Multiple criminal investigations into federal contracting underway, RCMP reveals

The RCMP is conducting more than half a dozen criminal investigations into federal contracting, the national police force revealed Tuesday.

RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme and Deputy Commissioner Mark Flynn provided the new details during an appearance before the House of Commons committee on public accounts, which is holding hearings into Auditor-General Karen Hogan’s February report on contracting issues related to the ArriveCan app.

Not sure I trust the RCMP to investigate the Liberal government.

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Support for Trudeau nears ‘rock bottom’ as 68% want him to step down: Ipsos

As the House of Commons prepares to break for the summer, a majority of Canadians say Justin Trudeau should no longer be prime minister when MPs return in the fall, a new poll suggests.

Ipsos polling done exclusively for Global News shows 68 per cent of Canadians want Trudeau to step down. The desire for him to call it quits is highest in Alberta (79 per cent) and Atlantic Canada (76 per cent.)


Of course Blackie’s Star attempts some feeble Cheerleading

With the polls stacked against him, here’s why Justin Trudeau still thinks he can win the next election

Justin Trudeau is no doubt acutely aware of just how much Liberals need a morale boost right now.

Several weeks ago, the prime minister reportedly told his cabinet that winning in 2025 is definitely still a possibility, which many Liberals — not just ministers — are desperate to believe.

On Monday evening, in an exclusive interview with CBC’s Power and Politics, Trudeau said something similar in his conversation with host David Cochrane.

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Trudeau government rejects warnings of ‘diplomatic isolation’ over defence spending

OTTAWA — The federal government is pushing back against criticism that Canada is becoming a laggard on military spending within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), with Treasury Board President Anita Anand stating Tuesday that it is “superficial” to focus on the alliance’s spending target without broader context.

The comments came after NATO published new estimates for how much its 32 member countries are spending on defence. The list placed Canada near the bottom — fifth last — in defence spending in proportion to the size of its economy, with an estimated share of 1.37 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) for 2024.

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Tasha Kheiriddin: High immigration could see Quebec emigrate from Canada

If times are good, immigration does not drive politics. If times are bad, immigrants fast become a lightening rod — and a political football. This predictable pattern played out in recent European Parliament elections, where the economy, migration and war were the top issues. Nationalist right-wing parties promising to crack down on immigration, including that of Marine Le Pen in France and Georgia Meloni in Italy, won the day.

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Trudeau has empowered Canada’s pimp lobby

Objectification is never empowering

“You’re all a bunch of feminists, and I hate feminists!” shouted Marc Lépine as he gunned down 14 female engineering students in Montreal in 1989. I first visited the city in 2012 to write about this particularly horrific, misogynistic massacre. And every time I return, I see the terrible toll that unbridled male violence takes on women and girls.

Justin Trudeau has been a disaster for women here. He has done nothing to stem the violence and abuse faced by indigenous women, has made single-sex shelters illegal while supporting the blanket decriminalisation of pimping, brothel-keeping and sex-buying — and all in the name of “freedom and choice for women”.

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Trudeau’s lunatic EV strategy will cost $6B more than announced, PBO watchdog says

OTTAWA—Canada’s EV-building strategy will cost Ottawa and provinces about $6 billion more than announced, the federal parliamentary budget watchdog says.

A new report released by Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux says a total of $46.1 billion in government spending across the nascent EV supply chain has been announced. But the PBO estimates the total government support for capital and operating expenses to be up to $52.5 billion, which is $6.3 billion or 14 per cent higher than announced.

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Public blasted Trudeau, other politicians for honouring Nazi division veteran, documents show

Canadians from across the country blasted the Liberal government and federal leaders for honouring in the House of Commons a Ukrainian veteran who fought for a Nazi SS division.

The more than 1,000 pages of documents released under the Access to Information law provide a glimpse at the intense anger sparked last year by the decision by all members in the Commons to give two standing ovations for Waffen SS soldier Yaroslav Hunka.

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Trudeau’s Canada: New report suggests 6M more people living in poverty than what StatsCan data shows

Food Banks Canada has released a new report that highlights hidden poverty levels and food insecurity.

The report published Tuesday says that millions more Canadians are struggling to make ends meet when it comes to basic household items compared to what the numbers are currently showing.

The data reveals that 25 per cent of Canadians are living at a poverty level living standard, meaning they can’t afford two or more household essentials.


More … New report says 1 in 4 Canadians may be living in poverty

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PBO says he is not ‘muzzled’ by Liberal government as MPs question carbon tax analysis

OTTAWA — Canada’s budget watchdog said he is not “muzzled” by the federal government and that prior comments suggesting that was the case were limited to the economic analysis of the carbon tax that his office was forbidden to disclose.

Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux has been in the spotlight once again since he all but admitted that he was under a gag order to not talk about the government’s internal data on the carbon tax. Those numbers were finally publicly released last week.

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STIRLING: Recalling when freedoms were decided by what’s in your blood

There is an upcoming town hall in Calgary on June 17, 2024, called “An Injection of Truth,” organized by the constituency association of Calgary-Lougheed MLA Eric Bouchard. Premier Danielle Smith has spoken in support of hearing dissenting voices related to the discrimination against the unvaccinated during COVID mandates.

But, recent media reports like that of Global News of May 19, 2023, cite various legal and health professionals who see this town hall as a dangerous platform because there is an alleged consensus on the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines.

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Trudeau says other may have experienced collusion report differently

Trudeau Says Concerns About Collusion Report Relate to Interpretation, Cites Singh and May Disagreement

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government’s concerns with some conclusions of a recent intelligence watchdog report on foreign collusion by parliamentarians are related to interpretation of the information, pointing to differing opinions among other party leaders who have read it in full.

“The government has already highlighted that there are a number of conclusions in the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians [NSICOP] report that we don’t entirely align with,” Mr. Trudeau told reporters in a June 16 press conference in Switzerland where he was attending the Summit on Peace in Ukraine.


Gaslighting little twerp.

Trudeau says Canadians should be ‘wary’ of leaders who say foreign interference hasn’t touched their teams

In an apparent jab at NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians should be wary of political leaders who say their parties haven’t been compromised by foreign interference.

Last week — after reading the classified, unredacted version of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) report — Singh suggested to reporters that he didn’t have to worry about members of his caucus.

In an interview with CBC’s Power & Politics on Monday, Trudeau questioned that assertion.

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Asked about low polling numbers, Trudeau says Canadians are not in ‘decision mode’ yet

When asked whether his own low approval rating could be hurting his party, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday Canadians aren’t in “decision mode” yet.

The governing Liberals have been trailing the opposition Conservatives in the polls for quite some time. A recent Abacus survey gave the Conservatives a 20-point lead over the Liberals.

Trudeau’s own approval rating hasn’t fared much better. The same Abacus poll found that 59 per cent of those surveyed had a negative opinion of the prime minister, while 33 per cent have a positive view of him.

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LILLEY: Poll has Trudeau at lowest level since 2015 election

Justin Trudeau’s fortunes continue to tumble downward.

After spending the last two weeks taking credit for the Bank of Canada interest rate cut and attacking his Conservative opponent, Trudeau’s poll numbers have fallen – again.

According to Abacus Data’s latest poll, the Trudeau Liberals enjoy the support of just 22% of voters, the lowest level Abacus has tracked them at since the 2015 election.

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Father’s Day Message? Sending Canadian vessel to Cuba alongside Russia’s was carefully planned: Minister

OTTAWA – National Defence Minister Bill Blair’s office says sending a Canadian ship to Cuba, where it docked alongside some of Russia’s fleet, was a “carefully” planned move to increase its presence in the region.

Spokesman Daniel Minden issued a statement saying the visit to Havana’s port “was carefully and fulsomely planned,” and the minister authorized it on the advice of the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Joint Operations Command.

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Canada promised an air defence system to Ukraine 18 months ago. It still hasn’t arrived

Now we know why Sophie ditched him.

Ukraine’s minister of foreign affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, says his country is in urgent need of weapons and wishes the air defence system Canada promised more than a year ago was already in Ukraine.

Canada announced plans in January 2023 to donate a $406-million surface-to-air missile defence system, but there’s still no delivery date.

“Of course, we wish the system was already in Ukraine because we are in a situation where every piece of air defence matters,” Kuleba said when asked by CBC News at the conclusion of the Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland on Sunday.

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