Budget Watchdog Says Trudeau Government Hiding Analysis Of Carbon Tax Economic Impact

The federal budget watchdog says Ottawa is withholding its analysis of the economic impacts of the carbon tax.

“We’ve seen that, staff in my office, but we’ve been told explicitly not to disclose it and reference it,” Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux told the House of Commons finance committee June 3.

Mr. Giroux told MPs the analysis “essentially” confirms the report that his office has published. The PBO has assessed that when the economic impacts of the carbon tax are factored in, eight out of 10 households are worse off financially.

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Which way, Canada? Make housing cheaper or protect homeowners’ investments?

Federal housing policy – the number one government priority in Budget 2024 – is unequivocal in its approach: supply, supply, supply. And rightly so.

But the ultimate goal is not clear. In a recent interview with The Globe and Mail’s City Space podcast, Prime Minster Justin Trudeau stated that “in the coming years … [young generations] will be able to see the path towards owning a home.”

The two can’t be reconciled. Trudeau managed to screw everyone with his mass immigration scam.

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Trudeau’s government slow response to foreign interference ‘a serious failure’: intelligence watchdog

The Liberal government has known since 2018 that it needed to take foreign interference more seriously but failed to recognize the gravity of the threat, says a damning new report from one of the country’s intelligence oversight bodies.

“The slow response to a known threat was a serious failure and one from which Canada may feel the consequences for years to come,” says a report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), tabled Monday in the House of Commons.

“The implications of this inaction include the undermining of the democratic rights and fundamental freedoms of Canadians, the integrity and credibility of Canada’s parliamentary process, and public trust in the policy decisions made by the government.”

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‘Divorced from reality’: Why Canadians are losing patience with public servants

Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson talks to Brian Lee Crowley, the managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, about the government’s return-to-office plan for public servants.

Although public service unions have reacted angrily to the plan, recent polling shows that Canadians generally support government employees spending more time in the office and less time at home.

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The Rich will never again have to worry about getting caught with illegal alien Nannies minding their brats under latest Liberal Party immigration scam

Caregivers from abroad to be given permanent residence on arrival under new pilot programs

Caregivers coming to Canada to look after children, seniors and disabled people will be offered permanent residency on arrival under two pilot programs to be announced Monday by Immigration Minister Marc Miller.

The pilots, which are enhanced versions of two programs set to expire on June 17, will put qualified nannies, child-care and home-support workers on a fast track to settling in Canada.

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Canada must rebuild trust with the countries who share intelligence with us

At one point in our not-too-distant history, Canada was recognized by our allies as playing an important role in intelligence. During the Cold War by pure happenstance thanks to our geography, we kept tabs on Soviet military activity over the North Pole, thanks to a Canadian Armed Forces listening station in Alert on Ellesmere Island. Our contribution was critical to monitoring the threat from the USSR, including the horrendous possibility of the launch of nuclear missiles targeting North America.

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Canada Faces Asylum Backlog of 180,000, Official Says

About 180,000 illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in Canada are asking to stay in the country, causing long wait times, according to information from a Senate committee hearing.

“Thousands of claimants are facing long wait times at multiple points in the process,” said Jason Hollmann, director general of asylum policy at the immigration department, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.

Mr. Hollmann made the comments at a Senate social affairs committee on May 23, saying that asylum decisions can take years.

This is deliberate. Junior is talking of a “path to citizenship” for every illegal invader who wants it.

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Ottawa not hating on Israel enough says Star Crank

Ottawa’s waffling on Gaza makes commitment to human rights look shaky

If there is one word to describe Ottawa’s response to Israel’s war on Gaza, it surely is: waffle.

The Trudeau government’s politics of appeasement, rather than those of principle, have made its reactions to developments in the Middle East inauthentic to all sides of a divided populace. They have also thrown into doubt Canada’s commitment to an international human rights system.

h/t MP

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Canada now ‘a little bit of a laughingstock in NATO’

“Canada, you are freeloading!” That’s how businessman and former Canadian soldier Lawrence (Larry) Stevenson interprets last week’s letter from 23 U.S. Democratic and Republican senators to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The American lawmakers urged Canada to uphold its NATO commitments, and speed up efforts to increase defence spending to two per cent of GDP.

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Opposition set to amend election bill to curb MP pension eligibility

An attempt by the Liberals to avoid holding the 2025 federal election on a date that conflicts with a religious festival appears set to be overruled by the Opposition, following claims that the new date sets up a financial conflict of interest for MPs first elected in 2019.

The current election law says that unless Parliament is dissolved early, the next federal election “must be held on the third Monday of October in the fourth calendar year following polling day for the last general election” — Monday, October 20, 2025.

It’s all about the pensions.

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Stephen Maher started writing his book with a cheerier view of the prime minister. Now he thinks Justin Trudeau needs to step down

Justin Trudeau may be wishing that Stephen Maher, author of a new book on the prime minister, was a faster writer.

The book, titled “The Prince,” is laced with some significant praise for Trudeau but also some unflinching criticism, particularly as the story winds to its conclusion and the tale of the past year or so.

“If I had finished the book when I started it, it would have been more positive and cheerier,” Maher said in an interview with me this week.

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Star provides road map for PM: Criticizing Israel is Trudeau’s key to win the next election

Why did the Star change their headline?

On Israel, Justin Trudeau has found himself

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has found himself.

For a while, he was lost. But the Gaza war has given him an issue he can get his teeth into.

For much of the last year, Gaza and the Hamas war were seen in Liberal party circles as problems the prime minister would do well to ignore. That’s because they highlighted the fundamental split over Israel that bedevils the party.

If the government criticized Israel, it was called antisemitic. If it didn’t it was called anti-Islamic.

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