CHP
Commentary

The current federal government has expressed the fullness of its utter contempt for religious faith and religious believers. But . . . “Remembrance Day does not belong to the military bureaucracy. It is a civic ritual that includes a military component.”

Looking around our country, reading our national financial statistics, watching what’s happening in other countries as the burden of years of debt take their toll…Canadians should be worried. We should be very worried.

Canada’s new outlook of “any-partner-but-the-US” is expanding as our PM traverses the world seeking new trade partners rather than making peace with our closest and—historically—our most reliable trading partner with whom we share a long and peaceful border. Canada is now aligning herself with countries that commit egregious human rights violations. In the recent past, we have stood against such abuses. Where will this mixing of world views lead?

Prime Minister Mark Carney has just made another ‘executive decision.’ After allowing low-income, low-skilled workers (and plenty of non-workers) to invade Canada for years, the Liberal government, under the direction of Mr. Carney, is shifting gears; they now want only highly-paid foreigners to immigrate. That is, foreign-born workers who will take high-paying Canadian jobs.

Politics—as practised in today’s hostile and divisive environment—has many loopholes, illogical moral justifications and, all too often, inserts a ‘poison pill’ that either kills legislation or that causes well-intentioned MPs to support bad legislation. Such is likely the case with the legislation promised last week.

The Canadian governments for the past few generations have been spending like taxpayer dollars are an unlimited resource. What happens when the bubble bursts? It’s time for us all to take a serious look at where we are financially and where we will be if we don’t curb our spending.

The concept of, “If you tell a lie often enough people will believe it” was made popular in Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” We witness this “creative handling” of the truth when political desire crashes headfirst into an inconvenient truth. Ron Gray confronts some of the truths and falsehoods with regards to Israel.

As a nation, we faced the covid years with the daily death toll announcements keeping us securely in line with doing what was required by our government. We trusted our government to promote the long-term common good of Canadians. Did they? In an effort to do something, our government set aside safeguards that had been put in place. The resulting death toll was a real tragedy.

A look at increasingly fractured political coalitions in Canada reminds us of the importance of foundations. Whether a house is built on sand or the house is built on rocks, the foundation matters to whether or not the structure can be held together. It is time to support those political institutions where the biblical foundation is the foundation.

Since the beginning of human history, decent folks have lamented the tragedy of suicide. We still do. When one of our citizens takes his or her own life, we recognize this as a failure of our society to encourage and uplift every individual who may be vulnerable to the temptation to “end it all.”

Was there ever a better commercial than the one advertising “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”? The celebratory music rings out as the parent joyfully traverses the aisles of the store preparing for Back to School. The children, somber, trudge behind with their faces a huge contrast to their joyful parent.

Prime Minister Carney has again failed Canadians, and once again—with the help of taxpayer funded CBC—he’s working hard to enrage Canadians and to blame US President Donald J. Trump for his failures. Canada went into trade negotiations with the US and came up short. Now Mr. Carney wants credit for “standing up for Canadians” and for “walking away from a bad deal.”