Andrew Griffith 🇨🇦

Author, commentator, blogger citizenship, multiculturalism and public policy. Former government exec w domestic & intl experience. Environics Inst fellow

[Chris Selley @cselley]

It really is incredibly infantilizing.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

clearly we need a diversity meta-council to determine who sits on the diversity council.

[Andrew Griffith 🇨🇦 @Andrew_Griffith]

Fully agree

[Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, 1969-2026

For many years, I assigned Persepolis by Satrapi in a fourth year undergraduate seminar I teach on Iran. A brilliant, nuanced, touching, funny graphic novel about her life in Iran, the revolution & exile, it was always much appreciated by students

[David McLaughlin @DavidMcLA]

Absolutely entitled to your opinions. Never suggested otherwise. But any @CPC_HQ representative appearing on @RebelNewsOnline -a declared Alberta separatism advocacy group - is aiding and abetting that agenda.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Exceptional editorial on Mark Carney’s antisemitism speech and its lack of courage:
“He should have said: ‘If you oppose Israel’s existence, if you demonize Jewish-Canadians, you are wrong, you are hateful and I stand against you.’”
https://t.co/tG4AYUhra8

[Terry Glavin 格立文 @TerryGlavin]

I am so done with these people. The harm they've done to genuine abuse victims, to my country, to reconciliation, is incalculable. All to protect themselves from accountability for the lies they've been telling. https://t.co/8sLvdtPEEV

[Terry Glavin 格立文 @TerryGlavin]

First you have to prove the statement is false (unlikely), then that refusing to compare residential schools to the Holocaust is "downplaying," then that the refusal was motivated by hate. This is a performance of virtue that insults the intelligence.

[David McLaughlin @DavidMcLA]

It’s like eliminating the long-form census. No data, no problems, no scrutiny, no accountability.

[Andrew Griffith 🇨🇦 @Andrew_Griffith]

Nice to see former Minister weighing in

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

“As a natural-born Canadian citizen, my loyalty is to the United States.”

This is where the cheapening of Canadian citizenship has taken us.

Someone who holds Canadian citizenship, but openly declares loyalty to a foreign state, and advocates for the destruction of Canadian sovereignty.

This is absurd.

If @arjunswritings had a shred of honour, he would renounce his Canadian citizenship.

And if Canada believes citizenship has any meaning, Parliament should amend the Citizenship Act to allow for the revocation of citizenship from those who have renounced their loyalty to Canada.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

My latest for @quillette, on lessons for journalists to prevent the next unmarked-graves-type social panic. Lesson #1: Stop treating Indigenous sources as if they were sacred mystics who channel unfalsifiable "knowings." Like all of us, they make mistakes
https://t.co/qCAjdH4lYO

[Andrew Griffith 🇨🇦 @Andrew_Griffith]

Useful contribution

[Charlotte Duval-Lantoine (she/her) @CharlotteDuLan]

Delighted to write this piece in @globeandmail with my friend @ShimookaR

If we want the CAF to adapt, we need to accept the risks – and the breaking of the eggs in the process.

https://t.co/8k8EayLP8D

[Ken Boessenkool @KenBoessenkool]

This morning @TravisToewsAB @jfdinning @PGarritty @trevortombe @andrew_leach @jengerson @DrJaredWesley and I launched Lead not Leave.

Read our joint statement here.
1/6

https://t.co/UcRFqTljmr

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

In @quillette, I closely analyzed the @globeandmail’s muddled five-year-anniversary unmarked-graves feature…in which the newspaper finally admits there might be no graves, but still refuses to acknowledge its role in spreading the original social panic
https://t.co/9GJHz9nS7C

[John Ivison @IvisonJ]

The problem she apparently fails to see is that a referendum will force people to make a binary decision they may not want to make. Opinions are much more nuanced.

[Jen Gerson @jengerson]

I am in a state of dissociative awe by how incredibly stupid, dangerous, and idiotic this all is. Just the inevitable result of a generation of unserious leadership and Conservative and Canadian dysfunction. https://t.co/neFs58aMsI

[Jen Gerson @jengerson]

Politicians who do not oppose separation and the acts that pave the way toward separation are separatists by default.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

@BarbaraRKay https://t.co/722ysRkmWZ

[Nicholas Keung 姜巧樂 @nkeung]

Immigration Department’s annual misconduct/wrongdoing report confirmed 105 cases, including admin misconduct (time theft, tardiness, absenteeism and unauthorized leave); nepotism; and 1 employee running a public blog to potentially “damage” dept reputation
https://t.co/6PjKiRIiPu

[Andrew Griffith 🇨🇦 @Andrew_Griffith]

Globe editorial: End the sleight of hand of #immigration consultants /via @globeandmail https://t.co/fqdKBLVmTY Yep

[Andrew MacDougall @AGMacDougall]

Amen. Politics and government don’t work with the rhythm and imperatives of the attention economy