Auto theft remains a front burner issue in Ottawa, days after the federal government unveiled a new action plan to tackle the crisis.
Conservatives attempted to portray the Liberals as soft-on-crime on Thursday before the standing committee on Public Safety and National Security.
“Are they concerned about the victims or are they concerned about the criminals?,” Arnold Viersen (Cons. Peace River-Westlock) asked the committee.
Changes to capital gains tax in this year’s budget were aimed at the wealthy, said the Trudeau Liberals, but the move has angered small businesses owners who have been snared by the increase.
Maybe that was part of the plan, since Justin Trudeau appears to view small business owners as rich Canadians trying to dodge taxes.
The Liberal government is facing pushback from Justice Marie-Josée Hogue for citing cabinet confidentiality in redacting records provided to the public inquiry investigating meddling by China and other hostile states in Canadian democracy.
The government is also completely withholding an undisclosed number of cabinet documents, according to the Privy Council Office (PCO), which reports directly to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Canada 7th in foreign aid spending, but a fifth goes to refugees inside the country
This spring’s budget didn’t include a consolidated figure for how much Ottawa plans to spend on aid. Development Minister Ahmed Hussen and his department did not provide a specific number in the immediate wake of the budget either.
OTTAWA – While Canada is one of the top contributors to foreign aid among some of the world’s richest countries, a fifth of the spending never leaves Canada’s borders.
Some 19 per cent of Canada’s aid reported to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development last year benefited refugees and Ukrainians within Canada.
“Most Canadians would not think that counts, because when we think of foreign aid we think of something happening in other countries, not costs that we have here,” said Elise Legault, Canada director with the One Campaign, an anti-poverty advocacy group.
Canada ranks seventh for dollars spent on foreign aid, according to the OECD, a group of mostly rich countries.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are in desperation mode. They’re down by double digits in opinion polls to Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives — and, in some recent surveys, by 20 points or more.
Many Canadians are clearly fed up with the prime minister’s mediocre and ineffective leadership. Every tactic this unpopular government has taken to stop the political bleeding has failed miserably, and the latest one could very well be the most desperate measure of them all.
This is hilarious –
– Liberals demand Pierre put it in writing CPC will not change abortion rules
– media asks Liberals why they haven't made these laws
– Liberals says its an affront to legislate a woman's body https://t.co/Wj35xmH1i6— Nya Pfannerstill (@NyaPfanner) May 22, 2024
The Bank of Canada’s decision to hike rates is making it harder for buyers to get mortgages — and builders to afford new projects.
Orange construction cranes pepper the skyline of Metro Vancouver, seemingly more than ever.
Gleaming new condo towers are going up like never before, from North Vancouver to Surrey. House and rental prices are exorbitant. Old houses are being torn down for multi-unit buildings. It all gives the impression the residential construction business is booming.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault told MPs the carbon tax reduced emissions by nearly 3 percent in a given year, while department officials said the figure was closer to 1 percent.
During testimony at the House of Commons environment committee on May 21, Mr. Guilbeault said the price on carbon was responsible for reducing emissions by 5 megatons in 2018, 14 megatons in 2019, 17 megatons in 2020, 18 megatons in 2021, 19 megatons in 2022, and 24 megatons in 2023.
OTTAWA — Despite $443 million in new annual spending aimed to reduce homelessness the number of people without a roof over their head has grown by 20 per cent in Canada, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
The new $443 million was a 374 per cent increase compared to prior spending, but it doesn’t appear to be having the desired effect.
The release of over 600 pages of classified documents concerning security breaches at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg this past February shed a light on one of this country’s most shocking cases of espionage.
NML scientists Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng essentially used Canada’s highest-security biohazard lab as a lending library for Chinese military interests. During her time as head of Vaccines and Antivirals in the NML’s Zoonotic Diseases and Special Pathogens Division, Qiu repeatedly acted on China’s behalf, including by transferring knowledge and materials from the NML to Chinese institutions. The files led bare Canada’s shocking inability to protect its own secrets.
While Victoria Day may have been celebrated by most in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Gov. Gen. Mary Simon were not among the celebrants.
Simon dedicated her energies to planting trees to help fight climate change, while Trudeau used the day to promise Canadians they’ll get free contraceptives.
Canada has reached “a critical turning point” as the high cost of living and housing in this country push more people below the poverty line, says a report out today from Food Banks Canada.
According to the 2024 Poverty Report Cards, almost half of people nationally feel financially worse off than last year and one in four are suffering from food insecurity.
In Canada’s House of Commons, the Conservative leader of the opposition, Pierre Poilievre, often taunts the Liberals by speaking past the faltering prime minister Justin Trudeau and instead making reference to “the next Liberal leader”: by this, he means none other than Mark Carney, the central banker who is suspected of harbouring grand political ambitions.
It’s a vicious circle with no end in sight, courtesy of the current Liberal government. Canada needs to build more houses, so it needs more construction workers. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation reports a shortage of construction labour as one of three factors contributing to longer build times, and RBC’s assistant chief economist Robert Hogue predicts that Canada requires over 500,000 additional construction workers to build all the homes needed between now and 2030.
Food prices are still far higher than they should be, gas prices continue to rise and rent increases are up dramatically year over year, but the Trudeau Liberals are taking a victory lap.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland held a news conference on Tuesday to take a bow and explain that despite still higher prices, we’ve never had it so good.
A government-appointed director at the Canada Infrastructure Bank has resigned after being under fire for approving federal green fund money to companies she was invested in while serving as a fund director.
The April 16 resignation of renewable energy venture capitalist Andrée-Lise Méthot was not publicly announced until Housing and Infrastructure Minister Sean Fraser was asked about Ms. Méthot on May 21. Mr. Fraser was testifying before the House of Commons transport and infrastructure committee.
