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Canadian mayor has bank account garnished after standing up to LGBT activists
From LifeSiteNews
The garnishment was issued by the court and delivered to the CIBC in Emo, which is the only bank in that community.
LGBT activists aren’t used to politicians refusing to do what they say. That’s why Mayor Harold McQuaker of Emo, Ontario—population 1,200—has become a source of their ire.
As I reported previously, in 2020 Emo’s town council voted not to issue a “Pride Proclamation” or fly the LGBT flag. The town hall doesn’t even have a flagpole. In response, Borderland Pride sued the town, and last month the Ontario Human Rights Commission ordered the township to pay the LGBT group $10,000, and McQuaker was ordered to personally pay $5,000 and take a re-education class called “Human Rights 101.”
The town council has yet to vote on whether to pay the fine or appeal, but McQuaker told the Toronto Sun that he would not be “extorted” and thus would not be paying the fine, attending the re-education classes, or sanctioning “Drag Queen Story Hour” in the local library—one of the events Borderland Pride is calling for.
In response, Borderland Pride went around the mayor and requested that $5,000 be taken directly from his bank account. The request granted, they went on a victory lap on social media. “Sure, sex is great, but have you ever garnished your mayor’s bank account after he publicly refused to comply with a Tribunal’s order to pay damages?” the group posted on Facebook. The “damages,” of course, were the mayor declining to proactively endorse their ideology.
“Mayor McQuaker’s comments in the Toronto Sun and other media were very clear that he did not respect nor intend to comply with the Tribunal’s orders,” Borderland Pride told the Sun. “Consequently, it was apparent he would not voluntarily make payment of the damages ordered. We took immediate action to garnish his bank account. The garnishment was issued by the court and delivered to the CIBC in Emo, which is the only bank in that community.”
“There is no hearing or application to issue a notice of garnishment – it is a service provided at the court counter or online once a person has an order for the payment of money,” Borderland Pride stated. “Orders of the Tribunal can be enforced in the same manner as any civil judgment for the payment of money. We intend to ensure the Tribunal’s orders are complied with.” Joe Warmington of the Toronto Sun sounded the alarm:
Cancel culture is cancelling this mayor and digging into his personal savings too. On a weak premise that there is discrimination of LGBT people there, the enforcement is harsher than most violent criminals receive. It seems like a heavy-handed, undemocratic move, not to mention a violation of personal finances, and cruel and unusual punishment. It’s also a slippery slope. The state using legal instruments to take from one person and give to others amounts to communism and authoritarianism that should scare every citizen. First, we saw government and banks freezing accounts of pandemic lockdown protesters, seizing donations to crowdfunding sites, and now in woke Canada comes word they can raid bank accounts, too.
Despite Borderland Pride’s insistence that they are mere enforcers of tolerance, their Facebook page features post after post mocking those who object to the fact that their mayor and their community is being bullied. It also includes images like this:
The meaning of that picture is pretty clear—and just imagine if the roles were reversed. What would Borderland Pride say if a Christian posted a photo of a steamroller with a cross on it, chasing screaming people labeled “LGBT values” and “same-sex ‘marriage’” on it? I think we know. They would say that it was threatening and inappropriate. Yet a rainbow steamroller crushing screaming people labeled “Traditional Family” and “Christian values” and “Sanctity of marriage” is just fine. This isn’t just a double standard—it is a new standard, where the values of LGBT activists take precedence over those of everyone else.
Borderland Pride’s celebratory posts about garnishing the bank account of a 77-year-old great-grandfather tell us precisely who they are—many of the posts and comments from LGBT activists are frankly too vile to publish (suffice it to say they refer to performing sex acts in public). Canada is also getting a good look at the agenda of LGBT activists once again. They do not want “tolerance,” or to “live and let live”—they want their flag hanging from government buildings, politicians obediently proclaiming a celebration of their activities, and drag queens in local libraries.
It was never about tolerance.
From LifeSiteNews
Newly elected Liberal leader Mark Carney selected former Trudeau cabinet minister Mark Mendicino as chief of staff despite his deceitful record as Public Safety minister.
Newly elected Liberal leader Mark Carney selected MP Marco Mendicino as chief of staff despite his record of lying to Canadians.
Many Canadians are sounding the alarm over Carney’s upcoming appointment of Justin Trudeau’s former cabinet minister as chief of staff, reminding Canadians of Mendicino’s tyrannical record while serving as public safety minister.
“Mark Carney’s Chief of Staff is none other than Trudeau’s ex-Public Safety/Immigration Minister, Marco Mendicino,” Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre posted on X.
“He’s the guy forced to resign after he: Moved mass murderer & serial rapist Paul Bernardo out of a maximum security prison. Allowed gun crimes to surge 116%. Did nothing to stop Beijing’s foreign interference in Canada’s democracy. Helped Trudeau break our immigration system,” he continued.
“Nothing has changed,” Poilievre warned. “Do these guys really deserve a fourth term?”
According to Liberal sources, Carney chose Mendicino earlier this week and both will be sworn into office on Friday.
However, while Carney claims he is taking the Liberal Party in a different direction than Trudeau, his selection of Mendicino appears to show otherwise.
Thanks to his time serving under Trudeau, Mendicino is already well-known to Canadians for infringing on their freedoms while lying about it.
In 2022, Mendicino falsely stated that some of the Freedom Convoy protesters demanding an end to COVID mandates in Ottawa made rape threats. He used this allegation to justify the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act to disperse the peaceful protest and freeze bank accounts.
Mendicino was also caught lying when he claimed that law enforcement agencies asked for the Emergencies Act to be used on the Freedom Convoy.
Furthermore, Mendicino played key role in controversial gun control legislation framed to the public as a ban on handguns, but he later secretly amended to include prohibitions on a number of hunting rifles and shotguns.
Mendicino is also known to be weak on standing against foreign interference, especially from China. In 2023, at a time of increased international tensions considering the Chinese surveillance of North America via a balloon, he argued that any laws dealing with targeting foreign spies must be “inclusive” and done in a “culturally sensitive” manner.
In fact, Mendicino proved so unpopular with Canadians that Trudeau dropped the minister from his cabinet in 2023 along with other COVID-era ministers.
From LifeSiteNews
Both Public Works Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and Industry Minister Francois Phillipe-Champagne have hinted that a federal election is coming sooner than later now that the Liberals have selected their new leader, Mark Carney.
Two Liberal Party ministers have hinted that their new leader, Mark Carney, will call a federal election shortly after being sworn in as prime minister this Friday.
Earlier this week, outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Public Works Minister Jean-Yves Duclos told reporters directly that Canadians will soon head to the polls. He made the comments considering both Carney being the new leader, and the fact that all opposition parties have said they would vote non-confidence against the Liberal minority government once parliament resumes on March 24.
“The opposition parties have been very clear for weeks and months now,” said Duclos, according to Blacklock’s Reporter. “They decided they would bring this government down regardless of what we could do.”
The Liberal Party on Sunday night elected self-proclaimed globalist and World Economic Forum-linked former central banker Carney as the new leader. Carney will be sworn in as PM this Friday.
In January, after announcing he would resign, Trudeau prorogued Parliament until March 24. A general election will take place sometime in late April or early May, should Carney officially ask the Governor General to dissolve parliament before March 24, which is expected.
Because Parliament is prorogued until March, Duclos said that this is “the last day we can be in government.”
“We’ll see whether we should call an election before.”
When a reporter asked him how “quickly” an election would come, Duclos replied, “We know the deadline is March 24.”
In addition to Duclos, Industry Minister Francois Phillipe-Champagne on Sunday, after Carney was elected, told reporters, “I think we’ve said we’re going to go to the polls to get a strong mandate fairly quickly so that we can have not only the team –the Liberal team–but the whole Canadian team with us.”
“I think Canadians are ready for that, they want a strong team,” he added.
Election needed now, says opposition leader Pierre Poilievre
Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) and official opposition Pierre Poilievre told reporters on Monday that not only should an election be called now, but that Carney is “trying to distract from his many scandals and conflicts of interest as well as his disastrous record as Justin Trudeau’s economic advisor by talking about Trump.”
“He’s the guy who sold out to Trump,” said Poilievre, adding that six days after U.S. President Donald Trump “threatened Canada” with tariffs “to steal our jobs,” Carney “announced to Brookfield shareholders that he would move his headquarters from Canada to New York.”
“And when you asked him about it, he lied to your face,” he added.
Poilievre said the CPC has it “in writing and we proved it.”
“He sold out Canada. He put his profit ahead of our people and he did exactly what Donald Trump wanted. Never before have we had a prime minister so conflicted and compromised and yet so little scrutinized,” he added.
On Sunday, outgoing Prime Minister Trudeau in his last speech before Liberal Party supporters boasted about his government’s anti-life, pro-abortion agenda, as well as the party’s legalization of “same-sex marriage,” which happened 20 years ago.
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