Canada

Conservatives and Liberals hiring paid door-knockers ahead of election as volunteer numbers dwindle

With campaign volunteer numbers declining in each successive election and the next election fast approaching, some Conservative and Liberal candidates and MPs are currently in the process of hiring paid canvassers.

“It’s been proven time and time again…,” reads one recruitment email sent out recently to potential paid election canvassers by political strategy firm Right Recruiter, which is owned by veteran Conservative insider Steve Outhouse. “Knocking on doors and speaking to voters face to face wins campaigns. That’s why, with the federal election just around the corner, we are in need of committed campaigners to help support Conservative candidates!”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

J.D. Tuccille: The real reason Canada won’t be the 51st state

U.S. President Donald Trump has a talent for stirring the pot, and he’s done so in two countries with repeated suggestions that Canada should become the 51st American state. Of course, making Canada one state is hardly fair — each province should get its own star on the flag if we’re going to move in that direction. But there’s no good reason to go down that path at all, given most Canadians’ rejection of the idea, and the havoc it would play with the fraught political balance in the United States. Besides, it’s likely that both Canada and the U.S are too big and too centralized as it is.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Quebec bill on integrating immigrants upsets usual suspects

Municipalities, rights groups concerned about Quebec bill on integrating immigrants

MONTREAL — Quebec municipalities and human rights groups are voicing concerns about proposed legislation that would require newcomers to abide by a set of common values.

They say the new bill on cultural integration could foster anti-immigrant sentiment and impose a heavy administrative burden on communities.

The bill, tabled in January by Quebec’s right-leaning Coalition Avenir Québec government, would have immigrants adhere to shared values including gender equality, secularism and protection of the French language. The legislation is the latest in a series of bills that aim to reinforce Quebec identity, following the province’s secularism law and its overhaul of the language law.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada

Has Donald Trump triggered a golden age for drug trafficking in Canada and the world?

As Donald Trump has raged, Canada has reacted.

In December, the federal government pledged an additional $1.3-billion to combat fentanyl trafficking, with increased border security measures that include drones, Black Hawk helicopters and mobile surveillance towers.

In February, Ottawa appointed its first ever “fentanyl czar,” longtime senior Mountie Kevin Brosseau, to oversee our fight against the deadly synthetic opioid.

If so he’s done something that will make junior’s Beijing bosses happy.

They must need mops to clean up the mouth froth from the floor at the Star.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

CBSA says it’s unclear what more Canada can offer to the U.S. to avoid tariffs

The head of the Canada Border Services Agency says it’s not clear what more Canada could offer to the United States to once again avoid the imposition of punishing tariffs on Tuesday, even as a senior U.S. Cabinet member said Sunday that Canada has “done a reasonable job” of securing the border.

Canadian authorities have pledged a series of measures in response to criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump about the cross-border movement of fentanyl and migrants into the U.S. Ottawa said it will spend $1.3-billion over six years on a border plan that includes more dogs, scanners, drones and helicopters. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed former RCMP deputy commissioner Kevin Brosseau to the newly created post of fentanyl czar last month.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

MORGAN: Let’s talk about Islam

‘We must begin by admitting there’s a problem.’

It’s time for the world to have a frank discussion about Islam and how it fits into modern societies that respect human rights. It’s an elephant in the room and ignoring it has real costs.

One of the worst examples was in Rotherham UK where young girls were recruited, groomed and raped for decades by gangs of Pakistani men. The Jay Report estimates over 1,400 young women were victims of these gangs. The number is likely much higher since so many of these crimes went unreported.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

From Alaska to Maine, communities that border Canada worry US tariffs come at a personal cost

DETROIT (AP) — At the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, a quote from former President Ronald Reagan is engraved on one wall.

“Let the 5,000-mile border between Canada and the United States stand as a symbol for the future,” Reagan said upon signing a 1988 free trade pact with America’s northern neighbor. “Let it forever be not a point of division but a meeting place between our great and true friends.”

But a point of division is here. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump plans to impose a 25% tariff on most imported Canadian goods and a 10% tariff on Canadian oil and gas. Mexico is also facing a 25% tariff.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Before electing Mark Carney as leader, the Liberals should pause for a moment of reflection

A caution from the philosopher George Santayana to members of the Liberal Party of Canada: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Step back, therefore, to the night of Feb. 28, 1984. Prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, father of Justin Trudeau, goes on a long, solitary walk through an Ottawa snowstorm and decides that the time has come for him to resign.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Kelly McParland: Singh pays the price for protecting Trudeau

Jagmeet Singh wouldn’t listen in 2022 when it was suggested propping up the Trudeau Liberals wasn’t a good idea.

Trudeau was not a popular leader. His days as the shiny new face in Ottawa were well behind him. At the time the “supply and confidence agreement” was reached the country had just endured an ill-timed election, called by the prime minister two years before it was due in hopes of leveraging the COVID-19 crisis into a majority government. The gambit didn’t work and Trudeau was handed another minority, almost identical to the one he’d already had.

He wanted that pension. All there is to it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Expert says Trump wants a ‘win’ as it remains unclear whether Canada thwarted tariffs

WASHINGTON — Canadians are feeling a foreboding sense of déjà vu as the country waits to see whether U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of economy-wide tariffs ultimately materialize on Tuesday, tipping North America into a trade war.

“Canada has to prepare for a world where it can’t rely on the United States for stability in its trading relationships or in its security relationships,” said Matthew Lebo, a specialist in U.S. politics at Western University in London, Ont.

Despite a month-long diplomatic push in Washington and boosted border enforcement, Canadians remain uncertain whether Trump will slap America’s closest neighbours with devastating duties.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Canada’s importance in Five Eyes raised in meeting with Trump border czar

The importance of having Canada in an intelligence-sharing alliance with the United States and other countries was raised when ministers met last week with Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan.

The meeting among Homan, Canada’s Public Safety Minister David McGuinty, Immigration Minister Marc Miller and other officials was staged to show the Trump administration Canada’s efforts to boost border security.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

GOLDSTEIN: New Statistics Canada data reveals standard of living on downward spiral

Buried because of the news about the Trump, Vance, Zelenskyy confrontation at the White House on Friday was the release of new economic data by Statistics Canada showing our standard of living has further deteriorated over the past two years.

StatsCan reported that Canada’s real GDP per capita, which measures economic output per person, adjusted for inflation, a widely accepted metric for measuring a nation’s prosperity, fell by 1.4% in 2024, following a decline of 1.3% in 2023.

This is what happens when your PM is an idiot unable to distinguish between a photo-op and governing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

CHARLEBOIS: From Kyiv to Ottawa – the real war is over resources, not borders

The scene in the Oval Office on Friday between Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump was deeply unsettling.

The geopolitical ramifications remain uncertain, but one thing is clear: peace in Eastern Europe may have drifted even further out of reach. For global food security, stability in that region is critical, and the current trajectory suggests an increasingly bleak outlook for Ukraine and its ability to regain economic and agricultural footing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Carney and Poilievre both want to stop wasteful spending. But what would they cut?

It is an exciting debate for accountants.

Mark Carney, the presumptive favourite in the Liberal leadership race, says a government led by him would introduce a new budget “framework” that would “separate” the federal government’s operating and capital budgets — drawing a distinction between spending that covers ongoing expenses for programs and services and spending that goes toward building and buying things like infrastructure, housing and military equipment. According to Carney, his government would aim to balance the operating budget within three years, while running a “small deficit” on capital spending.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada