OTTAWA — A majority of younger Canadians believe that older generations are rigging things to benefit themselves, while making life harder for millennial and Gen Z voters, and most aren’t convinced the recent Liberal budget will help matters.
They also aren’t big fans of plans for more government spending and higher carbon taxes. Nor are they confident that the government’s recent massive subsidy announcements for EV and battery plants will benefit them.
A horrible era to be young.
Members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet say they’re standing by him despite a stunning byelection defeat this week in what was once considered a reliable Toronto seat for the Liberals.
“We got a message that was loud and clear from Toronto-St. Paul’s, what was considered a quote on quote ‘safe riding,’’ Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Wednesday, who is also a close personal friend of Trudeau’s.
Chrystia Freeland gave a press conference Tuesday. The finance minister was looking pretty rocky. She had the appearance of someone who’d convinced herself she had a happy, idyllic marriage, only to bump into her husband at the grocery store, shopping with his other family.
Earlier in the day she’d learned the bad news. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s happy marriage with appreciative Canadians was over. They’d cheated on him.
Ann doesn’t know how old she is. She thinks she’s probably 40 or 41, but she became separated from her parents as a child, and she has no record of her birth. When she was a child she lived alone on the streets of Kampala, Uganda—one of thousands of homeless youth in the city—and survived by collecting plastic bottles and scrap to sell to recyclers. She slept outside at night, then later in a church, and attended school by day. Remarkably, after years of diligent study, she secured a high school scholarship, saved money and enrolled in university. She earned a degree in international business and began a career in business development for multinational corporations.
“Asylum Seekers”, “Temporary Foreign Workers”, “Foreign Students”, “Mass Immigration” “Chain Migration” “Anchor Babies” all part of the plan to alter Canada’s demographic forever.
And Canadians are made to pay and pay and pay for their ever falling standard of living and fractured low trust society all to appease Trudeau’s corporate cronies and their insatiable demand for cheap labour.
Trudeau digs in after Liberal drubbing
OTTAWA — Facing new questions about his political longevity, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed resolve after a by-election loss Monday in one of the safest Liberal seats in the country.
“This was obviously not the result we wanted, but I want to be clear that I hear people’s concerns and frustrations,” he said of his party’s results in Toronto-St. Paul’s riding. “My focus is on your success and that’s where it’s going to stay.”
Trudeau talking about the results of St.Paul’s by-election.
He’s not going anywhere & the guy doubles down on this “results” crap.
We don’t want the carbon tax – doesn’t care
Capital Gains tax affects more than claimed – doesn’t care
Immigration – doesn’t care
It’s infuriating pic.twitter.com/IGZG1rHt0s— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) June 25, 2024
Canada’s immigration tribunal has ordered the deportation of a Palestinian woman formerly employed by a Mississauga, Ont. relief group linked to Hamas.
Majeda Sarassra was deemed inadmissible to Canada on security grounds because she worked for the International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy Canada.
The Immigration Appeal Division ruled the 45-year-old’s employment made her a “member” of IRFAN-Canada, which it said had engaged in terrorism.
This will be appealed forever.
Given the “political climate” I doubt she will be turfed.
There could not be a clearer sign that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s time is up than the Liberal loss of their central Toronto fiefdom of Toronto St. Paul’s, where Conservative Don Stewart beat Liberal Leslie Church by about 600 votes, according to preliminary results.
The shocking result in the Toronto-St. Paul’s by-election leaves the Liberals with only one question: should they lose the next election with Justin Trudeau as leader, or should they lose it led by someone else?
After an excruciatingly slow vote count over Monday night and into Tuesday morning, Conservative candidate Don Stewart snatched from the Liberals what used to be one of their safest seats, a riding in the heart of the Grit bastion of downtown Toronto, a riding that had withstood the tsunami of 2011, when veteran Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett held on even as the Liberals nationally suffered the worst result in the history of the party, being reduced to third place in the House of Commons.
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she still has faith in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership, after the party lost what was once considered one of the safest Liberal seats in the country.
“The prime minister is committed to leading us into the next election and he has our support,” said Freeland at a news conference, following the Liberals’ stunning defeat to the Conservatives in the Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection.
In news that is sending shockwaves through Canadian politics, the opposition Conservatives claimed victory overnight in a closely watched by-election for a safely Liberal parliamentary constituency in downtown Toronto. The once Liberal “fortress,” known as Toronto-St. Paul’s, is one of the most Liberal-leaning electoral districts in all of Canada — the Liberal Party has carried the seat in the last ten Canadian federal elections, and the Liberal candidate has won by margins of greater than 20 percent in the last three. From an American perspective, this outcome is roughly analogous to Republicans winning a special election for a safely Democratic congressional seat in New York City.
He can walk away with dignity now or stick around to get creamed by a man he loathes
If Justin Trudeau’s life were a country music song, now would be the point in the proceedings where he’s all sad and lonesome, watching his girl dance with another man.
That’s because Pierre Poilievre — Donald Trump incarnate, according to all right-thinking Liberals — has just swooped into downtown Toronto, the Big Smoke, Liberal party HQ, and done stole his woman. You can practically hear the pedal steel guitar lick accompanying the prime minister’s tears to the floor.
OTTAWA — Federal Liberals are now grappling with the fallout of Monday’s stunning byelection in Toronto, where Pierre Poilievre’s Tories dealt them their first loss in the 416 since Justin Trudeau became prime minister almost nine years ago.
In losing Toronto—St. Paul’s, Trudeau’s team lost a seat the Liberals have held since 1993. And Poilievre’s Conservatives now have a toehold in Canada’s biggest city, raising questions about whether — with national polls showing the Conservatives in a commanding lead in voting intentions — there are still safe ridings for the Liberals in their once-formidable Fortress Toronto.
Higher grocery prices continue to wallop Canadian household budgets, with food inflation ticking higher in May for the first time in nearly a year.
Statistics Canada reported Tuesday that grocery prices rose 1.5 per cent in May, slightly higher than in April when they rose 1.4 per cent. It marks the first acceleration in grocery prices since June 2023.
While the May increase was modest, it comes on top of already elevated grocery costs in Canada.
I look at hamburger for kicks.
Conservative candidate Don Stewart winning the closely-watched Toronto-St. Paul’s federal byelection, and delivering a stunning upset to Justin Trudeau’s candidate Leslie Church in the long-time Liberal riding, has sent political shockwaves through both parties.
Responding to the result, and facing calls from his main opponent now to call a general election, Trudeau acknowledged the outcome has made it clear that “I and my entire Liberal team have much more work to do to deliver tangible, real progress that Canadians across the country can see and feel.”
We feel it and see it already ask anyone who can’t afford rent or food you vicious sociopath.
Ottawa split on plan to let undocumented migrants apply to stay in Canada, Immigration Minister Miller says
Immigration Minister Marc Miller says a federal program to give migrants without valid papers the right to stay in Canada will not be coming any time soon as talks continue in cabinet about the plan, which some of his colleagues sharply oppose.
The proposal – which would include allowing rejected asylum claimants and former international students with expired study permits to apply to remain in Canada – was presented by Mr. Miller to cabinet before MPs began their summer recess.
