OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his party will vote against the Liberals’ temporary GST cut in a vote expected Thursday.
Poilievre said the Liberal proposal is a political stunt and his party can’t support it.
“This isn’t a tax cut. This is an inflationary two-month temporary tax trick that will drive up the cost of living,” he said.
OTTAWA — The Canadian military’s infrastructure in the Arctic is “limited and deteriorating” and will soon reach a “rust-out” stage unless action is taken to stop it from getting worse, according to a new first-of-its-kind evaluation of the armed forces’ operations in the region.
The report from the Department of National Defence raises concerns about a lack of strategic direction for the military in the Arctic that could hamper future planning. It describes shortages of personnel and resources that require the Canadian Armed Forces to rely heavily on contractors for planes and over-the-snow vehicles for its largest annual exercise in the region. It also highlights how aging northern radar stations leave gaps for detecting potential threats that aren’t set to be addressed until new infrastructure is ready in the early 2030s.
There was a time when sneering at international law would not have been a good look for someone aspiring to be Prime Minister of Canada.
But, charting new territory, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre contemptuously called Justin Trudeau “woke” for indicating Canada would abide by a ruling of the International Criminal Court (ICC) — a court that Canada helped establish to punish war criminals.
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Members of Parliament are set to vote on a Liberal bill proposing a temporary “tax holiday” for Canadians that is expected to pass with the support from the New Democratic Party.
The legislation, which was tabled on Wednesday, calls for a two-month break on the goods and services tax or harmonized sales tax on dozens of items, including certain groceries, alcoholic beverages and children’s clothing.
Hey @cafreeland! I suspected you were the dumbest Finance Minister in Canadian history, but thanks for proving it. Groceries have never had GST on them. Carbon Tax yes, but GST no.#LiberalFools #ElectionNow #Pierre4PM https://t.co/IA9z7j2aUB
— Jon Fraser (@JonFraserTF) November 27, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
OTTAWA — A Liberal MP said he was threatened with unspecified “consequences” if he votes against the government’s proposed $250 cheques, an affordability measure that continues to face an uncertain path through the House of Commons.
Hamilton MP Chad Collins said earlier this week that he would vote against the government’s cash rebates because they leave out seniors and people with disabilities.
OTTAWA — A federal Liberal candidate in B.C. who publicly identified as Indigenous for years says she now plans to apply for Metis citizenship after a local Metis society publicly questioned her heritage claims.
In a statement provided by a Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) spokesperson, Madison Fleischer, the party’s candidate in the Cloverdale—Langley City byelection, said she is in the process of putting together an application for Metis citizenship that will be submitted to Métis Nation British Columbia (MNBC).
It is time for an election.
On 20th January, the Government of Canada will go nose-to-nose with the incoming Trump administration over the president-elect’s announcement that both Canada and Mexico will face a 25% tariff on their exports to the US.
The problem is that here in Canada, and especially in Alberta, we don’t trust the leadership of the federal government to do the job.
It seemed like the Liberals had tried just about everything to resuscitate their dwindling support among Canadians, but Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, bless her heart, still managed to find something new: sneering contempt.
Justin Trudeau’s government offers a weak response to the city’s violent anti-Semitic riots.
The Roman Emperor Nero is said to have “fiddled” while Rome burned. That’s not wholly true. Rome did catch fire during Nero’s reign, but there were no fiddles or bowed instruments of any kind. The original story, as reported by the historian Suetonius, is that Nero put on a stage costume, climbed to the top of a tower, and sang about the fall of Troy as Rome went up in flames beneath him.
But here in Canada we don’t need Nero. We have Justin Trudeau, he of the strange fondness for costumes and blackface, dancing while Montreal burns.
This popular GTA restaurant chain allegedly withheld wages from international students and refugees
A well-known Caribbean restaurant chain is accused of owing almost $95,000 to a group of GTA workers that it allegedly failed to pay minimum wage — and, in some cases, did not pay at all.
Twelve former employees allege Sunrise Caribbean repeatedly issued bounced or incomplete paycheques to its cashiers, servers and chefs, some of whom have now been out of pocket for almost a year.
Most of them are refugee claimants or international students, the labour advocates representing them say.
A plague on all their houses.
President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods entering the U.S. as of his first day in office has to be taken seriously. Seventy-eight percent of our exports (and about 42% of our economy) are based on trade with the U.S.
Vladimir Putin made it clear that NATO’s bases in Eastern Europe are on his radar, when he said last week that Russia reserves the right to strike the alliance’s military installations .
The words must have chilled the 1,600 or so Canadians based in Latvia supporting Operation Reassurance, the biggest reinforcement of NATO’s collective defence in a generation.
According to people familiar with the mission, morale is flat, with many of the troops feeling exposed, under-equipped and forgotten by the Canadian public. The black humour in Camp Adazi has it that the Canadians would be a “speedbump” if the Russians attacked.
The beleaguered Trudeau government recently released its annual report on immigration and it features a surprising about-turn—a pledge to significantly reduce immigration after years of touting it as a catalyst for Canada’s economic prosperity.
A proposed “temporary” reduction in “permanent resident” admissions—highlighted during an important press conference at the end of October—is getting the most media attention. However, the startling post-pandemic increase in the much larger “temporary resident” category is what ultimately destabilized the immigration system.
It isn’t serious in the least just more lies.
TORONTO – Consumer debt rose to a record $2.5 trillion in the third quarter as many Canadians continue to struggle with high living costs and rising unemployment, new surveys from two credit bureaus say.
Newcomers and consumers who borrowed money for the first time in the past 12 to 36 months saw the biggest rise in missed payments, compared with the same consumer group last year, Equifax’s report published Tuesday, showed.
On the day that Vladimir Putin said NATO members are now directly involved in the war in Ukraine because they have supplied missiles being used to bomb Russia, Justin Trudeau was announcing a yuletide $6.3-billion GST holiday on Christmas trees, beer and popcorn.
Canada, remember, is the country that can’t afford to hit its NATO spending target of two per cent of GDP for another eight years.
