The United Nations is lecturing Canada again by throwing stones while standing naked in their living room.
A report has been released by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. If you didn’t know there was a permanent UN committee on this then remember what I have told you before, the UN considers itself a government, a world government in waiting, and they think that their rules should supersede Canadian law.
Think I’m overstating this?
The UN report is critical of Canada on several fronts, and we’ll get into some of those in a minute, but take a look at this first. The UN Committee is upset that due to our provinces and the distinct jurisdictions the feds and the provinces have, plus our dualistic legal system – meaning civil code in Quebec and common law in the rest of the country, there is no uniform law enshrining the UN treaty in Canadian law.
But don’t worry, they have a solution. Just do it.
“The Committee recommends that the State Party finds the appropriate constitutional path that will allow it to have in the whole territory of the State Party, including its provinces and territories, a comprehensive legal framework which fully incorporates the provisions of the Convention and its Optional Protocols and provides clear guidelines for their consistent application.”
They are telling Canada to enshrine UN documents in our law, they are lecturing us to do this.
Who are they? The committee members.
Syrian Arab Republic
Saudi Arabia
Sri Lanka
Tunisia
Egypt
These are just some of the countries. Let me ask you this though. Would you want any of those countries to have jurisdiction over Canada? They think they do already and some in Canada want to give them that power and more.
Liberal MP Marc Garneau has a private members bill C-420, that would establish a Commissioner for Children and Young Persons. The main job of the Commissioner from my reading of the bill is to ensure Canadian compliance with what the UN dictates on child rearing and laws relating to children.
This law, which has a good chance of passing, because after all it is for the children and who can be against the children, would establish yet another unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat to pester and hector the government to do things most Canadians don’t want and haven’t even thought of.
I don’t know about you but I don’t want the Assad regime in Syria, the princes of Saudi Arabia, the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt or any of these other clowns having greater say on Canadian law relating to children than the Members of Parliament we elect. Yet that is what would happen.
If this goes through we will have yet another bureaucrat tabling reports to Parliament on how the government just isn’t doing enough – do you ever see a report saying the government is doing too much and should back off? Not from bureaucrats.
So we would have yet another report, backed by the sainted United Nations, telling the government to do more. That report would then be picked up by all the lefty groups that the UN and the Commissioner would consult and then be waved around in front of a compliant media who would then do stories on why the government does in fact need to act.
It’s for the children you know.
And that circle of lefty groups being consulted, a report issued and then that report being used by the lefty groups that were consulted – that is already going on.
Two of the groups that the UN consulted are quoted by the Canadian Press calling on the government to act.
As a parent I say this – the United Nations can go to hell. When they stop supporting dictators that oppress all their people including their children, when they can deal with regimes like Syria that kill their children to stomp out opposition, or regimes like North Korea that starve children then they can think about investigating Canada. Until then leave my family and my country alone.
And that’s the Byline.
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I share your anger and could not help but shake my head hearing thst Mr. Garneau is championing this. He was supposed to be the adult alternative to Justin Trudeau. What if Justin surprises us all by taking a more mature stance of issues such as this?
I think it is becoming indeed urgent to abandon the UN. Adult Canadians must finally internalize the idea that the modern day reality of the UN is simply a grotesque parody of its funding ideas. The question that begs being asked is what it would take for the UN to do in order to wake up those Canadians who still hold an idealized and now patently false image of that organization in their heads. If appointing dictators in key human rights and security council positions is not enough. If tolerating profoundly antisemitic and hate mongering talk is not enough – if attacking constitutional democracies while remaining silent on atrocities commited by other member states – if consistently failing to prevent human rights attrocities and to protect victms of no less than genocide is also not enough, how could you expect bleeding heart leftists to rebel at small step incremental encroaching on our independence also coming with the added “benefit” of a plush bureaucratic position capable of bullying a democratically elected parliament?
If you are a leftist and read this, would you be so kind to share with us where exactly would you draw the line in the sand and finally recognize that the UN is no longer what it was hoped it would be?
Let’s get out of the United Nations and urge other Commonwealth Countries to do the same. Let the UN go the way of the League of Nations. It was set up to stop war. It supports countries who start war. It has run its course.
I have been saying for a long time that we need to leave the UN. It is well beyond possible reform. Until then I encourage everyone to write to their MP and the PM to make it clear that Canada as a sovereign country must not sign on to yet another UN treaty. We elect our government to legislate; not the UN.
Brian: Good on ‘ya for standing your ground and declaring a globalist agenda (21) a violation of our rights. Defending our individual unalienable rights is all that stands between us and others taking them. Keep the UN out of Canadian internal affairs. It is hard enough having to deal with an elected government that is accountable, (to the Queen). It would be impossible to contain an unelected left wing authority once in place. I have been watching you for several months now and can state that YOU are the only television journalist that I am even interested in listening to. The globalists must not be allowed to continue their infiltration into private affairs. Canadians must refuse their unelected authority. We must be like the ‘Switzerland of North America’ who’s only reason for being a member of the UN is to keep an eye on what it is doing. Cooperation with UN objectives must be on a case by case basis and not a foregone conclusion and certainly not on domestic issues. Are we a 3rd world nation who requires ‘their’ guidance and support? Clearly not. I am so sick and tired of the lack of respect for unalienable rights by institutions thinking that ‘they know best’ and that ‘democracy’ means mob-rule. What ever happened to individual responsibility and the freedom to make your own choices so long as you don’t violate other’s rights? Where in our Charter does it state that Canada, (however you want to define it), must stand under the authority of an international committee – especially one with arrogant goals? Perhaps this has something to do with not signing our own sovereignty after being given the option with the BNA Act. Oh well… at least we got a flag and a song. So long as Canadians don’t succumb to ‘bread and circuses’ then there is hope. Sadly, I think the globalists are winning. However, with your efforts at least a few have a chance to take the red-pill. Keep up the good work, Brian.