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some shitty news to make you feel depressed
Quebec gonna Quebec, and the new CAQ government is wasting no time in reminding me of why my family got the fuck out of there. They passed two new bills, Bill 9 and Bill 21, both of which could just be called "Fuck the Muslims" because that's the intent. Bill 21 bans religious symbols (but we're really talking about hijabs, and turbans because Sikhs are always swept up in Islamophobic nets) for public service workers and officials. That's teachers, cops, lawyers, judges, you name it. Anyone in the public sector can't wear a religious symbol. Unless it's a cross. Because as much as CAQ keeps making noise about removing the giant-ass crucifix hanging in the National Assembly, we know that Quebec "secularists" are really just Christians who want to sleep in on Sundays. Of course it's already being challenged because it's blatantly unconstitutional, but we're all just tossing around the Notwithstanding Clause like it's nothing these days.
Bill 9 tosses out 16,000 skilled immigrant applications and lays the groundwork for a "values test" to become a permanent resident. Which amounts to a Muslim ban, of course. That, they need federal permission to do, which isn't likely to happen even once the fascists take power in the fall. But they can still be dicks about the rest.
Not all Quebecois, of course. There's pretty strong opposition in Montreal. But this is some fashy-fash bullshit that they're getting away with for reasons.
Lest you think anything's better on the federal level, the Liberals proclaimed a climate emergency. Which, obviously, it is, so of course today they rammed through the Trans Mountain Pipeline, over the objection of Indigenous communities that are in the path of the inevitable oil spills. (Note: They could reroute it but nope. Right through Indigenous land and water supplies is always the bestest place to build a pipeline according to government engineers.) Did they do meaningful consultations? Nope, they'll do that later, you know, like after the thing is built.
If you're wondering how they can get away with that after weeping so many tears about the injustices done to Indigenous peoples over the course of Canada's bloody history—not to mention the fact that carbon emissions are turning our entire planet into a smoking hellscape, and Canada is really central to that destruction—just check out this lovely poll which suggests that Canadians are worried about the fact that we only have a few years to fix this fuckery, but not so worried that they're willing to pay a bit more in tax or make lifestyle changes or anything like that.
It's very hard to maintain a positive attitude, y'know?
Bill 9 tosses out 16,000 skilled immigrant applications and lays the groundwork for a "values test" to become a permanent resident. Which amounts to a Muslim ban, of course. That, they need federal permission to do, which isn't likely to happen even once the fascists take power in the fall. But they can still be dicks about the rest.
Not all Quebecois, of course. There's pretty strong opposition in Montreal. But this is some fashy-fash bullshit that they're getting away with for reasons.
Lest you think anything's better on the federal level, the Liberals proclaimed a climate emergency. Which, obviously, it is, so of course today they rammed through the Trans Mountain Pipeline, over the objection of Indigenous communities that are in the path of the inevitable oil spills. (Note: They could reroute it but nope. Right through Indigenous land and water supplies is always the bestest place to build a pipeline according to government engineers.) Did they do meaningful consultations? Nope, they'll do that later, you know, like after the thing is built.
If you're wondering how they can get away with that after weeping so many tears about the injustices done to Indigenous peoples over the course of Canada's bloody history—not to mention the fact that carbon emissions are turning our entire planet into a smoking hellscape, and Canada is really central to that destruction—just check out this lovely poll which suggests that Canadians are worried about the fact that we only have a few years to fix this fuckery, but not so worried that they're willing to pay a bit more in tax or make lifestyle changes or anything like that.
It's very hard to maintain a positive attitude, y'know?