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Trudeau’s contempt for veterans is repugnant

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Canadians understood when the flags were lowered at the end of May. The nation was shocked as unmarked graves were found by the hundreds around former native residential school sites. The history of residential schools is something of a national shame. Nobody really liked to think about the abhorrent policy of taking children from their families and placing them into schools where they were often subject to abuse. An entire culture was disrupted and we are still experiencing the damage and mistrust fostered by those policies. The graves forced us to face that historical injustice.

What we didn’t expect was that the Canadian flags would be lowered permanently. Never in our history has the flag been lowered for a period of time like this and Trudeau won’t give a solid answer on if or when the flag will ever be raised again.

There are protocols and rules for when the Canadian flag is to be lowered. Many businesses and different levels of government follow the lead of the federal status of the flag. That is why we are seeing the Canadian flag at half-mast in front of places such as Superstore. They won’t raise the flag until they see the federal buildings and government take the lead. Trudeau won’t let them.

Remembrance Day is approaching and it is the most solemn of Canada’s national observances. Since 1919 when it was called Armistice Day, Canada would hold services in order to honour fallen soldiers who fought for our freedoms.

For the first time in over 100 years, Canada will not be lowering the flag in honour of those soldiers who performed the ultimate sacrifice because our Imbecile in Chief has kept the flag lowered. We can’t lower the flag to a quarter mast.

Canadian Legions have declared that they will symbolically raise and then lower the flag for Remembrance Day. What a slap in the face to veterans that they have to go through such a rigamarole in order to pay respect to fallen veterans.

Meanwhile, as far as we know every flag on every federal building including our national parliament will not be lowered for Remembrance Day.

Where is Trudeau anyway while we insult our veterans?

He is off partying in the Netherlands as he gets ready to rub shoulders with the world’s top virtue signalers at a climate conference in Glasgow. Trudeau has socks to show off and woke statements to make. He doesn’t have time to pay attention to Canada’s veterans.

Trudeau already demonstrated scorn to veterans when he snidely told a veteran that we are already giving them all we can. It seems that we can’t even maintain a symbol of respect for them with our flags however.

The Trudeau family has held a long tradition of disdain for Canada’s military. Pierre’s loathing for Canada’s armed services is well established.

Pierre Trudeau shook up Canada’s unity. Justin Trudeau appears to be poised to shatter it. If we keep telling Canadians that they should hang their heads in shame at all times and that they can’t even take a little pride in flying the national flag high, we erode the cohesiveness of the country.

This makes the work of independence movements in the West and Quebec all that much easier.

I guess there is one silver lining in that.

Voters have to fire Joe Magliocca

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It will be up to the courts to decide whether or not Joe Magliocca’s actions were criminal or not. After such a lengthy investigation by the RCMP into Magliocca’s expense scandal, they decided that it was worth laying charges. Police typically aren’t eager to get into the mess of charging sitting politicians with crimes unless there is some pretty solid evidence of wrongdoing. Time will tell.

The public doesn’t need to wait for the courts in order to render judgment upon Councilor Joe Magliocca. They can find him guilty on October 18th by giving him a resounding loss in the civic election.

Whether Joe’s actions were criminal or not, they were clearly unprincipled. He has repeatedly demonstrated a complete disregard for the taxpayer’s dollars that he has been entrusted with. Whether it was the espresso machine that he expensed to the city in 2014 (he paid that back when exposed) or the clearly egregious expensing of meals while traveling, it shows a pattern of entitlement and disrespect for taxpayers.

Fraud under $5,000 is one of the charges that Joe faces. Not that I would have wanted Joe to aim higher, but it’s the low and petty nature of his actions that make this all the uglier. If indeed a person is going to risk a career with a six-figure income and a huge tax-subsidized pension plan, you would think they would try to take something big. I don’t support or respect any civil servant who would steal a large amount from taxpayers, but if the prize was large I could at least understand the motivation a little. Moral lapse aside, Magliocca’s judgment was seriously terrible on this whole issue.

Had Magliocca been more genuine in apologizing and doing public penance for his actions, perhaps some voters could forgive him. Joe’s strategy upon being caught with his hand in the cookie jar had been to keep a low profile and hide from the public. He really was hoping that the scandal would be forgotten by now and that he could ride the advantage of being an incumbent in an apathetic city back into another term in office.

Calgary voters are loathe to bother themselves with kicking incumbent councilors from office. Once elected, councilors can and often do spend decades on their seats. As long as they don’t rock the boat, voters will keep putting them back. Look how long Dale Hodges and Ray Jones stayed on city council. Most people couldn’t even name either of them because they rarely did a damn thing to put themselves in the spotlight. It worked like a charm and they spent decades in office.

Voters need to get off their apathetic asses and do their civic duty by voting out Joe Magliocca in this election. If Magliocca gets back in after all this. the voters in Ward 2 indeed will be getting the government that they deserve. It will be an embarrassment for the city.