“How many tanks are you asking for I just wanna ask Anita how many we’ve got on hand,” Mr. Mendicino said in response, referring to Defence Minister Anita Anand.
“I reckon one will do!!” Mr. Lametti replied.
Canada
Trudeau says he hasn’t been briefed on election interference from Beijing, but what might that mean?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s claim over the weekend that he does “not have any information,” nor has he “been briefed on any federal candidates receiving any money from China,” raises a few deeply troubling possibilities.
Assault-style firearm definition draws applause from gun-control group, ire of Conservatives
OTTAWA – The Liberal government prompted applause and anger on Tuesday by proposing an evergreen definition of a prohibited assault-style firearm for inclusion in gun-control legislation being studied by a House of Commons committee.
The measure, introduced during clause-by-clause review of the bill, responds to pleas from advocates of tougher gun laws who want a definition enshrined in law. It would build on a federal regulatory ban of many types of firearms two years ago.
More… C-21 amended to include semi auto ban
Today the Liberal/NDP/Bloc coalition government broke the glass on a typical Liberal distraction tool – gun bans. With Canadians reeling from a failed economy, tripling of taxes looming, 1.5M Canadians using foodbanks, hospitals overwhelmed with sick children who can’t even get Tylenol, Chinese interference in elections and of course a terrible showing at the Public Order Emergency Commission, the Liberals needed the media and Canadians in general talking about something other than their failures.
40 people on FBI terror watchlist apprehended at US borders in October – 25 at the US-Canadian border
At least 40 individuals on the US terrorist watch list have been nabbed while trying to enter the country in the last month, according to US Customs and Border Protection.
In October, nine people whose names are flagged on the terror watch list tried to sneak over the US border illegally, circumventing border walls or crossing at a point between official points of entry and later being detained by the US Border Patrol.
An additional 31 suspected terrorists were stopped at usual ports of entry by customs agents — 25 at the US-Canadian border and the six at the southern border.
WTF? Just who is in charge of immigration in Canada?
Firm says claim executive carried Nazi flag at Freedom Convoy is ‘absurd,’ threatens lawsuit
OTTAWA – Public affairs firm Enterprise Canada says it is considering suing the Freedom Convoy organizers’ lawyer at the Emergencies Act inquiry for making what it called an “absurd and despicable” allegation that one of its senior executives carried a Nazi flag during a Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa.
But Freedom Corp. lawyer Brendan Miller says he is protected by privilege from being sued and he wants two Enterprise Canada executives to testify at the Public Order Emergency Commission about the sighting of Nazi and a Confederate flags during the first weekend of Ottawa protests last winter.
Mortgage interest costs soar at rates we haven’t seen since the 1990s — stoking fears of another crash
Canadian mortgage interest costs in October increased at a rate not seen since the 1990s housing crash, indicating troubling headwinds for the country’s real estate sector.
In October, interest costs increased year-over-year by 11.4 per cent, the biggest increase since February 1991, when it was 11.7 per cent, according to recent report from Statistics Canada.
Xi Dresses Down Trudeau
When you get a tongue-lashing from your boss.
Canada is heavily infiltrated by China, aided by a longtime partnership between the Chinese leadership and Justin Trudeau. See more HERE.
During the G20 meetings, Trudeau, who has been referenced as “little potato” by China, was openly reprimanded by China’s leader Xi Jinping…
Justin Trudeau’s Drag Race
His upcoming appearance on the hit show is another milestone in Canada’s descent into clown world.
Canada’s top feminist, Justin Trudeau, has put his blackface days behind him in order to promote a more progressive insult – womanface. Earlier this month, the new trailer for TV drag competition Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs the World teased a special appearance from Canada’s prime minister. Although without make-up, Trudeau was perhaps the biggest clown of them all.
Montreal committee says toppled statue of John A. Macdonald should not be put back
… The committee made its preliminary recommendation public today, saying the city should distance itself from the policies of assimilation and genocide against Indigenous Peoples that were championed by Sir John A. Macdonald.
Looking back at Canada’s plan to tax the unvaccinated
Back in January of this year, the Canadian province of Quebec announced a plan to impose a tax on the unvaccinated. Officials there claimed that most of the impacts on the healthcare system were being caused by unvaccinated people and that the vaccinated should not be made to shoulder the costs. The following month, after a large outcry from the public, the plan was scrapped. But the government never gave up on the idea entirely. Some are still suggesting that the plan could be retooled and brought up for consideration again.
Haitian political parties must all agree to Canadian military intervention, says Trudeau
Canadian military intervention in Haiti can’t happen unless all political parties in the troubled nation agree to it, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday.
Trudeau was speaking from Tunisia where leaders of French-speaking governments and international organizations held a roundtable on Haiti on the final day of the two-day Francophonie summit.
NO.
Defence minister insists Canada is prepared to face evolving global threats provided they are no more complex than gum chewing and walking
National Defence Minister Anita Anand insists Canada is ready to handle evolving global threats, after missile explosions in Poland prompted concerns about Russia’s war in Ukraine spilling into a NATO country, a tense interaction between the prime minister and China’s president was caught on video, North Korea tested a ballistic missile, and a new report from Canada’s auditor general states there’s a lack of preparedness to properly survey the Arctic, this week.
In an interview with CTV’s Question Period with Joyce Napier, airing Sunday, Anand said it’s vital Canada “be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.”
Frozen Bank Accounts, Again: The Arrival of a New Tyranny
Not long ago, I wrote a piece highlighting the arrival of a new form of political control, namely governments’ authorization of banks—without due process—to freeze the bank accounts of members of their citizenry. I noted that this was a form of coercion that had existed in China for some years now, and had recently been adopted by Russia, but I emphasised that it had also been deployed by the Canadian government against a minority of its population—those who participated in the ‘truckers’ protests’—with zero uproar from Canada’s allied nations. I feared that UK parliamentarians had been silent over this tyrannical quashing of the late Queen’s subjects across the Atlantic because, as I wrote then, they were likely “looking over at this innovative model of political control and thinking, ‘Golly, what a clever idea!’”
Rupa Subramanya: Canada’s illiberal backsliding
Is Canada becoming an illiberal democracy?
That description is typically associated with developing countries such as India, or recent democracies such as Hungary, where right-of-centre governments are accused by western observers of democratic backsliding and an illiberal turn. It’s ironic, then, that, by some measures, Canada, which we once assumed to be a bastion of liberal democracy, is becoming increasingly illiberal.
Trudeau says no intelligence briefing happened on Chinese interference in election
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has never been briefed that any candidates in a Canadian election were influenced by financing from the Chinese government.
A Global News report earlier this month cited unnamed sources who claimed Trudeau was briefed last January that China was trying to interfere in Canadian politics, including by funding at least 11 candidates in the 2019 federal election.
My guess is CSIS likely doesn’t trust Trudeau or the Liberal Party.