Dear Chinese Premier Li Keqiang:
On your visit to Canada, please make a point of publicly reminding Prime Minister Trudeau that Canada needs to be far more attentive to its international human rights obligations.
As you know, Canada's jails are overcrowded with citizens. The bail system systemically denies constitutional rights. Physical isolation that amounts to torture is widely used. Jail sentences are disproportionate and there is no rehabilitation. The police summarily attack and murder black, aboriginal, and economically excluded citizens on the streets and in detention. A Black man was summarily murdered by police in my own neighbourhood in Canada’s capital city Ottawa just days ago. Police entrapment and its organizing of citizens to commit criminal acts are routine. Critical political expression is criminalized and prosecuted. A defamation law that is contrary to international law is in wide application to silence any influential voices. A family court system and state-empowered family “services” conspire to attack the families of the working and economically-excluded classes, with absolute power and virtually no oversight. An immigration authority simply jails applicants for indeterminate periods. Legal fees are beyond access for ordinary litigants, thus ensuring that the courts can only be used by wealthy individuals and corporations. When corporations go bankrupt the creditors get legal priority and employee pensions are effectively robbed with government blessings. Corporations and foreign and domestic investors hold local governments to ransom and devastate communities at will with closures, relocations, and property “development”. The list is a long one. The negative impact on the Canadian social fabric is immeasurable, as is the impact on global values.
China's historic large-scale creation of economic justice and its independence from US corporate dominance should be an example to Canada. Your words will carry the weight of China's stature. Please intervene for the good of Canada.
Sincerely,
Denis Rancourt, PhD
Researcher, Ontario Civil Liberties Association
Friday, September 23, 2016
Dear Chinese Premier Li Keqiang
as I posted earlier to Facebook...
Saturday, September 10, 2016
US “sue Saudis for 911 law” would be a geopolitical tectonic shift because…
New law approved by Congress on September 9 violates international law, would destabilize the US regime
By Denis G. Rancourt
We live in particularly unstable and dangerous times. The US behemoth is forced to adjust to an increasingly multipolar world, as Eurasia and alliances such as BRICS coalesce.
By Denis G. Rancourt
We live in particularly unstable and dangerous times. The US behemoth is forced to adjust to an increasingly multipolar world, as Eurasia and alliances such as BRICS coalesce.
The coup in Brazil, tripling US expenditures for suppression in Latin
America, Israel’s frantic genocidal
pace, the NATO build up to intimidate Russia, Syria’s miracle resistance
against US-desired “regime change”, Trump’s nationalistic impulses, and a
Philippine president’s angry words… are all signs of the changing world.
The US regime did not need a
domestic crisis that threatens its geopolitical posture, but it certainly
deserves one.
I don’t mean pipeline
resistance or Black Lives Matter. Those can be bulldozed and bought out without
much difficulty. And the occupying police gang is not about to be displaced by
any rival. No, I mean the “sue Saudis for 911 law” crisis: a real
shit-could-hit-the-fan doozy.
Let me explain. For this, I
need to present the following elements: Relevant international law concepts,
present US law that violates the state immunity principle, characteristics of
the new “sue Saudis for 911 law”, and the three reasons that this lawmakers’
project is a threat to the US regime.
Friday, September 9, 2016
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Will York University in Toronto go along with this latest attack by organized groups?
I am very concerned by these and all such select attacks against employees, especially in the education sector, based on an employee's expression outside of work.
I have reviewed the posts of Nikolaos Balaskas, which are the pretext for this particular attack, and the posts are harmless. The posts are also buried in the distant FB Timeline and are thus difficult to access. If The Canadian Jewish News was truthful about its pretense of harm, then it would not repeat and amplify the said posts on its website. Its article appears to be boasting about the influence that can get an employee "investigated" and possibly fired.
Such attacks as this one, IMO, are strategic attacks to create a continuous propaganda that would give the false impression that antisemitism is a larger-than-reality and growing societal problem. Clearly, this and other such campaigns are (expressly) driven by influential organizations that have the agenda of defending Israeli Middle East policies in the Canadian public opinion and among Canadian lawmakers.
Very disturbing violations of civil rights and freedoms. Will York University go along with this?