Canada's New "Progressive Liberalism"

Agreement Value:

$471,842.00

Agreement Date:

Nov 30, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024

Description:

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. The National Council of Canadian Muslims will achieve this by addressing systemic employment barriers for Muslim women in Quebec. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by collecting, examining and disseminating qualitative and quantitative data on the experiences of Quebec Muslims women whose employment opportunities have been dually impacted by discriminatory legislation, Bill 21, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Organization:

Women and Gender Equality Canada 

"We work with the government to challenge discriminatory laws, strengthen protections, and stop Islamophobia. Our FAQ answers common questions about our advocacy, your rights, and how we are fighting. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, reach out—we’re always here to help.

Canadians mobilized against Islamophobia. Between sending emails, calling officials, engaging in positive dialogue with local elected representatives, we engaged over 1.2 million members of our community to get involved."

"Canadians mobilized against Islamophobia. Between sending emails, calling officials, engaging in positive dialogue with local elected representatives, we engaged over 1.2 million members of our "community to get involved."

The media, including both news and entertainment, plays a massive role in shaping Canadians’ attitudes about Islam and Muslims." 

National Council of Canadian Muslims  

National Council of Canadian Muslims/aka Canadian branch, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

 

"Queer Momentum applauds the Government of Canada's announcement of continued investment in gender equality and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities."

"[October announcement of multi-million dollar government] gender equality [funding, with over $10 million annually] to support LGBTQ communities." 

"This announcement wouldn't have happened without our collective advocacy."

"[The Conservative opposition to bar male offenders from women's prisons based on self-identified gender] if enacted, would place  transgender women at increased risk of violence and harm in an already-violent criminal justice system." 

Queer Momentum  

It is, then, just and proper for Canadian taxpayers to lift the spirits of the transgender community with public funding. This is a community representing a minority within the greater Canadian population. Their uplift comes at a cost to half of the entire population in Canada -- women. When males profess that biology is irrelevant and it is their choice to put science in the garbage can while presenting themselves as women, suddenly women's spaces are no longer reserved for women. From schools to workplaces to sport arenas, women's and girls' restrooms have become open to men guised as women.

 

Women's sports are no longer reserved exclusively for women who must now compete in the sport of their choice with biological males presenting as women. Their greater male strength, endurance and size give transgender 'women' a monumental physical advantage over biological women. In the prison system where 'equality' is also held to be sacrosanct at a security penalty for women, men can circulate within a women's prison, share intimate spaces and represent themselves as no threat to women, since they are also women, even if the criminal act that had them incarcerated was violent rape. 

 

The nation's leading trans advocacy group Egale Canada founded in 1986 as a charity launched to support equal rights for gays and lesbians -- as Canada's "leading organization for 2SLGQI people and issues" defending gender identity -- has mounted strong opposition to laws newly enacted in Alberta that bar males from women's sports and ban prescription puberty blockers for minors. Their funding from government represents fully 69 percent of their total revenue, with $4.2 million received in 2023. 

 

This government has fully invested itself in funding for causes that comfortably fit their progressive agenda focusing on Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and virtually anything that can be classed as 'woke' liberal-left. Gender equity, climate change and anti-racism ventures qualify big time. 

In the process, as with women being sacrificed to the 'cause' of transgenderism support, when government funds Muslim initiatives purportedly aimed at making the Muslim community more comfortable in Canada, the much smaller Jewish community -- though part of the Canadian population for hundreds of years, whereas decades of immigration, refugee intake and illegal migration has seen the Muslim demographic boom -- becomes the sacrificial lamb. 

 

Pro-Palestinian protesters chant during a demonstration protesters are calling a "National March for Palestine" near Parliament Hill on Saturday. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)

 

The fly in the ointment of offering Canadian citizenship to people fleeing dictatorships, conflict, poverty and ideological/religious indoctrination incompatible with traditional Canadian values is that there is always someone well established that tends to suffer. While the federal government generously views Islamic issues favourably, the kind of fiscal and social caution that should be part and parcel of integration into Canadian society that should start with assessing the suitability of immigration prospects, sees in reality careless decision making.

 

As for example, in a climate of blatant, raging antisemitism linked to the presence of Palestinians and other Muslim groups in Canada, when the group Toronto Palestinian Families approached government for funding for a program they describe as "combating anti-Semitism and anti-Palestinian racism for all 2024", it was somehow overlooked that there were links with the Palestinian Youth Movement in Canada which openly celebrated the October 7 atrocity in Israel and  which has organized viral threatening street protests against Israel's linked conflict in Gaza, while also harassing the Canadian Jewish community. 

Dear Prime Minister Carney

"We are calling for Canada to stand on principle. By imposing sanctions on the Netanyahu government, Canada would simply be enacting its own commitment to uphold international law, regardless of whether the perpetrator is an ally. It is impossible to imagine that any other world leader could order the massacre of 400 civilians in less than 24 hours without facing international condemnation."
"Canada simply cannot allow the Palestinian people of Gaza to endure another period of relentless bombing and starvation at the hands of the Netanyahu government. Now is the time for definitive action."
Respectfully,
National Council of Canadian Muslims  

Muslim organizations in Canada lobbying for anti-Israel policies going so far  as to accuse Canada of complicity in the "genocide" that Israel is inflicting in Gaza, are not considered immune from government funding. The  website of the National Council of Canadian Muslims boasted that their lobbying succeeded in persuading Prime Minister Mark Carney to state his intention to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he set foot in Canada. Their lobbying extends to advocating a stop to Canada Revenue Agency's Research and Analysis Division which has kept a tight eye for links to terrorism by Muslim charities. 

 

The NCCM has been the recipient of ten grants since 2018. One, from Canadian Heritage in the amount of $451,158 was for "engaging schools, parents and communities against Islamophobia", (a program that also manages to malign Jews) this year. The Arab Canadian Lawyers Association earlier in the year published a guide to "anti-Palestinian racism" which deems it racist to link Palestinian politics to terrorism -- an absurdity in and of itself, given the plethora of Palestinian terrorist groups, many of which are identified as such on Canada's own list of terrorists -- writing that "jihad" is a benign  term  which the West has misrepresented. Heritage Canada paid $99,950 for that guide through its "Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program". 

 

Honest Reporting Canada

 

 

What 'Massacre'? (yawn)

"The anti-racism commissioner's silence and inaction after a historic week of antisemitic terrorism in Montreal is shocking."

"Manai's response to the Molotov cocktails tossed at Jewish institutions: silence. Her response to the bullets fired at Jewish schools: silence again."

"[Instead of speaking out about the attacks, Manai] chose to share content on social networks from groups that celebrated the October 7 massacre committed by Hamas, including a group that celebrated with candy at a rally immediately after the massacre."

"We are at a crucial moment in Montreal's history. The Jewish community is under attack. [Montreal needs a commissioner] who respects our collective principles and exercises sound judgement."

Eta Yudin, Quebec vice-president, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

"We are all extremely worried about the increase in incidents and hate crimes, Islamophobic and antisemitic, which are exacerbated by the daily atrocity seen over more than thirty days in Palestine and Israel."

Bochra Manai, Montreal commissioner on racism and systemic discrimination

Bochra Manaï is seen in 2021, after she was appointed Montreal's commissioner on racism and systemic discrimination. Photo by Allen McInnis /Montreal Gazette

Montreal's commissioner on racism and systemic discrimination is being called upon to resign, her exercise of the authority vested in her position called out as "inexcusable and disqualifying behaviour" in recent weeks. The commissioner herself appears unmoved by the criticism. And Mayor Valerie Plante initially declined the opportunity to comment on the controversy over her appointed commissioner. Finally the mayor did respond: 

"Municipal officials and commissioners have a duty of discretion and it is expected that it will be respected."  

"This message was delivered [to Manaï, who] will meet all the communities affected by the conflict. There is clearly a bond of trust to be strengthened."

Office of the Mayor

The antisemitic vandalism that has taken place at the city's Jewish schools and synagogues, along with Jewish-owned businesses in the city, while shocking the Jewish community and denounced by many of the province's politicians, have brought no condemnatory remarks made publicly by Montreal's commissioner Bochra Manai, whose position of trust and authority on the issue calls upon her to do just that.

The advocacy arm of Jewish federations country-wide, representing the interests of roughly 150,000 Jewish Canadians has been brought to bear on the matter. B'nai Brith Canada separately made no call for Manai to leave her position, characterizing instead her attitude to be "outrageous and unacceptable", recommending that she "bear the authority of her office to help combat the contemptible events in Montreal".

 

Reportedly, the commissioner participated in pro-Palestinian protests. Manai, given screenshots shared on social media, has been posting regularly on Instagram, on the Israel-Hamas war. She is, quite evidently, not unbiased. Since criticism for her public silence surfaced, Manai defended herself without responding directly to the calls for her to leave the post.

"As some have noticed on my social networks, I recently took part in demonstrations in Montreal in support of a request for a ceasefire", she wrote. As "a woman committed to peace, saddened by the horror of this situation", she had a duty to do so, she stated, since she is "deeply concerned" about the rise in hate crimes.

"The Islamophobic and antisemitic acts and behaviours that have been committed in recent weeks are all unacceptable and must be strongly condemned."

"Targeting Jewish schools and children with bullets is a crime that must be punished and has no place in a metropolis like Montreal. The same goes for the targeting of Muslim places of worship."

"My role as a civil servant concerns internal change and I do not have a role of public representation. I was appointed to work with the entire municipal apparatus to accelerate the transformation to an administration free of racism and systemic discrimination."

"]As such she is] committed to meeting representatives of the Arab-Muslim and Jewish communities."

When the Legault government refused two weeks ago to support a motion calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Quebec solidaire MNA Haroun Bouazzi broke down in tears.

"[Montreal has witnessed] with horror an increase of acts of incredible violence against the Jewish communities."

"The exploitation of these antisemitic acts by pro-Israel lobbies to silence the voices protesting against the ongoing genocide in Gaza is despicable."

Quebec solidaire MNA Haroun Bouazzi

"The position of commissioner calls for [someone who can] bring together and consult Montreal communities, not divide them."

"[Montreal mayor Valerie Plante must ask herself whether Manai] still has the legitimacy and moral authority to occupy this position."

Aref Salem, leader, Ensemble Montreal, city hall opposition party

People take part in a pro-Palestinian rally in Montreal on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023. Photo by Graham Hughes /The Canadian Press