“What the results show is that the little advantage that the Conservatives picked up in the fall of last year when they elevated Pierre Poilievre to the position of leader has gone away. The Liberals and Conservatives are basically tied again,” he said.
Something is very wrong somewhere when you can’t beat Blackie.
In common with many others, I have always thought Justin Trudeau’s receptiveness to China was down to naivete.
But, unless he is more transparent about the Liberal party’s dealings with Beijing in the last two elections, it looks like his sympathies were at least in part driven by partisan considerations.
There was an air of desperation in his reaction to media questions on the foreign interference story on Monday, as he maintained the line that the media reporting has been false, and that even discussing the issues is damaging to Canadian democracy.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday denied a media report from last week saying his office had been warned by Canada’s spy agency to drop a Liberal candidate, who is now a member of parliament, because he had Beijing’s support.
The Chinese government preferred Han Dong, a Chinese-Canadian, over another Chinese Canadian Liberal, who was passed over in favour of Han, said Global News, citing anonymous security sources in a story posted online.
Justin Trudeau is now insinuating that anyone who believes the Global News reporting about Han Dong and has questions about Chinese election interference is actually stoking "anti-Asian racism." pic.twitter.com/xCwYyxGZbo
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) February 27, 2023
OTTAWA – Dozens of Canada’s international aid agencies are asking Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to increase the country’s foreign assistance contributions.
The request comes in a letter signed by 75 non-governmental organizations, including the Canadian chapters of groups such as Oxfam, Save the Children, Unicef and World Vision.
They’re asking Freeland to increase international aid funding from the $8.15 billion pledged in the last budget and to gradually ramp that figure up to $10 billion by 2025.
We gain nothing. International aid is just a job scheme for the virtue signaling class and often a slush fund for corrupt regimes like Trudeau’s.
National identity depends on having a shared set of values, often represented in our cultural products. These cultural products include the obvious: our songs, our statues and our broadcast media — and the less obvious: the way we name roads, bridges and city wards. The great thing about Canadian national identity is that it’s (traditionally) based on the liberal democratic tradition, where all citizens are equal before the law regardless of background.
I’m sick of these racists.
As Ontario faces a chronic shortage of housing and rapidly climbing rents, landlords in the province are increasingly trying to evict their tenants and take possession of those rental units.
In 2022, the Landlord and Tenant Board, which adjudicates rental-housing disputes in the province, received more than 5,550 eviction applications in which landlords sought units for themselves, family members or new buyers. That was an increase of 41 per cent from 2019, according to numbers provided by the province to The Globe and Mail.
OTTAWA—A backbench Liberal MP from Toronto is rejecting what he calls “inaccurate and irresponsible” allegations that China helped him get elected as part of a campaign of interference in Canadian democracy.
“I strongly reject the insinuations in media reporting that allege I have played a role in offshore interference in these processes and will defend vigorously against such inaccurate and irresponsible claims,” Han Dong wrote in a statement posted on social media.
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is denying that he has ever spoken with controversial far-right German politician Christine Anderson, despite her claims that they have conversed on more than one occasion, and that she found him to be a “decent guy.”
“Mr. Poilievre has never spoken to Christine Anderson, and any suggestion that he has is categorically false,” Sebastian Skamski, media relations director for the Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition, said in a statement on Sunday.
Glad that the scales have come off so many people's eyes and see our politicians for who they really are.
The only one that has consistently & unwaveringly stood for Canadians is @MaximeBernier https://t.co/eBRHp7w7I9— Marti Chiappa (@MartiChiappa) February 26, 2023
Bused out of Quebec, francophone asylum seekers struggle to get medical services
Over the phone, the woman’s voice is regretful but hurried — she says she’s sorry, but if the French-speaking migrant on the other end of the line cannot find someone to translate English, the doctor won’t see him for the medical exam he needs in order to claim asylum in Canada.
CBC News obtained a recording of the phone conversation the man says took place Wednesday in Niagara Falls, Ont.
“It’s not possible to speak with the doctor if you can’t speak English,” the woman tells him in French. “You have to find someone at your hotel to help you.”
“I don’t know anyone here,” Guirlin — whose last name CBC News has agreed to withhold because of his precarious immigration status — replies.
Criminals have found ways to bypass Canada’s multimillion-dollar electronic visa system intended to maintain national security and public safety, according to a federal report recently released by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
“Those with malicious intent, including associations with fraud and human trafficking/smuggling movements, have found workarounds,” according to the report titled “Evaluation of the Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) Program” and August 2022.
There can be a tendency among the public to write off political scandals as nothing more than partisan infighting, and it’s often an understandable tendency.
These days politicians and their proxies turn every little misstep made by their opponents into the biggest of dramas, demanding inquiries and resignations for things that don’t even register in the minds of the public. Sometimes the noise that comes from political circles probably seems to people as just that, noise.
The Privy Council Office says an assessment of the work done by a panel tasked with flagging incidents of foreign interference during the 2021 federal election is now complete and has been sent to the Prime Minister’s Office and the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.
OTTAWA – An assessment of the work done by a panel tasked with flagging incidents of foreign interference during the 2021 federal election is now complete and has been sent to the Prime Minister’s Office and the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, the Privy Council Office has confirmed.
A Critical Election Incident Public Protocol created to monitor and report threats during the 2019 and 2021 elections is required to publish a post-election assessment of its work.
The 2019 evaluation came about seven months after the campaign held that year, but the 2021 report is still not available more than a year after Canadians went to the polls.
This past week, disturbing revelations were made painstakingly clear to Canadians: the People’s Republic of China and its intelligence apparatus threaten our nation’s security and our democracy.
On the evidence, the authoritarian dictatorship in Beijing has interfered in our elections to the benefit of Trudeau’s Liberals and the detriment of Canada’s democratic foundations. While their tactics demonstrate a blatant disrespect for our way of life, they also show our inability to respond effectively.
The RCMP says it is investigating serious allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity stemming from Russia’s war on Ukraine — but it warns that getting cases to the prosecution stage could take years.
“We really try to manage expectations, to say this may be quite a process to investigate something,” said Cpl. Kate Walaszczyk, an investigator with the RCMP’s Ukraine war crimes unit.
“It can take quite some time.”
Justin Balks and China Walks…
RCMP says no criminal investigation into Chinese election interference.
No surprise. I have zero faith in the @rcmpgrcpolice since Commissioner Brenda Lucki politicized the police to serve Trudeau & the Liberals.@Matt_HorwoodWS has the disgusting tale.https://t.co/JzwU8Wtw0J
— DonaldBest.CA * IT ENDS WHEN WE DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) February 26, 2023
Canada needs a public inquiry into allegations of Chinese election interference, Canada former spymaster says.
Speaking in an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, airing Sunday, Richard Fadden, the former head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and former national security advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, said he “can’t see any compelling reason not to” hold a public inquiry.
