The federal Liberals are proving that big government does indeed impoverish the populations they govern.
Canada’s in the throes of a seemingly endless cost of living crisis, and while it’s doubtless a consequence of federal policies like mass immigration and the increasingly punitive carbon tax, the country’s over-inflated civil service is an outsized factor.
A new kind of violence known as “salad bar extremism” has come to Canada, warns an internal government report obtained by Global News.
The term refers to attacks fuelled by a mix of views rather than a coherent ideology, said the report, which cited the recent Edmonton city hall shooting.
“While some extremists are assessed to have a primary motivation, others are influenced by a combination of beliefs,” said the Strategic Threat Assessment.
“Salad Bar Extremism” is just the latest PC effort designed to avoid offending Muslims or Sikhs etc.
Terror on the home front?
…Closer to home, Canadians are increasingly concerned about the threat of rising jihadist-inspired terrorism.
Prior to ongoing Hamas-Israel war, Canadian authorities had charged only a handful of individuals for jihadist-motivated terrorism. Recent cases include a knife attack by an ISIL adherent in British Columbia and an instance of incitement/recruitment in support of terrorism in Montreal (both events happened in 2023). But within the past two months alone, there have been five separate incidents where Canadians or people with domicile in Canada have either launched jihadist-motivated attacks or been involved in their planning.
When President Joe Biden exited the presidential race to make way for Vice President Kamala Harris this summer, he knew his decision would be closely watched around the world.
What he didn’t realize is that it would make “doing a Biden” the new political shorthand for an embattled national leader who sees the writing on the wall and steps aside for others within his party. Or the move’s ripple effects: setting an example for those within democracies closely tied to the United States to pressure their own leaders to step down.
Former foreign affairs minister Marc Garneau is criticizing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his office, saying that he was “never sure” if something conveyed to the Prime Minister’s Office “ever got to the prime minister’s ears.”
In an interview on Rosemary Barton Live airing Sunday, he said he felt the PMO “acted as a bit of a filter,” and that certain ministers had closer access to Trudeau, like childhood friends.
“There are occasions when a minister wants to talk directly to the prime minister. And I never felt, despite the fact that he said his door was always open, that was really something that he invited,” he told CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton.
The first article of this series laid out the basic arithmetic of Canada’s current housing crisis—ill-advised levels of immigration far above Canada’s capacity to build sufficient housing to accommodate the consequent rapid increase in population—and pointed out that there remains an undiminished belief that the solution to this is to be found on the supply side, and that a set of policy changes will allow Canada to build significantly more houses in the next eight years than it has in the previous eight years.
Canadian taxpayers must “rally around” Northvolt, the Swedish electric vehicle battery manufacturer, despite significant setbacks, including confirmed job cuts at its Swedish operations, said Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne.
Blacklock’s Reporter says his comments came following Northvolt’s announcement of 1,600 layoffs, which the company attributed to “headwinds in the automotive market.”
In 2024 Canada has good news to share!
We now have a rapidly growing export industry, already considered to be one of the global top 10.
It is an industrial dream come true, consisting of selling advanced manufacturing goods to the Global South. Statistics are somewhat unreliable, but the annual revenues were above $1.5-billion in 2023 with 2024 promising to break that record.
There is only one problem with this new export – it consists of stolen cars.
Canada’s economic output is stronger than expected but far from impressive. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew in July, following up a flat month. Any positive expectations are cooled by the details, revealing a few only-in-recession data points. That includes government stimulus in the form of public sector expansion being one of the few primary drivers of growth. Economic output is also significantly behind population growth, continuing the trend of per-capita GDP contractions that have never been this deep outside of a recession.
Justin Trudeau reached back into the Liberal bag of tricks on Saturday and warned that only he can protect access to abortion.
Not that there is any pressing move to change the legal status of abortion in Canada, but Trudeau has had some bad polling numbers of late, so he obviously wants to scare as many voters as possible.
During Pride in Toronto early this summer, Kathleen Wynne, the former premier of Ontario, was wandering the crowds with her family when she spotted the tall, familiar figure of Justin Trudeau nearby.
One of the Prime Minister’s entourage noticed Ms. Wynne – there is much shared political DNA between her era at Queen’s Park and Mr. Trudeau’s generation of federal Liberals – and walked over to give her a hug. After he saw her, they strolled a bit together.
“He said to me ‘I’ve been thinking about you a lot recently,’ ” she recalls. “And I said ‘so have I been thinking about you.’ ”
Back in May, the Liberal/NDP’s Housing Minster Sean Fraser was traipsing across the country saying he would “actually solve” the housing crisis in Canada by building 3.9 million homes by 2031.
That works out to about 488,000 new homes that Fraser expects to have built every year from 2024 to 2031 to “actually solve” the problem.
It used to be said that patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel. In today’s Canada, where the sentiments of national aspiration rest uneasily upon the lips of a prime minister who thinks Canada’s just a post-national entity— not a real country — a new refuge has had to be found.
He finds it in accusing other Canadians of hate.
It took at least six weeks for Bill Blair, then-public safety minister, to sign an electronic and entry warrant to monitor former Ontario cabinet minister Michael Chan in the lead-up to the 2021 federal election, according to documents tabled at the foreign-interference inquiry.
Sworn testimony made public Friday suggests that the delay was eight weeks or more.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government survived a confidence vote this week with the help of the NDP and the Bloc Québécois — but the Liberals will be facing another one very soon.
The Conservatives have said repeatedly they want to bring down the government as soon as possible and have put forward another non-confidence motion already. It’s expected to go to a vote next week.
The Liberal Party of Canada can’t even raise a decent revolt against its wildly unpopular prime minister — another sign of drop-dead decay.
Polls show that the only way the Liberals can win another election, or even hope to be the official Opposition, is to get rid of Justin Trudeau.
