Thread by @sunnshiiny

Mr. Singh’s intentional attempt to divide progressives into two factions: those who demand immediate action, and those who understand centuries of persecution will take time and mutual cooperation between governments and communities to address is reprehensible.

https://twitter.com/theJagmeetSingh/status/1400845807323172868

I’m not a lawyer. But I know enough of them and have independently studied legal issues to know what Mr. Singh is requesting of the federal government, by withdrawing court cases related to child welfare and residential school compensation is anti-democratic and dangerous.

Perhaps some lawyers could opine to confirm these assertions I’m making. Instead of permitting this charlatan from ripping apart Canadian democratic norms and conventions.

Perhaps the public could take 10-15 minutes to look it up themselves, before rushing into an irrational mob calling for setting new precedents that would highly benefit conservative politics.

WTF is wrong with people?! Why are they so foolish to trust a man who regularly lies?

Yes, I’m speaking about Mr. Singh.

I’m enraged that Mr. Singh is willingly assisting a radical faction of First Nations intent on ripping apart Canada. And he’s playing on the ignorance and racist beliefs engrained in settler Canada.

Settler Canada is so ignorant of indigenous issues that many believe radical left libertarian First Nations represent all indigenous people.

Are Canadians really that ignorant? Honestly!?

WE ARE NOT ALL ONE MIND!

It’s a racist stereotype to believe we all think alike.

I’m not positive Singh’s aware of the impact of his actions, but I tend to believe he is.

He’s a trained and experienced lawyer in Canada.

The constitution is a very important piece of legislation every lawyer should have basic familiarity with and can interpret.

Yet Mr. Singh’s rhetoric regularly contradicts constitutional limits laid out in the constitution.

Much of the law in Canada is by convention. We perform actions because it’s tradition, not prescribed.

People like Singh are making legal conventions irrelevant.

Every citizen clamouring to support the demand for the federal government to drop the legal court proceedings on child welfare compensation and residential school compensation is being severely gaslit.

You are demanding the government throw away its power to legislate.

Singh knows this. He’s a damn lawyer. FCOL!

But most people emotionally distraught by the news of 215 children in a mass grave do not.

Singh is manipulating the electorate using emotionally traumatic triggers to elicit demands to remove legal resistance by the federal govt.

Has anyone thought to inquire why the federal govt would agree openly with the findings of CHRT decisions but then refuse to comply? Anyone wonder why federal government continues to support the request by First Nations who were left out of residential school qualifying criteria?

No. You believe the opines of a clearly opportunistic politician using the public’s ignorance of legal precedent to attain power through manipulating public pressure.

The federal government is fighting who made the decision for child welfare (Canadian Human Rights Tribunal) and the legal convention that new governments don’t reverse past governments decisions.

Again Duh! Look it up!

While you’re all fired up demanding the immediate cessation of these legal proceedings, you have no fricking clue what precedent that sets.

But Mr. Singh does. As a highly trained attorney at law in Canada.

It’s a betrayal to every progressive who values human rights that Singh is using MOB JUSTICE to effect change to the Canadian legal system & democratic conventions which have been in place for centuries.

If you’re demanding an end to law suits, you’re helping to kill democracy.

And he’s using the emotional furor created by 14 months of extreme stress from social isolation and recent evidence that the abuses indigenous people have claimed about the residential school experience are true to manipulate your political agency to fulfill his agenda.

Why are people so gullible?

These are politicians. There is ALWAYS an agenda. There is ALWAYS a planned objective.

And if you believe it’s to install egalitarian democratic socialism, you’re a fool. A damn fool. Quit behaving like a Q’Anon cult member.

Take the time to look this up.

In no way are the people who administer the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in any way entitled to set, order or approve government expenditures. That’s the purview of the sitting government. Not extra judicial bodies who want to assume govt powers.

The CHRT decreed a limit and method of compensation for victims of First Nations Child Welfare abuse. A CLEAR overreach of their quasi-judicial role. They can recommend, not assign fiscal responsibility to the federal government. But they did anyway.

If the government drops their legal suit to block CHRT from impacting its budget, how many other institutions will sue for the right to demand and expect tax dollar supports?

It is the EXCLUSIVE right of the federal government to collect taxes and redistribute them. Period.

There is no room for exceptions. Provinces, corporations wanting fiscal incentives, charitable organizations, business coalitions, pretty much everyone under the sun would attempt to do the same. That’s what changing precedent would do. And Singh is 100% aware of this.

Because CHRT is not an official branch of the Westminster Parliamentary system we have, they don’t get to assign total value or the limitations (criteria) to determine compensation for victims.

They get to recommend, but not assign action. Because they are NOT a govt authority.

If you don’t understand that relationship to formal authority, you should look it up. And stop listening to the two bit charlatan, Mr. Singh and radical First Nation activists seeking to destroy Canadian government (bring about anarchy).

There are First Nations and settler allies who seek to dismantle Canada. Which would remove legal human rights hard won by women, LGBTQ, POC, Immigrants, etc.

Stop allowing yourself to be a useful idiot.

Stop clinging to racist beliefs that some radical FN vocal activists represent all indigenous peoples. They don’t.

Just like Kenney doesn’t represent all Albertans, just a radical subgroup of miscreants.

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