New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs’s approval ratings are the lowest of any premier in Confederation, according to the Angus Reid Institute. When he launched his re-election campaign Thursday, Mr. Higgs needed to pick on someone even more unpopular.
Luckily for him, there’s Justin Trudeau.
Every politician in Canada is running against Mr. Trudeau, except Liberals, who are running away from him.
From 1994 until 2009, I traveled regularly to Peru and for seven of those years essentially lived in its capital city, Lima. In his entertaining book Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend, Patrick Symmes provides a description of Lima circa 1996 and dubbed it “Scorch”.
It certainly matched my 1994 experience. During 25 years of anarchy, those Peruvians who could, shipped their kids and cash overseas and allowed their homes to become covered in graffiti. The municipal governments stopped maintaining parks and there was an explosion in the rat community in every empty lot in the city.
Canada’s Conservative party will make its first bid to unseat prime minister Justin Trudeau this week, the latest attempt in its decade-long aim of restoring the Tories to power.
Buoyed by favourable polls, a cost of living crisis and an increasingly unpopular prime minister, the Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, will introduce a motion of non-confidence in the minority government: a long-shot bid to force the government to call an election.
The move, which lawmakers will debate on Wednesday, is doomed to fail, with smaller parties agreeing to temporarily support the incumbent Liberal party.
Justin Trudeau tried to put on a jovial face when he appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Monday night. But the prime minister’s pledge to “fight climate change” while “continuing to invest in people” rang hollow with voters at home.
He speaks as if this is just something that's happening to us all — some natural phenomena — and he's doing his best to respond to events that are outside of anyone's control. "We lost a little ground over the past decades on building housing, so…" https://t.co/pkVQF4zXwD
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) September 24, 2024
Nearly 13,000 international students have applied for asylum in Canada in the first eight months of the year, data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada shows.
Between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31, a total of 119,835 refugee claims were made in Canada. Of these, 12,915 were claimants who were on either study permits (11,605) or study permit extensions (1,310), the department data said.
Trudeau is intent of destroying Canada.
As Canadians struggle with an economy still dealing the effects of inflation, an affordability crisis, a housing crisis and rising unemployment, fear not, Justin Trudeau is looking out for you by speaking to other global celebrities.
Justin has convinced himself that he is a man of international stature rather than the blowhard from Canada who sits funny.
OMG! They’re still trotting out Malala. Virtue signaling Totem of do nothing liberals everywhere. https://t.co/KqxLPsgIF8
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) September 24, 2024
… Some years (and massive upheavals in popularity) later, and Trudeau’s goodwill late night tour feels a little sweaty, and desperate. Introduced as “a former teacher and amateur boxer,” the Prime Minister spent the extended interview — split by two commercial breaks! — smiling uncomfortably, answering softball questions about his official titles (just “Prime Minister,” not “Mr. Prime Minister”), and generally bigging up the country that, for the time being, he still runs.
He embarrasses Canada.
Conservative MPs will refuse to engage with CTV and its reporters until the network acknowledges that a recent clip of leader Pierre Poilievre was “maliciously” edited.
While CTV issued an apology, Poilievre’s director of media relations Sebastian Skamski said it wasn’t good enough.
Two hundred million dollars. Dozens of church arsons. No confirmed bodies. That’s Canada’s balance three years after the New York Times dropped a bunk story about a “mass grave” discovered in the apple orchard of the former Kamloops, B.C. residential school. And on Friday, the newspaper continued to push the story.
“Despite possible evidence of hundreds of graves at former schools for Indigenous children, challenges in making a clear conclusion have given rise to skeptics,” reads the headline.
MPs on the House of Commons foreign affairs committee are expected to resume a contentious debate later this morning on the quickest path for Canada to recognize a Palestinian state.
The text of the motion — first presented to a closed-doors session of the committee last Thursday by Liberal MPs — asks committee members to dedicate four sessions to studying the matter, sources told CBC News last week.
CBC News agreed not to identify the sources as they were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter.
Liberals and the NDP luv the Muslim vote.
Justin Trudeau’s interview on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” began with the expected jokes about bacon and Canadians saying sorry a lot, but the prime minister acknowledged it’s “a really tough time” in the country when the host asked about an expected confidence vote in Parliament this week.
“People are hurting. People are having trouble paying for groceries, paying for rent, filling up the tank,” Trudeau said during the CBS program Monday in New York, where he has been meeting with world leaders attending the United Nations General Assembly.
Trudeau admitted there’s frustration. He said the housing crisis “is a little sharper” in Canada than it is in the U.S. And even though he said Canada’s economy is performing better on a “macro” level than its southern neighbour’s, people don’t feel it when they’re at the checkout.
‘Lacks self awareness’ doesn’t cut it.
This entire scripted interview was campaign propaganda. Colbert calling Pierre “Canada’s Trump” any Conservatives as Far-right & making it like Trudeau is fighting this imaginary Far-Right was abhorrent. pic.twitter.com/PY4FhEgUEn
— Ryan Gerritsen (@ryangerritsen) September 24, 2024
Azam Ishmael, the Liberal Party’s national director, testified that he did not know whether Chinese Communist Party agents played a role in helping elect a Liberal MP in 2019.
Blacklock’s Reporter says his remarks came during an intense questioning session at the Commission on Foreign Interference, where Ishmael repeatedly stated, “I don’t know” when asked if foreign interference had impacted the election outcome.
Will someone please offer Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a job? Preferably, a nice sinecure at an NGO in another country that’s subsidized by Liberal donors.
The Canadian electorate — and now even his NDP sidekick Jagmeet Singh — are fed up with him. Earlier this month, Singh pulled out of a deal to prop up the Liberals, then ensured their political survival by pledging not to support a non-confidence motion that, if passed, would trigger an election. Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet said the same.
Susan Delacourt: A funny thing happened on the way to Parliament getting back in business last week. And no, I am not talking about the clutch of protesters threatening MPs, which isn’t really that funny at all. I’m referring to the fact that all our federal politicians just got back to the Commons and they’re all talking pretty tough — the gloves are now seriously off. So how do you think we got here, Matt, and where is this headed?
Headed to nowhere.
The Pact was ended in name only to allow Jagmeet and Junior to campaign without the need to explain their parasitic union.
Holy crap, that's bad. @fancypants_s They'll probably get a big $$ bonus from Trudeau for that one. https://t.co/aNC4cg8nJG
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) September 23, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
