Abolish the Charter
You may be surprised to hear a member of the pinko-lefty Parliamentary Press Gallery backing you up on this. But before you release the hounds, Mr. Prime Minister, hear me out.
I know that you and your prairie-born cohorts have long ground axes on the idea that the elder Trudeau’s opus for a liberalized state, guarded by a contubernium of dress-wearing Supreme Court justices, needs to go, if the voix du peuple is ever to be heard.
Well, then, frig it, let’s torch the thing.
In the last year, your government has introduced no fewer than a dozen pieces of legislation that the legal community has frantically proclaimed to be unconstitutional, thanks to that pesky Charter.
Online spying bills, immigration legislation that would banish Canadian citizens, a prostitution act that criminalizes sex workers, laws to indefinitely lockup mentally-ill offenders, an election reform that could have disenfranchised tens of thousands.
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Putin gets payback for Canada's anti-Russia stance: Brian Stewart
As Prime Minister Stephen Harper was pouring vitriol and sanctions on Russia for months over the Crimea and Ukraine crisis, he did not seem to have expected much of a serious slap-back from President Vladimir Putin.
While Ottawa joined other allies to punish Russia, using sanctions, criticism and even a modest arms buildup in eastern Europe, Harper’s team always appeared the most determined to “tweak the Bear."
Even sensitive relations carefully built up between Canadian and Russian militaries since the end of the cold war were put back on ice, including crucial ones needed to avoid friction in the Arctic, where both nations have major interests.
This caused some nervousness within defence and foreign affairs circles, but early in the crisis, Harper, according to a Globe and Mail report, tended to play down risks that conflict between Ottawa and Moscow “could spill over into the Arctic.”
That seemed to badly underestimate Putin’s sense of the strategic counter-punch.
Just as many feared, Canadian F-18s are yet again being sent screaming towards our northern airspace to see off large Russian Tu-95 heavy bombers testing our borders.
Russian military planes, seen here during the Victory Day parade in Moscow's Red Square, have tested the sovereign borders of the U.S. and Canada in recent months. (Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters)
We don’t know precise numbers – much secrecy is retained to avoid alerting Moscow to all we know – but there have been at least two interceptions this month and Russian patrols near North American borders have clearly increased this year.
http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/news/story/1.2688655
Northern resources will be divided up in boardroom meetings by men in suits
ReplyDeletewhere Canada will have a minority role to play
and where its biggest rival will be the USA not Russia.
No amount of Canadian military spending is going to change that.
Everything else is theatre for domestic consumption.