Massive Blunders:

As expected, the Liberal media is running around breathlessly, trying to reduce the impact of a new set of diplomatic blunders created by Ottawa.

Trying to preach Trudeau-style human rights in the Saudi Kingdom is not heroic. It's just plain stupid.

It seems our foreign minister took time off her busy schedule trying to save NAFTA to try save the backsides of opinionated activists telling the Saudis how to behave right in their own country.

Not everyone sees human rights as Trudeau sees them. It is naive for Canadians to think they have some kind of a corner on human rights.

If PC leader Andrew Scheer wants a good election plank at the next political bout, it might be a good idea for him to consider human rights. He might promise right up front that Canadian taxpayers will no longer be made to pay for the activities of a swarm of activists knocking on doors to sell their version of human rights abroad.

Anybody so ideologically steeped that they must be out there harassing others about the way they see human relations on this planet should be told right up front that they are on their own. There is no life line reaching back to Ottawa to get them out of trouble when they get grabbed and de-activated by someone resentful of their meddling.

This is what these so-called activists are--meddlers--in places where they are unwelcome.

Everybody has rights. And that includes the Saudis.

Saudi Response:

Not every one sees human rights the way our prime minister sees them. Not everyone will sit idly by as human rights activists from Canada lecture them on their behaviour.

Not the Saudis, anyhow. Their reaction to a message from some activist in the Liberal government in Ottawa to the effect that the Saudis should stop jailing feminist activists was swift and decisive.

The Saudis took this as foreign interference in their internal affairs.

And that is exactly what it was. What rights do political hacks in Ottawa have to tell the Saudis--or anyone else--how to run their internal affairs? 

You'd think the Ottawa human rights squads would have learned something from the way the Chinese reacted to their views on a recent visit to China.

The Chinese politely ignored them, but the Saudis were not so polite. They withdrew their ambassador to Canada, gave the Canadian ambassador 24 hours to get out, and cut off all future deals.

Further, they withdrew more than ten thousand scholarship students (plus their families) from Canadian Schools. 

Further, they cut off all relations with this country. 

Our weak-kneed politicians have allowed activist gangs in Canada to make it increasingly more difficult to exercise personal judgement without running afoul of the law.  Yet, we feel free to tell others how to manage their affairs.

I'm with the Saudis on this one. Their kind of activism is what the world needs a lot more of right now. And that includes Canada.

Andrea Horwath:

The Ontario PC Party's rapid-fire mowing down of the previous administration's ill-conceived initiatives is an opportunity for the official opposition to go on the attack.

Since Kathleen Wynn has been reduced to non-party status by the electorate, there remains only her doppelganger, Andrea Horwath, to set things right. 

While she had little to complain about with the Liberals in charge, Horwath finds little  she can agree with in the Doug Ford administration. 

And that's pretty much as it ought to be. No surprises there.

Council Decimated:

Doug Ford's initiative to make City Council in Toronto more efficient has generated all sort of prophecies of impending doom.

From whom? City councillors, of course. Twenty or more of these will have to go out and get real jobs.

Ford's experience with this council tells him that it has become a debating society that never gets things done because discussing issues endlessly is more important.

He's got that right. Nothing important in the rise of civilization has ever been credited to councils and committees. All evolutionary ideas originated in individual minds unimpeded by endless debate.

It wasn't a committee that discovered insulin. It was Doctors Banting and Best. The ballet Swan Lake originated in one mind--Tchaikovski's. As far as we know, no committees helped Leonardo da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa.

The steam engine was developed in a succession of solitary minds, including Watt, Trevethick, Stevenson, Newcomen, etc., each working on their own, without a committee in sight.

Our guess that Ford knows when to stop talking and start doing was accurate. And very refreshing to see in a modern politician.

Trudeau's new Cabinet:

Is Trudeau's cabinet seat re-shuffle still sexually balanced?

There is still a ministry for the protection of the environment. Wow! That's a tall order. Imagine taking control of hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

And too late for Ontario, where perfectly functional steam generating hydro stations were bombed out of existence by the McGinty government so they could be replaced by perfectly unreliable windmills.

Also noted is a ministry for Women's issues and no ministry for Men's issues. Are there no men seeking political solutions for personal problems?

Feed-back on this one should be interesting.

Maryam Monsef:

Maryam Monsef arrived in Canada in 1996 from either Iran or Afghanistan--exactly which, has yet to be determined to everyone's satisfaction--and now serves as Trudeau's minister of women's issues.

Boy, we can't get much more inclusive than that, can we? 

Now, Monsef appears to be engaged in a verbal free-for-all with the Conservative minister-designate for women's issues. It's over reproductive rights--that's abortion in plain language--and Monsef seems fully in favor of women's rights to choose life or death for their babies.

Apparently, this fits in well with the feminist agenda, according to Monsef, who says it benefits all of Canadian society. 

Exactly how abortions, hiring quotas and wage averaging might benefit market economics has yet to be explained, but members of militant special interest groups seem unperturbed by reality. 

It's not Christianity that's failing western civilization. It's the degree to which weak-kneed politicians allow special interest gangs to set our policies.

So... how soon is Trudeau going to go trolling for more liberal votes by installing a ministry for Men's issues?

Sex Ed:

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has jumped in with corrections on the McGinty/Wynne foul-ups just as he promised, tackling the Hydro mafia and the Sex Education mob right from the top.

Right on cue, our left-leaning media scurried about gathering quotes exclusively from people who favored childhood sex indoctrination right from kindergarten on. The idea, it appears, was for parents to accept without question what the sexually indeterminate activists have been pushing over recent years.

Not even one parent of actual children in that age group was quoted on electronic media. It was all about adjusting attitudes to make sexual deviance more acceptable, starting with little children.

Some of the quotes from opposition NDP spokespeople were to the effect that Ford's  move would suck sex education right back into the last century.

Has the way we reproduce changed recently? The heavy hitters among the Liberals and the NDP seem to think so. The proponents of the new sexual attitudes have done their best to bully weak-kneed politicians, both municipal and provincial, into accepting that. They, in turn, tried to sneak the sexual revisionism right past the parents into a rosy new  future.

Doug Ford found that in the real world, most parents were not comfortable with what was being promoted. To his credit, he was quick to act upon those concerns. 

Good for him. And good for us.