Hi, I’m Andrew Scheer and I am very, very uncomfortable.
Hi, I’m Andrew Scheer and I am very, very uncomfortable.
Well, unless you are Lynn Beyak. Then you would offer a solution so assinine, so disconnected from reality, that you’d be forgiven for thinking she is an alien from another world and her human disguise just happens to be that of a Canadian senator.
The outrage over the Khadr settlement has revealed something ugly in our national character.
By mistaking his seat in the House of Commons for a pulpit from which to preach his naive morality is to demonstrate just how unworthy Mulcair is of leadership.
Hate someone long enough, brandish that ugliness with enough force, and you won’t destroy the thing you fear the most. You’ll create it.
You want to stand up for liberal, democratic values? Start by defending the right of someone whose views you dislike to speak at a place that is supposed to be about the free exchange of ideas.
What would helpful, would be a motion from a Liberal MP asking parliament to improve resources to combat radicalization and partner specifically with Muslim reformists.
Standing with our fellow Canadians, regardless of their religion, is not just an emotional balm in the face of tragedy. It is the story we need to tell each other, every day, precisely because that is what makes us what we are.
Sometimes the most important things can be said in the simplest ways.
Trudeau’s reinforcement of Canada’s basic humanity and compassion, however, should not be taken as a shield protecting the nation from the kind of ugly politics that now dominates in the U.S.
It could happen here.
The Grant Rant 
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