Joe Oliver: Canada’s irresolute response to Iranian terror reeks of moral rot

In the complicated world of international conflicts, contradictory moral positions can often be justified by competing narratives, conflicting facts, differing starting points and starkly opposed ideological perspectives. However, when large-scale heinous crimes are systematically committed by a murderous organization or nation state, responsible countries should take an unequivocal stand. High on a lengthy list of crimes against humanity are the Holocaust, the Ukrainian Holodomor, Khmer Rouge massacres in Cambodia, and the Hutu slaughter of Tutsis in Rwanda. Belatedly, most countries acknowledge that failure to mitigate or at least decry those monstrous tragedies was shameful.


Inviting Islamists to settle in Canada reeks of moral rot.

Smearing citizens as Islamophobes and Racists because they had the good common sense to object also reeks of moral rot.

Continuing to slavishly cultivate the Islamist vote goes beyond mere moral rot and is nothing less than satanic evil.

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‘You’re only sorry that you got caught’: CTV News exec grilled by MPs after two employees ‘terminated’ over edited Poilievre clip

The fallout from CTV News’ airing of an altered clip continues, as Bell Media Vice-President Richard Gray faced a barrage of questions from a House of Commons committee on Thursday.

The contention stems from an edited clip that aired on CTV News last month that misrepresented what Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre had said in the House of Commons, leading to a blanket Conservative boycott of the Bell Media-owned news network. After two CTV News employees were let go, and two public apologies from the broadcaster, Poilievre lifted his boycott last week.

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‘Not your usual rabble-rousers’: Inside the growing calls among MPs for Justin Trudeau to step down

It was short, concise and eyebrow raising.

At the Liberals’ national caucus meeting in Ottawa on Wednesday morning, the chair of the Atlantic caucus — an ambitious, young Nova Scotia MP named Kody Blois — went to the microphone to report on the discussions earlier held at the regional caucus.

“Atlantic caucus had a difficult, frank and open conversation about the future of the party,” he told Liberal MPs, according to sources in the room. Then he left.

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Terence Corcoran: Net-zero fantasies undone by fossil fuel realities

The evidence mounts daily that, regardless of Hurricane Milton and other climate events, neither Canada nor the world are on track to achieve the net-zero fossil fuel emission reduction targets said to be necessary to save the world from the “existential” threat of climate change. Despite the calls for action, oil and gas production continue to increase as energy corporations boost fossil fuel investments.

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Jack Mintz: Will Canada’s auto industry need another bailout?

It’s been a tough year for some auto companies. Sales of electric vehicles continue to grow, especially in China and India, though more slowly than expected in North America and Europe. Demand is even falling in Italy, Japan and Germany. Meanwhile, cheaper Chinese EVs are grabbing market share in Europe and Asia. While improving recently, global vehicle sales remain sluggish at 90 million units in 2023, four million short of 2018.

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Behind the scenes, anxious Liberals wonder if Justin Trudeau has a plan for re-election: ‘The status quo is leading us to obliteration’

OTTAWA — With no new campaign director, no new ad campaign rollout, no major cabinet shuffle, and no change at the top amid grim polling data for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, anxiety and dread amongst MPs and insiders about their electoral prospects has ramped up, sources tell the Star.

Most MPs head out Friday — some fled Ottawa earlier — into a Thanksgiving week parliamentary break which should be a reprieve from parliamentary wrangling with the opposition Conservatives that has stalled government business for two weeks.

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Focus on Possibly Treasonous MPs Could Become ‘Kangaroo Court’ Says Ex-Kangaroo in Kangaroo Gov’t

Former public safety minister Marco Mendicino says he is very worried the public conversation about some parliamentarians being complicit in foreign interference is becoming a “kangaroo court.”

Mendicino said at a federal inquiry into foreign meddling today that it’s important to follow due process under the law before leaping to conclusions about the conduct of parliamentarians.

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Terry Newman: Mélanie Joly’s cowardice lets handful of Montreal voters drive Israel policy

An article by former NDP leader Thomas Mulcair this week suggested Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is shaping Canada’s foreign policy to please a few thousand voters in her own Montreal riding, particularly as it would pertain to Israel. “Thomas, have you seen the demographics of my riding”? Joly asked Mulcair.

While the defining feature of our parliamentary system is that MPs represent constituents, pandering to them in such a role as Joly holds becomes an obvious dereliction of a higher duty, and an act of moral cowardice.

Mulcair notes that it “can’t be debated” that Joly’s positions on the Israel-Hamas war have been “utterly incomprehensible.”

I wouldn’t call it cowardice, it’s the sinister math needed to keep her seat.

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Corrected PBO report finds carbon tax leaves most Canadians worse off even as they get more back in rebates

OTTAWA — The Parliamentary Budget Officer’s corrected analysis of the carbon tax has confirmed most Canadians are getting back more in rebates than they pay in carbon taxes but that the policy will make most Canadians worse off financially.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux corrected a mistake he made in two previous reports, but it came to the same broad conclusion. Those previous reports counted both the fuel tax that average consumers pay and the tax on heavy emitters, which they don’t.

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CSIS Had to Make Public Safety Minister ‘Comfortable’ With Wiretap of Ontario Politician: Deputy Minister

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) had to make then-Public Safety Minister Bill Blair feel “comfortable” with a request for surveillance powers on an Ontario politician, a former top Public Safety official told the Foreign Interference Commission.

The commission has been probing why it took Blair 54 days to approve the 2021 warrant application against a subject whose identity was not revealed during proceedings.

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Pierre Poilievre’s antics are making Parliament miserable for everyone. Give us a break

It’s time to put this Parliament out of its misery — or at least on life support.

Canadians can be excused for ignoring the dysfunction of this fall, or tuning it out. Even people paid to keep an eye on the antics in Parliament are finding it hard to watch.


“Antics” = Getting to the roots of yet another LPC scandal.

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Geoff Russ: How Hamas supporters could help pick the next Liberal leader

If you thought the Freedom Convoy types played a role in the last federal Conservative leadership race, just wait and see what the Hamas and Hezbollah types will do when the Liberals try to find a new leader.


Trudeau laid the groundwork for this and I don’t doubt it could happen.

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