Ten years ago this week, Justin Trudeau was assembling all the pieces that would make him prime minister within a year.
He had turned his landslide 2013 Liberal leadership victory into what his team liked to call a “movement,” fuelled by Trudeau’s popularity and crowd-drawing appeal.
To feed Canadians’ curiosity about a man who many already thought they knew, Trudeau released his autobiography, “Common Ground.” The official Ottawa launch was set for mid-October.
New data from Statistics Canada reveals that battery electric vehicles (BEVs) account for only 1.3% of the 25.7 million road vehicles in the country, casting doubt on the federal government’s ambitious mandate to eliminate new gasoline and diesel vehicle sales by 2035.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the Vehicle Registrations 2023 report, released Monday, shows that gasoline-powered light-duty vehicles still dominate the roads, representing 93% of the national fleet.
A U.S. Republican congressman is calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “threat” to NATO’s stability and success, saying Canada’s defence spending and military contributions aren’t enough.
U.S. Rep. Mike Turner made the comments in an op-ed in Newsweek suggesting “Trudeau, not (Donald) Trump, is a threat to the stability and success of NATO” because of the country’s long-standing lag on a plan to hit the agreed upon target for members to spend two per cent of their GDP on defence.
OTTAWA — Liberal MPs are gearing up for a high stakes caucus meeting on Wednesday that could see multiple calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign, but it is unclear what, if anything, will come of the internal revolt or if it will simply fizzle out.
Before the cabinet meeting, Liberal ministers on Tuesday were reaffirming their confidence in Trudeau in droves while downplaying the idea that dozens of MPs had added their signatures to a letter to ask the prime minister to step down for the good of the country.
Canada’s auditor general will conduct a full audit of all government contracts awarded to GC Strategies, the company at the centre of the ArriveCan controversy.
In a letter sent to the House of Commons on Monday, Karen Hogan confirmed that her office will look at all government contracts awarded to GC Strategies, its predecessor Coredal and other companies incorporated by the two co-founders. She will also examine related subcontracts.
Everywhere you turn the Liberal government is stealing hand over fist.
… Among Canadians who living in a Liberal seat, 57% want their MP to call on Justin Trudeau to resign and not run again while 24% want their MP to defend him and encourage him to run again. 19% are unsure.
Specifically, among those who voted Liberal in 2021 who live in a seat currently represented by a Liberal MP, 47% want their MP to defend Justin Trudeau and encourage him to run while 39% want their MP to call on Justin Trudeau to resign and not run again.
Embattled Trudeau seemingly unphased as Liberals plot to oust him
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to shrug off rumours of a Liberal revolt, though there is allegedly a letter calling for his resignation signed by dozens of his caucus members.
The embattled prime minister will face his party Wednesday at a caucus meeting. The letter is expected to be delivered to him at that time.
The sharks are circling the tank.
Yesterday, former BC Premier Christy Clark made headlines for eyeing the Liberal leadership, when it eventually opens up. Clark is taking French lessons, and according to sources who spoke to the National Post, several Chrétien and Martin-era Liberal organizers are supporting her potential candidacy. Clark tempered the speculation on X, writing that “The Prime Minister has earned the right to make any decision about his leadership on his own — the position of leader is not open.” For now.
The government takeover of child care is reaching a crisis point in Ontario. This week, child-care operators are participating in rolling closures to protest the provincial funding formula and the inflexibility of the federal program. Daycare operator and industry group leader Jacky Sheppard of Peel Region estimates 30 or more daycare centres are taking part. Krystal Churcher of AACE National, a national committee of child-care operators, said she didn’t know exactly how many Ontario centres would be closed but “it’s a lot.” AACE National is organizing two protests of its own this week, one at Queen’s Park on Tuesday and another at Parliament Hill on Thursday, where it says “hundreds of child-care providers, parents and supporters will gather to make their voices heard.”
OTTAWA — The Trudeau Liberals added thousands of executives to the ranks of Canada’s public servants since 2015, government documents reveal.
According to human resources statistics published online by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Canada currently employs 9,155 public servants in the executive categories, responsible for interpreting policy and managing government departments and agencies.
Toronto’s homeless shelters now house almost triple the number of kids they did eight years ago — with more than 1,400 in hotel rooms paid for by city hall
… As of September, nearly 1,500 kids were staying in the city’s shelter system, two thirds of whom were 10 or younger, as well as more than 1,400 children waiting for space in scattered hotel rooms paid for by city hall
… These “bridging hotel” rooms are different from hotels leased as temporary shelters during the pandemic, which are now considered part of the regular shelter system and offer more services like meals. The federal government also operates its own network of hotels specifically for refugees.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller today called efforts by disaffected Liberal MPs to oust Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “garbage” and said it would be better for the team to pull together to take on their main opponent: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
“Any minute spent on this garbage is a minute that’s not spent on Pierre Poilievre and what he wants to do to this country, and I think that is very dangerous,” Miller told reporters ahead of a cabinet meeting.
The loved ones of single mom Kassidy Ballantyne-Holmes never got the firearms memo.
The 35-year-old Stratford woman was shot to death early on Oct. 15. Her family and friends are now trying to make sense of her senseless slaying.
Criminals did not get your message. Our communities are experiencing a 45% increase in shootings and a 62% increase in gun-related homicides compared to this time last year. What difference does your handgun ban make when 85% of guns seized by our members can be sourced to the… https://t.co/DOyjfCXHfe
— Toronto Police Association (@TPAca) October 22, 2024
h/t Mauser
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser and the deputy minister of foreign affairs provided sensitive intelligence about India to The Washington Post days before the RCMP publicly alleged that Indian government agents have been linked to homicides, extortions and other violent criminal activities in Canada, two sources say.
The leak to the U.S. publication about the killing of a Winnipeg Sikh leader and the role of India’s Home Secretary in violent acts in Canada stands in contrast to Mr. Trudeau’s view of leaks of classified information on China’s interference activities. Last week, he told the public inquiry into foreign interference that “a criminal leaked classified information” about China’s meddling in 2023 to The Globe and Mail.
So Justin and his girlfriend leaked intelligence data to stamp out the anti-Trudeau mutiny.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in an abysmal political situation, and the hits keep on coming. Before the House of Commons returned for the fall sitting, the New Democrats terminated the supply and confidence agreement that had inoculated the minority Liberal government since March of 2022. Successive public opinion polls predict Trudeau’s demise in the next election, set for October 20, 2025, but which could come any time based on Trudeau’s weighting of an early election call as a way out of his current situation and the government’s exposure to non-confidence motions.
OTTAWA — Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau’s economic platform adviser, says he plans to enter elected politics but won’t say when, where or what job he wants, telling a fellow Liberal “you can’t map these things out.”
As more than two dozen Liberal MPs are working behind the scenes to urge the prime minister to step aside for a new party leader, some of the would-be candidates for the job are making their intentions clearer — albeit not all publicly.
