Thread by @jonkay

much of the leaked info I get is from federal bureaucrats, who spend half their time in DEI sessions, learning about how genocidal their employer is.
E.g. these docs concerning an especially disastrous Oct 10 "Indigenous Voices" session at @TransportCA’s Ont office...(thread...)

on 10/10, deputy mins Arun Thangaraj @Transport_DM / Brigitte Diogo brought in a woman named Sandra Bender to do a canned talk on unmarked graves etc. To Bender’s shock, the audience pushed back, noting that those 215 “unmarked graves” don’t seem to exist. So things got wild...

(side note: @TransportCA calls this event “Indigenous Voices.” But Bender’s “voice” isn’t Indigenous. She’s white. You can tell she’s white bcuz her NCTR bio is so long: She adds in every stray bit of intersectional flotsam she can muster, hoping to compensate for her whiteness)

anyway, Bender got so furious that her audience was posting facts in the Teams chat that she reportedly went on a rant and abandoned the session. This mortified the deputy ministers, of course, who sent a mass email later that day, bewailing the loss of their “safe space”…

a source tells me that the online commentators thought they were allowed to speak their minds freely. But now Thangaraj and Diogo are pledging to track down & punish the heretics... They also cancelled the other 3 weekly instalments of Sandra’s enthralling multi-part series...

needless to say, more was to come. next day, the DMs send a longer message declaring unwavering faith in the tale of 215 graves, & further denouncing TC heretics
(inexplicably, they also demand veneration for the “lived experiences” of the aforementioned Bender, a white woman)..

and there’s more. the orig DEI session got reconvened for Oct 24 — except this time, Thangaraj would deliver “opening remarks,” & the whole @TransportCA executive committee was instructed to attend, to supervise their heretical riffraff & take names if anyone stepped out of line

by now, Transport Canada’s entire C-suite is basically working full time to clean up the mess from the orig Oct 10 disaster. Today, yet another event was announced—a “virtual healing circle” so ppl can heal from the Oct 10 trauma. Thangaraj will deliver remarks at this one too…

by my count, this makes six separate events for TC’s employees to attend on this file, in the space of just a few weeks... (1) Bender’s orig disaster, (2) the replacement session, (3) three more parts of her gripping 4-part series, plus the post-10/10 “healing circle”...

sorry, I wrote that by my count, this makes six separate events for TC’s employees to attend. given the DM’s allusion to the “conversation” about reconciliation on Tofino Day last month, the true number is likely seven-plus. @jonkay regrets the error

but when that’s done, Transport Canada workers get back to working on, like, “transport,” right?
Nope. An ATIP request came in for docs relating to the 10/10 session. Workers got a 7-page compliance memo. Some staff will be working on this well into 2025
Your tax dollars at work

Oh and by the way, if you live in Winnipeg and Sandra Bender’s name sounds familiar, it’s because, when she’s not storming out of her own DEI sessions, she’s doing her best to “queer Handel’s Messiah”

winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/…