Is Ontario Shifting to the Right, or Just Up-Righting?

Tanya Granic Allen

We recently documented Europe's 'listing to starboard' - a clear response to far-left policies and actions of governments which were leading their countries into cultural suicide with uncontrolled Islamic migration.

Islamization is not a big problem in North America, yet, although it is rising and perhaps some people's excessive reaction to that problem is a bigger problem. 

In Ontario, the Premier, Kathleen Wynne, is a lesbian, a Liberal, and far to the left of any premier who has gone before, even the NDP 's Bob Rae, who was an absolute disaster. Liberals are supposed to be centrists and NDPs leftists. But Wynne has taken the provincial Liberal party far to the left of even the NDP, just as Justin Trudeau has taken the federal Liberals far to the left of the federal NDPs.

As pointed out in a recent post, when you steer a ship to port (left), it will list (lean) to starboard (right). It is not Islamization that has caused this list but the use of the educational system to inflict a far-left version of cultural progress, or social engineering on Ontarians.

Wynne employed, among others possibly, the Deputy Minister of Education, Benjamin Levin, to write a new curriculum with regard to gender equality and bullying. But Levin had to step down as DM after he was charged with and convicted of having child pornography. Levin is a paedophile!

His curriculum was very much about normalizing homosexuality and transgenderism from a very young age. This is bolstered by libraries across Canada embracing drag queens, in full costume, going into classrooms and reading to little children as if that is supposed to be anything close to normal. 

There is little mention of child sex abuse - safe touch/unsafe touch, who to tell and how to tell, etc., etc. in the curriculum. Nor is there any mention that gender dysphoria is a disease and there are options to deal with it. They teach that it is quite normal for a man to look down at his scrotum and decide that he is a woman. Extreme liberalism!

Wynne's other big problem is having sold 50.1% of Hydro One, a Crown Corporation until then. Hydro One is the primary electrical distribution company for Ontario. Hydro One suffers from aging infrastructure and consequently, rates jumped spectacularly after the sale. Many homes are paying several hundred dollars per month for hydro even after measures to reduce usage.

Wynne's solution to this issue, after nightmare stories came out of people being, or threatening to be cut off because they couldn't pay the extraordinary increase in their bills, was to reduce everyone's hydro bill by 25%, which will be underwritten by the government. Consequently, all taxpayers in Ontario will pay for the increased hydro rates for decades to come.

Now the story really gets bizarre:

In 2017, Hydro One agreed to acquire U.S. energy company Avista for C$6.7 billion in cash! Where did they get $6.7 bn in cash? Why didn't they invest that money into Hydro One's aging infrastructure? Where will they get the money to invest in Hydro One's infrastructure?

Christine Elliott

Ontario Conservative Party leader Patrick Brown put forward an idea to fix the Hydro One problem, and with Kathleen Wynn's approval rating down around 12%, it appeared he would get a chance to employ that solution after a provincial election in June. Then #MeToo came along (2nd story on link) and Patrick Brown suddenly and dramatically resigned just a few months before a provincial election. He went kicking and screaming, then joined the race to be his own successor, and a few days later, withdrew from that.

Caroline Mulroney

That sounds more like BC politics than Ontario. Nevertheless, the extremely rushed leadership convention occurred last week with 3 high profile and very different contenders, plus one relative unknown. The list included Christine Elliott, the wife of the late, and very popular, federal Finance Minister under Stephen Harper, Jim Flaherty; Caroline Mulroney, the daughter of long-retired Prime Minister Brian Mulroney; and Doug Ford, the brother of the late, internationally infamous, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. 

The 4th candidate was a dark horse with no political experience and no pedigree. She is, however, the head of a parental rights group called PAFE - Parents As First Educators. It was clear Tanya Granic Allen was not going to win the contest and Canada's left leaning media often completely ignored her in their 30 second sound bites they call news. But Granic Allen made a significant impression in the few opportunities she had and received a number of 1st choice selections on the leadership ballot.

The ballot was structured to choose 1st, 2nd, 3rd choices so that in the event of no-one getting enough votes on the first count, the candidate with the fewest 1st place votes would drop off and their ballots would revert to their 2nd choice. Most of Granic Allen's voters chose Doug Ford as their 2nd choice and that was enough to push him ahead of Christine Elliott in a very close race.

Doug Ford, an outsider to provincial politics except that his father was once a backbench MPP, was the most right wing of the candidates with the exception of Granic Allen. He stated that he would change school curriculum to reflect societal norms rather than extreme left-wing ideologies. He also stated that he would allow MPPs to bring forward bills challenging the right to abortion. Both of these positions are probably due to Tanya Granic Allen's presence and forceful presentations on the candidacy platforms.

Granic Allen hasn't decided if she will run for MPP in June, but if she does, I would expect her to be a powerhouse of an MPP, possibly in the cabinet, and a possible successor to Ford sometime in the future if she can survive the disdain of Canadian media.

When a ship lists to starboard because it is steering to port there are only two options: continue to steer to port and go around and around in circles, or, steer to starboard until the ship is upright again. Ontarians deserve an upright ship for a change.

Trudeau is Asking Religious Canadians to Betray Their Conscience for Federal Funding

I don't think 'Asking' is the right word, 'Telling' is more like it.

The Liberals have applied an ideological purity test to their applications

for summer job grants

By David Millard Haskell, for CBC News 
David Millard Haskell is an associate professor of religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University. 

Thousands of years ago, before Christians could practice their faith legally, they often faced persecution from the Roman government. If captured, however, a suspected Christian could avoid punishment by performing a simple sacrifice dedicated to the emperor.

To stay on the authority's good side, some Christians crossed their fingers (a concealed symbol of their true allegiance to Jesus) and complied with the government's request. They rationalized that a coerced physical action didn't compromise their true belief.

Most early Christians disagreed with that position. They felt "truth" had "set them free." They would not betray the truth.

Today Christians in Canada, especially those ascribing to a more traditional faith, are being asked to cross their fingers and comply with a government decree. In this contemporary case, though, it's a bit of money — not their lives — hanging in the balance.

Youth summer jobs

It sounds innocuous enough: Trudeau's Liberals have made changes to the youth summer jobs program, which provides grant money to various employers to hire students. The changes, announced in December, got little media attention until now.

Under the new rules, applicants must agree — by marking a box on an electronic form — that they respect charter rights, including "women's rights and women's reproductive rights." The office of the employment minister has said without the confirmation, an organization will not receive funding.

I always find that strange that liberals call abortion - reproductive rights. Abortion is the opposite of reproduction! And how does this questionable right trump the right to life of a baby? It's insane!

Religious organizations — churches, youth camps, aid groups and so forth — that hire students to assist them over the summer are frustrated. That's because many, especially conservative Protestant and Catholic organizations, believe a child in the womb is as valuable as a child born, and they see abortion as immoral. To give assent to abortion, even via a check mark on a government form, betrays their values and conscience.

Employment Minister Patty Hajdu has said without the online confirmation, an organization will not receive funding. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)

Late last week, in an effort to suppress a burgeoning controversy, both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Employment Minister Patty Hajdu said that the changes were not meant to affect all Christian organizations, but rather, only those whose "core mandate" was one of suppression of abortion rights.

The implication was thus that other religious groups should simply check the box, knowing it was not meant to target them.

This "solution," however, shows a complete lack of awareness of what it means to be ethical. Here, the Liberals are advocating regular Canadians mimic their practice of equivocation and mutable morality, which we've seen in their about-face on electoral reform, as well as the prime minister's own ethical breaches.

That Trudeau and his team are apparently so at ease encouraging conservative Christians and other religious Canadians to betray their conscience should cause many across the country great unease. Even those who are solidly pro-choice will appreciate the dangers inherent in that precedent.

Another aspect of the Liberals' reasoning should give the public even greater cause for concern.

When asked to justify holding back grant money from organizations they deem too dedicated to a pro-life position, the Liberals have implied that to give such groups funding would violate the charter and, thus, Canadian law.

Hajdu explained: "Our ministry believes in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and these are fundamental expectations of Canadians, and we stand up for those rights — and we [will] ensure that the money that we disperse on behalf of Canadians is not used in a way that violates those hard-won rights."

But here's the thing: there are no rights being violated here.

No right to abortion

Hajdu's nod to "hard-won rights" is a reference to the Supreme Court's landmark 1988 Morgentaler decision. But that decision didn't recognize a constitutional right to abortion under the Charter. While it did nullify Canada's existing abortion law, the Court left it to Parliament to come up with new legislation that would balance the rights of women with the state's interest in the protection of the fetus, within the bounds of the charter.

Indeed, commenting at the time of the decision, law professor Daphne Gilbert wrote, "The Morgentaler decision didn't say a woman has a constitutional right to abortion, it didn't go that far."

Canada is the only Western nation without any law regulating abortion. Successive governments have avoided crafting such legislation for fear of dividing the country, but the Liberals have discovered an easier solution: simply make people believe that a law already exists. (One, incidentally, that just happens to match Liberal ideology exactly).

Conservative Christians and those of other faiths supporting pro-life positions should not be subjected to an ideological purity test to qualify for federal funding. The beliefs they hold about abortion are completely within the bounds of the law and can be voiced upon and advocated for freely and publicly. Even organizations that are solely dedicated to opposing abortion contravene no law.

Their only "crime" is that their values don't align with those of our prime minister. It's ironic that Trudeau insists Canadians support "diversity and inclusion," when he himself does not.

Clearly, the Liberals are letting a particular worldview, and not the law, influence their actions. The danger here is that if a government can pretend a law into existence, it can pretend others out of existence.

We've seen this before. Hail to the emperor.  

Some other issues are of concern from this appalling policy. For decades Reform and the Conservative candidates for Prime Minister were vilified on National News programs as being religious nuts, even cultists, who would impose their values on ordinary, unsuspecting Canadians. 

Nearly 10 years of Stephen Harper as PM saw no significant move toward opposing abortion, women's rights, gay rights, same-sex marriage, or any other liberal social movement. In fact, he refused to allow open debates on those subjects as desired by the more religious elements in his government. 

While I voted for Harper, I was never his biggest fan. Nevertheless, during his near decade of governance no-one was forced to go to church. Churches were not given new rights and powers. Unbelievers were treated no differently than believers. Yet, liberal politicians and media were constantly on guard for such possibilities.

Now, we have this astonishing assault on the rights of Christians and other religions that might oppose abortions, and the MSM - MainStream Media, is completely silent. No CBC, CTV, or Global News desks decrying the imposition of the PM's personal views on the rest of Canada. They never warned us that to vote for Trudeau means he would impose his 'values' on Canadians. Although, remarkably, I found this piece on a CBC web site; it is completely out of character for them.

MSM never suggested that Trudeau would be the most extreme left-leaning PM in the history of Canada. That he would take us to the acceptance in law of 'assisted dying'; that he would attempt to finesse the laws of Canada into declaring Christian institutions as operating counter to the constitution, and therefore, perhaps even being enemies of the state.

MSM is supporting Trudeau in his extreme liberal agenda and they will stand guilty before God on that Terrible Day. Will Trudeau utterly destroy the church in Canada? Is that his long-term goal?  Has he silently declared war on Christianity? What other evils will he perpetrate on an unsuspecting country while the MSM sleeps?