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My name is Joachim Hirsch. The US turned me away at the border in 1939. I was murdered in Auschwitz pic.twitter.com/pfvJtMpIps
— St. Louis Manifest (@Stl_Manifest) January 27, 2017
Canada will increase its funding to international organizations that provide abortion-related services after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order blocking American funding for those services.
“Women’s rights is too important for us to make a compromise on that.” – Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister for International Development, on whether the Trudeau government is fearful of angering Trump.
In an interview with As It Happens guest host Helen Mann on Friday, Minister of International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau said the Liberal government would support a Dutch-led initiative to fund international programs supporting women’s reproductive health.
“I think that restricting the access to abortion does not reduce abortion. It only increases the number of unsafe abortions and it endangers the lives of women,” Bibeau said.
Is today.
And, today – more than on many other such days – remember that the Shoah began with hateful words, first.
And then – as now – too many said nothing, because they didn’t want to attract the anger of the Beast.
“Never again” should mean just that.
There is an enormous danger associated with this strategy. By remaining mum, Mr. Trudeau and his global counterparts are normalizing this man’s behaviour. Mr. Trump is a classic bully, and bullies thrive on the silence of their victims. No one should ever be afraid to stand up to this man, to denounce actions that deserve to be denounced.
Certainly no one should ever be disparaged for doing so.
Most will recall the now-infamous tape recording that emerged during the presidential campaign of Mr. Trump making horribly deplorable statements about women. Asked at the time to comment, B.C. Premier Christy Clark properly characterized his remarks as “absolutely disgraceful.”
Earlier this week, Ms. Clark was ridiculed by a commentator on The Tyee, a left-of-centre online news magazine, for having earlier made her views public. According to the author, in criticizing Mr. Trump, the Premier had needlessly risked the jobs of thousands of people in her province whose companies do business with the United States. Imagine: being excoriated for decrying behaviour that is by any measure is execrable. Isn’t that what we want our political leaders to do?
It seems absolutely bizarre to be chastising Ms. Clark because Donald Trump is now President. But it speaks to the broad uneasiness that has descended on the world in the wake of his victory. People are afraid, including our politicians. Few seem to have the backbone to stand up to him.
Look how easy it was for Mr. Trump to say he wanted to renegotiate NAFTA. It seemed to take all of three seconds for Canada to say okay, and throw Mexico under the bus in the process. This is the kind of influence the U.S. President wields. He knows it and isn’t afraid to use it. Mr. Trump is also aware his fellow leaders are going to act in their nation’s own self-interests. And if that means not doing anything to provoke a notoriously thin-skinned president, so be it.
Donald Trump has ordered his new administration to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants.
The US President’s sweeping new executive order on immigration, which he signed on the fifth day of his presidency, includes a paragraph mandating the Secretary for Homeland Security to “make public a comprehensive list of criminal actions committed by aliens” in the US.
The list will also include details of so-called “sanctuary cities” that refuse to hand over immigrant residents for deportation.
Still think he didn’t mean it? Still think he would change after being sworn in? Still think someone around him would talk him out of being a, you know, fascist?
Again, where is my government? Will anyone in it finally object to this actual fascism, as Mexico has now done?
Why is Canada silent?
Tell Warren what to do, totally!
I'm straight-edge, totally, but I'm heading to an all-inclusive in Caribbean with @lisakinsella. What to do?
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 26, 2017
How important was she? So important.
For instance, this – a woman talking about reproductive freedom, which was broadcast in 1974.
NINETEEN SEVENTY-FOUR.
Watch this. Impressive.
Live feed dropped before the last question tonight in Calgary, about oilsands development. Here it is in full: pic.twitter.com/Sxf4ZuIaF4
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) January 25, 2017
Once asked @BrettGurewitz same thing. He told me "that's like saying heroin is good for colds because it reduces sniffles." @badreligion https://t.co/349cpXAYoX
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 25, 2017
Thoughts @alancross @kinsellawarren @bifnaked @DOAJoe? Trump Administration May Be The Best Thing For The Punk Scene https://t.co/WsmOdUGnPQ
— Dave Teixeira (@davedotca) January 25, 2017
Only one punk combo staked out the moral high ground more than a year ago, when no one was taking this racist, sexist, fascist seriously!