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TORONTO – Let’s begin with accountability and transparency, two words whose meaning in the hands of spin doctors can be turned to nuisance, disjointed alphabet particles. There are two departments (Ministries) of government whose combined budgets account for the bulk of government expenditures. →
TORONTO – Justin Trudeau today offered at the House of Commons an official apology for the treatment of the Italian-Canadian community in the 1940s. The mea culpa recited by the Prime Minister for the decisions taken by the government of the time led by William Lyon Mackenzie King was not limited, as was to be expected, to the narrative of the suffering and injustice suffered by 600 men and four women of Italian origin interned in concentration camps scattered throughout the country, but touched all the strings of labour and tribulations suffered by all Italian Canadians since June 1940. →
Today, Prime Minister Trudeau will rise in the House of Commons, today, May 27 and offer apologies to a class of Canadians for what their Canadian government of the day did to them, 80 years ago. Briefly, it declared them “enemy aliens”.
That designation caused many to lose their jobs, depriving their families of sustainable income, making their homes prone to the designs of rapacious municipal officials eager to expropriate for non-payment of property taxes. It subjected all of them to placement under police surveillance, exposed them all to vexatious and malicious ridicule and lead more than 700 individuals being interned in concentration camps without due process.
Their “crime”? They we were of Italian ethnicity. Overnight, the designation “converted” them from being valuable members of the Canadian federation to being labeled Fascists, Nazis, Imperialist…
WATCH THE LIVE DISCUSSION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, CLICK HERE AND PRESS PLAY: https://www.cpac.ca/en/direct/cpac1/
OTTAWA – The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that on May 27, 2021, he will deliver a formal apology in the House of Commons for the internment of Italian Canadians during the Second World War.
Artur Pawłowski ein polnischer Pastor in Calgary, wurde am Samstag verhaftet, weil er während der Pandemie gegen die Vorschriften der öffentlichen Gesundheit verstoßen hatte, nachdem er einen Gottesdienst in seiner Kirche organisiert hatte.
Die Verhaftung fand auf einer Autobahn statt und das gesamte Ereignis ist in diesem Artikel beschrieben: →
