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By Ian Gargan

As a God-fearing, flag-waving, cross-kneeling conservative, Facebook has never been the place to speak my mind. Between the suppression of conservative ideas to the blatant bias of its fact checkers, Facebook has become the safe space for liberal ideologies. I went on a journey to find the best places on Facebook to connect with my fellow conservatives; a place where we can speak our minds without the threat of being cancelled.

If youre not familiar with groups on Facebook, they fall into either public or private categories. A private group may ask a few screening questions upon your request for entry. Whereas a public group will usually allow you to join instantly. Some larger groups can become unruly and spam your timeline. But groups with active admins provide better content in the long run. Admins are group members appointed to enforce the agreed upon rules amongst the members of the group.

Here are a few groups to join on Facebook that will connect you with like-minded patriots:

If none of these groups suit your fancy, you may want to find a local group in your community. There are likely a slew of them in our area if you search your town, county, or even school district followed by community group. This will allow you to dive deeper into the politics of your community and provide an inside track for local news. There are also smaller groups like Community Moms or Community Business Owners that may be a better fit. After you find a community group, you can look for political affiliate groups in the same locale. Here near the AMAC offices on long island, we have groups called Long Island Republicans, NYS Young Republicans, and another popular page Long Island Loud Majority. Groups like these vary in size but could be just the interaction youre looking to get involved in regarding your local news. These groups post information that directly affects your local area, point out local charities to get involved with, or even list protests you can attend. They also keep you informed about town-level politics that have the biggest impact on your day-to-day life.

By the way, none of these groups are affiliated with AMAC. This is simply my opinion about some of the groups I follow and enjoy. AMAC is also not responsible for any content provided in the groups Ive mentioned. But if you like any of the articles you see here on our website, go ahead and share them in your favorite groups! And feel free to leave a comment below about a group that youre a part of and think others would enjoy.

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The party tabled a new Bill 96 amendment that would drop the requirement for anglophones to take three core CEGEP courses in French, replacing it with more second-language French courses.

QUEBEC Stung by criticism from all sides, Quebecs Liberals Wednesday tried to patch up their gaffe that could require all students in anglophone CEGEPs to take three core courses in French.

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At an evening sitting of the committee examining Bill 96, overhauling the Charter of the French Language, Liberal language critic Hlne David tabled an amendment that would drop the requirement the Liberals themselves suggested and replace it with more second-language French courses.

The total number of French-language courses would go from the current two required to obtain a Diplme dtudes collgiales (DEC) to five. As is the case now, such courses would reflect the students level of French competency on arrival in CEGEP and not penalize them for a lack of proficiency.

If a student did feel comfortable enough to try some of their core courses in French, that option would be available but not obligatory, David told the committee in tabling the amendment.

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We have tried to find a balance, in all fairness, as much for francophones, allophones and students who studied in English schools, to follow many French courses but based on their mastery of the language, David said.

Its a little bit like people who sign up for Spanish courses. They are evaluated as beginners or with medium skills, and off they go. In giving students the opportunity, not the obligation, we achieve the same thing.

The objective is for them to master French, so they can collectively participate in Quebec life whether this is in nursing or computer skills, science. Its a plus, and the colleges agree with this.

The amendment, however, is not a done deal. Objecting off the top to the Liberals plan was Parti Qubcois language critic Pascal Brub, who asked the committee chair to rule on whether the amendment alters the legislators vision of Bill 96.

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Brub said last week the amendment was not his problem and the Liberals have to deal with it.

On Wednesday, committee president Nancy Guillemette ruled against Brub and said the amendment does not denature the bill. She will allow MNAs to debate it further when the committee resumes sitting Thursday.

Sitting and watching events unfold as the amendment arrived in the dying moments of the day, the minister responsible for French, Simon Jolin-Barrette, did not comment.

An aide said later: The minister will study the amendment. We will make our decision known soon.

Last week Jolin-Barrette brushed off the Liberals requestto fix the amendment, saying he liked the original. Meanwhile, Premier Franois Legault said his Coalition Avenir Qubec government was willing to discuss an adjustment.

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Both said dropping the Liberal amendment would be complicated because it was adopted by the committee unanimously.

For the Liberals, Wednesdays sub-amendment to their original amendment was an attempt to get out of a hole they dug two months ago. That was when they proposed the amendment requiring francophone, allophone and anglophone students to take three CEGEP courses in French.

Reaction from the English-speaking community was slow, but the backlash is real, with support for the party dropping among non-francophone voters.

Quebecs CEGEP directors have said the amendment is a recipe for disaster because many students arrive with an inadequate level of French and would likely flunk if they had to take courses such as accounting or physics in that language.

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The Liberals have recognized they made a mistake and said they would try to fix it as a way of mending fences with the community.

Language critic David and committee member David Birnbaum, the Liberal point person for the English-speaking community, recently announced they will not seek re-election in the fall.

On Wednesday the committee also voted in favour of an amendment that would rename the Montreal riding of Bourget. Under Bill 96, the new name would be Camille-Laurin, in honour of the father of Bill 101.

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What the government is determined to fix is not the military's capabilities as a force, but its lack of social justice

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Years ago, American political philosopher Harvey Mansfield made a troubling observation that I cited in these pages five years ago. In case youve forgotten, events conspire to remind you that, and I quote a paraphrase not the original, it may be possible to impose perfect justice, but people may not be in a mood to live together when you are finished. For instance, in the Canadian military.

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The Armed Forces might seem an odd place to make the experiment. But nowadays, the government is imposing wokeism everywhere it can, with results that seems to be vindicating Mansfield painfully, as morale and preparedness plummet in tandem.

As my Post colleague Matt Gurney wrote on Saturday, the feds just put an extra $8 billion into defence. But we could skip right past the billions and authorize $8 trillion in new defence spending and not actually make much tangible progress because the systems that sustain the military are dysfunctional, if not outright broken, he wrote.

You might suppose that a mere $8 billion under current circumstances, for what Gurney rightly calls unspecified purposes, indicates that the Trudeau Liberals are not serious about fixing the military. But they are. Just not its capacity to break things and hurt people, despite Finance Minster Chrystia Freelands very uncertain 21st century.

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What they are determined to fix is the lack of social justice. And they really seem convinced that, if identity politics crushes all opposition, there will be such a flowering of true human fulfillment that lack of modern equipment, logistical support or actual soldiers will be of no importance in safeguarding our security.

Its not working, in any sense. The military isnt just incapable of fighting. It seems incapable of controlling sexual harassment, with one senior officer after another going up in flames. Arguably, the sort of leaders who are capable of securing advancement by promising to make an army a safe space are highly unlikely to have the character necessary to impose and enforce exacting standards of any sort, especially against the demands of their political masters to prioritize the wrong things in the wrong way.

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Its a problem throughout the federal bureaucracy. Everything is exquisitely politically correct yet, despite lavish remuneration and ridiculous job security, polls repeatedly find the mood and ethics to be dismal. The solution, naturally, is a further assault on patriarchal bigotry in the belief that perfect justice is just one seminar and three pronouns away. But what if its not?

Frankly, if the department of Prairies Economic Development Canada sank into demoralized paralysis, the world might not find out for decades. The economy might even benefit. But what if policing collapses?

Blacklocks just reported on testimony before the Commons human resources committee that RCMP applications have plummeted sharply. The testimony was given by the head of the Mounties union, who has a vested interest in the size of the force and used social justice language. But we should still give serious attention to his claims, including: Policing is no longer considered as an attractive career as it used to be. Police services across North America are seeing a decline in applicants.

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Why would such a thing happen? Despite a certain faddish enthusiasm for getting rid of the police a couple of years back, even most silly people realize that we need someone to enforce the rules. But who?

I think policing, like soldiering, used to attract mostly serious, stoic applicants willing to endure hardship to protect order against chaos. But if so, those professions are unlikely to appeal to social justice warriors. And if only SJWs need apply, youll wind up with an inadequate pool of unsuitable applicants trickling into institutions that spectacularly fail to deliver either on their ostensible mandate or on social justice, becoming instead dungeons whose occupants are in no mood to live together let alone do their jobs, under leaders unfit to inspire them to do either.

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Mansfields insight might be called conservative since it relies implicitly on human nature being both flawed and intractable. But if so, more people should be conservative, because the predictable impact of woke policies is to foster petty resentment that doesnt even help the supposed direct beneficiaries. As Terry ONeill wrote in B.C. Report nearly 30 years ago, Victimhood is the devil on your shoulder, whispering in your ear that youre damaged goods.

If in consequence you spend your days convinced people hate you and are tormenting you in petty ways with microaggressions, you will be a misery to others and a burden to yourself. And no organization that is primarily a non-violent version of a Chinese cultural revolutionary re-education session can possibly fulfill any constructive purpose. The Mounties wont combat fiscal or cybercrime, nor the military foreign enemies. Or be in any mood to get along with one another.

Not even if you give them $8 trillion.

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The NSW Liberal executive member who took the Prime Minister to court over pre-selection choices has been ordered to pay costs to four senior party members.

Matthew Camenzuli lost his case in the NSW Court of Appeal earlier this month when he unsuccessfully argued the Liberal federal executive had no power to intervene in candidate pre-selections for the upcoming federal election.

The dispute centered on a decision by the federal executive to appoint a committee, made up of Prime Minister Scott Morrison, NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet and former federal Liberal president Christine McDiven,to make candidate selections for 12 seats in NSW.

The selections followed months of bitter infighting about who should run, with some NSW Liberals accusing their federal counterpartsof trying to run the clock out so Mr Morrison could parachute in his preferred picks.

This goes against party rules which mean rank and file state members vote on pre-selections.

Last week, Mr Camenzuli took the matter to the High Court but ultimately lost when Chief Justice Susan Kiefel rejected his application for hearing.

Back in the Court of Appeal today, Justice John Basten ordered Mr Camenzuli pay the legal costs for four of the defendants Mr Morrison, Mr Perrottet, Ms McDiven and the current federal Liberal president, John Olsen.

However he doesn't have to pay costs for the three incumbent Liberalsnamed in the lawsuit, Farrer MP Sussan Ley, Mitchell MP Alex Hawke and North Sydney MP Trent Zimmerman, who were the first to be locked in by thePrime Minister's committee.

Mr Camenzuli also doesn't have to pay the costs of the president of the NSW Liberals, Philip Ruddock, who was listed as a defendant.

In their reasons, the three appeal court judges said costs only applied to the defendants who played an active role in the proceedings.

Today's judgment means the legal costs are stacking up for Mr Camenzuli, who was also ordered to pay costs for his attempted High Court appeal.

NSW Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells backed the action, accusing the federal executive of trampling on the rights of branch members to make "captain'spicks".

But the Court of Appeal concluded it could not decide whether the federal executive had overstepped as the matter was not "justiciable" and the court hadno place in adjudicating internal disputes in political parties.

The day after Mr Camenzuli lost the case, the NSW Liberals expelled him from the party.

The legal battle, which began in February, has been a thorn in the federal government's side as it meant important seats were without Liberalcandidates just weeks out from the election.

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WINNIPEG NDP Critic for the Status of Women, Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre) is asking why the Liberal government didnt allocate new funding in last weeks budget to implement the 231 Calls for Justice from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). Since the inquiry released its findings in 2019, the Liberals have yet to release a national action plan with targets, timelines and funding to address this ongoing genocide, and their inaction is costing Indigenous women their lives.

Rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls have dramatically increased during the pandemic, and the Liberal government keeps stalling on implementing all Calls for Justice, said Gazan. Last weeks budget was yet another opportunity for the Liberals to show that they are truly committed to a plan backed by real funding to implement the Calls for Justice, but again theyre failing to do whats necessary. They chose to give billions to big oil companies while leaving out much needed investments to make life safer for Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people. This is unacceptable.

In the lead up to the budget, Gazan has called on the Liberals numerous times to include immediate, targeted and adequate funding to implement the 231 Calls for Justice. While Indigenous women are at least 4.5 times more likely to be murdered than non-indigenous women, the Liberals are showing no signs of an action plan to heed the calls of the National Inquiry into MMIWG. New Democrats are calling on the Liberals to act urgently on this matter to save lives.

Our lives are valuable. We are not disposable, said Gazan. The government must implement a national action plan with timelines and resources to address this crisis. Too many families are mourning the loss of their loved-ones and waiting for answers. The Liberals must act urgently to save lives.

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