Since coming to power in 2015 the Trudeau government has been hiring full-time civil servants at triple the rate of Canada’s population growth, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
The fiscally conservative think tank says the number of civil servants has increased by 26.1% from 2015, the year the Trudeau government was elected, up to the fiscal year 2022-23 — the latest data available.
That compares to a 9.1% increase in Canada’s population during that period.
Catherine Stewart, Canada’s Ambassador for Climate Change, defended her frequent air travel during testimony at the Commons environment committee, citing efficiency and international obligations.
Blacklock’s Reporter says Stewart, who billed $254,089 in travel expenses during her first two years on the job, said flying often “makes more sense” than using alternatives like trains or videoconferencing.
h/t Mauser
Back in 2015, Cisco Armstrong was so inspired by Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau that nothing was going to stop him from voting in the federal election.
He and his now wife were going abroad and would miss the election, so they voted early to make sure they could register their support for Mr. Trudeau. “He symbolized progress,” says Mr. Armstrong, who is now 35 and lives outside Sherbrooke. “It was inspiring to vote for change.”
The madness of crowds.
Under the Trudeau regime, Canada and the U.S. may have been working at cross purposes but that will not be the case after Canada has elected a Conservative government.
When Justin Trudeau was first elected prime minister of Canada in 2015, it was partly because of the sort of empty bombast that had helped get Barak Obama first elected president in 2008. Obama had promised “Hope and Change” while Trudeau promised “Sunny Ways.” By the time Trudeau was first elected, America had already soured on Obama, among other things because of his abysmal economic management, his divisive rhetoric, and his stoking of racism.
… On Sunday, he called for a crackdown on people coming to Canada – tightening visa requirements to make it harder to visit and setting a cap on the number of asylum-seekers.
For a long time, Mr. Poilievre didn’t go there. His party wanted MPs and candidates to steer clear of anything that suggested tough talk on immigration. It’s only in the last few months that
Mr. Poilievre has ramped up criticism of the Liberal government’s failure to control a surge of temporary residents.
Now, he’s talking about cracking down on “false refugees” and warning “our Canadian jobs are being taken.”
A good start but he better learn how to pronounce the words “mass deportation” because Trudeau has literally allowed millions of illegal alien scammers to remain in Canada.
The growth of illegal Canadian fentanyl production came into focus over the weekend after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump reportedly gave Canadian government leaders a clear impression that the runaway drug problem is his top priority, even in Canada-U.S. relations.
Canada’s China class must be concerned.
Four young men who are in Canada on student visas are charged after 25 vehicles were broken into in Oakville.
… As a result, Gurparkar Singh, 19, Akshdeep Singh, 20, Kanavpreet Singh, 20, and Dilpreet Singh, 21, all from Brampton, were charged with mischief under $5,000. Cops noted in their release that “each accused is currently in Canada on a student visa.”
I’m glad Justin Trudeau managed to get face to face with Donald Trump and make the case that Canada shouldn’t be socked with tariffs that would send our economy into a recessionary spin.
Obviously it’s better to talk directly to the Great Khan in his stately Mar-a-Lago pleasure dome than to be left on the outside peeking in. If you’re invited for dinner, of course you go, and you make the very best of it. On the face of it, it must mean something positive that Trump agreed to see the PM so quickly after dropping his tariff bombshell. Doesn’t it?
ICYMI Mar-a-Lago talks not exactly as friendly as LeBlanc, Hillman and Trudeau described them "The president-elect told the prime minister if Canada cannot fix the border issues and trade deficit, he will levy a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods on day one when he returns to… pic.twitter.com/gOkWX2WUNV
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) December 3, 2024
PETER DOOCY: “Tonight, we’re getting new details about that Trump-Trudeau dinner from two people who were at the table. We are told that when @JustinTrudeau told President-elect Trump that new tarrifs would kill the Canadian economy, Trump joked to him that if Canada can’t… pic.twitter.com/eAYNJL6SCq
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) December 2, 2024
Trump suggests Canada become 51st state after Trudeau said tariff would kill economy: sources
h/t Mauser
Howard Lutnick is Trump’s appointment as the next Secretary of Commerce, a cabinet role to manage economic growth and trade relationships. In a recent interview on NBC’s Squawk Box, he frankly stated “the tariffs are a bargaining chip that should not be put in place across the board.” He also revealed one of Trump’s tactics by stating that “when you’re running for office, you make broad statements so that people understand you”.
As well, recently named Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was quoted in a Financial Times interview that “my general view is that at the end of the day he [Trump] is a free trader”.
The world seems like a more dangerous and uncertain place for Canada. Incoming President Donald Trump’s threat of slapping a 25% tariff on Canadian goods has jangled nerves from sea to sea.
Are Justin Trudeau and his government up to meeting the challenges appearing on the horizon? Increasingly, the prime minister seems to be clinging to power, which is not a position of power.
The 70th annual session of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, held Nov. 22-25 in Montreal, hit a snag on its first evening when violent activists tried to disrupt the event.
Metropolitan police were unprepared for the organized assault. So was Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who seems to have had no inkling of the possible security risks that a NATO summit in his country might present. No, the Canadian leader wasn’t out to lunch. He was at a Taylor Swift concert in Toronto.
Ontario says federal clean electricity regulations would add $35B in costs
TORONTO – Ontario is urging the federal government to amend proposed electricity regulations after an analysis by the province’s system operator concluded the rules would mean $35 billion in additional costs by 2050.
A new analysis by the Independent Electricity System Operator looking at upcoming regulations around restrictions on emissions from electricity generation found that Ontario would have to add twice as much new generation as it is already planning, which is “not feasible” in that time frame.
But if the province were to somehow do so, building enough new electricity generation to make up for restrictions on natural gas would add $35 billion in costs by 2050, increasing residential bills by $132 to $168 per year starting in 2033, the IESO said.
The federal government is currently looking for ways to tighten its budget and curb the size of the public service. In order to do that, it’s undertaking a multi-billion dollar spending review.
The LPC has been on a civil servant hiring spree, in many quarters job growth in the public service outpaces the private sector.
There’s a reason for that besides the economy sucking, the public service is a valued vote bloc for the LPC.
Once presenting itself as one of the world’s most welcoming countries to refugees and immigrants, Canada is launching a global online ad campaign cautioning asylum-seekers that making a claim is hard.
The $250,000 in advertisements will run through March in 11 languages, including Spanish, Urdu, Ukrainian, Hindi and Tamil, the immigration department told Reuters.
They are part of a broader shift in tone by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s unpopular government on immigration and an effort to clamp down on refugee claims.
About 40 per cent of food banks in the province have scaled back the amount of food they provide each visit amid “record-high demand,” according to a new report by Feed Ontario.
The report, which was released Monday, reveals that usage has “surpassed the capacity and resources” of Ontario’s food bank network, adding that provincial food banks were accessed by more than a million people between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024. This marks a 25 per cent increase over the previous year. About 43 per cent of those visitors had never used a food bank before, the report states.
A message from the CEO combined with a land acknowledgement in a hunger report. Tell me this isn’t an industry designed to take advantage of rather than alleviate the problem.
How much of foodbank usage is due to Trudeau’s migrants?
Last year, 97.6 per cent of population growth in Canada was due to immigration, however, the increase in people who have “been in Canada for 10 years or less” has contributed to only a third of the growth in food bank visitors in Ontario. This is inclusive of temporary workers, students, refugees, and immigrants who have lived in Canada for up to a decade and are struggling with the cost of living.
So 33% of food bank usage is due to migrants, but in the same breath the report calls that a myth.
That cost of living is exasperated by the extreme rise in rents and costs of home ownership created by a housing shortage fueled by … Trudeau’s migrants.
