Opinion
Does the government have a recovery plan?
This is post is from Terry Loewen, a local community builder and Vice President of Abbey Platinum Master Built. Terry was recognized as Red Deer Citizen of the Year in 2018 and in 2014 he received the Red Deer Rotary Club’s Paul Harris Fellowship Award.
With permission it has been very slightly edited for some strong language.
WHAT IS THE PLAN!!!! WHAT IS THE PLAN!!!! WHAT IS THE PLAN!!!!
Through this entire Covid19 experience I keep thinking to myself, “what is the plan???”.
I do believe that the decision of self-isolation, social distancing, closing of restaurants and public spaces, etc., etc., was the right decision.
BUT, what is the plan moving forward?
I listen to the news and the public news conferences and all I hear is a bunch of statistics and we are doing this and we are doing that! That’s fine but what is the plan for reopening the economy, helping businesses, helping people driven into poverty, helping people with loss of love ones and all of the other issues this has caused? A pipeline is great but we need a hell of a lot more than one pipeline!
I do believe our Premier is trying and working very hard, but I and the public need to see a plan. Even some framework of a plan. If everyone in Canada hasn’t figured it out yet, our Prime Minister isn’t going to come up with one, then they have their head in the sand! His plan is not “speaking moistly on one another”! Not even funny actually!!
The one person when a crisis hits that everyone looks to is the Leader, whether it’s a family, work situation, sports team, city, provincial, national or world crisis!! They look for leadership and guidance! Our Prime Minister (I refuse to call him a leader) has been self-isolating for weeks and weeks on end! Hiding in his home for crying out loud! Absolutely the worse display of leadership I have or will ever see in my lifetime! I truly believe that!! I’m trying to be somewhat respectful writing this but its very difficult because of the lack of competence this man has shown this country for the past 5 years. It’s time the other 3 Parties of Canada kick him to the curb side!!
The point of me writing this blog, letter or whatever you want to call it, is that its fine that our Governments have got us at home doing nothing so that we can flatten the curve and beat this virus! BUT what is the plan going forward? I mean a solid (and I understand there will be details missing) plan on how the economy will go forward, how the health care system will be mended, how the businesses are going to have some protection from bankruptcy’s, how are some people going to be fed, etc., etc..???
Yes the governments have come up with these programs where they are sending people money so they can eat and hopefully pay some bills. But then they are going to punish them next year by taxing that money! Driving them closer to bankruptcy and poverty.
Most of the programs I’ve seen are an absolute joke. Very few people and companies will actually qualify for the relief and when they do, they will pay for it down the road after they’ve already been decimated! Does this make any sense what so ever??
Our Federal Government has given away Billions of dollars to other Countries and Charities over the last few years and now when the people that worked and paid taxes so these idiots can just give OUR money away, needs help, the Federal Government wants to give you a loan or tax you on the relief! IDIOTIC!! Seriously get ready in the future for the same answer our great military personnel got a couple years back when they needed money, “we can’t afford it”!
Regardless of all this, the Government can ask people to stay at home and slowly go broke for a while but if you don’t show some leadership and present somewhat of a plan going forward, it will not be sustainable. People will get fed up and say screw this, I’m going out. Not just a few, thousands will!! You read the comments on Facebook and you can see the attitude already changing and ramping up! What are the Police going to do? Throw everyone in jail or fine the crap out of people? That won’t go over well and our Police should not be put in that position in the first place.
Bottomline, can the Leaders get off their rear ends and come up with at least the framework of a plan on how all the issues (and there are far more) I brought up are going to be addressed! The people of Canada deserve this as I’m sure you are going to tax the heck out of us to pay for it after!! Personally I would like to have an idea what the future looks like!
PS. I do appreciate the hard work of the Leaders (Trudeau definitely not included) that are actually doing what they can, but people deserve to know that there is a proper and well thought out plan being worked on that gives people the hope they need at this time!
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Peckford: The legality and morality of our country are no longer aligned
From the Frontier Centre for Public Policy
“Our legal system may find me/us guilty, but the legality and morality of our country are no longer aligned.”
This is a part of the statement by Marco Huigenbos of the Coutts three after being found guilty of mischief for behaviour at the Alberta border during the Covid protests.
The “Coutts Three,” Marco Van Huigenbos, Alex Van Herk and George Janzen
Mr. Huigenbos hits the nail squarely on the head – – –
This country through its so called legal system has ignored the Charter of Rights and Freedoms opening words —‘Whereas Canada is founded on principles that recognize the Supremacy of God and the Rule of Law ‘ and abused Section 1 of this same Charter by violating ‘ demonstrably justify’ and in ‘a free and democratic society ‘ and hence no longer has the decency or respect towards its people that is characteristic of a democratic nation.
Thousands have been injured and many hundreds dead as a result of Governments’ mandates and lockdowns and blatant coercion and lies to use experimental health damaging vaccines. Peoples’ rights and freedoms have been trampled on and our Constitution destroyed.
These Coutts men are to be lauded for their courage, their faith and their tenacity in the face of the country’s leadership, at all levels, that has lost its way.
This present leadership political, judicial in our country, at federal, provincial and municipal levels have abused the efforts our early 19th century reformers who were fighting for our rights and freedoms and have insulted all those who fought for our country’s freedom in the great wars.
Mr. Huigenbos’s wisdom shines forth today.
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Opinion
Transgender ideology has enabled people to ‘identify’ as amputees
Jørund ‘Viktoria’ Alme, a Norwegian man who believes he is a paralyzed woman
From LifeSiteNews
Those who challenge the view that a person can identify as an amputee despite being healthy must also challenge the assertion that one can simply identify as the opposite sex.
Almost ten years ago, I wrote a column in this space on the phenomenon of the so-called “transabled” – people who identify as amputees or suffer from a mental illness that causes them to loathe one of their healthy limbs. In 2022, a high-profile (alleged) example of this emerged when a 53-year-old healthy, non-disabled Norwegian man began identifying as a woman paralyzed from the waist down and took to a wheelchair to give media interviews.
Those who found his claims to be somewhat suspect were in a bit of a bind – which of his assertions, after all, is more ridiculous – that he is a woman, or that he is paralyzed? Our culture has accepted that he can claim to be a woman, and that we must all nod solemnly in response. “How brave of her,” we must all say in unison as his loyal wife pushes him away from the cameras in his wheelchair. “No, not the wife. The other one.”
A grimmer but no less disturbing profile was published recently by the National Post titled “Quebec man has two healthy fingers amputated to relieve ‘body integrity dysphoria.’” It’s a sad story; the young man said he had “intrusive thoughts about his left hand’s fourth and fifth fingers, the sensation they weren’t his, that they didn’t belong to his body” since he was a child and would even have nightmares about them. He fantasized about cutting them off himself. From the Post:
Instead, a surgeon at his local hospital agreed to an elective amputation in what is being called the first described case of ‘digits amputation’ for body integrity dysphoria, or BID, a rare and complex condition characterized by an intense desire to amputate a perfectly healthy body part, such as an arm or a leg. The Quebec case involved an ambidextrous 20-year-old whose attempts at ‘non-invasive’ relief, including cognitive behavioural therapy, Prozac-like antidepressants and exposure therapy, only increased his distress.
What is significant about this case is the way it was described by Dr. Nadia Nadeau of the department of psychiatry at Université Laval in a case study published in the journal Clinical Case Reports. Nadeau describes the young man’s mental and emotional distress, and notes that this distress apparently ceased after the “elective amputation” and that “he was able to pursue the life he envisioned as a complete human being without those two fingers bothering him.” One month post surgery, he had no regrets.
The particularly significant conclusion came towards the end of the report. According to Nadeau: “He is now living a life free from distressing preoccupations about his fingers, with all his symptoms related to BID resolved. The amputation enabled him to live in alignment with his perceived identity.” This, of course, is precisely the argument used by transgender activists making the case for sex change surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers – that these “treatments” will help the recipient “live in alignment with his perceived identity.” Although they wouldn’t call it a “perceived” identity – they’d call it his real identity. This perceived identity, however, was considered real enough that a surgeon removed two of his fingers.
The justifications for these “treatments” that include bodily mutilation are similar, as well. The Post noted that “Nadeau’s patient, after doing some research, ‘related his condition to gender dysphoria’… People with BID often feel their physical body doesn’t align with the image of the body they have in their minds.”
Furthermore, although “cutting off healthy, functioning body parts for psychological distress raises ethical concerns, BID sufferers sometimes resort to self-mutilation or ‘black-market’ amputations, risking their lives.”
A similar argument is made for “transgender care”: if extreme medical intervention does make the mentally ill person’s body resemble the image of reality in their minds, they might harm themselves. That’s the catch-22, of course. Isn’t surgical mutilation also harm, by definition? Not if you redefine it – that’s why trans activists no longer refer to sex change surgeries, but “gender-affirming care.” According to Nadeau: “Recognizing and addressing the unique needs of (BID) patients can lead to a future where they can live with more dignity, respect and optimal well-being.”
Who can disagree with a campaign to increase understanding and dignity for the mentally ill? I wonder, however, what the limiting principle is here. If a young man who believes himself to be a woman can get himself legally castrated by a surgeon, why can’t a man who believes he is an amputee have a leg removed? Or an arm? If we have accepted that people’s self-perceptions are more important than actual reality, where does it stop?
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