Critics of the carbon tax (such as myself) argue that by taxing the energy and material inputs of virtually every element of economic activity, the tax will essentially raise the cost of all goods and services (housing, transportation, food, heating and cooling, health care, etc.) in Canada.
A long-awaited interest rate cut from the Bank of Canada did little to turn around the Liberal party’s poor showing in the polls.
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are heading into the summer recess with their lowest share of committed voters since they were elected in 2015. They trail the Conservatives in all age groups, with men and women, and in all provinces but Québec.
On most top-of-mind issues, including the economy, housing and immigration, Pierre Poilievre and the opposition Conservatives have the backing of many more of those surveyed than the governing Liberals do.
The ascendancy of Beijing’s powerful proxies, agents, dupes and apologists in Canada: Usually overlooked, unreported and otherwise unmentionable. Will the NSICOP hubbub make a difference?
Worth your time. The China scandal runs much deeper than they want you to know.
But Bank of Nova Scotia economists Rebekah Young and Anthony Bambokian aren’t so sure.
Canada’s overall population growth is “still going hot,” Bambokian said.
Young said the growth rate is trending stronger than last year and last year was a record-breaking one.
“We think it’s going to be really tough for them to reign in the numbers so dramatically in such a short time frame,” she said. “We are not seeing it in terms of data flows just yet.”
… The OECD emphasizes how oddly slow Canada’s growth is despite these conditions. Real GDP advanced just 1.1% in 2023, nearly a third of the population growth. At the same time, they also point out that unemployment climbed to 6.1% in March as the country added more people than jobs.
Like a degenerate gambler, Canada found a little growth from its rising population. Then, it placed a bet to go all-in on that growth, despite diminishing returns that placed it in a worse situation than it was previously trying to solve.
Premier Doug Ford is calling on the federal government to place a 100 per cent tariff on electric vehicles manufactured in China, warning that failure to do so could put jobs at “risk” in Ontario.
The U.S. announced last month that it planned to place new tariffs of more than 100 per cent on Chinese made electrical vehicles but the Canadian government has not yet indicated whether it plans to follow suit.
In a statement released on Thursday, Ford called on the feds to “immediately match or exceed” the U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports, which will eventually apply to some other goods as well.
Hurrah. Finally. At last, the Trudeau Liberals have listed as terrorists the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, one of the most dangerous organizations on the planet.
The fact it has taken them so long to do something so simple is an indicator that national and world security is not a high priority for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Of course, the Chinese election interference debacle has told us that already.
Democracies are facing threats, stated a news release from the prime minister’s office in March. So, while overtaxed, struggling Canadians shop for canned soup on sale, Justin Trudeau pledged $30 million to dubious projects that will allegedly “safeguard and advance” democracy.
OTTAWA — David Axelrod, a top American Democratic political strategist, wasn’t talking about Canada or Justin Trudeau when he outlined a pessimistic view of U.S. President Joe Biden’s chances at re-election.
Presidential campaigns are unlike other races, he said — quoting Bill Clinton who remarked that winning campaigns are not about the past, they’re about the future.
They’re less about issues than they are about narratives — Axelrod, who directed Barack Obama’s campaigns, said issues have to “animate the narrative.”
Latest Angus Reid poll modelled out
CON: 228 seats (+109)
BQ: 52 seats (+20)
NDP; 37 seats (+12)
LIB: 24 seats (-136)
GRN: 2 seats (-)Conservative Supermajority Government
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— Charestiste🇨🇦 (@RealAlbanianPat) June 19, 2024
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.
I am not expecting a Liberal loss. It is a decades long safe seat in a city that consistently votes stupid.
How stupid are Toronto voters? They elected Chairman Chow.
Further Toronto is its own little eco-system of progressive idiocy, an outlier surrounded by normalcy.
The article below (From 2019) is an accurate reflection of current concerns expressed by progressives in the CBC piece.
Toronto is often an outlier for public opinion, researchers say
Toronto is often an outlier in terms of public opinion across the province on various topics, such as immigration and climate change, a survey has found.
Research conducted on behalf of the Mowat Centre, a think tank at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, found that otherwise, there are not many general differences of opinion across the regions.
But a main finding of the research is that Toronto seems to be different than other regions.
Social media influencers, including those on TikTok, are increasingly becoming part of Ottawa’s strategy to capture the interest of young voters.
Ottawa has paid content creators on a wide variety of social networks, including the popular short-form video hosting app, to broadcast government messaging despite TikTok being deemed a potential security threat by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
In the ordinary course of heated political controversies, Canadians can sort out the issue that’s launching their politicians at one another’s throats. In the “foreign interference” upheaval that has in turns paralyzed, confounded and outraged Canada’s political class in recent days, we’re not even allowed to know what the federal party leaders are arguing about, exactly.
Canada’s population grew to top 41 million in the first quarter: StatCan
The agency says the population reached 41,012,563 on April 1, a gain of 242,673 people in the first three months of the year.
OTTAWA – Statistics Canada says the country’s population topped 41 million people in the first quarter of this year as it grew by 0.6 per cent.
Our elites are criminals for visiting this immigration horror on us.
The two major international conflicts currently roiling the world, in Ukraine and Israel, should be fairly morally unambiguous, but a new poll shows a stark contrast in how Canadians view them.
Although there are clear differences between Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine and Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, both were unprovoked acts of aggression against western-aligned states orchestrated by dictatorships intent on upending the liberal postwar international order. Both Kyiv and Jerusalem have been forced to fight existential wars they did not ask for, against enemies with military ambitions that go far beyond the current conflicts.
Support for Israel is very different from what I have observed in the past, far less grassroots.
Social media has seen a concerted elite lead effort where besides the official organizations a mix of academics, journalists, MP’s and other prominent individuals work to win hearts and minds.
Some of these grandees are base hypocrites who made themselves busy in the past calling myself and my late wife “right wing Islamophobes”. Be assured their Oct 7th conversions will be quickly reversed once the wind changes direction.
Their messaging has been off as well. I have seen some tweets that are real clangers suggesting that Hamas supporters are an affront to multiculturalism when it was multiculty that enabled the Islamists to begin with.
There has been a push by some to denounce DEI not realizing that Jewish organizations such as the ADL continue to seek the blessing of official victim hood status from the DEI cabal.
Others seem to believe DEI was created solely to target Jews forgetting that Whites have been the primary target for years.
What is off-putting is their efforts to secure victim status if successful would leave Whites as the sole official DEI villain.
That’s a bad look for people seeking our assistance.
Make no mistake that Trudeau’s desperate whoring for the Muslim vote has poisoned the land and we will all pay for that for many years to come until Islamist immigration is halted.
Our elites must hate us. Why else would they have imported incompatible 3rd world cultures that have no regard for Western civilization in general let alone Israel.
A recent report by the Parliamentary Budget Officer found that in the six years since the Trudeau government launched its National Housing Strategy, homelessness has actually gone up by 20 per cent.
Despite an unprecedented 374-per-cent increase in homelessness spending, “The best available evidence suggests that homelessness has increased,” concluded the report.
