Canada Christian College Application Exposes NDP Attempt to Delete Public Testimony

The CEO of NCCM Mustafa Farooq even testified in front of the approvals committee, testifying to his and NCCM’s opinion that statements made by Mr. McVety made the CCC unfit for consideration for university status.

In addition to Mr. Farooq’s testimony, there were numerous other witnesses, some for and some against. A conservative organization, in particular, LGBTory, an organization that promotes small-government, gay-rights, and LGBT conservative voices, testified quoting members of the Muslim community, certain Imams, and Mr. Farooq himself which called into question the authenticity of Mr. Farooq’s outrage and concern for the LGBT community.  

According to the website American Center for Democracy,  Mr. Farooq has questioned alliances with the LGBT community.  This article includes an online public conversation discussing the matter between Mr. Farooq and members of the community.

After the LGBTory testimony, NDP MPP Peggy Sattler, who has a long history supporting Islamist extremist causes, apparently reading from a script of prepared smears disguised as questions; attempted to deflect from the direct quotations and instead, labeled individual quoting the hateful comments from members of the Muslim community as someone guilty of hate speech. The witness attempted to reason with and help better educate MPP Sattler and help her distinguish between Islamism (or political Islam) and extremist ideology and interpretation from the vast majority of Muslims who are themselves often the victims of Islamic extremists. Unfortunately, NDP MPP Sattler continued with the attempt to smear the witness, refusing to acknowledge some of the hateful and disturbing quotations coming from some members of the Islamist community. 

One has to ask what is the motivation for the NDP and their attempt to scrub testimony from the Ontario Legislature.  Were they embarrassed that they were forced to defend quotations that they would define as hate speech? That they would be forced to acknowledge the root cause of gays in the middle east who are targeted and murdered for their sexuality?  Why would the NDP take an alt-right position against the LGBT community and do so on the record in the Ontario legislature? 

Curiously, no one within the NDP has demanded that MPP Sattler resigns from her position for ignoring extreme anti-gay anti-LGBT statements coming from some members of the Muslim community.  This is the moral buggy code of the NDP and the broader far-left political spectrum which includes the liberal party and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who does the same.

If the NDP is successful in their attempt to remove mention of the CCC application on Bill 213 then all testimony related could also be scrubbed from the official record, including the embarrassing refutation to Mr. Farooq’s crocodile tears about homophobia. Is this the motivation?

Perhaps the Ontario NDP is merely looking to achieve a minor symbolic victory of removing the proposal to grant the CCC university status in a cluttered bill of 28 other scheduled items, and does not seek to protect NCCM from criticism. However, NCCM has become somewhat of a political player or an annoyance in the eyes of many politicians as they troll for votes from identity politics-based organizations.  

Scrubbing testimony from the legislative process whether approved or rejected should be seen as an extremely concerning issue for everyone across the political spectrum.  A liberal Westphalian society does not and should not, attempt to erase history or erase testimony good, bad, or indifferent from the public record.  If the political left is successful in this measure it is only a matter of time until the opposition will do the same when it is politically expedient.  

President Charles McVety says he is preparing to file for judicial review against PEQAB, as he argues that the College’s submission “met every benchmark” for university status, and yet, was nevertheless rejected.