film and visual arts—also immersed me into the incredible beauty and complexity of Western culture, which have shaped my views.

- Living in a densely multicultural city like Toronto, largely of anti-Western non-whites, made me realized how strong and pernicious this anti-Western sentiment is, and I removed myself from it.

This might make my positions and opinions a little clearer. I know it throws many people off, seeing a Third World person like me so accepting and at ease with Western culture. But, maybe I’m just unusual with that. As I said before, 99.99 percent of all immigrants from the Third World do not wish to, nor are they able to, assimilate into Western culture.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1025810788722737152

Hate Crimes

Via Kevin Michael Grace:


Source

I've always, since my Ontario College of Art Design days, tried to master textile art and design. My instructor was a Korean woman. It was then that I intuitively realized that "Asians" had an inherent dislike of whites. I went to "night school" and took only one course for four consecutive sessions. This course was open to the public and not just OCAD students. It became an issue for her after the second course, but I was paying the $200/course fee. If she had any sympathy for me and my ideas, I would have told her that I was there to use the equipment.

By the third session I had developed many of my ideas. I had briefly started doing the geometric border patterns found in Ethiopian dress, but my models for my work were the historical textiles of the Western World up to the early 20th century. Anything beyond that took on the modernists' "destruction of the image" ideology.

The textile instructor, Chung-Im Kim, who I believe didn't have the rigorous "image-making" background required of textile design - including drawing and painting - vociferously pushed me to "design something Ethiopian." Eventually I came to the course randomly and spent my time - evenings and weekends - in the textile workroom, mixing paints, cutting cloth and printing. I did the blueprints at home on a makeshift IKEA work table.

I wondered later why she never introduced us to the endless list of "white" designers. All artists, however limited their education, at some point come across some textiles which are too breathtaking to ignore. I don't think she was intellectually limited. Nor can she use the "excuse" that she is an immigrant. She had lived in Canada by then too many years to not even have casually wandered across some of these works.

I believe it was (is) this inherent dislike of whites. Perhaps not individual whites, and certainly not the leftist whites which now make up Canada and America who hate "whites" or white civilization themselves, but the white people as a collective, the white civilization, the white mind.

Kim's designs are a combination of these "deconstructed-reconstructed" works of postmodern art and works that reference her Korean/Asian background.

ALL non-whites at some point begin to refer to their ancestral lands for inspiration, artistic or otherwise. And the constant, daily reminder that art created by whites has always been SUPERIOR to their art, from their specific non-European or North American region or country (Asia, South America, Africa, the Caribbeans) must ignite their fury.

And as an antidote to continue "creating" they start to refer to abstractions - geometry, shape and some color (although very few use color and often bland and muted colors) to produce works. Their ethnic references are too far away, and they are too alienated from their current country, and all that is left is the "structure" of the image: its shape, its empty outline.

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