Pierre Poilievre says NATO allies treated Prime Minister Justin Trudeau like a human piñata at the leaders’ summit this week — but he still won’t commit to the alliance’s spending goal.
The Conservative leader says Canada has lost its place on the international stage under the Liberal government, and Trudeau lectures the world without doing his part.
OTTAWA — For political staffers who worked for former finance minister Bill Morneau when he resigned in 2020, Thursday morning must have felt like Groundhog Day.
“Tension rises between Freeland, PMO over economic messaging, low approval ratings,” read a Globe and Mail headline splashed over the newspaper’s website Thursday.
Sure Justin … Mark Carney would be ‘outstanding’ addition to federal politics, Trudeau says
Justin Trudeau wants you to know that it’s Stephen Harper’s fault Canada isn’t meeting it’s NATO commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defence.
Sure, Trudeau has been prime minister for almost nine years and in that time government spending has grown from $289 billion to $535 billion over that time – an 85% increase
For Americans, the good news from the NATO summit in Washington, D.C. is that President Joe Biden managed to read a stirring speech from a teleprompter without too much stammering or gargling noises. While the threat of Donald Trump’s return to the White House looms darkly over the 75-year-old transatlantic alliance — Trump isn’t NATO’s biggest fan — for the moment, at least, the United States is NATO’s bedrock power. That’s all to the good.
A total of 54% of Canadians want the federal government to cut spending instead of hiking capital gains taxes to reduce the deficit, according to a poll conducted by Leger on behalf of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).
CTF Federal Director Franco Terrazzano said the poll results are clear that the majority of Canadians want the federal government to cut spending instead of hiking capital gains taxes.
While the debate around the future of U.S. President Joe Biden remains a vigorous one, similar noises about the efficacy of Justin Trudeau leading the federal Liberals into the next election have quieted down.
This likely has less to do with people in the Liberal Party having changed their minds about Mr. Trudeau’s chances in the next national vote, and more to do with the realization there is almost nothing that can be done to force the man out of the job if he refuses to go.
The lack of business investment in information technologies and research and development, compared to the U.S., is lowering the productivity of Canadian workers and suppressing our standard of living, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
“The underinvestment in key technologies is showing up in Canada’s productivity numbers which are essential for improved living standards,” Steven Globerman writes in a report by the fiscally conservative think tank, titled “Comparing the Investment Performances of Canada and the United States Over the Past Five Decades.”
Why invest in productivity enhancing technologies when the government allows its corporate cronies to import cheap foreign labour by the shitload?
Hell Trudeau will even silence critics of the wage depressing mass immigration scam by smearing them as racist on behalf of our Captains of Industry!
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he continues to have “full confidence” in Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, but he’s also been talking to Mark Carney about entering federal politics.
Amid reports suggesting Freeland’s role in cabinet could be on the table, Trudeau told reporters in Washington, D.C. on Thursday that Freeland “has been a close friend, an ally, and partner in doing really big things for Canada, and will continue to be.”
The federal government is going full throttle on its plan to ban new gas and diesel vehicles without any apparent concern about running into the reality of implementing electric vehicle standards.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the regulations in 2022. Unsurprisingly, the government still hasn’t provided much explanation about how people will pay for new electric cars or where they’ll get the power to charge them. And we certainly haven’t seen the full bill.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged another $500 million in military assistance to Ukraine in a one-on-one conversation with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit in Washington, D.C.
The funding announcement Wednesday comes amidst pressure from American politicians who are publicly critical of Canada for falling short of its defence spending commitments.
The way Trudeau looks at Zelensky is sick. Just beaming at him like he’s in love. @fancypants_s https://t.co/adlxg9Bt03
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) July 11, 2024
H/T Patti Jo
The timing of the announcement could be an attempt to blunt criticism of Ottawa’s defence spending
Canada definitely plans to move forward with the purchase of new submarines, the federal government announced on the margins of the NATO Summit on Wednesday.
Up to now, the government has spoken only about the possibility of replacing the aging Victoria-class boats. But in the face of mounting criticism of Canada’s defence spending by allies — notably the United States — Ottawa has given the proposal the green light.
A senior government official, speaking on background, said they could not confirm how much the plan will cost, how many boats will be purchased or when they will arrive.
I smell bullshit.
Senior officials in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office are concerned that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has not been effective in delivering an upbeat economic message as the Liberal government struggles to reconnect with Canadians amid low approval ratings, sources say.
The relationship between Ms. Freeland, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister’s Office has become tense. She has been the most powerful minister in the government since Mr. Trudeau promoted her to the finance portfolio in August, 2020, after the resignation of Bill Morneau.
I’m no fan of Freeland but it’s delusional to believe a positive message could be crafted around any facet of LPC economic policy.
How do the Liberals loathe thee? Let us count the ways.
At record lows in the polls, with 75% of the country in open polling revolt against a country needlessly and relentlessly broken, the Liberals and the soon-to-be-vanquished deputy PM attacked the overwhelming majority of Canadians as being supportive of policies that are “cold, cruel, and small.”
The stunning Conservative by-election win in Toronto-St. Paul’s last month has plunged Trudeau’s Liberal Party into a nadir and resulting leadership vacuum. The perilous state of the party is only exacerbated by several high-profile Liberals calling on Trudeau to resign and make way for a new leader and prime minister.
WASHINGTON–NATO leadership is working to ensure that all 32 of its member states meet a minimum defense expenditure annually.
Speaking to a forum of international defense industry leaders on July 9, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance’s ambition to spend 2 percent of GDP on defense will be considered a requirement rather than an aspiration.
