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QuotePrime Minister Justin Trudeau never misses an opportunity to boast about how his government will do everything it can to protect Canadians' Charter of Rights and Freedoms.



Convicted terrorist Omar Khadr is Trudeau's most high-profile example for his Charter of Rights arguments. When he was a teenager, Khadr killed a U.S. soldier while fighting with the Taliban.  The Supreme Court ruled Khadr's rights were violated during his captivity. The Liberal Government compensated him with a $10.5 million payout.



It was like winning the lottery. It was all taxpayer money. Trudeau has been defending that multi-million dollar apology ever since. He has said repeatedly, "the fact is, that we should all be outraged that a Canadian government violated a Canadian's fundamental rights."



What about the fundamental rights and freedoms of Canadians who are being denied Canada Summer Jobs funding unless they sign an oath stating they agree with the Liberal Government's position on abortion? Justin Trudeau has no problem violating their rights. Freedom of Religion, Conscience and Belief are just a few of the Charter Rights being violated.



This year, the Liberal government requires everyone applying for a Canada Summer Jobs Grant to sign an "attestation" that neither their core mandate, nor the jobs being funded, oppose human rights.  That includes reproductive rights.  That amounts to an "attestation" that they agree with abortion.



Most churches and faith-based groups believe abortion is morally wrong. But there is no way around the abortion rights oath in the application. If they apply online, they must check the box that they agree with women's reproductive rights. If they don't check the box, they can't go any further in the online application process  If they mail it in and the box isn't checked, the application won't be processed.



Eighty per cent of the Canada Summer Jobs applicants in my riding of Niagara West are churches or faith-based charities. My office has received emails and phone calls from church organizers worried that they won't be able to offer programs to hundreds of children this summer because their application will be rejected.



One such church program in Grimsby contacted my office to say organizers are submitting a paper application with an additional letter of explanation as to why they can't check the "attestation." This program offers a summer camp experience to more than 300 children. Many of those children have developmental disabilities. The Summer Jobs Grant money is used in part to train camp counsellors how to interact with these children. But this year the program is in jeopardy because the church will most likely be denied federal funding.



Employment Minister Patty Hadju has said the federal government won't pay for work that actively undermines Canadians rights. How does the work churches do undermine fundamental rights? Churches feed the poor, help settle refugees and organize summer camps for disadvantaged children. Why are they being denied federal funding? It's discriminatory. The attestation is offensive. It violates the very Charter Rights it claims to defend.



Justin Trudeau has said a church's core mandate is not anti-abortion activism, so therefore, it can check the box. But the issue is that church leaders cannot morally check a box that affirms they agree with the right to abortion. These church leaders and program organizers have integrity. But integrity is something Justin Trudeau simply doesn't understand.

http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/justin-trudeaus-values-test-is-offensive

Quote from: "Bricktop"He is inept, ideological but utterly disconnected from the population. Either that or he just ignores us and keeps doing dumb things.

QuoteThis is something you would expect from a third world dictatorship.........

Quote from: "Bricktop"It is the sign of the Grammar Nazi!!!



You misspell, I raise hell.



You miss a comma, I send a bomber.



Misuse a noun, I shoot you down.

Quote from: "Wazzzup"Classic leftist totalitarianism.



Message--There is only one acceptable opinion on Islam, only one accaptable opinion on global warming, only one acceptable opinion on abortion etc on down the line.  Disagree and you will be punished.



I'm not religious and I am pro choice (for two trimesters) but I think this is a disgusting abuse of freedom, a violation of the charter, and tyrannical abuse of government power.  Hopefully there is enough outrage to stop trudeau's tyranny, if not maybe the courts will strike it down.  



This is something you would expect from a third world dictatorship or the old soviet union not a constitiutional democracy.

Quote from: "Herman"JT, although an airhead, is a chip off the old block. Father and son were my way or the highway leaders.

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Quote from: "Herman"JT, although an airhead, is a chip off the old block. Father and son were my way or the highway leaders.

His father was deadly. He ordered Marshall law simply because a high placed figure  was murdered, likely by an anti govt group



A test clearly ... to see just how far he could go



Sunny is not bright like daddy, but under it all he is also a totalitarian inside

Quote from: "cc"Oh, he downplays terror, but when there is a very major act here, possibly elsewhere, or upon a the govt.  he will use it to his advantage .. This new bill clearly demonstrates the the will not only go way over the "line" .. .given opportunity he will go all the way

Quote from: "cc"What I meant was that if he will flirt with any  bill limiting personal rights he is capable of anything including using any pretext to employ Marshall Law



There has always been Marshall Law permission to the PM, as used ONLY by his father with very little reason to use it at the time .... so no new bills are not needed from his perspective ... . and for someone as totalitarian minded as he has already proven himself to be  ... it wouldn't take much of an excuse to employ it

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Quote from: "Wazzzup"Classic leftist totalitarianism.



Message--There is only one acceptable opinion on Islam, only one accaptable opinion on global warming, only one acceptable opinion on abortion etc on down the line.  Disagree and you will be punished.



I'm not religious and I am pro choice (for two trimesters) but I think this is a disgusting abuse of freedom, a violation of the charter, and tyrannical abuse of government power.  Hopefully there is enough outrage to stop trudeau's tyranny, if not maybe the courts will strike it down.  



This is something you would expect from a third world dictatorship or the old soviet union not a constitiutional democracy.

I was talking with my mother today about this and we both agree with you, and my mother lived in Taiwan under Chiang's dictatorship.

Quote from: "Angry White Male"My Stepfather was part of RCMP security detail whenever Pierre Trudeau and entourage visited Van...



Margaret Trudeau was Pierre's wife at that time.  I won't repeat what has been told to me, but I will tell you this:



Margaret had legitimate mental health issues.  Of course it is possible to pass that on, to their son Justin.

Quote from: "iron horse jockey"Another Trudeau tramples on civil liberties. Wait until this fool is re-elected.

Quote from: "Lance Leftardashian"It isonly mostly white Canadian girls having abortions and as white people are the majority this will help even the Canadian population out so that sooner rather than later minorities will not have to be minorities in Canada anymore.

QuoteGet out the taxpayers' chequebook, because we are about to write another whopper to yet another suspected terrorist on the grounds, as our prime minister loves to tell us, "a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian."



A guess? Probably $10 million or so.



In other words, the usual sum.



Earlier this week, the Trudeau Liberals decided to ditch settlement talks with Sudanese-canadian Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Montrealer who is suing the federal government for $27 million over a six-year ordeal of purported custody, torture and exile in his home country of Sudan after CSIS alleged, apparently wrongly, that he was an al-qaida operative.



Instead of cutting him a cheque, therefore, the Liberals decided at the 11th hour to roll the dice and take a chance with the courts.



This is foreign territory for the government.



In fact, a full-fledged mediation conference to settle the Abdelrazik case was apparently about to begin, but, 24 hours later, the Trudeau government pulled the plug on it.



It will now be settled in court.



There is no question that Trudeau Liberals are still stinging from the public flogging that came with handing $10.5 million to former Guantanamo Bay poster prisoner Omar Khadr for breaching his rights, and later another $31.25 million to three Syrian-canadians supposedly tortured in Syria after being wrongly accused by CSIS of having links to terrorism.



The Liberals argument at the time was that the money cut to all four aggrieved parties likely saved Canadians millions more in damages if the court cases had been lost.



Taxpayers, however, didn't buy it.



To them, paying out a grand total of almost $42 million to four sketchy individuals, even if they were wronged, was too enormous a price to pay for what amounted to a surrender.



Never mind that it would take 210 years for the average Canadian just to earn the money paid out in one swoop to boy terrorist Khadr.



To an overwhelming majority of hard-working Canadians, paying that money without a fight in the courts was like punting on first down.



Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale was coy this week about what changed his government's mind.



But, unless it has evidence that Abdelrazik was the master of his own fate, and that CSIS played no role in his detention and exile in Sudan, then there will be a large cheque cut.



The Trudeau Liberals inherited this mess from the Harper Conservatives, of course, but CSIS is CSIS regardless of who is in power, and the public safety bureaucracy remains filled with largely the same bureaucrats.



Documents disclosed as part of the discovery process have apparently raised questions about how culpable CSIS actually was in Abdelrazik's detention in Sudan, and how far the agency went to prevent Canada's foreign affairs department from getting him released so he could return to Montreal.



When it goes to court, however, Abdelrazik's lawyers will have the PM of this country in their corner.



It was Justin Trudeau, after all, who first waved the white flag and took the hyphen out of hyphenated Canadians.



His posturing lecture about "a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian" following the payout to Khadr will end up being the most-expensive eight words he will likely ever utter.



And his payout to Khadr, as well as the $31.25 million paid out to the Syrian-canadian collective of Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin has set a precedent that will only aid the plaintiff.



Abdelrazik will get his money. In fact, it's almost guaranteed.



And $10.5 million sounds just about right, even though it's wrong.

Quotethe $31.25 million paid out to the Syrian-canadian collective of Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin has set a precedent that will only aid the plaintiff.