Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre urged MPs to defeat the Liberal government Tuesday — but opposition parties are turning the debate over his non-confidence motion into a debate about the Conservative Party’s policies instead.
Poilievre introduced his promised non-confidence motion in the opening minutes of the House of Commons sitting Tuesday, delivering a campaign-style speech laying out his vision for Canada under a Conservative government.
The commentariat is obsessed with the federal Liberal loss last week in the once-safe Montreal riding of LaSalle-Émard-Verdun. Few, in contrast, took note of last week’s by-election in the Ontario provincial riding of Bay of Quinte, won by Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives.
Why did Mr. Ford’s PCs win their by-election while Justin Trudeau’s Liberals lost theirs? One reason might be that the Premier obsesses over the needs of suburban, middle-class, car-commuting voters, while Mr. Trudeau has other priorities.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) should investigate how some students on a recent school field trip ended up at a rally(opens in a new tab) where pro-Palestinian slogans were shouted.
“It’s disgraceful… [The students] should be in the classroom learning about reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, the whole shebang, but instead, the TDSB and these teachers want to bring them down to a rally, a Palestinian rally, and it’s ridiculous,” Ford said at an unrelated news conference on Monday.
Will someone please offer Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a job? Preferably, a nice sinecure at an NGO in another country that’s subsidized by Liberal donors.
The Canadian electorate — and now even his NDP sidekick Jagmeet Singh — are fed up with him. Earlier this month, Singh pulled out of a deal to prop up the Liberals, then ensured their political survival by pledging not to support a non-confidence motion that, if passed, would trigger an election. Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet said the same.
OTTAWA – The NDP is urging the Liberals to recognize Palestinian statehood, warning that a Conservative government would not protect international law in the Middle East.
NDP foreign affairs critic Heather McPherson is accusing the Trudeau government of lacking courage to advance its stated goal of helping a two-state solution, where Israel and a Palestinian country exist peacefully.
McPherson is calling for Canada to sanction far-right ministers in Israel who have suggested it would be justified to starve Palestinians and that some communities should be annihilated.
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— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) September 23, 2024
In 2018, Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi arrived at Toronto’s Pearson Airport. After his application for refugee status was accepted in 2019, he received a work permit. He then became a permanent resident in 2021. Subsequently, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service gave his application a “favourable recommendation”, and Mr. Eldidi was granted Canadian citizenship in May 2024. Just two months later and after a tip from France, he was arrested with his son for allegedly planning a terrorist attack in Toronto. It then came to light that Mr. Eldidi had apparently appeared in 2015 promotional video by the Islamic State hacking the limbs off a prisoner with a sword – an act which likely constitutes a war crime.
This series of events has led to obvious questions: How could Canada not only let Mr. Eldidi into the country, but fail to identify him as a possible security threat during two separate national security screenings? Why did the Canadian authorities also not know of his alleged 2015 atrocities?
They vote Liberal.
Susan Delacourt: A funny thing happened on the way to Parliament getting back in business last week. And no, I am not talking about the clutch of protesters threatening MPs, which isn’t really that funny at all. I’m referring to the fact that all our federal politicians just got back to the Commons and they’re all talking pretty tough — the gloves are now seriously off. So how do you think we got here, Matt, and where is this headed?
Headed to nowhere.
The Pact was ended in name only to allow Jagmeet and Junior to campaign without the need to explain their parasitic union.
“One personal highlight from my week was being accused of enabling fascism by a member of the King’s Privy Council because I argued a film shouldn’t be cancelled under pressure from politicians and special-interest groups. “For Chris Selley, screening Russian intel operations at (the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)) is free speech: peak Canadian naïveté fuelling Kremlin war propaganda,” former Conservative immigration minister Chris Alexander ventured on X. “If Ukraine’s only friends were as fair-weather as Canada, the war against fascism would be lost.”
Canadians fighting over whether to ban a film funded by Canadians. Do we not have better things to do?
In recent years, the way Canadians consume food has dramatically transformed.
Data from Statistics Canada indicates that while food retail sales have been waning, food service sales have displayed remarkable resilience. Currently, the average Canadian spends approximately $246.19 per month on groceries, only slightly above the historical low of $241.19 recorded in May of this year.
Violent crime is surging in some of Canada’s major cities, with sexual assault rates showing the largest increase over the short and long term, according to a new report.
Sexual assault cases climbed in eight of nine major cities over the past seven years, with Ottawa being the exception to the trend, according to a study by the Macdonald Laurier Institute (MLI). The incidence of sexual assault has risen since 2016 in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Peel, Ont., and York, Ont., with the last nearly doubling from 2016 to 2023.
Rufo said what motivates politicians to act is a sense of urgency often emanating from media rooted in facts. To get politicians to act, he said he has generated media narratives.
By doing his investigations, he said he has been able to work news cycles. There is an adage in local television newsrooms that if it bleeds, it leads.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expects Canadians to hand him a fourth term because the Liberal gang has more work to do.
These recent examples expose how some Liberal MPs, above being bothered with pesky things like accountability and ethics, have ‘served’ Canadians.
The two principal foreign and strategic crises of this year, Ukraine and Israel, the federal government has a defensible record on the first but not on the second. In both cases it appears to be motivated entirely by domestic political equations without a glance at strategic requirements, let alone the course of national honour. For a country where Prime Ministers Chrétien, Harper, and Justin Trudeau have allowed our military capabilities to atrophy so badly that the chief assurance of our national security is to keep the telephone number of the Pentagon constantly at hand when we need the Americans to protect us, this government’s policy toward the Gaza war, in addition to being completely mistaken, is also extremely pompous. (Paul Martin wanted to explore the possibilities of Canada taking responsibility for its own defense, but his government was defeated before he could get to grips with this issue; the fact that he even thought of it should not be forgotten.)
A Liberal MP says he was pushed by one of the protesters who have been gathering on Parliament Hill for the first week of the fall sitting.
Several MPs say they have been harassed throughout the week by protesters who have been shouting and calling politicians and their staff “traitors.”
Liberal MP Taleeb Noormohamed told CBC Radio’s The House that one of the protesters shoved him as he was leaving Parliament Hill earlier this week.
From a downtown Ottawa sidewalk, Kevin Aubin has been watching what he describes as alarming changes in the city’s downtown, several blocks south of Parliament Hill.
The veteran panhandler says that he is seeing an influx of troubling newcomers on Bank Street in Ottawa’s core, a main street similar to downtown areas of Granville Street in Vancouver, Yonge Street in Toronto or Water Street in St. John’s.
