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"Never use threat, force or pressure to make someone have sex."

"Women can ... choose who they marry."

"If you have sex with someone without their consent, this is called rape"

"Rape is a serious crime in the U.K. You could go to prison, lose your support and accommodation, and it will affect your asylum claim."

New U.K. orientation manual for migrants 

 

"All permanent residents and protected persons are eligible for IRCC-funded settlement services [to] help them integrate and build a successful life in Canada as quickly as possible and include information on rights and freedoms of individuals according to Canadian law, understanding of Canadian values, as well as their responsibilities and obligations."

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada spokesperson

600 Gaza refugees enter Canada in 2005  CBC News

 

The United Kingdom, overwhelmed by the presence of migrants, faces a long string of social/cultural problems related to different customs and values being transplanted alongside the migrants into Britain. An epidemic of violence has erupted for several years unlike what the United Kingdom has previously experienced, a stream of non-stop incidents that fall far outside the normal social contract of the Emerald Isle's traditional population. Rapes by migrants perpetrated against vulnerable men, women, teens, even children, taking place in wooded areas, parks, beach change-rooms and rental units.

 

Grooming Gangs in the U.K. Machiavelli Foundation

 

It took long enough for the British Government to pay attention to the scandals that for years had stalked communities where Muslim men, mostly of Pakistani origins, whose sex culture was responsible for grooming gangs focused on raping and using young Caucasian girls as sex slaves, renting out their services for fun and profit. It wasn't that the situation was unknown to British authorities, but that it was quite simply too inconvenient for them to 'notice' much less act on the practise, given the large Muslim population and accusations of 'Islamophobic' racism to be avoided at all costs.

 

Canada too, as it happens, finds itself in inconvenient waters with the surge of the past decade of immigrants, refugees and migrants infiltrating Canadian society. And in Canada not-too-subtle incidents of migrants in the country bringing with them customs contradictory to Western human rights values where incestuous relations, stranger-rape, organized crime, underage marriages, polygamy, genital mutilation offend Canadian customs and laws.

 

In 2015, during the federal election Prime Minister Stephen Harper's election campaign was rife with outrage from civil rights groups and the growing Muslim community in Canada over his government's release of 'instructions for immigrants' booklet Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship that advised foreigners entering Canada as landed immigrants and permanent residents on their way to achieving citizenship, that Canada's welcome did not include 'barbaric cultural practices' such as spousal abuse, 'honour killings', female genital mutilation, and forced polygamy.

 

Burqa ban in Great Britain?  Independent

 

How times have changed; the instructions of yesteryear rejected by the electorate have, by necessity since then been rejuvenated where marriage fraud warning is circulated by government auspices. In Canada too there are those requiring an explanation why it is frowned upon to rape children. A 'Pre-Departure Guide for Newcomers to Canada', published in 2025 focuses on newcomer rights rather than their responsibilities to the new country they will inhabit. 

 

Gently there are hints as to what is now of vital importance to this current progressive government; an acceptance of the presence of transgenderism, where readers are instructed that the LGBTQ-2 community in Canada is not only accepted, supported and valued, but so too is the right of the nation's children to question their from-birth designation as male or female. Issues such as 'lining up', 'making eye contact' and 'using underarm deodorant' are given their due place in the booklet.

 

Criminal activities are also addressed such as a jail term will come with carrying a firearm without a permit, and unwanted sexual touching or remarks may elicit a fine, or even prison. Bribery, polygamy, female genital mutilation and 'Making, sharing or owning photos of naked children', 'forcing others into marriage', and 'having sex with children', are similarly frowned upon and the letter of the law may be applied. Although truth to tell, the justice system goes easy on skin tones and ethnicity and cultures, with reduced sentences applied.

 

Family violence is frowned upon and "Killing a family member as a way to save a family's honour", is definitely unacceptable. Also addressed is the virtue of working for a living, rather than becoming wholly dependent on Canada Child Benefit payments which, when enough children in a family receive those generous benefits can sustain a family, without a breadwinner breaking a sweat. ($679.75 per month ($8,157 per year) for each child under 6, and $573.58 per month ($6,883 per year) for each child aged 6 to 17 for the 2026–2027 year.

 

What Muslim female dress means as a  wedge issue in Canada  TVO Today

 

 

Addiction Compassion, Community Safety Disinterest

"Used needles also started popping up in the rear lanes on both sides of Heward Avenue, my street. These lanes are playgrounds for the many children who live on these streets, relatively traffic-free spaces where they can ride their bikes, play catch and shoot at basketball and hockey nets."

"By 2019 there was a distinctive shift outside the South Riverdale Community Health Centre. It had, in a short amount of time, been transformed from a place of semi-discreet open use to something that bore a much closer resemblance to the open-air drug emporium that would grow over the next four years."

"Drug dealing was becoming more rampant, as was open use."

"Drug dealers would arrive by car across from my house most mornings, and the buyers would not-so-discreetly arrive to make purchases. There were also suddenly dealers on foot. But the most common dealers, especially of late, are ones on bikes, typically wearing backpacks."

Derek Finkle, Leslieville, Toronto

A view of the South Riverdale Community Health Centre. (CBC)

This is a description of a 'supervised consumption' site. Where the drug-addicted receive special care in an effort to keep them from being yet another statistic of a fatal overdose scenario. Fentanyl use is raging across Canada. Toronto isn't the worst Canadian city for drug overdoses, Vancouver takes that very special award. In fact, Vancouver is likely the most overdose-prone city in all of North America. The struggle by compassionate health authorities to keep people alive is commendable.

 

The people who live adjacent to supervised consumption sites may not consider their proximity to be much of a boon to the quality of their lives and that of their children, however. The sites are notorious for public disorder and crime; the centres' managers seem incapable of addressing these inconvenient side-issues that turn ordinary citizens' lives inside-out and upside-down. The commitment of the drug centres is to the addicted, not to people living in close proximity to their life-saving facilities.

 

Some of these centres hire active drug users and dealers for the success of their programming; people who have the 'lived' experiences, since who else knows as much about addiction as they do? And who would be more sympathetic to the plight of the addicted? And less affected by the crime scenarios that abound? As for example when an area resident was killed by a stray bullet near the safe injection site in the Leslieville community in July.

 

If you live in Leslieville and you're concerned about your kids picking up needles that surround the drug consumption site, you don't have to worry. In fact, if your kids collect enough they can trade them in for chocolate! Ginnie Roth

A harm reduction worker at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, Khalila Zaa Mohammed, was arrested a month later, charged for assisting one of the shooting suspects to escape and hide from authorities. In the wake of her arrest a "critical incident review" was initiated of Ontario's consumption sites beginning with the SRCHC. The safe injection site sits within 100 metres of two schools and three daycares where used needles are ubiquitous, and a 5-year-old boy found a baggie with a chunk of orange fentanyl.

The South Riverdale Community Health Centre has initiated "Harm Reduction Satellite Sites" and there drug users are paid to operate quasi-supervised consumption sites right out of their own homes. A partner organization had an operating guide published for the edification of other service providers who might want to launch similar programs. The guiding principles of the document include building "spaces and services where repressive drug laws cannot be enforced". Service providers are encouraged to hire drug dealers to run the sites.

Trafficking is viewed as a type of expertise, and cooperation with dealers "a great way to reach people who otherwise don't typically engage with harm reduction services". Going to jail is a "part of life", the guide asserts; and satellite workers should remain on the payroll while incarcerated. It is "not appropriate to expect sobriety" from contracted drug users or dealers even while providing harm reduction services; "expectations that workers not use drugs with clients, which might be standard in other programs, should not apply to satellite workers".

The sites' existence should be hidden from landlords and other tenants to avoid eviction, service providers and satellite workers are advised by the guide that argues satellite workers can help users with information about police activity since they're within distressed communities. Citing journalist and Leslieville resident Derek Finkle, neighbours witness harm reduction workers using drugs outside the main consumption site of SRCHC, where police are "disinvited" from the property.

The situation prevails right across the country with Canadians reporting similar experiences at other consumption sites -- public drug use and trafficking, along with a crime epidemic and violent harassment. With it all a complete disinterest in how local residents are faring in this maelstrom of drugs, crime and flouting of the criminal justice system.

Ontario says it has launched a "critical incident review" of the province's supervised consumption sites after a woman was killed by a stray bullet in Toronto's east end last month. Photo by Chris Young /The Canadian Press