“If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it is yours. If it doesn’t, it never was.”
It never feels good to be dumped and Justin Trudeau must be sitting alone in his room right now, listening to his go-to breakup playlist. Alas, Jagmeet Singh left him today, ending his de facto coalition, otherwise known by the dry name “supply and confidence agreement.”
Canada has been blocking border crossings and turning away foreigners seeking visas in what may be an attempt to appease voters ahead of the country’s 2025 elections — while Prime Minister Trudeau has the lowest approval ratings of his career.
July saw the North American country’s Border Services Agency deny entry to 5,853 foreign travelers, the highest such number of refusals since at least 2019, Reuters reports.
Cosmetic.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s decision to pull his party out of the confidence-and-supply agreement with the governing Liberals injects a lot of uncertainty into Canadian politics — and it could lead to a federal election earlier than planned.
The Liberal government is on shakier ground now that it can’t rely on the NDP to prop it up on confidence votes in a Parliament where Team Trudeau holds a minority of the seats.
But it doesn’t mean the government will soon fall on a confidence vote — a vote that determines whether the government has the support of the House of Commons.
One of the most pro-immigration countries in the world has turned sour on welcoming more newcomers. A recent poll conducted on Canadians’ attitudes towards immigration shows that 65% of the population believes the Liberal government’s current immigration targets are too high. Ever since coming to power in 2015, Justin Trudeau has opened the floodgates of new migrants pouring into Canada, with 500,000 permanent residents expected in 2025. Polling shows that 78% of respondents believe high immigration levels are contributing to the national housing shortage, while 76% said they are having an impact on healthcare.
September 4, 2024 – While the number of Canadians galvanized over the cost of living and inflation is beginning to decrease, their attention is fixating on an issue that was once only glancingly thought of: immigration.
New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds Canadians’ concern over immigration has risen four-fold over the last two years, prompting the federal government to announce plans to shrink the Temporary Foreign Workers program. One-in-five (21%) say “Immigration/refugees” is one of the top issues facing the country, putting it in a tie with climate change (21%), though still far off from the high cost of living (57%), health care (45%) and housing affordability (32%).
As Ontario’s post-secondary institutions come to grips with a far-reaching federal cap on international student approvals, internal provincial documents reveal that the Ford government was aware that colleges and universities had an “over-reliance” on overseas students as a way to make up for budget deficits.
The documents, obtained by Global News, also gave the Minister of Colleges and Universities a dire snapshot of the life of international students in Ontario, highlighting the lack of existing services for students who are dealing with “intensive feelings of isolation.”
Follow the money always.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is terminating the supply-and-confidence agreement his party made with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.
The party is making the announcement in a video being posted on social media Wednesday afternoon. The deal was scheduled to run until June 2025.
“Justin Trudeau has proven again and again he will always cave to corporate greed. The Liberals have let people down. They don’t deserve another chance from Canadians,” Singh said in the video, a transcript of which was obtained by CBC News
The deal is done.
The Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to stop the Conservatives and their plans to cut. But the NDP can.
Big corporations and CEOs have had their governments. It’s the people’s time. pic.twitter.com/BsE9zT0CwF
— Jagmeet Singh (@theJagmeetSingh) September 4, 2024
h/t Andycanuck
NB – Jagmeet’s NDP will still have to vote Justin out, that doesn’t have to happen just because they ended the formal agreement.
Today’s Liberal party energy policies are “absolutely mad, insane” and “a recipe for disaster,” and those advocating them have “no business in public policy,” says former Liberal MP Dan McTeague.
Today, McTeague is President of Canadians for Affordable Energy, a group originally set up by New Brunswick West MP John Williamson, to “challenge governments in Canada to prioritize affordable energy when legislating and regulating environmental and energy policies.”
TORONTO—Canada is closing its doors to more visitors and temporary residents by approving fewer visas and turning away more people who reach its borders with official documents, according to government data obtained by Reuters.
The spike in rejections of foreign travellers comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, trailing in polls ahead of an election expected next year, tries to lower the numbers of temporary residents—and possibly permanent immigrants. Migrants have been blamed for the shortage and high prices of housing.
All of a sudden they can stop the flood? Did Trudeau suddenly remember we had a border patrol? What a miracle.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s weekend appointment of two Liberal Party donors as Alberta senators was denounced by the Government of Alberta.
It marks the 35th anniversary of Alberta holding Canada’s first Senate election, according to Blacklock’s Reporter. Premier Danielle Smith said Trudeau’s administration “blatantly disregarded” Alberta’s interests.
Even as he pleaded for a deal to be done, Jonathan Dekel-Chen was under no illusions. To get his son released from the clutches of Hamas meant negotiating with the devil.
“We’re dealing with Satan,” Dekel-Chen told CBS news on Sunday as he talked about his son Sagui, a father of three girls, who is being held in Gaza.
Timing is everything in politics.
If New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jack Layton had not emerged as the clear winner of the 2011 federal leaders’ English language debate in Canada, the Liberal Party may have had a chance to regroup and stop the Conservative Party from forming a majority government.
If a televised debate had not aired so early on CNN in the presidential electoral season this year, Democratic Party supporters in the United States would not have realized that Joe Biden had to be replaced as their nominee.
Any sentence that ends with “for the first time since 1945” is likely to garner attention. When the first part of the sentence is “Germany votes for far-right government,” drinks are spat out and the volume on the telly is turned up.
And so it is. Over the weekend, German voters in Thuringia easily lifted the Alternative for Germany (AfD) to the top spot in regional elections. In Saxony, the party placed a close second, right behind the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which, together with the centre-left Social Democratic party, has had a lock on power nearly everywhere in Germany since the modern Germany state was founded in 1949.
There is nothing “extremist” about defending your best interests from vile politicians and a rapacious corporate class as we are faced with in Canada.
OTTAWA, W.Va. – New Democrat labour critic Matthew Green says his party will be having “tough conversations” about the future of its agreement with the Liberals at a coming caucus retreat.
Two years ago the NDP and Liberals forged a confidence-and-supply agreement, with the New Democrats agreeing to keep the minority government in power until June of next year in exchange for movement on key priorities.
More than 50 Liberal ministerial staffers, mostly of Muslim and Arab origin, are refusing to volunteer in the LaSalle-Émard-Verdun by-election because they object to their own party’s stand on the conflict in Gaza, revealing how deeply that conflict is tearing at the Liberal Party.
And while this speaks to the internal division of a tired government, it also reveals how starkly polarized Canadians have become over the Middle East.
We know what side Trudeau is on.
