Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been told he can’t win the next election and should quit before he’s defeated.
Several MPs and former cabinet ministers have publicly called for his exit, including veteran Quebec Liberal MP Alexandra Mendès at this week’s caucus retreat in Nanaimo, B.C.
Privately, prominent party heavyweights, elder statesmen, fundraisers and campaign strategists have all urged Mr. Trudeau to leave.
Major Russian disinfo site featuring anti-Trudeau articles prompts calls for new focus at public inquiry
A website at the heart of an international Russian disinformation operation has produced more than a dozen articles about Canadian politics in an apparent attempt to undermine support for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and boost his chief rival, Pierre Poilievre.
The website Reliable Recent News has been identified by officials in Europe and the U.S. as a repository for pro-Kremlin articles that are distributed through a network of affiliated sites disguised to appear as legitimate news outlets.
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Monday’s most interesting non-Post news item came to us from the Investigative Journalism Foundation’s Zak Vescera, who published details of a sweetheart deal that the garment maker Lululemon Athletica squeezed out of the federal government last year. Lululemon is building a new global headquarters in Vancouver, where it originated, and by strategic bullying it got the feds to allow it to bring in 116 high-wage temporary foreign workers (TFWs) without the usual mandatory efforts to hire local Canadians first.
“I believe we’re going to win everything!” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded when asked this week whether he thought the Liberals will win Monday’s byelection in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun.
“We’ve got everything going, man!” Trudeau declared, as he dashed out of his party’s final caucus meeting Wednesday in Nanaimo, a big smile on face
The Canadian government sought to follow New Zealand’s lead in 2020 when it launched a program to force gun owners to surrender military-style firearms. But while New Zealand acted quickly in 2019, Ottawa is still struggling to implement its own plan.
The government of then-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced its firearms buyback program shortly after a white supremacist killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch in March 2019.
Former Liberal MP Sukhminder Singh Dhaliwal broke a sweat Wednesday trumpeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as an “authentic leader” of “ordinary, working-class Canadians” a.k.a. peoplekind.
Trudeau stood there nodding, soaking in the no doubt personally pre-approved message of heaping praise, something he’s gotten so little of for so a long time.
For months now, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has faced torrents of bad news that make winning re-election seem less and less likely.
The Liberals have suffered from chronically sagging poll numbers. The most recent poll from Leger finds the party has the support of only 25% of voters. This is dwarfed by support for the Conservatives, who enjoy the support of 45% of those surveyed. Under the rules of our electoral system, this would translate into a landslide government for Pierre Poilievre and a thorough electoral thrashing for Trudeau.
OTTAWA — When it comes to its national carbon pricing regime, the Liberal government is getting lonelier and lonelier.
First it was the opposition New Democrats who raised questions about their support for a policy they had unambiguously championed in the past two federal election campaigns. Earlier this spring, and again this week, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh suggested his party is looking at other carbon pricing options as it designs a new climate plan for the next campaign. Whatever they come up with, Singh claimed, would not impose a burden on everyday Canadians.
Canada is likely on track for a significant milestone. If there were a federal election tomorrow, and Canadians vote as they say they would, there would be more elected NDP politicians at both the federal and provincial levels than Liberals.
According to the latest projection from poll aggregator 338Canada.com, the Conservatives would win 212 seats in a federal election, up from the 119 they won in 2021. The Liberals would have 77 MPs, down from 160 in 2021, and the NDP would have 16 seats, down from 25. In the short term, the NDP, tarnished by a governing deal with the unpopular Liberals, would look like they are losing momentum.
Migrant workers are one step closer to getting their day in court to challenge part of Canada’s temporary foreign worker program as unconstitutional for restricting them to working only for their sponsoring employers.
On Friday, a Quebec court gave the green light to a class-action lawsuit initiated by a Guatemalan worker, who alleges that the closed work permit system, in place since 1966, was rooted in direct discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin and colour, violating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
It makes you wonder if Justin or his backers are coaching this behind the scenes.
If it wasn’t clear already, this past week showed there isn’t a single facet of the immigration system the Liberals haven’t broken.
A man on a student visa was in court on terrorism charges, a TD bank report showed temporary workers are harming the economy, and the Trudeau government started talking about moving tens of thousands of asylum seekers across the country.
“We could open a hotel in any particular province and ship people there,” Immigration Minister Marc Miller said at the Liberal caucus retreat.
A cabinet minister who serves as the federal Liberals’ national campaign co-chair told MPs at the party’s recent caucus retreat that they need to “change their attitudes” if they want to turn around their dismal polling numbers, sources tell CBC News.
More than half-a-dozen Liberal MPs asked CBC News for confidentiality in order to offer a behind-the-scenes look at the recent two-day caucus retreat in Nanaimo, B.C.
Douglas Todd: A labour leader is frustrated Canadians know almost nothing about the vast International Mobility Program (IMP). He’s afraid bosses want it that way.
Union leader Mark Olsen is frustrated Canadians know almost nothing about Ottawa’s international mobility program. And he’s afraid company bosses want it that way.
The program is the vast federal guest worker program that now brings by far the most newcomers into Canada — with more than one million in the country now.
It’s also the program that Olsen believes makes it most easy for employers to exploit guest workers, which in turn harms Canadian workers.
OTTAWA — A combative Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday he’s not going to resign as Liberal leader if his party loses a high-stakes Montreal byelection on Monday, the same day his minority government is slated to return to Parliament without the NDP promising to prop it up.
In an interview on the Montreal radio station CJAD 800, Trudeau said he will stay on regardless of the result in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, a riding held by the Liberals’ former justice minister David Lametti from 2015 until he resigned from federal politics earlier this year.
It started more than a year ago, took nearly 50 days in a courtroom and may not be decided until next year, but the trial of two leaders of the 2022 “Freedom Convoy” protest in Ottawa finally ended Friday.
Tamara Lich and Chris Barber pleaded not guilty to mischief, intimidation, obstruction and other charges.
Crown prosecutors called 16 witnesses and presented hours of video evidence and numerous social media posts in an effort to prove their case.
