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David Clinton retweeted
Lawyers funded by the Justice Centre have sent a warning letter to @AndreaHorwath and @HamiltonPolice after they attempted to prevent a political conference organized by @DominionSoc from taking place in Hamilton.
Mayor Horwath urged local businesses not to host the conference. Hamilton Police then asked the public to report possible venues to police, despite identifying no crime.
Constitutional lawyer Hatim Kheir said, “The City of Hamilton and Hamilton Police are using both direct action and their influence to exclude a viewpoint they disagree with from the entire city. This is unconstitutional and fundamentally at odds with the way a free and democratic society operates.”
The legal warning letter calls on Hamilton officials to cease and retract their actions and respect Charter freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly. 🇨🇦
Read the full story here:
jccf.ca/legal-warning-issued…
@DanielTyrie
Who knew faking success was so easy?
Analysis of Government of Canada program reporting shows that "meaningless" internal targets are nearly three times more likely to be reported as successful as targets reflecting real-world impacts.
theaudit.ca/p/how-much-of-fe…
David Clinton retweeted
Federal panel assigned February 4th to combat #antiSemitism has convened one meeting with no agenda or work plan. “We are getting to know each other.”
— @SenMarcGold:
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#cdnpoli @MarcMillerVM @CdnHeritage
David Clinton retweeted
Rafael Bardajl has a brilliant essay today in @spectator about the consequences for Euope of the #Ceuta invasion by Morocco. The relevant passage for Canada is the following:
“A civilisation can be multiracial. History offers countless examples of societies composed of people of different ethnic origins who nevertheless shared a common language, civic culture, historical memory and political identity.
“What no civilisation has sustained for long is multiculturalism understood not as diversity within a shared public culture, but as the permanent coexistence of parallel communities with no common civic identity. A democracy requires disagreement. A civilisation requires cohesion.
“Without a common civic culture, solidarity gradually weakens, democratic trust erodes and political institutions lose the shared assumptions upon which they depend. This is not an argument against immigration. Nor is it an argument for ethnic homogeneity. It is an argument for cultural integration as the indispensable condition of democratic continuity.”
Integration as the condition of successful multiculturalism? Heresy! I can hear the howls of outrage already!
@MLInstitute , @davidbclinton @maxmako2015 @CopelanPeter @Pagmenzies
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David Clinton retweeted
“Governments must have known all this would happen. They realized it wasn’t in the best interests of most of their citizens. So why did they do it?”
— @davidbclinton The Audit
When Governments Come Unstuck From Their People
open.substack.com/pub/theaud…
Why do so many Western governments repeatedly ignore their constituents' best interests?
theaudit.ca/p/when-governmen…
David Clinton retweeted
Theo, this confuses me. Are you saying the Leader of the Opposition is responsible for failed trade deals or giving away tolls on @GordieHoweBrg?
How? Please explain. We work here and I don’t understand this cartoon.
@DLeBlancNB @usembassycanada @MarkJCarney #cdnpoli #cdnmedia
What if a government imposed heavy "sin taxes" in ways that clearly failed to reduce consumption of the targetted sins? Welcome to Canada, the tax-grab capital of the world.
theaudit.ca/p/should-governm…
Pro tip: if you ever need to formulate a meaningless policy commitment, use details that are just vague enough to sound cool but are, in fact, utterly unintelligible. And that'll pretty much describe the Carney government's 2025 election promises.
theaudit.ca/p/the-carney-gov…
David Clinton retweeted
Someone approached me last week and said that I spend too much time talking about problems, and not enough about solutions. So here are the solutions. You may notice they’re extremely simple, because our problem has never been a lack of fixes, it’s people who refuse to see them.
Governments have no business legislating policies whose outcomes can’t be measured
theaudit.ca/p/tracking-polic…
What happens when governments mandate departmental self-assessments? You get an (expensive and verbose) record of "achieved targets" that are completely untethered from real-world outcomes or benefits...that no one will ever read.
theaudit.ca/p/assessing-gove…
A half billion dollars. That's what it's probably cost government departments so far just to *report* on their compliance with the government's Gender Budgeting Act. That doesn't include actual compliance costs.
theaudit.ca/p/how-canadian-g…
David Clinton retweeted
“The fact that so many normal Canadians are, in fact, deeply supportive of their Jewish neighbours says a lot about their ability to block out official messaging. And the fact that the preferences of so much of the educational and broadcast establishment are flat-out ignored by regular Canadians is downright encouraging.”
Official government responses to antisemitism in Canada miss the point: most of the problem can be traced to ideological indoctrination in publicly funded schools, universities, and media programming. Simple solution? Stop funding our enemies.
theaudit.ca/p/antisemitism-c…
Official government responses to antisemitism in Canada miss the point: most of the problem can be traced to ideological indoctrination in publicly funded schools, universities, and media programming. Simple solution? Stop funding our enemies.
theaudit.ca/p/antisemitism-c…
David Clinton retweeted
Toronto's housing situation is a calamity. Which makes this relevant:
1. Despite a $120,000 family income, @oliviachow lived in the publicly-subsidized Hazelburn co-op in Toronto and paid $800 a month for a three bedroom + den unit.
2. According to the co-op, she should have been paying hundreds more.
3. Thousands of people were on the waiting lists for the kinds of units Chow occupied. She moved out shortly after getting caught by the media.
4. All of that is verifiably true. And it is considered so damaging, Chow's campaign has done secret focus group research on what to say about it.
5. That's who Chow is.
#topoli
Shocker? It turns out that there's a statistically significant association between left-leaning political ideologies and poor mental health in Canada.
theaudit.ca/p/canadian-polit…
Using Spotify podcast stats by country, the avg top rank for all CBC episodes (in Canada) was 73rd. And although 1,235 French-language podcast episodes made the top-200 in Canada, not one of them came from Radio Canada.
theaudit.ca/p/what-does-cana…
What's really going on when Canadian universities come begging for more government money?
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