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Trudeau accused of promoting drug use ‘directly to children’ after Liberal leader discusses pot policy at school

Tristin Hopper

Justice Minister Peter MacKay is accusing Liberal leader Justin Trudeau of promoting recreational drug use “directly to children” after Mr. Trudeau discussed his party’s plans to legalize marijuana while speaking to a Brandon, Man., public school.

“He’s already sending children the message recreational drug use is OK. Now, he’s delivering that message directly to children,” wrote Mr. MacKay in a fundraising letter sent out on Thursday.

“That’s wrong, on so many different levels,” he wrote, adding that Mr. Trudeau’s “allies in the media” are “making excuses for his mistakes.”

The issue also appeared to dominate Mr. MacKay’s appearance at the final press conference of a gathering of provincial justice ministers in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Just as questions wrapped up on Thursday, Mr. MacKay interjected to call Mr. Trudeau’s actions “disgusting,” “appalling” and showing a “profound lack of judgement.”

Mr. Trudeau was in Brandon on Wednesday to offer support to the Liberal candidate running in one of four federal byelections.

According to a series of Tweets, including some from the managing editor of the Brandon Sun, Mr. Trudeau stopped in to a school in Sioux Valley, where he took some by surprise when he explained his stance on pot.

In fairness, James O’Connor, managing editor of the Brandon Sun newspaper wrote in a Twitter message, Mr. Trudeau was asked about it.

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China, the government JustinTrudeau most admires

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By Terry Glavin*

Perhaps the most appalling thing that Liberal leader Justin Trudeau’s latest bimbo convulsion says about the state of Canada’s political culture is that there is no political capital quite so valuable as the currency of having certain rich and (to judge by the tone of the invitation) ditzy Toronto ladies think you cut something of a dash. You can say things as moronic as anything Toronto mayor Rob Ford ever mumbled between hauls on his crack pipe. You will remain a respected front-runner in the long race for the office of the prime minister of Canada. Not the half of it are the imbecilities that erupted from Trudeau at that nauseating “ladies night” Liberal fundraiser in Toronto last Thursday. Perhaps more noteworthy are the spasms of stupidity that gripped Trudeau in the aftermath. But first, here’s Trudeau’s response to a question about which foreign country’s government he most admired. “You know, there’s a level of admiration I actually have for China because, ah, because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say ‘we need to go green fastest, we need to start investing in solar.’ I mean there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about of having, a dictatorship that he can do everything he wanted, that I find quite interesting.” We will set aside the fabulist absurdities Trudeau managed to pack into those two sentences along with any excuses to the effect that Trudeau was being merely facetious or ironic — as though sniggering about a mass-murdering tyranny is good form at any time, let alone so close to Remembrance Day. Here’s how Trudeau availed himself of the opportunity to rephrase or correct himself, during an impromptu sidewalk interview with a television crew last Friday. “Ah, in this world we are competing with countries that have the capacity to react to big issues quickly and completely. We need to make sure that even though we have to compete with them, ah, we can get things done completely, and that means that not, that not falling back on our, ah, not weakening on our human rights, making sure that we are still protecting all of the things we know. But we do need to get together to support people.” A Miss Teen USA contestant wouldn’t get away with saying something like that. In the interregnum between his Thursday evening indiscretion and his Friday afternoon inanity there was also a volley of tweets Trudeau fired off in that Edwardian drama-queen tone he adopts whenever he feels someone has been ungallant to him. It’s hard to say which was of these outbursts is the most airheaded. Here’s one: “It’s ridiculous for anyone to suggest that I of all people would trade our rights and freedoms for any other system of gvt.” Of all people, indeed, and can’t you just picture his tresses wobbling as he declaims in this way, just like in those shampoo commercials? Here’s another: “I pointed out that globally Canada is up against big countries (China, for one) that can address some major issues quickly.” Big issues like the health care system the decrepit Chinese ruling class keeps to itself and maintains freshly and quickly supplied with organs harvested from still-living dissidents and members of outlawed religious minorities, one is left to suppose.

Of course we shouldn’t be completely humourless about this. Thanks are due particularly to an anonymous wag in the New Democratic Party’s communiqué-production shop who came up with the explanation that Trudeau’s China shout-out was merely a matter of him letting out “his inner Sarah Palin.” But there is an unfunny side to it. For decades, the Trudeau family’s faction of the Liberal party has maintained a sleazy and cozy relationship with Beijing’s billionaire parasites, and these same Communist Party princelings, bloated from the slave labour of China’s masses, are abandoning China in droves and decamping into the tonier neighbourhoods of Canada’s cities. Nothing would please them more than having the Dauphin moving into the Langevin Block. This is not to impugn Trudeau’s intentions, of course. A more charitable and fair-minded conclusion is called for, one that recognizes the Liberal party as a shambles, and its leader, Justin Trudeau, as a ridiculous, morally illiterate and fathomlessly unserious person. -------------- *Terry Glavin is an author and journalist whose most recent book is Come From the Shadows.

KUDOS to CANADA for ditching Barack Hussein Obama’s and Justin Trudeau’s favorite terrorist-funding ‘charity’

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Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) announced that it has revoked the charitable status of Muslim Brotherhood front group Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) Development Foundation, after an audit of its books produced evidence linking it to Pakistani terrorists.

Frontpage Magazine  (h/t Traduction) “The Government of Canada has made it clear that it will not tolerate the abuse of the registration system for charities to provide any means of support to terrorism,” said a CRA press release.

ISNA Canada is finished as a charity. According to the CRS, this means it “can no longer issue donation receipts for income tax purposes and is no longer a qualified donee under the Income Tax Act. The organization is no longer exempt from income tax, unless it qualifies as a non-profit organization, and it may be subject to a tax equal to the full value of its remaining assets.”

The CRA, which is the Canadian equivalent of the IRS, issued the 71-page “letter of revocation,” after auditing two years’ worth of activity that took place from Jan. 1, 2007, to Dec. 31, 2009. Complete with flow charts, it detailed funding transactions between ISNA Canada and the Kashmiri Canadian Council/Kashmiri Relief Fund of Canada (KCC/KRFC), a group the CRA considers non-qualified donees under Canada’s Income Tax Act.

The CRA believes ISNA Canada did this for the purpose of relinquishing control of the funds to the KCC/KRFC, who in turn sent money to the Pakistani-based Relief ISNA Development for Kashmiri Muslims (ROKM) for ostensible “relief work” in Kashmir. ISNA Canada supplied official donation receipts to the donors, while it disbursed more than $280,000 to ROKM, either directly, or via KCC/KRFC.

The CRA said the ROKM is the charitable arm of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a political group that contests the legitimacy of the Indian government’s control over the state of Kashmir, to the point of advocating secession. ROKM’s efforts includes activities perpetrated by its armed wing, the Hizbul Mujahideen. The Council of the European Union considers the Hizbul Mujahideen a terrorist organization as does the Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, which cites Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act of 1967 as the basis of that designation.

The foundation “facilitated the transfer of resources that may have been used to support the efforts of a political organization . . . and its armed wing,” the CRA said in a letter sent to ISNA Canada. “Canada’s commitment to combating terrorism extends to preventing organizations with ties to terrorism from benefiting from the tax advantages of charitable registration,” it added.

Acting ISNA Canada president G. Nabi Chaudhary disputed the CRA’s contentions. “The money did not go to any groups who were freedom fighters,” he insisted. “We made sure that all of the money the charity sent to those organizations was spent on the needy, to help the misplaced. We had people on the ground who were working with the relief organizations.”

ISNA Canada board members contradicted Chaudhary’s assertions. “Once the money left Canada, (the foundation) had no control over the money, how it was spent or what it was to be spent on,” board members said, according to the CRA.

The CRA is conducting other audits of charities affiliated with the Islamic Society of North America Canada. Their efforts were precipitated after a 2011 investigation conducted by Star, a Canadian newspaper, revealed that ISNA mismanaged more than $600,000 in charitable contributions earmarked for the poor. An audit showed that of about $810,777 collected over four years, only $196,460 aided the poor.

Canada's Trudeau smoked pot while an MP

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Canada's Liberal leader and strong candidate for prime minister, Justin Trudeau, admitted Thursday that he has smoked marijuana since being elected to parliament, after recently calling for legalizing its use.

The eldest son of late prime minister Pierre Trudeau told the Huffington Post that he smoked pot five or six times in his life, the first while on a trip to the Caribbean with university classmates and most recently three years ago with friends over for a dinner party while his children were staying overnight with their grandmother.

The admission was made in an interview with the news website, which was conducting a survey of Canadian lawmakers' drug habits.

"One of our friends lit a joint and passed it around. I had a puff," he said.

On previous occasions, "when the joint went around the room, I usually passed it around to the next person," he added. But "sometimes throughout my life, I've had a pull on it."

"Sometimes, I guess, I have gotten a buzz, but other times no. I'm not really crazy about it."

Trudeau was elected to parliament in 2008.

Earlier this year he was picked to lead and resurrect a party that held power for most of the last century but was relegated to the margins as the country's number three political force in the last election.

Polls now put Trudeau ahead of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and if the numbers hold until the next election, expected in 2015, the young Trudeau and his Liberals could form Canada's next government.

A self-described teetotaller, Trudeau has reportedly never smoked cigarettes and doesn't drink coffee.

He told the Huffington Post that he also once tried to smoke hashish at an Amsterdam caf?? but called it a "total disaster," and suspects friends may have slipped hallucinogenic mushrooms into his spaghetti once.

Trudeau also revealed in the interview that his late brother, Michel, was facing marijuana possession charges for a "tiny amount" of pot before his death in an avalanche in 1998 and that the experience influenced his decision to call for legalizing and regulating cannabis in hopes of eliminating criminal control of the pot trade and limiting teenagers' access to it.

"I'm not someone who is particularly interested in altered states, but I certainly won't judge someone else for it," Trudeau said. "I think that the prohibition that is currently on marijuana is unjustified."

Main opposition New Democratic Party leader Thomas Mulcair told the Huffington Post that he also has smoked pot but refused to say when. The prime minister's office said Harper's asthma prevented him from ever trying cannabis.

Canadian police chiefs earlier this week urged a legislative change that would allow them to hand out fines for small amounts of pot possession instead of laying criminal charges, in order to reduce policing and court costs, and to do away with such convictions affecting Canadians' travel, employment and citizenship.

An estimated one million Canadians regularly smoke marijuana, according to the latest surveys.

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How far will wave of popularity carry Justin Trudeau?

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By Monte Solberg 

By the time you read this Joyce Murray will be the new leader of the Liberal party. Surely her victory must rank as one of the greatest upsets in the history of the adult entertainment industry that we call politics.

Given that I sent this column to my powerful QMI overlords last Thursday, I’m at a tiny disadvantage when reporting events that happened on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Nevertheless, because I am “gifted,” I happen to “know” with utter certainty that Joyce Murray has won the Liberal leadership.

I will, however, attach a small caveat to all of this. If some of the data I have been using to arrive at this conclusion is off by even an iota, this would completely invalidate my thesis. If even the tiniest dust mite has entered my equation, it will throw off my elaborate calculations.

So, let’s allow there is a small chance that, as you read this, the new Liberal leader might be Justin Trudeau. If so, what would be the impact of this dark horse candidate on the national political scene?

Well, to begin with, the Liberal party would be energized. Out of Stephane Dion, Michael Ignatieff and young Prince Charming, he’s the one most people would want to sit down with over a vanilla, low-fat, triple espresso, shaken-not-stirred, quintuple latte, if not a beer.

I have no idea what you’d chat about, certainly not algebra, but he’d be a charming liberal and that counts for something in politics. Ask Bill Clinton.

In fact, the polls tell us he’d be the prime minister if an election was totally held this second. But this second has now come and gone and over the next few billion seconds before the next election Justin will face tough issues. Ask Bill Clinton.

Of course, Clinton was also a policy wonk and a Rhodes scholar, so he could talk the lingo no matter the issue. Justin? Well, not a policy wonk. Normally that might not matter. It didn’t matter for Jean Chretien, but when he won the election in 1993, the Liberals were the official opposition and Chretien was a seasoned hand. No one but the Liberals had a chance of forming government.

It’s a different story today. The wanker who runs North Korea is threatening to nuke us, the world economy is a mess and the rookie kid with no ideas, heading the third-place party, wants to lead us through it. Maybe he’ll charm us into looking past those details. Maybe we’ll be swept up in his bright-eyed hope that politics can move beyond cynicism.

He tells us that politics should be about voting for something and not against something. But what are we supposed to vote for? His hair? He has no policies. See, it’s hard to take seriously his war on cynicism when he cynically won’t reveal his own ideas about the biggest issues facing the country.

Nevertheless, for the moment, he’s riding a wave. Staying on that wave depends a great deal on the calamities ahead and whether he can grow enough as a leader to tackle and tame them.