DON’T DRINK THE WATER IN OTTAWA
I've known many Canadians over the years and even visited their beautiful country, and for the most part, found them to be a very "grounded" group of people, which leads me to think that maybe the proverbial "they" are putting something - LSD? oxycontin? - into the water supply at Parliament House in Ottawa, for ever since the lamentable advent of Mr. Trudeau on the scene, Canada appears to be in a race to establish Ottawa, and not Washington D.C., as the undisputed leader for the swampiest and kookiest place on the planet. (To my Canadian friends: yea, good luck with that. We've had a lot more practice). As a tangent, I would like to propose a new Friendly International Competition between the two countries, one perhaps to rival the Stanley Cup, for the USA and Canada to compete for the kookiest idea to come from its political class on a yearly basis. This will pit Congress and Parliament House directly against each other. We can call the award the Grand Tacky Award (le Plus Grande Tacqueie for those in Quebec) or Green Worm Award, or some other appropriate name (to be decided at a later date), for the appalling kookiness governing our respective swamps. The award nominations would be reviewed by a committee of equal numbers of sane Canadians and Americans (if they can be found) and a winner chosen by that committee. In cases of ties, Mr. Putin would be invited to interfere in our internal affairs, and cast the deciding vote, which could then be turned over to Congress and the Canadian Parliament as more evidence of Russian malfeasance.
What am I talking about? Canada's new "gender language" law, which, like most projects coming out of the left these days, is not only nutty, but a massive restriction on freedom of speech, and, at the same time, a dangerous codification in law of what is, at best, a theory(and thanks to Ms. C.V. for sending along the following article):
Canada Passes Bill-C16 Forcing Gender Theory Acceptance
What is intriguing here is to note the reactions:
Senators who voted against the bill along with Plett are all affiliated with the Conservative Party.
They are David Tkachuk, Yonah Martin, Richard Neufeld, Leo Housakos, Don Plett, Betty Unger, Norman Doyle, Tobias C. Enverga, Thanh Hai Ngo, Lynn Beyak, and Denise Batters.
Senators who abstained are Anne Cools (independent) and Conservatives Larry Smith, and Michael MacDonald.
Campaign Life Coalition, the political arm of Canada's pro-life movement, condemned the passage of Bill C-16.
“This tyrannical bill is nothing but social engineering to the nth degree, all in the name of political correctness,” Campaign Life’s Toronto vice president Jeff Gunnarson told LifeSiteNews.
Jack Fonseca, Campaign Life's senior political strategist, said the bill will be used the attacked Christian belief.
"Mark my words, this law will not be used as some sort of ‘shield’ to defend vulnerable transsexuals, but rather as a weapon with which to bludgeon people of faith and free-thinking Canadians who refuse to deny truth,” he told LifeSiteNews."
This, I suspect, is the real root of the problem: it's a bill designed to attack certain fundamental core pillars, not just political ones, or not just pillars of Canadian law or custom (or, for that matter, the USA, where similar measures have been attempted), but of our common culture; it is a bill enabling a certain vocal minority to be used by people ostensibly concerned with its rights, to seek to impose cultural norms and values on a greater number of people. This is not politics, but culture, and the plain fact of the matter is, the divide is cultural, and not political.
It is, I suspect, about exactly what its conservative critics say it is: an attempt to legalize unrestrained social engineering, and social engineering of a certain type at that.
This month is June, the month that seventy-three years ago the troops of America, Britain, and Canada stormed ashore in Normandy, France, to put an end to a tyranny that likewise regulated speech in the most extreme manner, choosing what words were acceptable, and what were not. One wonders what those men would think, now.
In the final analysis, the Canadian bill is a form of tyranny, like it or not. Let us hope that the insanity which produced it in Canada, and produces similar nonsense in the USA and elsewhere, will not require similar measures to defeat it.
But note, this bill is about forcing certain types of language, and again, this critique suspect what I suspect, that a certain community, in this case, the transgendered community, is being used by the political elite to drive something very different:
Peterson told the Senate committee last month that he believes “ideologues” are “using unsuspecting and sometimes complicit members of the so-called transgender community to push their ideological vanguard forward.”
“The fact that it’s potentially illegal for me not to participate in that is something that I think is absolutely dreadful. It puts a shudder in my heart as a Canadian that we could even possibly be in a situation like that,” he said.
Peterson became Canada’s preeminent critic of the Liberal bill after he produced three videos opposing the enforcement of gender ideology, one of which blasted Bill C-16, which he said “requires compelled speech.”
He has also vowed that, come what may, he will not use “genderless pronouns” such as “zir” and “ze” for those who self-identify as gender non-conforming when requested.
Lawyer Brown told the Senate Committee the federal Liberals have made it clear they will follow Ontario’s lead when implementing Bill C-16. And Ontario Human Rights Code guidelines “mandate” the use of genderless pronouns on request, he said.
“Mandating use of pronouns requires one to use words that are not their own that imply a belief in or agreement with a certain theory on gender,” he added.
And this, as I wrote and said long ago, is the hallmark of all gnostic systems: the demand to (1) define reality solely by language (2) the demonstration that one has subscribed to that "raised consciousness" by adherence to the linguistic agenda, and hence, (3) the pressure on others - by law or simple "shaming tactics" - to adopt the linguistic agenda. Ultimately, as I have warned before, the coup was to substitute "gender" for "sex." Once this occurred, it became possible to deal with a fundamental human issue by manipulations of language.
Make no mistake, this is an assault on free speech, and for the fools in the Canadian transgendered community who think this is a good thing I have only this warning: eventually, they will turn on you, as well, and force you to use language you do not wish to use, to force your subscription to a cosmology with which you are not agreed.
See you on the flip side...
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Notice under “related posts” at the bottom of the article are three posts on a bill recently passed by the Ontario provincial government along the same lines, but involving the gov removing children from parents. Ontario and other provinces already had “human rights” legislation including the gender category; C-16 just expanded it to the federal level.
The sad thing is that it took Trudeau and these “Liberals” to finally unseat the Harper Conservatives after a decade of Bush-buddy Harper’s secretive Zionist-neocon gov selling off the country. And of course Trudeau’s gov upheld Harper’s already-arranged arms deal with the Outhouse of Saud. It wasn’t long after leaving office that Harper was seen at Bohemian Grove, per Colin Powell.
I’ve been following Dr. Jordan Peterson for some time. He managed to keep his tenured professorship at the U of T and was allowed to teach in the Winter semester, but when he applied for a research grant earlier this year his funding was denied for the first time in his career (he’s in his 50s, used to teach at Harvard). And it wasn’t that he didn’t quite get it, no, it was completely shot down, and it seems obviously politically motivated. But a public fundraiser was set up and his extensive supporter base covered the first year of a five year grant in 24 hours (over $70K) and went on to cover, I believe, two more years before the fundraiser expired.
Do a YouTube search of “Jordan Peterson C16” for his senate hearing. Also search “Bill C-16 song” and “Father and Cuck” (a Trudeau tribute): both parody songs from Frog Rock.
To adopt Peterson’s lingo, Happy bloody 150th birthday, Canada.
Dr. Farrell, you couldn’t be more accurate if your nose was fixed somewhere else on your face and you thought you looked like a Fancis Bacon painting! I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and I had a chance chat with a teacher recently who told me straight up that teachers in BC are ordered to not use pronouns like he and she, when writing their report cards. Unbelievable and baffling … if we didn’t read your insightful books and blogs. Oh, and at our local teachers’ college at Simon Fraser University, there are twenty-six psychologists teaching future teachers how to teach.
Seem familiar?
THat’s the problem,Gramscian Marxism disguised as “psychology” and “method” and “Doctors of Edublither.”
Man, that’s just plain wrong… oops first word thought crime. Newspeak inevitability is NoSpeak, like the devocalised humans in planet of the apes (which was offensive to the aspirations of any potential planets of the dogs, or cats for that matter).
try again
It’s , that’s just plain wrong.
Twisting it up here, boss (/ Cool Hand Luke movie).
The ptb might be Gnostics and Luciferians but they don’t subvert their own breeding programs with illogical nonsense, perhaps until they get to clone themselves in limited quantities aiming for quality and fixing up those inbreeding defects. (YoYanging the SisterHoods and Cleopatra’s)
Canada is gone. It´s the New Gay Reich of the America. Canada´s “freedom of speech” has been a total joke for the last +30 years. There is no such freedom in Canada. It´s very similiar to modern Germany or France., sad to say. Hate speech… everything is hate speech. That said… my home country Finland is no better. It´s same crap in there too.
Whoever controls the language controls the discourse.
Legality is a criminalisation process established to put natural legitimacy under state control. It is a power transfer from the natural to the artificial, from the organic to the inorganic. Both organic and inorganic are manifest in the universe but for life to be sustained and thrive the balance must crucially tend toward the organic side. This is cultural wisdom enshrined in the archetypes of mother nature, inseparable from liberty and the deep truth all authentic arts teach. Cultures and languages are legitimate expressions of the human soul, to put languages under legalislation is an attempt to kill the soul of a culture. It is but one of the many toxic shadows of imperialism, coming from the pseudo left or the pseudo right.
Since as a species the majority has not yet attained true humanity, I find tragically ironic the push for transhumanism in any way, shape or form. It seems to me some want to skip to the next level without fulfilling our current natural species mandate responsabilities. This can only end in catastrophy.
Very true – Nature is Primary – science and all else is secondary. Human beings are connected to the earth and to each other. We are here to explore, learn and create – to be an individual but also add to and be part of the collective universe. Too many give their power away to fit in with the group.
Francois Raby & Sandygirl
your comments are spot on.
The PTB have long probed (Hah!) for any ‘fault lines’ in a given society in order to begin the Hegelian dialectic. Always, always, always, it is to further their agendas. They care not a whit about the individual divide (oxymoron?).
One thing ‘hidden’ in the fault-line thicket is the division itself. ‘Division’ can only come-about through a lowering in consciousness. The higher you go, the more ‘blended’ everything is. The lower you go, the more the ‘details’ show. Do you even think this blog’s argument would be happening if telepathy/empathy were rampant? (Hah!)
By distorting the concept and nature of sexual identity, it prevents us from realizing something more fundamental and keeps us in the material cosmology.
It’s as if they allow people to choose, but the process itself is distorted.
Everyone need to realize that the words “sex” and “gender” are not interchangeable.
Gender -the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones).
Sex – either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and many other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.
A transgender is a person who has manifested in themselves a divergence of sex and gender. “Sex” referring to the overt physiology they were born with and “Gender” referring to how they socially and culturally present themselves.
I do think we need a pronoun to refer to those who choose to present this divergence of sex and gender, but tyrannical to even think of using the legal system to punish anyone for their choice of words.
Scott
Right on all counts, Scott. However, the academic community now treats the terms as equal. I replied in a comment below about the loss of precision and differentiation in language because of this reduction and redefinition. Unfortunately, that item is in the quantum state of “Awaiting moderation”.
“…in the quantum state of ‘Awaiting moderation’.” Brilliant!
Academic flatulence has now become a legislative mandate binding to all public, legal and economic discourse? I wonder when Canada will begin issuing gas masks to non-Canadians who have to deal with this nonsense? This isn’t enlightenment. This is bathroom wall stuff.
What bothers me the most about all of this quackery is the loss of critical information in the discourse. All discourse should require the amount of precision necessary to shape ones thoughts, attitudes and emotions with generosity and restraint on the part of the listener. In the related tidbit about the loopy, loony LGBT professor at an Arizona institution of higher learning, who presumed to be enlightened enough to rid quantum mechanics of gender specific concepts and language, what was potentially lost in the translation. All of this goes to show you can send a hammer to college, but it will never get any smarter!!!
The article denotes the big ideological differences that exist between the United States and Canada/Western Europe in regards to the public sphere.
I don’t quite get it; if someone is born a He but believes they are really a She and then has surgery and hormones to achieve that transformation – I don’t think they are seeking to be ‘genderless’ but to change their gender. Glamour magazine awarded Caitlyn Jenner ‘Woman of the year’. Jenner was also awarded the Arthur Ashe award for his/her/it courage to become a ‘woman’.
So why the push for a new category; He, She, In between.
Once again TPTB are obscuring our perceptions, creating false realities and feeding society agenda filled ideologies.
By the way, I think I saw a transgender one time at a new years eve concert I went to in the big city. But then again it was probably an imposter as I have read that they are very very rare, only one percent of the population. Maybe they’re ‘coming out’ more.
Sandygirl, I ran across a few transgender ‘folk’ up in the Seattle area. The interesting thing was: They might have doctored-up their physical body. But, in their aura or energy body or whatever, their original sex was plain. Whether this was a ‘transient’ thing or was a quality coming from as deep as the soul, it was very apparent. All you had to do to see/sense it was to ‘shift’ from what your eyes were telling you to what your inner-senses were already telling you…
Bruce buddy, how’s it going? Still got those Y chromosomes? Yes, then you are not a woman. Still got that male genitalia? Yes, then you are not a woman.
Ever had a menstrual cycle? A baby? Menopause (he is 65)? No on all 3. You are missing quite a bit of the female experience there Bruce.
Now if you want to play dress up and pretend well whatever floats your boat but don’t expect me to think of you as anything other than a very confused individual.
One word Newspeak welcome to Oceania. 1984 is here.
After speaking to a couple of feminists on this topic, they demanded to know how we are supposed to know which pronouns to use when addressing people who are floundering in their assigned (I don’t think they like homework) gender. One suggested name tags. These feminists don’t like the new language requirements and say they will refuse to use them. Good for them. When I informed them of the difference between the words gender and sex and how language was being used by controllers to divide and conquer the left by these same controllers, who care nothing about this issue but were using this “made up ” issue to remove basic rights, they had nothing to say. Let’s not forget, there have been published statistics which allege that there’s a 40% + suicide rate among these people who have somehow lost their sex (gender). Tomorrow is Canada Day, I will not be celebrating.
Transgender agenda is NWO social conditionning. Its all about Tavistock and the decheance of Western Civilisation. They’ve already assured the first steps, Women used to be respected people, now they are objects.
To be honest, I dont really care what people are (I dont like them enough to care) but words and language are important. A postman is a postman. Not a letter technicien… or courriel delivery assurance system..or even worse.. a post person…
Its pervasive and insidious.. and they’re getting away with it.
K, You’re beginning to sound like an old coot like me. haha. db
K .. ROF @ “To be honest, I dont really care what people are (I dont like them enough to care)” .. That’s exactly how I feel but was never able to quite state it with that form of precising .. I LOVE IT !! … Quote of the month for sure .. Thanks for the laugh ..
** typo … precision
These weird laws are basically unenforceable. And if they try to meddle with the French Language they will have a civil war on their hands.
True.. they tried to simplify grammar rules this last academic year..
Then they voted in Macron, who wants to bring back Latin..
It’s language fascism, thought police, fundamentally cynical and/or misguided. Useful idiots and the indoctrinated being used by insufferably power-hungry statists.
In the end, this language tyranny is no different than the entire boiling frogs process that’s been going on for the past twenty years of making airline flights into prison transfers. It’s all about making you into a slave. A debt slave, a media slave, a political slave.
You are now not allowed to think; your beliefs have been circumscribed and many are being outlawed. Progressivism is a blight upon the earth.
Couldn’t agree more, Basta.