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Canadian citizens who are barely scraping by are being thrown to the wolves financially as CARBON TAX increases go into effect.

Increases to Canada’s controversial carbon tax have gone into effect Monday leading many in the country who are already struggling financially to take to protesting the 23 percent hike in cost.

The climate change cult tax is levied directly against numerous carbon-based energy sources including diesel, propane and natural gas, all of which cause an indirect price increase on food, clothing and virtually all other goods.

This has caused many Canadians to take to the streets and social media to describe the already insurmountable cost of living crisis and how the new drain on their finances will negatively affect them.

In addition to regular Canadians, the tax is really hurting poor college students, who are taking to social media to describe their inability to afford the cost of living, even as their living accommodations are paid for.

Citizens of the North American country have resorted to blocking highways in desperation.

The Canadian trucker convoy that became a major protest group against the Covid vaccine mandates and lockdowns in years past has returned, this time to protest the carbon tax increase.

Canadian paramilitary soldiers have been deployed against the nation’s own civilians in response to the public’s disdain to the global-warming-scam-based tax.

Just as is being seen throughout Europe, farmers in Canada are up in arms over the price increases which will put an even bigger strain on their ever decreasing bottom line.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in 2022 that this tax is a wonderful thing, and lambasted conservatives who oppose such measures.

From 2022 Trudeau explains how we are one of the few Countries in the world with a carbon tax. He says it’s important to put food on the table. We now have record food bank use across the country. He’s destroying us on purpose to satisfy his ideologies. pic.twitter.com/SUWxqPeZvV

— Ryan Gerritsen???? (@ryangerritsen) April 1, 2024

Just as Canada and the world moves toward political tyranny with new hate speech laws, economic tyranny is coming in with the false secular scientism religion of climate change via taxes on carbon-based energy.

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Police Scotland will target young men with “with ideas about white-male entitlement” under the new Hate Crime Act.

Scotland recently took a giant step towards becoming one of the most restrictive countries in Europe. The adjective ‘Orwellian’ trips too easily off of the lips these days, but with severe and significant restrictions to free speech being introduced in the contents of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, which came into force on 1 April 2024, it is hard to imagine a more apt description.

According to the Scottish government’s own website, the Act “creates new stirring up of hatred offences for protected characteristics including age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and transgender identity.” At face value, this seems reasonable. It is not nice to express hateful feelings towards people on the basis of their characteristics, immutable or adopted, and it cannot be pleasant to be at the receiving end of hateful abuse. But to elevate verbal abuse and hurt feelings to the status of a crime is to pave the way towards a police state or, as is the case of Scotland, to take another step towards a police state. Scotland already has a unitary police force, Police Scotland, formed in 2013.

The formation of Police Scotland abolished the regional police authorities in Scotland and put policing across the whole country under the control of the Scottish Police Authority, a body of the government. Police Scotland has enthusiastically taken to its role in policing hate crime. They have developed a training package which contains the apparently contradictory statement that the package includes “examples of a range of scenarios where offences might take place, but this does not mean officers have been told to target these situations or locations.” If so, then why include those “situations or locations”?

The precise nature of the “situations or locations” is not in the public domain. However, leaked documents suggest that police training goes beyond the already wide-ranging bounds of the Act to include public performances such as plays and comedy acts where the content could be deemed offensive. The Act already covers not only the generation of speech, writing, or performance considered hateful, but also the sharing of it by any means, including social media and private emails. In fact, as explained recently in The Spectator, the Act “covers anything said anywhere—even in your own home. Children will in theory be able to report their parents. Scots can inform on each other anonymously, through an expanded network of ‘third-party reporting centres’.” Mao’s Cultural Revolution meets 1984.

Police Scotland have signalled how seriously they will be taking hate crimes, saying “Police Scotland treats all hate crimes seriously. We want you to report it.” But so vague is the notion of hate crime that they urge the public, “If something happens and you are not sure if it is a crime, please remember, if it feels wrong, report it and let us help.” Their proclamation that they will investigate every complaint must be reassuring to the perpetually offended, but is probably less so to the victims of vandalism or theft, crimes which, under their investigation policy, will no longer be investigated where there are “no witnesses or evidence.” It is estimated that there is a burglary every two hours in Scotland. The policy is intended to free up police time so that they may tackle more serious crimes, but this seems unlikely if they are going to be constantly engaged in following up on reports of ‘hate crimes,’ many of which will be subjective and without witnesses.

Police Scotland have made it clear whom they will be targeting in their campaign, which seems itself akin to a campaign of hate. According to the ‘Hate Monster’—a cartoon character which drew so much ridicule from the people of Scotland that it was downplayed within days of first appearing but which is being used to promote their hate crime action—they will be targeting young, white, working-class males. In their own words: “We know that young men aged 18-30 are most likely to commit hate crime, particularly those from socially excluded communities who are heavily influenced by their peers. They may have deep-rooted feelings of being socially and economically disadvantaged, combined with ideas about white-male entitlement.” Thus, Police Scotland, presumably at the behest of the Scottish government, have shown their hand early. They have already decided who is guilty of a hate crime that, at the time the campaign launched, did not exist.

Developments in Scotland should be viewed against the backdrop of the economic and social disaster that has become a hallmark. Scotland depends on financial aid from England, particularly the southeast of England, for its survival. The block grant delivered to Scotland under the Barnett formula currently amounts to £41 billion a year for 2022-2025, outweighing most other sources of income to the Scottish government such as oil, whisky, tourism, and income tax. Simultaneously, Scotland has a burgeoning drug problem and its drug-related deaths are the highest in Europe. Tragically, while drug deaths amongst men are higher than amongst women, the drug death rate among women is growing, indicating an increasing use of illegal drugs by women. Concomitant with this increasing use of drugs amongst women is the birth of more drug-dependent babies, with over 1,300 born since 2017. 

Meanwhile, the Scottish government pursues policies which it can ill afford, such as welcoming refugees and asylum seekers (at least the ones who can stand the climate), and adopts policies which defy logic, such as insisting that tampons are available under their Period Products Act—at public expense—in all male (as well as female) toilets in government buildings. In another move that was quickly reversed, the ruling SNP party appointed a man to the position of “period dignity officer.” Scotland has been at the forefront of gender recognition rights and aimed to be the first part of the United Kingdom to permit self-identification followed by rapid legal recognition of that status under its proposed Gender Recognition (Scotland) Bill. Unfortunately for the Scottish government and the SNP, they discovered that they were still part of the United Kingdom when, under section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998, the Secretary of State for Scotland prevented the Act from receiving Royal Assent.

Those on the political Left, where the SNP firmly sit, are not renowned for their sense of humour, and they clearly lack a sense of irony. But it is hard not to contrast the emphasis within the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 that blasphemy laws are no longer on the statute book in Scotland while, in the meantime, they create a new law which establishes what amounts to a new set of blasphemies. While religion is included as a protected characteristic, it is strongly suspected that this will favour Islam—the religion of Scotland’s current First Minister Humza Yousaf—while ignoring hate against Christians. The Scottish Catholic Bishops, not prone to hysteria or exaggeration, already fear that, under the 2021 Act, owning a bible or Christian catechism could become illegal, since these texts contain forthright views on the practice of homosexuality. I am certain that Muslims will have little to fear for having the Quran in their homes, containing as it does all manner of advice on how to treat both women and those of other faiths.

However, against the bleak landscape that is Scottish politics, all may not be lost in Walter Scott’s land of ‘brown heath and shaggy wood.’ Jim Telfer, a legend of Scottish rugby with 22 caps for Scotland, is clearly not in accord with recent developments. He has called for that dreariest of dirges, the ‘national anthem’ of Scotland, Flower of Scotland, to be banned due to its anti-English content. This would be a great service to sport and politics—and to music.

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“Many thousands” of minor crimes will now be ignored because of the new law, Scottish Tories warn.

Almost 4,000 ‘hate crime’ complaints were made to Police Scotland in the 24 hours after the country’s new public order act came into effect.

Calum Steele, the former general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, said it was his “understanding” that the figure stood at around 3,800, suggesting many people are all too happy to make use of the anti-free speech legislation despite the rightful criticism it has received in the media.

The news has prompted critics of the hard-left Scottish National Party government to warn of police officers being overstretched. Conservative Member of the Scottish Parliament Rachael Hamilton said that because of the law,

Many thousands of minor crime incidents will not be investigated and serious crime will bear the brunt of an already strained [police] service.

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Hamilton added that “the Act must be repealed.”

The Hate Crime and Public Order Act, which came into force on Monday, makes a new crime of “stirring up hatred” based on protected characteristics, including age, disability, faith, sexual orientation, transgender identity, or being intersex. 

The legislation is not, however, designed to protect women—for instance, as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling pointed out, those who speak out in favour of single-sex spaces for women and girls, which could be deemed ‘hateful’ by protected trans individuals.

On Monday, Rowling described a list of transgender individuals as men and invited Police Scotland to “arrest me.” Officers later said that it had received complaints about her online post but that they did not view it as criminal. The author responded:

I hope every woman in Scotland who wishes to speak up for the reality and importance of biological sex will be reassured by this announcement, and I trust that all women—irrespective of profile or financial means—will be treated equally under the law.

Journalist Charlotte Gill was impressed by Rowling’s stand for free speech, but is concerned that the author is something of a lone voice among cultural circles. Gill wrote: “There’s a shameful lack of artists speaking out against Scotland’s tyrannical hate crime act. How can J.K. Rowling be one of the few authors to challenge it? How did it suddenly become uncool to like free speech?!”

While Rowling avoided criminal action against her social media posts on Monday, she has stressedthat if the police “go after any woman for simply calling a man a man, I’ll repeat that woman’s words and they can charge us both at once.”

One of the transgender individuals named in Rowling’s first hate crime-critical post—Katie Neeves, who was appointed a UN Women UK delegate—voiced strong disappointment at Police Scotland for failing to act.

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Boys are now taking home the gold in every competition.

The trans-identified girl’s basketball player who was filmed knocking down a rival player in Massachusetts earlier this year, was allegedly kicked off a rowing team a couple of years ago for leering at, and commenting on a girl’s bare breasts in the locker room.

In addition to basketball and rowing, the 6-foot tall KIPP Academy senior has competed against girls in multiple other high school sports, including volleyball, hurdles, shot put and tae kwon do, predictably shattering records and leading his teams to victory, according to the Australian online magazine Quillette.

Lazuli Clark, the trans-identified student, can be seen in the middle of the volleyball promotional photo below:

His gender-bending athletic exploits went viral in February after he injured three opponentsduring a girls’ basketball game and the opposing team had to forfeit the game after only 16 minutes of play.

A video posted on YouTube by “Inside Lowell” shows a Collegiate Charter School girl being dragged to the ground like a ragdoll while wrestling for a rebound with the much larger biological male player from KIPP Academy.

The girl can be seen grabbing her back and wincing in pain as she tried to get back up off the floor.  Sources said the biological male player is “more than 6 feet tall with facial hair.”

KIPP reportedly withdrew from its next game after a backlash.

Clark’s inappropriate locker room behavior was mentioned in a report in the U.S. Senate last month as  a “direct case of harassment.”

The incident took place in 2021-22 while he was a member of a private girls rowing club, according to the report submitted by Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.) to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on March 20.

During the course of this investigation, Committee staff discovered a direct case of harassment involving Massachusetts youth in a private, free-standing rowing league whose policies are governed by USA Rowing. In Massachusetts and New England, competitive rowing occurs mainly via private leagues as it is too expensive for high schools to offer. According to a parent who spoke with Committee staff, a male athlete was allowed to join the women’s varsity crew team, which caused many issues for the female athletes.

The male athlete was also allowed to use the women’s locker room in accordance with USA Rowing policy. The female athletes avoided using the locker room, but nonetheless a few months later, the male athlete was caught staring openly at one of the female athletes while she changed her clothes in the women’s locker room and remarked, “oooh [titties]!” When a female athlete nearby asked if it was the first time he had seen female breasts, the male responded, “uhh yeah” with a laugh. The male athlete was suspended for this incident.

Quillette received a copy of an October 12, 2022 letter written by 15 concerned parents to the United States Rowing Association (USRowing), the sport’s national governing body. USRowing reportedly allows men to opt into the women’s categories as a matter of policy.

According to the parents, the club’s 40 female competitors were ‘intimidated’ into silence.

Parents complained in the letter that their daughters were forced to share a room with Clark during team trips.

“The girls spoke to us about quitting rowing because of the intimidation of being forced to be in a hotel room alone with a male,” they said.

“Our daughters have stayed quiet because they are afraid. We tried to speak up for them, and we were shut down,” the letter read.

We tried to speak to leadership at all levels. [But] name-calling and the threat of mental health is being used as emotional blackmail to keep us all quiet while women are harmed and devalued…Our daughters also faced a locker room situation where they were uncomfortable…They stopped changing in the locker room and began to hide away.

These young girls should never have been put through being told they had to face a male body everyday as they undressed…It was a constant thought, a constant threat to submit and a constant awareness. Yet they dared not say anything (except privately to their parents). The rowing team also required the male athlete to room with them on trips. The girls spoke to us about quitting rowing because of the intimidation of being forced to be in a hotel room alone with a male.

One of the signatories told Quillette that Clark joined the female rowing club in 2021, after placing “near the bottom” with the club’s corresponding male team.

Clark “didn’t bother to shave or otherwise maintain the outward aesthetic pretenses of female gender identification, and even continued to wear the male club’s uniform,” Quillette reported.

After the locker room incident, team officials reported Clark to the U.S. Center for SafeSport, a congressionally mandated body dedicated to “ending sexual, physical, and emotional abuse on behalf of athletes everywhere.”

SafeSport took action in late 2022, and Clark “never rowed for the club again—in either gender category.”

A parent told Quillette that they had begun expressing their concerns about Clark to USRowing in the Spring 2022, but were ignored.

“These girls have all been rowing for years, and for many, the main goal is to get recruited to top universities with rowing teams,” a letter signatory said. “As soon as you express concerns about men rowing as women, you risk getting called out as a ‘transphobe.’ No one wants to risk that. These are girls who’ve been training for three hours a day, six days a week, 50 weeks a year. So when you’re told that the team is going out of town, and someone needs to share a hotel room with a [male] rower, they just look around, and it’s basically like, ‘okay, who wants to take one for the team.’”

Clark continues to compete against girls in several other sports however.

He was named a Commonwealth Atlantic Conference All-Star in Volleyball after after leading Kipp’s team in most statistics, including the most “Kills” (unreturnable shots).

He had more kills “than the rest of the team combined, and the most aces and blocks,” according to school statistics.

As a female competitor, Clark also reportedly smashed records in the 400m hurdles and shot put at the Lynn All-City Track Championship last May.

Clark is also a longtime Tae Kwon Do student at the Tiger Institute in Saugus, Massachusetts, where he is a black belt and competes against girls.

He reportedly won second place in 16-17 year old Black Belt Sparring at the Cervizzi’s Spring Invitational Tournament in March 2023, and went on to win the Fall tournament in October.

The Tae Kwon Do gym promoted a fundraiser for Clark to tour Salzburg and Vienna in Austria in June with an opera ensemble.

The “tour of a lifetime” fundraiser included a photo of him dressed in a tuxedo while singing, and resulted in $2,550 in donations.

“It’s sure to be an amazing and life-changing opportunity that will allow me to experience a new culture, enhance my performing skills and become a cultural ambassador through the sharing of music,” the promotion read.

“With the help of my family, friends and other supporters, I know I can make it happen. Please consider supporting my performance and travel dreams with a donation.”

Clark was featured in a Center on Reinventing Public Education report last November titled: “To Be a Student in 2023: 10 Teens Open Up About Mental Health, the Age of AI and the Long Shadow of the Pandemic.”

He told the organization that laws passed by states to protect women made it difficult for him to focus on school.

“Going to school is the least of people’s concerns at this point for a lot of people,” Clark said. “There are days where I’m like, oh yeah, I have to worry about my AP U.S. history project and yesterday another state basically made it so that I can never exist in that state. And it’s like, how’s anyone supposed to think about anything at all when there’s all of that going on? Even if you’re not directly impacted by it. Most people in my generation know somebody who’s impacted in one way or the other.”

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