Hot line vs. snitch line

Dear Editor,

 

After reading John Peate’s polemic against Erin O’Toole and Colin Carrie, it is easy to see that Mr. Peate is, shall we say, somewhat selective in his facts.

First, let’s start with the question as to why an emergency phone number set up for women to report domestic abuse or violence is called a “hot line” while an emergency phone line for Muslim woman to report exactly the same thing is called a “snitch line.” By calling it a “snitch line,” is Mr. Peate somehow suggesting that Muslim woman reporting a threat of forced genital mutilation or a force marriage are not worthy of the same level of protection as other Canadian woman? Perhaps Mr. Peate does not view these practices as barbaric, much like Trudeau Jr.

Perhaps Muslim woman are not entitled to the same level freedom and equality in our society as other Canadian woman, as demonstrated by one public school in Toronto which allows the separation of boys and girls at assemblies and the placement of menstruating Muslim girls at the back of the class as they are “unclean.” Would we allow this under any other circumstances or to happen to any other group of woman in Canadian society?
Second, the Mulroney government inherited its deficit from the fiscally incompetent government lead by Pierre Trudeau, a prime minister who will be challenged by his now prime minister son as to who can best ruin the Canadian economy. Third, the Conservative government provided the provinces with six per cent per year funding for health care until 2017 and thereafter 3 per cent per year plus inflation until 2024. Hardly the $36-billion cut to heath care touted by left wing union leaders and their lap dogs in the media. Peate should take his pleasure in the defeat of the Conservative government while he can as it  won’t be long before the Canadian electorate wakes up to the mistake they made in October 2015.

Curt Shalapata