Canadian MP Goes Viral With Wild Rant Claiming ‘Climate Emergencies’ are Not ‘Gender Neutral’
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – A leftist pro-abortion MP’s “climate change” rant during a recent environment committee meeting where she said “climate emergencies” are not “gender-neutral” as they “disproportionately” hurt women has gone viral with hundreds of thousands of views.
The viral rant was made by New Democratic Party MP Laurel Collins of Victoria, British Columbia, during a May 23 Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development meeting in Ottawa after she was triggered by a comment about “climate hysteria” by one of the meetings witnesses.
One video posting on X from Wide Awake Media of Collins’ rant had 300,000 views in a matter of hours.
In the meeting, Collins started by saying, (16:16 min mark), “I guess I want to start off by addressing one of the comments that was made by the witnesses around climate hysterics … Hysteria, it refers to something that is wildly emotional. It comes from the Greek word, womb of the womb. It is used in ancient Greek to refer to things associated with women.”
“And I think I hope you’ll forgive me if I get emotional. Climate emergencies are not gender neutral. The degradation of ecosystems disproportionately impacts women and girls …This is the existential crisis of our time.”
Not done yet, Collins then said that “climate change” is the “existential crisis of our time,” saying “we’re asking for high ambition is climate hysteria that makes me wildly emotional, absolutely.”
“When I think about my womb, you know the two children that I bore from that womb and what future we are leaving them, I am wildly emotional,” she said.
Collins, who just noted that she bore two children, then said, “it’s not surprising to hear this from someone who has written articles that are pro-life.”
She said that Canadians need to “think about the intersection of gender and the climate crisis,” adding that the “people around this table and the people listening will refrain from using language like climate hysteria.”
Reaction to Collins’ outburst came swiftly on social media, with some pointing out that her comments didn’t make any sense at all.
Well-known Canadian anti-woke psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson took a shot at Collins’ rant.
“A hysteric complains hysterically about an imaginary complication of an imaginary problem: Canadians: this is the @liberal_partyunder @JustinTrudeau,” Peterson wrote on X today.
Others pointed out that gender has nothing to do with the weather.
“Man, last time I checked a tornado ain’t checking a gender before wiping it out,” commented X user Julio Murillo in reply to a video clip of Collins’ rant.
X user RightBlend said about Collins’s comments, “This is a word salad that applies 0 logic but appeals to emotional triggers.”
Another X user, Based and Biased, said about Collins’s rant, “Maybe we should ban climate emergencies.”
When it comes to so-called man caused “climate change,” which leftists have been preaching about for years, the reality is the other side of the debate has a lot of evidence to counter the left’s narrative that man alone is allegedly causing a shift in Earth’s weather patterns.
A June 2017 peer-reviewed study by two scientists and a veteran statistician confirmed that most of the recent global warming data have been “fabricated by climate scientists to make it look more frightening.”
As noted by LifeSiteNews, pro-life and family advocates have been continually warning about the climate activism movement’s alignment with pro-abortion and population control advocates and lobby groups.
The federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with the full support of the NDP, has gone all in on radical transgender ideology, including the so-called “transitioning” of minors, while at the same time introducing laws that on the surface appear to be about helping children.
Under Trudeau, the federal government has given millions of taxpayer money to fund LGBT groups of various kinds and aggressively pushes a pro-LGBT agenda.
Since taking office in 2015, the Trudeau government has continued to push a radical environmental agenda like the agendas being pushed the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” and the United Nations’ “Sustainable Development Goals.”
The reduction and eventual elimination of the use of so-called “fossil fuels” and a transition to unreliable “green” energy has also been pushed by the World Economic Forum, an organization in which Trudeau and some of his cabinet are involved.
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US and Germany Authorize Ukrainian Attacks Against Russia
Both the United States and Germany have allowed weapons they supplied to Ukraine to be used against targets inside Russian territory. The two NATO member states have emphasised that their decision applies only to targets inside Russia near the border with the northeastern Ukrainian Kharkiv region, where Moscow launched an offensive a few weeks ago.
U.S. President Joe Biden had been under pressure to authorise the decision, with Ukraine, the Baltic states, the Scandinavian countries, and Britain urging the United States to act. Biden had refused to do so, fearing that NATO could be dragged into a war with Russia, whose president, Vladimir Putin, warned the Western military alliance that they risked the outbreak of nuclear war.
The war between Ukraine and Russia, which started with the Russian invasion more than two years ago, has reached a stalemate in the past year Recently, Moscow launched an offensive against the Kharkiv region, which borders Russia, and Russian troops have made significant territorial gains there. Russian fighter planes flying inside Russia have been supporting the offensive by firing bombs at Ukrainian defence lines and into Kharkiv, reports Reuters.
Joe Biden “recently directed his team to ensure that Ukraine is able to use U.S.-supplied weapons for counter-fire purposes in the Kharkiv region so Ukraine can hit back against Russian forces that are attacking them or preparing to attack them,” said one U.S. official.
The U.S. is the biggest supplier of weapons to Ukraine, and it recently decided to send long-range missiles known as ATACMS to Kyiv. Washington will continue to prohibit the Ukrainian military from using ATACMS, which have a range of up to 300 kilometres, for deep strikes inside Russia.
Germany has also given into pressure, with government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit announcingon Friday that Berlin has given Kyiv permission to use weapons supplied by Germany against military targets in Russia. “We are jointly convinced that Ukraine has the right under international law to defend itself against these attacks,” he said.
German policy on providing weapons has dramatically shifted, with Berlin initially only willing to send helmets to Ukraine at the beginning of Russia’s invasion. Pressure by NATO allies, and from the hawkish Greens within the government, has persuaded Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz to allow the delivery of anti-aircraft systems and battle tanks. However, Scholz has refused to authorise the supply of long-range Taurus missiles, saying they could be used to hit targets deep inside Russia.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, who is attending the ongoing NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Prague, downplayed the threat of an escalation of the war. “Ukraine has the right for self-defence, and that includes also the right to strike legitimate military targets inside Russia,” he said on Friday. He added that letting Western weapons hit targets in Russia was “nothing new” as Britain had long sent cruise missiles to Kyiv without restrictions.
French President Emmanuel Macron also said on Tuesday that Ukraine should be allowed to “neutralise” bases in Russia used to launch strikes.
“NATO countries that have approved strikes with their weapons on Russian territory should be aware that their equipment and specialists will be destroyed not only in Ukraine, but also at any point from where Russian territory is attacked,” former Russian president, now deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev warned on Friday. He said all long-range weapons supplied to Ukraine were already “directly operated by servicemen from NATO countries,” which is tantamount to participation in the war against Russia.
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Don’t Celebrate Yet: The WHO Could Still Sneak The Pandemic Treaty Through a Back Door
GENEVA, Switzerland (LifeSiteNews) — Negotiations to finalize both the proposed Amendments to the International Health Regulations and the new Pandemic Treaty stalled on Friday May 24, leading many to claim that the treaty was “dead.” However, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, immediately stated that the negotiations would continue.
Several nations, including the United States, have proposed a Resolution, the effect of which would be that the WHO will continue to negotiate the proposed Amendments to the IHR throughout this week, to be voted upon by the end of the week.
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A press release from the WHO makes clear that it wants to finalize the Amendments to the International Health Regulations by June 1.
Reggie Littlejohn, Co-Founder of the Sovereignty Coalition and President of Anti-Globalist International, traveled to Geneva for the World Health Assembly. She stated:
Negotiating Amendments to the International Health Regulations during the meeting of the World Health Assembly, to be disclosed the day of the vote on those amendments, is a flagrant violation of IHR Article 55, which requires that all proposed amendments be circulated in their final form four months in advance of a vote. The intent of Article 55 is to give national governments and civil society time to review the proposed changes and analyze their impact. The fact that the World Health Organization is willing to violate its own laws and regulations so flagrantly indicates their disdain for the rule of law. If they are willing to toss even their own procedural safeguards out the window, why should we expect them to honor the laws of our nation?
Littlejohn continued: “Beyond this, we have no idea what they are planning to add to the IHRs, as they are negotiating them this week in a black box. Will they try to inject problematic provisions of the Pandemic Treaty – provisions that could damage our national sovereignty and personal medical freedom – into the IHRs, so that they can get them passed by consent rather than putting them to the rigorous 2/3 majority vote required by a treaty? We must do everything we can to stop this vote on Friday!”
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Ireland Submits ‘Online Safety Code’ for EU Assessment – Pushes Censorship, Digital ID
Ireland’s media regulator (Coimisiún na Meán) has updated the Online Safety Code (part of the Online Safety Framework, a mechanism of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act), and submitted it to the European Commission for assessment.
Considered by opponents as a censorship law that also imposes age verification or estimation (phrased as “age assurance”), the Code aims to establish binding rules for video platforms with EU headquarters located in Ireland.
It is expected that the European Commission will announce its position within 3 to 4 months, after which the rules will be finalized and put into effect, the regulator said.
Once greenlit by Brussels, the final version of the Code will impose obligations on platforms to ban uploading or sharing videos of what is considered to be cyberbullying, promoting self-harm or suicide, and promoting eating or feeding disorders.
But the list is much longer and includes content deemed to be inciting hatred or violence, terrorism, child sex abuse material, racism, and xenophobia.
Even though the new rules will inevitably give wide remit to censor video content as belonging to any of these many categories, and even though children are unavoidably mentioned as the primary concern, the Irish press reports that not everyone is satisfied with just how far the new Code goes.
One is a group called the Hope and Courage Collective (H&CC), whose purpose is apparently to “fight against far-right hate.” H&CC is worried that the Code will not be able to “keep elections safe” nor protect communities “targeted by hate.”
But what it will do, according to the media regulator’s statement, is to use “age assurance” as a way to prevent children from viewing inappropriate content, and do so via age verification measures.
The age verification controversy, however, doesn’t stem from (even if only declarative) intent behind it, but from the question of how it is supposed to be implemented, and how that implementation will stop short of undermining privacy and therefore security of all users of a platform.
Still, the Irish regulator is satisfied that its new code, along with the EU’s Digital Services Act and Terrorist Content Online Regulation, will give it “a strong suite of tools to improve people’s lives online.”
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The EU is on the Brink of Making ‘Hate Speech’ a Serious Crime
The EU’s European Commission (EC) appears to be preparing to include “hate speech” among the list of most serious criminal offenses and regulate its investigation and prosecution across the bloc.
Whether this type of proposal is cropping up now because of the upcoming EU elections or if the initiative has legs will become obvious in time, but for now, the plans are supported by several EC commissioners.
The idea stems from the European Citizens’ Panel on Tackling Hatred in Society, one of several panels (ECPs) established to help EC President Ursula von der Leyen with her (campaign?) promise of ushering in a democracy in the EU that is “fit for the future.”
That could mean anything, and the vagueness by no means stops there: the very “hate speech,” despite the gravity of the proposals to classify it as a serious crime, is not even well defined, observers are warning.
Despite that, the recommendations contained in a report produced by the panel have been backed by EC’s Vice-President for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova as well as Vice President for Democracy and Demography Dubravka Suica.
According to Jourova, the panel’s recommendations on how to deal with “hate speech” are “clear and ambitious” – although, as noted, a clear definition of that type of speech is still be lacking.
This is the wording the report went for: any speech that is “incompatible with the values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and respect of human rights” should be considered as “hate speech.”
Critics of this take issue with going for, in essence, subjective, not to mention vague expressions like “values of human dignity” considering that even in Europe, speech can still be lawful even if individuals or groups perceive it as offensive or upsetting.
Since there is also hate speech that is already illegal in the EU, the panel wants it to receive a new definition, and the goal, the report reads, is to “ensure that all forms of hate speech are uniformly recognized and penalized, reinforcing our commitment to a more inclusive and respectful society.”
If the EU decides to add hate speech to its list of crimes, the panel’s report added, this will allow for the protection of marginalized communities, and “uphold human dignity.”
Noteworthy is that the effort seems coordinated, even as far as the wording goes, as media reports note that the recommendation “adopts exactly the same terminology as an EC proposal that was recently endorsed by the European Parliament to extend the list of EU-wide crimes to include ‘hate speech’.”
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Biden Regime Nears Deal to Fund Moderna mRNA Bird Flu Shot Trial
Amid a collapse of trust in the pharmaceutical industry, the Biden regime has reportedly decided to fund a late-stage trial of Moderna’s mRNA bird flu shot, and is in talks to bankroll a Pfizer trial.
Moderna is currently testing the experimental shot against several strains of the virus, including the currently circulating H5N1 variant. An early-to-mid stage study of the mRNA product has reportedly been completed, and data is expected soon.
The federal funding will come from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) as early as next month, according to Financial Times.
The outbreak spread to poultry farms in 48 states to dairy cows across nine states in March. Earlier this month, a second human tested positive for a mild case of H5 bird flu. In both cases, the patient worked on a dairy farm where H5N1 virus had been identified in cows, and reported symptoms of an eye infection.
The CDC’s current H5N1 bird flu human health risk assessment for the U.S. general public, however, remains low.
The Biden regime is also reportedly in talks with Pfizer to bankroll the development of its bird flu mRNA shot. Additionally, BARDA is reportedly manufacturing about 4.8 million doses of bird flu vaccine through CSL Seqirus.
Pfizer and Moderna played a pivotal role in supplying mRNA shots during the COVID-19 pandemic, but have seen the popularity of their products substantially wane since their initial rollout.
A Rasmussen poll in January indicated that 53 percent of Americans believe the COVID-19 injections caused serious side effects leading to large number of deaths.
Both companies have seen their stock prices rise following the outbreak of the bird flu among mammals.
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