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Rupa Subramanya
@rupasubramanya
@TheFP .Former columnist @nationalpost Email: rupa@thefp.com
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Mar 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Remember that a tit for tat tariff will hurt Canada more compared to no retaliation with almost zero impact on the Americans according to modelling estimates by economists. But no politician in Canada has the courage to make that case to the public. They'd rather play politics. "But by stopping short of a strict dollar-for-dollar escalation, policymakers have at least avoided inflicting even greater damage on Canadian businesses and consumers." thehub.ca/2025/02/02/tre…
Feb 3 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Justin Trudeau in 2021, reacting to the attack on the Capitol:

"What we witnessed was an assault on democracy by violent rioters, incited by the current President and other politicians".

I don't know how we come back from this. A day after Trump scored a decisive victory in the Iowa Caucus, in January 2024, Justin Trudeau said that Trump returning to the White House would be a "step back". cbc.ca/news/politics/…
Nov 10, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I come from a part of India that gave Jews sanctuary two thousand years ago, and more recently again a few hundred years ago. Two thousand years ago, there was even a Jewish kingdom in what is now the southern state of Kerala. I've always been proud of that history and the fact that India stands out as one of very few countries in the world to have no indigenous antisemitism.
My former hometown Mumbai also has a rich Jewish history. This is the Knesset Eliyahu, one of the city's oldest synagogues established by Elias Sasoon, grandson of David Sassoon, a Baghdadi Jew and one of the merchant princes of Mumbai. David Sasoon arrived in Bombay in 1832 from Baghdad escaping persecution. He went on to become one of India's richest men. His legacy lives on today in the famous Sassoon docks and the Sassoon library.

The synagogue was one of the targets of Pakistani Islamists on India's 9/11 known as 26/11 in 2008. They killed the rabbi and his wife and orphaned their baby. To this day, there's a military tank and police protection outside the synagogue each and every day.
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Nov 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
As a Hindu, I'm not a big fan of the concept of Hinduphobia. This is another manufactured term like Islamophobia and all it does is drive people into their identitarian corner. Hinduism for thousands of years is a religion that accepts multiple views on everything and there's no such thing as a unitary Hindu view, so Hinduphobia by definition is an illogical term. Once again, Canada is importing diaspora grievances which we don't need or want here. Dumb and counterproductive.
The term Hinduphobia animates the Hindu right in India. It helps them electorally. The fact that this concept is being imported to Canada is an indictment of Canada's failed multiculturalism and diaspora grievance politics.
Sep 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In 2017, the Russian embassy in Canada pointed to the presence of a monument in Oakville Ontario, honouring Ukrainian soldiers who fought in a Nazi Waffen SS unit. The Russian tweet was correct. But incredibly @JustinTrudeau government went into high gear to smear the correct Russian claim and anyone who repeated it as "disinformation".

@davidpugliese wrote about this incident in 2018 in the @OttawaCitizen and makes the observation:

"But in Canada, the federal government is more than happy to play along with defending Himmler’s SS divisions and Nazi collaborators".

"The Russian tweet sent bureaucrats at Global Affairs Canada into overdrive as they tried to defend the SS unit and Ukrainian Nazi collaborators. The bureaucrats came up with a strategy. The would label the tweet as “disinformation” and they came up with a plan to spread the word to the news media as part of their efforts to defend Ukraine’s Nazi collaborators."
Aug 3, 2023 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
Toronto principal Richard Bilkszto was a passionate educator who cared about underprivileged kids. For refuting a claim in a DEI session that Canada is a "bastion of white supremacy", he was bullied and tarred a white supremacist, called a weed by the trainer and faced severe… https://t.co/pAlzJIQC12twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Do listen to the audio excerpts we provide from the DEI training session and you'll hear how school principal Richard Bilkszto was bullied not just by the DEI trainer but by other educators. The event left him traumatized which eventually led to his suicide.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Jan 27, 2023 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
A year ago, I stepped out of my home in Ottawa to check out a protest unfolding in my part of town. Little did I know the #FreedomConvoy protests would go down as one of the greatest cultural moments in Canada's history, inspire the world,and that it would change my life forever. Image I expected #FreedomConvoy protests to be your garden variety protest on the hill with a couple of hundred people at the most. Would end that day. I'd heard from the legacy media that they were racists and we should be afraid. I went with an open mind and am glad I did. ImageImageImage
Nov 4, 2022 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Brendan Miller, lawyer for the convoy: "Not a single witness alleged to have suffered violence at the hands of the protestors that the protestors are being collectively blamed for has been presented to the inquiry". Exactly. #POEC Ottawa Coalition lawyer argues lack of evidence that witnesses suffered violence at the hands of the protesters doesn't mean it didn't happen.
"Lack of evidence doesn't mean you can't infer it didn't happen." What kind of a kangaroo court is this?Are we in North Korea?🤡 #POEC
Nov 3, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Tamara Lich:"I was frustrated by the mandates.Families were being torn apart.Many suicides in my hometown. Elderly were dying by themselves. I was becoming increasingly alarmed with my PM saying I was racist and that I shouldn't be tolerated. I found his rhetoric divisive." #POEC Tamara Lich says initial target was to raise $100,000. Barber had suggested $200,000. She felt this would be impossible to raise. As it turned out, they managed to raise through Go Fund Me nearly $8 million in less than 10 days. #POEC.
Nov 3, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
James Bauder: "We already won by coming here in unity. The MoU meant nothing". #POEC Bauder: "Every other opportunity to talk to this government had failed".
Paul Champ, lawyer for Ottawa residents coalition and Zexi Li: "That's right". 🤡🔨 #POEC
Nov 2, 2022 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
"You agree hate speech has been codified in the criminal code, right?"
"@ikwilson : Yes I find the PM's hate speech towards the unvaccinated and saying how do we deal with these people deeply troubling". Boom. #POEC "What do you think was the goal of the Freedom Convoy"?
Pat King: "To go and protest, to exercise your democratic right, to be heard by politicians..." #POEC
Nov 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Chris Barber, Freedom Convoy organizer: "Parking all over the city on the main streets was never our plan. Our plan was to use Majors Hill and Confederate Parks as staging areas." #POEC The WEF and Finance Minister and Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland sitting on its advisory board makes its way into the public inquiry into the Emergencies Act. Recall, this is where you read it first. 🙂 #POEC nationalpost.com/opinion/rupa-s…
Oct 24, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
OPS intell assessment, Jan 28: "Freedom Convoy is less of a professional protest with the usual sad players but rather a truly organic grassroots movement gathering momentum largely from the widespread population."So much for it being orchestrated by Putin, Trump, etc. #POEC Bell: "What was known the day before (Jan 27), we were starting to get numbers of trucks etc.The overall activity of the group moving across was extremely lawful, extremely law abiding."

Bear in mind the media was at this point calling them violent insurrectionists. #POEC
Oct 18, 2022 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
Mayor Jim Watson: "Then they brought the hot tubs in. It was a horrific situation". 😂 #POEC Mayor Jim Watson: "Swastika and confederate flags were swirling all over the place." Yes they were swirling everywhere which is why I didn't see a single one over the course of three weeks, and we have the same couple of stock photos that keep circulating. #POEC
Oct 14, 2022 • 26 tweets • 8 min read
Witness at the Public Inquiry, Victoria De La Ronde "I felt "phantom horn" blowing after the protests." Xexi Li who was masked when she went outdoors during the protests says the truckers would derive pleasure from her flinching when they honked. I can barely tell what is behind a mask, let alone know if someone is flinching. Interesting.
Oct 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
A mom discovers her son, 23, with diabetes and vision loss has been approved to die under Canada's assisted suicide program. She has a few days to save his life. One of the most permissive MAiD programs in the world is set to expand further. My latest. commonsense.news/p/scheduled-to… Kiano Vafaeian was scheduled to die September 22. Dr Joshua Tepper, well-known physician at St. Michael's hospital in Toronto emails Kiano on September 7 confirming the date and timing of his assisted suicide, including mapping out a schedule.
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Aug 19, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
State of journalism in Canada. Government official says we’ve provided evidence, "journalist" says OK case closed. "Journalist" is delighted that a fellow journalist is “skewered” rather than doing her real job which is to hold the government to account. Pathetic. Keenan is not under oath. He's at a committee hearing. And plus if there was all this massive evidence, why wasn't it used to defend the government in the court case I reported on. Basic questions that journalists should be asking but they're not.
Aug 2, 2022 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Recently released court documents reveal that the Trudeau government’s travel vaccine mandate was driven by politics and not science.Days before it kicked in,senior officials were scrambling to find a rationale. My latest for @bariweiss and it’s a big one. commonsense.news/p/court-docume… The documents also reveal the travel mandate was concocted by a secretive group headed by a Transport Canada official. Apart from its head and one other member, we don’t even know who’s part of it. No scientists, doctors, or epidemiologists were involved. commonsense.news/p/court-docume…
Jul 30, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I feel like there might be a cat in there somewhere… Image More sightings… Image
Jun 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Ontario data confirms two dose vaxx now basically useless at preventing hospitalization/ICU admissions.Numbers so close as to be statistically indistinguishable.Yet useless federal vaxx mandates remain in place.
Hospital/100k
Unvaxxed: 3.9
Vaxxed: 3.3

ICU/ 100k
U: 0.52
V: 0.49 When I calculated this back in Jan, the unvaxxed still much more likely to wind up in hospital than the vaxxed. But by now, the efficacy of the two dose series is close to zero as many studies suggest and my calculation of the Ontario data confirms.
Mar 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
While Zelensky is being praised in the west for being liberal and democratic, he orders the suspension of 11 political parties in Ukraine claiming they have links to Russia. Very little reporting of this major news from western media houses. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry… In yet more evidence of his democratic and liberal credentials, Zelensky signs a decree that combines all national TV channels into one platform, says it's important to have a “unified information policy” under martial law.