Senator Sinclair is right

 "I want to reassure the people of Nova Scotia, the Mi'kmaq and all Canadians that we are managing this issue," said the usually MIA Brenda Lucki, RCMP commissioner.  I burst out laughing!  She actually said this in the face of the unspeakable violence taking place over the lobster fishery, in which people are being seriously assaulted and buildings burned to the ground while the RCMP stands around doing nothing.  

Managing it!?  She's managing it into the ground.  While failing to stop a group from attacking two storage facilities holding native catches, throwing rocks, setting a van on fire and restraining fishermen, Lucki didn't even address the criticism of the force's weak and non-existent response.  Didn't even address it!  All she said was that the RCMP was "deeply concerned by the acts of violence".  Deeply concerned!?  A police force charged with dealing directly with it is "deeply concerned"?!

Gawd!  Of course the problem is that some judge back in 1999 in the Donald Marshall case ruled that Indigenous people were entitled by treaty to earn a "modest livelihood" in the fishery.  What does "modest" mean"?  That's the sticking point.  The other problem is that natives think they can fish out-of-season, which will eventually destroy the stocks.  The cod stocks fiasco anyone?    

Senator Murray Sinclair said, "It's the same old song and dance, 'We're working on it, we're investigating it.'  Her response flies in the face of the evidence."  He's absolutely right.  When confronted with the violence, the RCMP said it was there to "observe and keep the peace".  What a joke!  Lucki has been absent from a number of confrontations in Canada -- starting with the shootings in Nova Scotia to the Snowbird crash and the tragic loss of life in B.C. to this latest debacle.  

She should resign because sadly "feminist" Trudeau definitely won't fire her.  She's a disgrace to the uniform and her gender and sets women back 50 years.  

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Here's another couple of issues 'The Globe and Mail' devotes too much space to and about which I don't care:  Whatever is happening in Nagorno-Karabakh and Nigeria.  What has any of this to do with Canadian national issues?  Who cares? 

One issue I do care about is the rampant scourge of "cancel culture" in Canadian universities.  The latest uproar is over a professor's use of the "n-word" in teaching a class about how various groups and cultures have taken back use of such words as "queer" and "n-gger".  Apparently, she had the audacity to actually speak the word and people went insane!  The University of Ottawa is the same rabid place that forbade US arch-conservative Ann Coulter from speaking a few years ago.

What has become of places like Ottawa U and Queen's -- where MacDonald Hall has been purged of the name of Canada's first and founding prime minister.  That's an outrage!  At Ottawa U, the president, Jacques Fremont, said he will be making "meaningful" changes to ensure people feel "safe".  Students have been told they can switch classes if they feel they are suffering "microaggression".  WTF?!!

Apparently, now white professors do not have the right to freedom of expression.  That basic principle has now taken a back seat to the "right to dignity" of minority groups.  Academic freedom in my book includes the freedom to offend, even if that most definitely was not this professor's intention.  Fremont suspended her and said she could have chosen not to use the full n-word.  "But she did and is now facing the consequences."

As my six-year-old granddaughter says, "What an idiot."  Yes, she picked that expression up listening to my outbursts in the car from the back seat.

"The consequences?  What is that supposed to mean?" writes Konrad Yakabuski in today's 'Globe'.  "That she was asking for online harassment and threats directed at her by daring to treat her students as adults?"  He posits that if these people are so offended, perhaps a university classroom is not the place for them.

Many professors signed a letter supporting this professor, but many were too afraid to come out publicly in support because of "the consequences".  This is beyond acceptable.