Andrew Richter: Trudeau’s lack of support for the Jewish community is a purely political calculation

How can one explain the fact that a Canadian government that has been so quick to apologize for every blemish in our nation’s history has been so adverse to speaking out against the growing tide of antisemitism on display from coast to coast?

By now, the litany of incidents should be well known — Jewish schools shot at, Jewish religious institutions desecrated with racist graffiti, Jewish students being bullied and harassed. The list goes on. When these incidents began shortly after Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, one could reasonably claim that they were isolated. They have now become increasingly routine.

Poilievre will not take a stand against Islam’s pernicious influence.

Share

Big majority of Canadian Gen Z, millennials support values-testing immigrants: poll

Blast from the past  – Look at those values!

OTTAWA — Gen Z and millennials are split on whether Canada’s aggressive immigration targets are good for the country, and 70 per cent say the government should be ensuring new arrivals “share common Canadian values,” such as respect for minority groups, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll.

Since 2021, Canada has been aiming for an intake of 500,000 new Canadians each year and the government plans to keep this steady until 2026. But only 11 per cent of Canadians aged 18 to 39 say this is overall a good thing, while 34 per cent say it is generally good for the country but has also created some problems.

 

Share

Conservative win in St. Paul’s a Pyrrhic victory hopes Star columnist

Here’s how bad a loss this Toronto byelection is for Justin Trudeau — and why Pierre Poilievre now has a new problem on his hands

Pierre Poilievre and his Conservatives went into Monday’s byelection of Toronto-St. Paul’s claiming that the odds were against them in this downtown riding.

So much for that: Don Stewart is the newest member of Poilievre’s caucus.

Now, with the victory in what has been a stronghold for the Liberals — solid red for the last 31 years — it is going to be harder for the Conservatives to claim they’re underdogs whenever the next election rolls around.

That Justin Trudeau is so clever! He orchestrated that loss to sink Poilievre!

Share

Anthony Housefather can best represent Canadian Jews by walking away from the Liberals

For the past six or so months, Liberal MP Anthony Housefather has been an accidental maverick in his own party. It’s an unenviable position – lonely, polarizing, controversial – and one that, by his own telling, he didn’t seek to occupy. Indeed, Mr. Housefather didn’t have much of a reputation for dissidence before, with the exception of matters of English language rights in Quebec. But the events of Oct. 7, and more specifically, his government’s shifting position on Israel, changed things. Speaking on The Line podcast back in March, he accused his own government of “changing foreign policy on the fly.”

“The lack of support that has been shown to Israel since November by the Canadian government, to me, is disappointing,” he said. “Jewish Canadians feel truly betrayed.”

Share

Douglas Todd: Canada should warn guest worker, student applicants they’re taking a big gamble

“Good enough to work. Good enough to stay.”

“Extend post-graduate work permits.”

“Tens of thousands face deportation.”

“Let us in. Don’t let us down.”

Those are some of the slogans that guest workers and international students have been unfurling on protest banners and social media across Canada.

They should be deported. End of story.

Share

Jewish advocates question minister’s vetting of new Jew Hatey head of human rights commission

Jewish advocates have raised concerns with the Justice Minister about whether he fully vetted the new head of Canada’s human rights commission after it emerged that Birju Dattani posted links on social media to articles comparing Israelis to Nazis, and Palestinians to Jews incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Shimon Koffler Fogel, president and CEO, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, met Justice Minister Arif Virani last week to express disquiet about his appointment of Mr. Dattani as chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) earlier this month. The commissioner would play a key role in combatting hateful posts under the government’s online harms bill.

Share

What will Canada’s population look like in 2073? Here’s what StatCan is projecting

There could be 63 million people living in Canada by 2073, new Statistics Canada projections released on Monday show.

The new StatCan projections are a peek into the future of Canada’s rapidly evolving demographics — but, the report notes that the projections, which include several low- to high-growth scenarios “are not predictions.”

Share

Trudeau’s Canada: From fast food to construction, employers exploit temporary foreign workers at expense of Canadian citizens

From fast food to construction, employers turn more and more to temporary foreign workers

Businesses’ demand for temporary foreign workers has surged across the country in recent years, with employers given the green light to hire more than double the people through the federal program last year as they did five years ago.

The program is designed to provide short-term relief to employers as a last resort, but has been scrutinized for its potential knock-on effects to the broader economy and the vulnerable position in which it can place workers.

Last year, employers were cleared to hire 239,646 temporary foreign workers, about the population of Regina. That’s up from 108,988 in 2018, according to figures published by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).

Housing shortages, depressed wages, racist hiring practices, health care services among many others stretched beyond breaking. Thank Trudeau.

Share

Canada takes step toward tariffs on Chinese EVs by announcing consultation

The federal government took a step Monday toward imposing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports by announcing a 30-day consultation period to examine Beijing’s trade practices in the EV sector.

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland made the announcement in Vaughan, Ont. She said that the consultations, which begin July 2, will help the government craft its response to Beijing.

I bet the initial consultation recommends additional consultation ad infinitum.

Share

Majority of millennials, Gen Z don’t support Trudeau’s internet regulation plans: poll

A new Postmedia-Leger poll contains a stark warning for any political party gunning for Gen Z and millennial voters in the next federal election: be wary of a heavy hand in trying to regulate the internet.

The poll, released Monday, finds that less than half of Canadians aged 18 to 39 say they “support the government’s new rules to regulate the web, podcasts, streaming and social media to restrict offensive speech and online harms.” Only 44 per cent say they support the initiatives. The majority either disagree with the policies (39 per cent) or don’t know (16 per cent).

Share

Even Justin Trudeau’s resignation might not save the Liberal party, new poll suggests

As the Liberals continue to trail the Conservatives in the polls, a new Angus Reid Institute survey suggests Canadians’ discontent at the reigning party doesn’t stop at just Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

While Trudeau’s current unpopularity has been seen as a drag on the Liberals’ prospects, Canadians are still more likely than not to say his successors would drive them away from the party, according to the representative, randomized poll of 3,082 respondents.

Share

CBC desperately spinning a win in St. Paul’s as a national endorsement of their near universally despised sugar daddy Trudeau

Toronto voters say federal byelection is a referendum on Justin Trudeau’s future

The upcoming Toronto-St. Paul’s federal byelection will be a critical test for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his party — a bellwether indicating how the party is faring in an area of the country where Liberals have performed well for decades.

CBC News spoke to 15 voters in the riding to gauge support for the incumbent party and to learn more about what’s motivating people at the ballot box.

While the June 24 byelection is being held to pick a new MP for Toronto’s midtown, some voters are treating the summer vote as a referendum on Trudeau’s time in power.

The Libs will likely win, Toronto is that stupid. But Toronto is not the real world. It won’t make a difference in TROC.

Share

Conrad Black: The media and Trudeau have yet to return to reality

Residential Schools Kenora

The controversy over the alleged surreptitious burial of 215 Indigenous children who had supposedly died at the Kamloops Indian Residential School has been extremely damaging to this country, because it has naturally inflamed the grievances of natives and incited the guilt of a huge number of Canadians, but is based on suppositions unjustified by the known facts. As with other contemporary controversies, dissent pending receipt of evidence tends to be greeted by a storm of reproach that the individual who is unconvinced of the conventional explanation for these alleged graves is not only a ”grave-denier,” like someone who denies the overwhelmingly documented horrors of the Holocaust, but is also an anti-Indigenous racist and even a closet apologist for genocide against the native peoples of Canada.

Share

Dental groups reject Liberal claim that Conservatives are fuelling opposition to new plan — instead claiming it’s Ottawa spreading misinformation

OTTAWA—The heads of several dental groups are rejecting a Liberal minister’s framing that the federal Conservatives are to blame for oral health providers’ opposition to aspects of Ottawa’s dental care plan.

The dismissal of Health Minister Mark Holland’s comments, which were made earlier this week, are the latest source of friction between Canada’s dental associations and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government over the rollout of what’s been deemed a “historic” dental coverage program.

Share