Paris Accord:

While politicians around the world posture and pose at saving the earth from global warming, climate change and all kinds of natural disasters, Nature is putting on a show entirely unscripted by bureaucrats and special interest groups.

A parade of hurricanes of unprecedented ferocity in the Caribbean, destructive typhoons in the Pacific, earthquakes along the Anatolian plate and San Andreas fault, a volume of rainfall that hasn't been seen since Noah, and volcanoes beginning to growl ominously in the Indonesian Archipelago and the Italian boot threatens to put some reality back into perspective. 

As the climate of Planet Earth flexes its muscles, there is nothing but stony silence from the politicians from 192 (Wow!) countries who converged in Paris to eradicate human-generated climate change.

No Al Gore posturing heroically in the Gulf of Mexico like Moses at the edge of the Red Sea directing God to send Hurricane Irma slouching off meekly into the North Atlantic before she could inflict any damage.

No Justin Trudeau invoking the combined might of his sexually-balanced cabinet to divert an unseasonal Ontario heat wave closer to western Canada where air conditioners gave way to humming furnaces much too early in the season.

If anyone from the 192 (!!!) countries that are alleged to have signed the Paris Accord tried to invoke that document to change any of these natural events, it went unrecorded in the media.

I guess it's back to the drawing board.....

Quebec's Hijab:

Politicians in Quebec are currently agonizing over how to ban the Hijab and still get elected.

It's a silly issue. What they should be concerned with is how to return to Canadian citizens their individual rights as outlined in the fundamental Freedoms in Part 1 of the Constitution Act, 1982, which states:

(b)freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communications...

Okay. So where's the freedom of thought, belief and opinion for the individual who decides not to deal with someone wearing a disguise on occasions other than Hallowe'en?

It ought to be easy to predict success for the party that promises to return our individual freedoms to think for ourselves instead of letting the thought police and rights tribunals do our thinking for us.

As for the people who want to wear a hijab, they, too, should have the freedom to do so. With no thought police and automatic access to those ridiculous rights tribunals, chances are good they will soon learn their freedom to do as they please may be sharply limited by others also with the freedom to do as they please.

That is how our freedoms used to work before the Pierre Elliott Trudeau administration monkeyed around with them back in 1982.

Freedoms which have to be dragged through the law courts each time we try to use them are not free at all.

Still another example of Human Rights gone wrong.