As the Trudeau Liberals continue to be rightly criticized by conservatives for leading Canada into socialism, an American professor who was once a Marxist now says after travelling the globe that socialism doesn’t work.
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New ‘Buy American’ plan is alarming the auto sector — and the federal government
For months now, a legislative proposal inching its way through the U.S. Congress has been stoking consternation across the border.
Canadian policy-makers and businesses have been warily eyeing Buy American proposals designed to shift auto production to the U.S.
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said during a trip this week to Washington that she raised some of those concerns with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
Scandal, Embezzlement Accusations As Canada Sends Billions In Foreign Aid
According to the Liberal government’s own data, Canada’s foreign aid budgets involve transferring funds to the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and African Development Bank.
From 2003 to 2020, the World Bank’s Doing Business Report(DBR) was generally seen as a trusted measure of how business is conducted around the globe. Yet, according to former World Bank senior manager Paul Cadario, there has been controversy about the DBR’s methodology since its inception. China is a major shareholder of the World Bank and therefore has considerable financial leverage over it.
“The DBR was discontinued this year , after data irregularities in its 2018 and 2020 editions suggested that China, as well as a few other autocracies, were given unfair bumps.”
In other words, a discovery of corruption within the ranks. It is within this context that Cultural Action Party review Liberal government foreign aid policy.
Transitory inflation forces could last up to another year: Poloz
A former governor of the Bank of Canada is bracing for the inflationary trends that central bankers are wrestling with around the world to last a little longer than some people might think.
Dear America: Don’t Become Canada
Canada was the first “woke nation” on the planet.
If you missed Canada’s election late last month, you can be forgiven. It ended just like the last two before it: with Justin Trudeau’s left-wing Liberal Party handedly beating out the Conservative opposition just as most predicted. Being the perennial party of choice for the financial and media elite in Toronto and Montreal, the Liberals have won a whopping 75 percent of Canada’s elections since 1900, making the country resemble a kind of one-party-state of sorts.
Peter Menzies: Stop messing with free speech on the internet
When it comes to communications regulation, let’s be clear: the election did not give Justin Trudeau’s government a mandate to continue messing with free speech on the Internet.
FUREY: Now is the time for Canada to show support for Taiwan
If you ask military strategists where they think the next global conflict could be sparked, most of them will tell you the South China Sea. The novel 2034 , co-authored by retired U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis, offers a possible scenario of the third world war breaking out after China attempts an invasion of Taiwan.
Albertans will finally have a say on Canada’s equalization program
Canada’s system of fiscal federalism and equalization is fundamentally broken and Albertans are finally being given the chance to do something about it.
During next week’s municipal elections, Albertans will have the rare opportunity to participate in direct democracy and vote on the fairness of Canada’s equalization program. Specifically, they will be asked whether equalization payments should be removed from the constitution.
McKenna says democratic rights of MPs “aren’t absolute,” unvaxed should be banned
McKenna’s comments come in response to Conservative MP Mark Strahl’s firm stance against vaccine mandates for parliamentarians.
They’re both authoritarians – and both completely wrong.
h/t Marvin
Line 5 opponents urge White House to reject Canada’s ‘audacious’ treaty gambit
Environmental activists in the United States are seizing on Canada’s decision to invoke a 44-year-old treaty with the United States as an “audacious,” misguided and misleading gambit aimed at short-circuiting Michigan’s effort to shut down the Line 5 cross-border pipeline.
Oil & Water Don’t Mix, a coalition of Michigan environmental and Indigenous groups that includes the Sierra Club and the Michigan Climate Action Network, said Tuesday it has a 33,000-signature petition that it plans to circulate among U.S. lawmakers this week.
Justin’s best buddy Joe remains silent.
Drug buyers’ club receives Vancouver’s approval to secure a drug supply
Vancouver City Council voted on Thursday to support a program that would provide drugs to people at risk of overdosing.
Canada’s Allies May Have To Force Trudeau To Get Tough On China
The US in particular cannot allow Canada – given such close integration of our countries – to become a tool of the Chinese Communist Party.
Parody music video about navy officers sparked country-wide search for culprit
A music video poking fun at officers sparked a country-wide search within the Royal Canadian Navy for the culprit who made the parody as well as threats to sailors that even watching the spoof would result in punishment.
MALCOLM: Equalization in Canada is fundamentally broken
Canada’s system of fiscal federalism, specifically the program of equalization that divides the country into “have” and “have-not” provinces and transfers revenues from the former to the latter, is fundamentally broken. And, for the first time in my lifetime, some Canadians are finally being given the chance to do something about it.
Quebec just loves it!