Dennis G. Crawford

[Dennis G. Crawford @DCInferno]

@finseraste @Anthony__Koch And traditional dress.

To the progressives, multiculturalism is truly nothing more than costumes and traditional food. To them, all the Venetians really are just Venetians, to paraphrase Chesterton.

[Dennis G. Crawford @DCInferno]

I'm honestly embarrassed to be a Canada fan after watching that blatant DIVE by Buchanan to get an opponent very unfairly sent off. Disgraceful. Shameful way to play the game. #CANQAT

[NPRG @CptHastings1916]

A weird dynamic that I suspect must be in play with a lot of the more WTF-appalling cases in modern British life: because not being "prejudiced" or "biased" about anything has been elevated to the supreme virtue, people feel - perhaps unconsciously - that the more they ignore gut instincts about sketchy situations, the more virtuous they are being.

[Dennis G. Crawford @DCInferno]

@cvangeyn Very very well said! People shouldn't face the threat of criminal sanction for SAYING WORDS - even saying really nasty words.

[Ben Woodfinden @BenWoodfinden]

The new GG's installation speech was a decent example of something that keeps bothering me. Arbour told young Canadians "don't underestimate how lucky you are to grow up here" and described a country "pretty well on the way" to being perfect. Canada is still, on the whole, a good country. But that is a very particular perspective. It is the perspective of people for whom Canada works.

And there's a growing tendency among those people who are comfortable, credentialled, institutionally secure to treat any honest reckoning with where the country is falling short as a kind of disloyalty. Mention that the economy is sclerotic, housing is broken or that the healthcare system isn't delivering or that living standards have stagnated, and you're either being unpatriotic or importing MAGA talking points.

The effect is to make criticism of real problems socially impermissible among exactly the people with the power to address them.

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Goodness. What a prophetic quote from 44 years ago.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

There is a strong notion among Canada's ruling elite that the truth needs to be concealed because the people can't be trusted with it. But a lie is always more damaging than the truth.

[Dennis G. Crawford @DCInferno]

@EFL_Comms What a joke.

[Dennis G. Crawford @DCInferno]

@L1minus10 So ANY punishment at all is justified, no matter how insignificant the infraction?

I look forward to next season when the EFL kicks SFC out of the league for having a typo on their website . . .

[Dennis G. Crawford @DCInferno]

@JustSaints_ Can't blame him at all for his celebration when the fans themselves were showing up with binoculars and dressed in camo . . . hindsight is 20/20. At the time, NOBODY thought expulsion was even a 0.00000001% possibility.

[Stephen Staley @stevestaley]

Yet another example of the disorder flowing from Canada basically operating on the honour system. All rules are optional, and breaking them is consequence free.

[Dennis G. Crawford @DCInferno]

@Dave_Eby @Josie_Osborne We are worried about copycat Trans School Shooters, which started in the USA, and which was imported to your province. Your gov't fostered the sick social environment that made Tumbler Ridge possible - and you continue to show no shame.

[Cosmin Dzsurdzsa @cosminDZS]

Neglecting the "culture wars" is the reason we have the government itching to euthanize the mentally ill, male rapists in women's prisons, a trans pandemic among autistic youth and white people being locked out of hiring.

The establishment right surrendered culture for over 50 years. But sure make your only focus tax rates and marginal GDP gains.

Culture is the foundation everything else rests on. It's the operating system of society. Without winning the culture back, your precious tax cuts and GDP will just fund a collapsing civilization that robs you and redistributes your wealth to people that hate you

[SaintsExtra @SaintsExtra]

Leo Scienza: “To have an amazing run in the cup that Southampton won 50 years ago is maybe written in the stars. Of course, they are favourites, as were Arsenal. But football is beautiful because it is played on the field. Anything can happen in 90 minutes.” #saintsfc @TimesSport

[NPRG @CptHastings1916]

The idea that we cannot deport someone because they are going to have a bad time at home is completely unsustainable. We have to cut the cord. We gave up being the world's father when we withdrew from Empire; now we need to give up being the world's mother.

[Dennis G. Crawford @DCInferno]

Plus, exempting someone from taking the course (which is ONLY delivered in-person) because they live in a remote area makes sense. Such a "remote area" exemption should be available regardless of race, ancestry, or ethnic origin, of course.

[Dennis G. Crawford @DCInferno]

I don't have a huge issue with native folks being allowed to challenge the test. It would be a much bigger problem if they were exempt from taking the test, or the pass mark for natives was lower than it is for everyone else.

[Dallas Brodie @Dallas_Brodie]

Another race-based law in Canada, but this time it's public safety that is affected.

Aboriginal applicants can bypass the mandatory safety course and test with just an elder’s recommendation – no certified training. It gets even better: children under 12 can get a firearms licence for “traditional hunting practices” based solely on a recommendation, with no course or standardized test required.

Two-tier gun safety by ancestry is irresponsible, dangerous, and racist.

[Dennis G. Crawford @DCInferno]

That being said, if one group is allowed to challenge the test, then everyone should be allowed to - which is how it used to be!

It would be useful to know how many native folks (i) challenge the test and (ii) pass on their first attempted challenge.

[Dennis G. Crawford @DCInferno]

@RevZekveld End the verbing of nouns! End it today!

(Some folks are "tabling at U of C and U of A"?)

LOL, smh . . .