The racist Liberal government

Vincent J. Curtis

17 Aug 22

RE: Feds offer $1.9 million to support Black led firms. Grant is part of of government’s Black Entrepreneurship Program – an investment of over $265M.  By Ritika Dubay, The Hamilton Spectator, 17 Aug 22. 

By favoring Blacks and “Black led” businesses with financial grants, the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau is plainly engaged in racism.  This favoritism is on its face discrimination on the basis of race.  It is illegal and unconstitutional, a violation of Article 2 of the Charter, which prohibits such discrimination and promises equality before the law.

Similar discriminatory practices which favor racial minorities have been tried several times in the U.S., and each time it was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court as a violation of the 14^th Amendment, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and promises equality before the law.

Regrettably, in Canada, there aren’t the political and legal organizations to take the government to court to put a stop to this illegal and unconstitutional waste of taxpayer money.

In Canada, racism is okay when it discriminates against whites.

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On the front page of the Spectator is a picture of Attia Naeem, aged 14, and her mother Amtul Lateef.  Though they look fairly Caucasian, both are wearing the largest and most obnoxious hijabs possible.  Perhaps they’re Afghans.  One of those federally subsidized Black businesses, Empowerment Squared, was going to teach young Attia its ELITE Leadership training program, one of two programs that are supposed to help Attia prepare for school.  The program is aimed to build confidence, skills, and knowledge in students recently arrived in Canada.

My mother came to Canada from Poland in June, 1939, aged 13.  She knew no English, and there were no programs to help her adapt.  She started at Prince of Wales School in Hamilton that September, and learned English and how to adapt the hard way.  She got her Grade 10 and, at age 16, went into war work, first at Mercury Mills, and then at Westinghouse on Longwood Road.  In later life she completed her Grade 12 and then qualified as an auditor through courses at Mohawk College.  Recounting this made me plenty proud of my mother.

I am certain the Blacks advising young Attia are going to give her all the wrong advice.  If Attia wants to fit in, she has to ditch the hijab.  You don’t fit in at school by blatantly and belligerently advertising how different you are.  Young white students understand the race game well, and how it is played.  It doesn’t matter how self-abnegating you are, being white makes you guilty upon accusation.  Attia’s classmates will be polite, but distant.   The best policy for whites is avoidance of the thing that could blow up in your face, no matter how well-meaning you may have been. This is the opposite of fitting in, and likely not what Attia wants.  If she makes an effort to fit in, by at first dressing like her classmates, they’ll accept her, even if her English is poor.

Playing the belligerent race card is the stock-in-trade of Black organizations, which are overtly racist.  Emphasizing one’s difference is bad advice for Attia.