Summer jobs and abortion

I’m writing in response to Kelly McParland’s column, in which he implied that faith-based organizations are ineligible for funding through the Government’s Canada Summer Jobs program.

Let me set the record straight — churches, religious and faith-based organizations are eligible, welcome, and encouraged to apply. Faith-based groups add tremendous value to our communities, much of which is focused on compassion and helping those most in need in our society.

Applicants are not asked to provide their views, beliefs or values as these are not taken into consideration during application for the program. The application process includes an attestation that both the job and the organization’s core mandate respect individual human rights in Canada, including the values underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as other rights.

We are committed to ensuring that summer jobs for young Canadians funded by the Government of Canada respect everyone’s rights, as well as existing laws, including human rights law and labour law, to which public, private and not-for-profit organizations are already subject. remains the most common form of bigotry in Canada. Anti-Semitism, as Kay is fond of reminding us, makes up the second most common form of bigotry.

Hate crimes against Muslims have risen exponentially in the last few years. One year ago, a deranged lunatic killed six Muslims in a terrorist murder that Kay still refuses to acknowledge as such.

I find it hard to understand why Kay insists on treating the Canadian Muslim community differently than other minorities who experience bigotry, but not surprising. She recently compared niqab-wearing women to the Ku Klux Klan, without even a hint of irony.

Barbara Kay wants special treatment for Jews in Canada, and calls any criticism of Israel anti-Semitic, but is incensed by the concept of acknowledging that MuslimCanadians experience culturally based discrimination. She might as well start her columns with ‘I’m no racist, but …’ class, whose income has generally increased over the past few years.

His unjustified attitude against pipelines, which are so necessary for a successful economy, is astonishing, while he hands out billions to Indigenous Peoples without much accountability.

His insistence on including environmental concerns and gender equality in the NAFTA free trade negotiations is incomprehensible when these matters should be dealt with in domestic forums.

His “sunny ways” policies ignore the reality that he is accumulating a huge deficit, which will hinder our economy for many years. It is time for the prime minister to recognize what his priorities should be and to adjust his policies accordingly. Conrad Black states: “Trump has produced comprehensive changes in tax and immigration policy, general deregulation and an about-face on environment and energy production, and radical change in health care.”

Donald Trump is a witless dolt. If Mike Pence were president, the policy changes that Black gives to Trump would still have been passed, because they were all crafted by Republican lawmakers.

The day after Trump is impeached, America won’t miss a forward step; the administration is still in place. Black should ask himself how the president is doing on foreign policy.

I’m certain Rex Tillerson would like to strangle the guy, but he’d have to get into a long line to do it.