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Canada’s 2nd ‘Million Person March for Children’ against gender ideology to take place Friday

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By Anthony Murdoch

The second ‘Million Person March for Children,’ in which pro-family citizens will gather across the country in protest of gender ideology being pushed on kids in schools, is set to take place this Friday following the success of last year’s inaugural event.

After a successful and well-attended event last year, the second annual Million Person March for Children is set to take place coast to coast this Friday, with organizer’s hoping to see thousands of Canadians join to “safeguard children” from “sexual indoctrination” and stand in favor of parental rights.

“We refuse to stand by while the Government and School system allow sexually explicit content and gender ideology to be distributed in our classrooms,” says Hands Off Our Kids, the group organizing the nationwide event.  

“This movement embraces principles of human dignity, freedom of thought, and religious freedoms. Our mission includes safeguarding children’s rights, nurturing their growth in a safe environment, and promoting critical thinking through quality education.” 

On September 20, most cities in Canada will see march participants take to the streets in peaceful solidarity starting at 8:00 a.m. local time.  

The event’s main organizer is Muslim pro-family activist Kamel El-Cheikh, whose organization Hands Off Our Kids, is putting on the event. A full list of locations is available on the organization’s website.  

While the movement was founded by El-Cheikh, last year’s event included a large number of Christians as well.  

Michael Clark, who serves as the Executive Director for the David and Goliath Program of the Christian Impact Network, told LifeSiteNews that it “identified the Million Man March as a good cause to amplify and support.”   

Clark told LifeSiteNews that his organization “is a group of Christian professionals that help behind the scenes and give horsepower to good causes.” 

As for Hands Off Our Kids, it says the goal of the march is to raise awareness for the “well-being of children and reinforcing a just, inclusive, and rights-respecting society.”

“We are fighting for our children to be able to learn in a healthy school system that is free from biases and indoctrination.” 

Hands Off Our Kids works together with other pro-family groups, including Campaign Life Coalition, the Mama Bears, Veterans for Freedom, and, just recently, Canadians for Truth. 

The group’s main message, as per its website, is that “parents are responsible for their children’s moral and upbringing, not politicians and that is why it is our duty to speak up and have our voices heard when we say, ‘HANDS OFF OUR KIDS.’”  

“In essence, the #1MILLIONMARCH4CHILDREN is the protest that celebrates our differences while serving as a powerful expression of collective concern, fostering dialogue, positive change, and the preservation of core human values.” 

Friday’s Million Person March will be the group’s second major protest of the year. As reported by LifeSiteNews, this past June saw teachers and staff at an elementary school in Ottawa, Ontario, baffled when 591 out of 738 students were missing from the school’s LGBT “pride” flag raising ceremony. 

As reported by LifeSiteNews, LGBT indoctrination targeting kids has been on the rise in Canada and worldwide.  

For example, LifeSiteNews recently reported on how a school board located in a predominantly conservative Christian part of Manitoba will now have a governmental “adviser” oversee its activities after a pro-“diversity” parents group complained it was not being “inclusive” enough because some of its trustees participated in last year’s 1 Million March 4 Children rally. 

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With no will for political union, Canada should consider economic union with the U.S.

Published on February 1, 2025

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From the Fraser Institute

By Cornelis “Kees” van Kooten

According to an announcement on Friday by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, President Dondald Trump will implement a 25 per cent tariff on Canada and Mexico (and a 10 per cent tariff on China) beginning Saturday, Feb. 1.

Over the last few weeks, Canadian policymakers have been rather naïve in responding to Trump’s tariffs threats. They seem not to have figured out what Trump really wants (although perhaps no one knows what he really wants). But the Canadian side has focused on retaliatory measures, lobbying to ensure certain industries are exempt, and an advertising campaign to get consumers to prefer Canadian products—a “Made in Canada” preference.

It’s also been proposed that by lowering trade barriers between provinces, the Canadian economy can offset a trade war with the United States. But this raises the question—why hasn’t this already been done if it leads to such great benefit?

It’s clear that Canadians don’t want to be part of the U.S. However, given Canada’s dependency on the U.S. economy, Canada’s lagging productivity, the inefficiency of separate currencies, and the effect of changes in the Canadian-U.S. exchange rate on prices in Canada, it’s surprising that some kind of economic union with the U.S. is not being considered or even discussed. Or at least it does not appear to be something that politicians north of the border consider.

The post-war European enterprise can serve as a model for how Canada might approach the U.S. In Europe, the Germans remain German, the French remain French and the Dutch remain Dutch. This, despite the fact that the European enterprise has gone well beyond that of economic union. The Maastricht Treaty (1992) created the European Union (EU) by combining the three European Communities—the European Atomic Energy Community, the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community—into a single entity. While it set the stage for a single currency (the Euro), the Treaty was seen as a first step toward an eventual political union. While the EU has taken large steps toward political union, the enterprise is not going as well as envisioned. The United Kingdom left the EU principally because it did not want to take orders from Brussels. The U.K. was interested in an economic union, but not political union.

The lesson for Canada is clear—we do not want political union, but should be open to economic union with the U.S. This would essentially mean two things. First, eliminating the border with respect to trade in goods and services, and free movement of investment capital. Whether this would include labour would need to be addressed, although economists would argue that, from an efficiency point of view, it should. As a blueprint, one might begin with what’s referred to in Europe as the Schengen Area, which is a group of EU countries that have eliminated all internal border controls and established common entry and exist requirements. This would require that the effective border protects both Canada and the U.S. simultaneously—the northern U.S. border moves to the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic oceans. If a person qualifies to come to Canada, they automatically qualify to come into the U.S. and vice versa.

Second, monetary union under those circumstances makes a lot of sense. It would be simple to implement. For example, we might say that one Canadian dollar is on par with one U.S. dollar, or that it’s equal to US0.85 or 0.90. The exact value is less important as wages and other costs will adjust with increases in Canadian productivity that will then lead to increases in wages.

Finally, Trump insists that Canada commit 2 per cent of its GDP to defence. I would argue that, given a willingness to negotiate an economic union, and a commitment to increase defence spending to meet the 2 per cent target by 2030, would be sufficient to remove the Trumpian tariffs.

By agreeing to negotiate an economic union, Canada may convince the Trump administration to remove the tariffs. If an economic union were a threat to Canada’s viability, to our Dominion, then we do not deserve to be Canadian. I would venture that our national identity vis-à-vis the U.S. is strong enough to survive an economic union.

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Cornelis “Kees” van Kooten

Professor of Economics, University of Victoria
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Next prime minister should swiftly dismantle Ottawa’s anti-energy agenda

Published on February 1, 2025

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By Kenneth P. Green

Justin Trudeau’s imminent exit from office may mark the beginning of the end of a 10-year war on Canada’s energy sector, and by extension, Canada’s economy.

Canada is the world’s fourth-largest oil producer, currently supplying 6 per cent of global production. Canada is the fifth-largest producer of natural gas, supplying 5 per cent of global demand. The energy sector (oil, gas, electricity) constitutes more than 10 per cent of Canada’s total gross domestic product (GDP). In 2023, the latest year of available data, the energy sector provided, directly and indirectly, almost 700,000 jobs or 3.5 per cent of all jobs in Canada. And Canadian energy exports totalling $200 billion comprised 28 per cent of all Canadian exported goods.

But however vast and vital Canada’s energy sector is our wellbeing, Prime Minister Trudeau worked tirelessly to restrain, restrict, diminish and ultimately “phase out” Canada’s fossil fuel industries. Here are some of the highlights of his war on Canada’s energy sector.

In 2017, Trudeau introduced Bill C-48, which restricts oil tankers off Canada’s west coast and limits the ability of Canada’s oilsands sector to export product to new markets, keeping Canada’s energy resources trapped in a discount-price U.S. market. Also in 2017, much to the fury of many Albertans, Trudeau announced his intention to phase out oilsands production, the foundation of Alberta’s prosperity.

In 2018, Trudeau introduced Bill C-69, which tightened Canada’s environmental assessment process for major infrastructure projects and made the process of obtaining government permission for major energy projects more costly, time-consuming and arbitrary, thus increasing uncertainty across the energy sector. And he introduced the carbon tax despite strenuous opposition by Canada’s energy sector and energy-producing provinces.

In 2020, Trudeau launched his broadest and most intense regulatory crusade against Canada’s energy sector, introducing Bill C-12, which committed Canada to reach “net-zero” emissions of greenhouse gasses by 2050. Net-zero means Canada cannot emit more greenhouse gases via energy production and consumption than is taken out of the air by natural processes and the ecosystem. This would require vastly reduced production and consumption of fossil fuels in Canada, with consequences for the energy sector’s productivity and employment potential moving toward 2050.

In 2023, Trudeau attacked fossil fuel use in the transportation sector by mandating that all new cars sales be electric vehicles by 2035. And he released draft “clean electricity regulations” to phase out the use of fossil fuels in electricity generation by the year 2050.

During his time as prime minister, Trudeau attacked Canada’s energy sector, with eliminationist language and onerous regulations meant to essentially phaseout a major supplier of economic productivity and employment in Canada, to the great detriment of Canadians.

Hopefully, the next prime minister will reject Trudeau’s anti-energy agenda and have the will and ability to rescind the many damaging laws and regulations that that the Trudeau government has inflicted on a vital sector of the Canadian economy.

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