Sandi Hallgren 🟦

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Sandi Hallgren 🟦

Sandi Hallgren 🟦

@HallgrenSandi

I AM ALBERTA!

Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada Katılım Şubat 2023
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Peter McCaffrey
Peter McCaffrey@peteremcc·
Have any journalists asked Skate Canada (@SkateCanada) about this yet? @DanielRainbird @reportrix @ChardonnayM @intothemelwoods @CTVScottHurst @HeatherYourex @Meerakati @rachaiello and many more... You all covered the initial boycott where Skate Canada accused the Alberta government of threatening the safety of athletes. Have any of you asked Skate Canada if the IOC is threatening the safety of athletes?
Peter McCaffrey@peteremcc

Reminder: Skate Canada (@SkateCanada) is currently boycotting Alberta for adopting this policy last year. Will Skate Canada now be boycotting the Olympics, too?

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Wyatt Claypool
Wyatt Claypool@wyatt_claypool·
This will be a political nightmare for Mark Carney. Michael Ma who crossed the floor from the Conservatives to the Liberals exposes himself as basically an agent of the CCP. Like the Conservatives pulled the pin on a grenade and Carney picked it up. youtu.be/qpRJjj-cVag
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Dimitris Soudas 🇨🇦⚜️🇬🇷☦️ 13.12.1943
Liberal MP Michael Ma attacked a witness and denied Uyghur forced labour exists. Apologize. Retract. Both. If you won't Canadians already know who you're working for. And it's NOT 🇨🇦 This is serious enough that he should be expelled from the government Caucus otherwise his comments reflect government policy. Can’t have it both ways.
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陈士杰
陈士杰@chenshijie2015·
@MichelleRempel @M_Johnston1 As a Chinese person, I’m honestly shocked that someone like Ma could get elected to Canada’s Parliament. Are Canadian voters clueless?
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Anti-Boomer
Anti-Boomer@mapleblooded·
Liberals fell all over themselves to add Michael Ma to their party. Didn’t Mark Carney get his security clearance? We’ve heard security clearances are so important.
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The Megyn Kelly Show
The Megyn Kelly Show@MegynKellyShow·
"Just because you have a platform doesn't mean you get to preach to everybody." Actor @joshduhamel tells Megyn that nobody cares what Hollywood actors think.
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Northern Perspective
Northern Perspective@NorthrnPrspectv·
🚨LIBERALS PROTECTING CHINA🚨 At a parliamentary committee, Liberal Michael Ma attacked a witness's credibility after she simply said there was forced labour in China. After Conservatives challenged the Liberals to condemn it, all hell broke loose.
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Scott Jennings
Scott Jennings@ScottJenningsKY·
🚨 Ask yourself this question: If you had to be governed by 100 working-class plumbers or 100 sneering, elitist, know-nothing, hack liberal comedians like @jimmykimmel - which would you choose? I know what I'd choose.
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Lisa
Lisa@YoungStreete·
Hey CSIS/RCMP- social media is doing your job. THIS IS WHAT FOREIGN INTERFERENCE LOOKS LIKE IN CANADA. Mark Carney and the Liberals are flaunting it.
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Melanie In Saskatchewan
Melanie In Saskatchewan@saskatchewan_in·
Andrew, this is one of those arguments that sounds neat until you remember Canada didn’t build its Constitution in a quiet room with everyone nodding along. “Other countries don’t have it.” That’s true. And other countries didn’t need it to get their constitutions signed in the first place. Section 33 exists because without it, there likely wouldn’t have been a deal at all. Even Jean Chrétien later acknowledged Canada probably wouldn’t have ended up with a Charter without that compromise. That’s not some quirky add on. That’s part of the foundation. Your Globe piece treats the clause like an outdated flaw Canada should move past, as if we just forgot to remove it once things settled down. But it was put there deliberately to balance power between courts and elected governments, especially in a country where provinces were not about to hand everything over to judges. And that part gets brushed aside. You frame Canada as the odd one out. But what Canada actually did was make the tension between courts and legislatures explicit. Section 33 is narrow, it has to be declared openly, and it expires after five years unless a government stands up and does it again in public. That is not sloppy design. That is accountability built in. What you are really arguing, underneath it all, is that courts should have the final word every time. Which is a bit rich coming from someone who often warns about concentrated power and democratic drift. Because here is the question your column dances around: Why is it somehow more democratic to give the final say to unelected judges, permanently, than to let elected governments make a limited, temporary override that voters can reward or punish at the ballot box? At least with Section 33, the public can see it, react to it, and vote on it. That is not perfect, but it is visible and it is accountable. You have argued before that the clause cheapens the Charter, that it is something governments should resist using. Fine. That is a real argument. But the people who wrote the Charter did not include it as a character test. They included it because they knew rights questions are not always clean or universal. They are shaped by regions, cultures, and real world pressures. And in a federation, those pressures do not disappear just because a court ruling lands. So no, the real issue is not that other countries do not have this clause. The real issue is that Canada had to bring provinces on board, protect their role, and still create a national Charter that worked. Section 33 was part of that deal. You can argue it is used too often. You can argue it is used badly. But treating it like some embarrassing mistake we should quietly erase after the fact is not really analysis. Please retire. Your opinions are outdated and unaligned with the issues that matter to everyday Canadians.
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Sen. Denise Batters
Sen. Denise Batters@denisebatters·
Does Carney’s Liberal govt have a sneaky plan to ground our beloved @CFSnowbirds forever? This wk, the govt tabled its plan for DND cuts. The Fleet Divestments part sounds a lot like the Snowbirds are on the chopping block. I ask Govt #SenCA Leader: Is this true? If so, shame!
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Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱
This explains a lot. I have known Michael Ma for 20 years. Something is not right here. Media should ask Ma if he discussed this hearing with anyone at the PRC Embassy, Consulate, or anyone in the United Front Work Department.
Harrison Faulkner@Harry__Faulkner

WATCH: Hong Kong-born Canadian MP Michael Ma tells a career civil servant that claims of forced labour in Xinjiang, China, are "hearsay" and blatantly defends the CCP. Ma: Have you witnessed forced labour in Xinjiang? Yes or no? Witness: I work closely with Human Rights Watch, where researchers did witness it.

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