It's hard to say who's the most contemptible--- Nahanni Fontaine, Manitoba's "Families" Minister, or Wab Kinew, Manitoba's Premier?
The day Charlie Kirk was murdered, Nahanni Fontaine showed the compassion she's known for, by sharing an Instagram post by one of her contacts in the United States.
"Charlie Kirk was a racist, xenophobic, transphobic, Islamaphobic, sexist, white nationalist mouthpiece who made millions of dollars inciting hatred in this country...I extend absolutely no empathy for people like that." wrote "che jim", a self-described comedian and "indigenous cultural consultant in drug and alcohol sobriety".
That just about covers every single far-left bugaboo except Nahannie's favorite---colonizer of stolen land.
The purpose of reposting a message is a) to demonstrate you agree wholeheartedly with the message, b) to distribute the message to as many people as you can, and c) to earn brownie points from your readers for being so clever in finding and passing along the message.
Nahanni Fontaine's portfolio encompasses both services for families, and, the Gender Equity Secretariat which is responsible for promoting "gender equality...within society."
Given that Charlie KIrk was murdered by a homosexual living with his wannabe transexual boyfriend, we may have zeroed in on the reason for Fontaine's fervent endorsement of the rabid hate-filled post by her American contact.
Charlie Kirk was a heterosexual, married, Christian man with a wife and two children. Fontaine proudly reveals that she has no empathy for him. If, by chance, she confuses empathy with sympathy, she's just demonstrating her lack of education. But if she actually means empathy, she's on record saying she doesn't care about why Charlie Kirk believed what he did, she just hated him with all her being because he was alive.
What a stance from a Minister of the Crown in Manitoba.
Wab Kinew spoke online the day of Charlie Kirk's murder. He tried to be the moderate in his NDP government.
"I want to condemn a very disturbing thing that happened in America today---the killing of Charlie Kirk. And the reason to mention it here--(this) very chilling, disturbing act---is to make clear that within our democracy there is no place for violence. If you disagree with somebody, if you object to the way they conduct themselves in public, the way to settle that is through our public discourse in our public sphere, with peace."
But when told of Fontaine's repost, he said “I’m hearing you read the words, and they’re terrible and they run completely against the thoughts that I was sharing, which is that we have to have empathy for other people in our society,” the premier said. "“Our whole thing is supposed to be compassion…. We’re always making the argument on the left that, no, you can’t come in and throw people on the hood of a cop car right away, (you’ve) got to understand where they’re coming from … but somebody says they don’t agree with abortion or somebody says they want to have gun laws be less restrictive … and now all of a sudden the compassion disappears? I don’t understand that.”
What he understood was he needed to squash the Nahanni scandal asap.
He announced that he told her to apologize. And almost immediately Fontaine's press secretary released "a statement from the minister."
"I apologize for sharing a post yesterday on the murder of Charlie Kirk. Violence has no place in our democracy. Political debate is achieved with words and discussion," it read. "In a world too often divided, we should strive to show empathy to everyone even those we don't agree with."
Right. That's what she said. Sure. Everyone knows BS when they hear it.
What Nahanni Fontaine really wanted to say was what "che jim", her pal in the U.S. wrote:
I celebrate no murder.. But we can acknowledge the man he was and what he stood for, and that he directly contributed to his own demise by creating and living a violent life with his words and what he built.. and I WILL NOT be asked or shamed into generating empathy for someone who is was willing to sacrifice the lives of children, advocate for mass genocide, and actively work against the LGBTQIA+, BiPOC, and women communities, and attack anyone who stood in his way, all while continuing to weaponize religion and his Christian beliefs against everybody.. in the past 24 hours I’ve had death threats, been doxxed and lost 12k followers.. and I just wanna say.. I’D DO IT AGAIN- this is an important event in our history, and I will not remain silent. I will be heard.
What everyone on the far left who's in the public eye is quick to say today is that they're not celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk. At least not publicly. But what they are doing is ennobling the death of Charlie Kirk.
Ennoble: to elevate, to make something or someone better so that people admire it, him, or her more (various dictionary definitions.)
Nahannie Fontaine doesn't want to endorse Charlie Kirk's death. But she does want to say she's glad he's dead and the world is a better place because someone removed him.
That's where Manitoba stands. A Minister of the Crown who has revealed her intense bias against the half of the people in the province who disagree with her.
Can she be trusted to be fair in decisions? Is she infecting the entire Families portfolio with her own prejudices? Can anyone expect to be heard when approaching her department without passing a loyalty test?
Wab Kinew said he wasn't going to remove her from her post. He wants no part of cancel culture, he said.
Instead, the Premier of the province endorses Nahanni Fontaine's visceral hatred of people she disagrees with.
The U.S. state department has said it intends to monitor the social media comments of people seeking visa's who were "praising, rationalizing or making light of" Kirk's murder.
“If you’re a foreigner and you’re out there celebrating the assassination of someone who was speaking somewhere, I mean, we don’t want you in the country,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
One website even had a link to the state department where people could report people who cheered the death of Charlie Kirk.
.... There. Done.
Good luck crossing the border Nahanni.