When the going gets tough, the tough (and also the Canadian prime minister) get going… straight to social media, to humiliate themselves. Chris Graham suggests you sit down before you dive in because the joke, ultimately, is on the long-suffering taxpayers of Canada.
In March, the Globe and Mail reported that Canada’s population had grown by 1.3 million in 2023—the largest annual increase on record.
This surge was driven by higher numbers of immigrants, international students, temporary foreign workers, and asylum claimants.
Given that the 2021 census showed that 8.3 million Canadians, or 23 percent of our population, had an immigrant background, this latest increase means that, in a Canada of over 40 million people, one in four of us is a temporary or permanent resident, or was born abroad. This proportion of newcomers is the highest since Confederation, beating the previous record of 22.3 percent set in 1921. By comparison, the immigrant share of the U.S. population is today about 14 percent.
NBF: “Canada: Population growth accelerates in 2024” pic.twitter.com/Yaw3G5qKwO
— Scott Barlow (@SBarlow_ROB) May 16, 2024
More … Immigration to Canada surges in April, worsening outlook for housing affordability
I was struck by some numbers in Robert Lyman’s column in FP Comment yesterday on the costs of net-zero climate policies. The costs he talked about were impressive enough: the units they come in are years’ worth of GDP. But what impressed me almost even more was that, according to a compilation by Navius Research for the Canadian Climate Institute, there are, as Lyman wrote, no fewer than 112 federal and 364 provincial and territorial programs addressed at various aspects of climate change. That’s almost 500 in total.
Justin Trudeau says Canada’s conservative leaders threaten abortion rights
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that Canadian conservative leaders are as much of a threat to women’s right to a safe abortion as the rollback of the landmark Roe v. Wade court decision was in the United States.
In some of his starkest comments to date, Trudeau teed off in New Brunswick against federal and provincial conservative politicians, including Premier Blaine Higgs, who he said do not support a woman’s right to choose an abortion.
Newly released figures have more than doubled what the government spent to attend a high-profile UN climate change summit last year.
And, according to information sourced online, COP28’s Canada pavilion featured a four-minute climate change hip-hop set by Baba Brinkman, a Canadian rapper and playwright known for rapping about science, literature and environmental issues, and is also the son of former federal fisheries minister Joyce Murray.
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to suspend all taxes on gasoline and diesel between Victoria Day on May 19 and Labour Day on Sept. 2 to help Canadians save money and retain their summer vacations amid high inflation.
Speaking to reporters in Vancouver, Mr. Poilievre said many families could be forced to cancel their summer vacation plans due to the rising cost of living, noting the record number of visits to food banks across the country.
Elon Musk’s pledge to pay the legal costs of people who suffer repercussions for speaking their minds on his X social media platform is drawing him deeper into Canada’s battle over free speech.
His platform is providing financial support for a legal appeal by a Brampton, Ont., pediatrician who was professionally rebuked for criticizing Canada’s COVID-era lockdowns. Mr. Musk is also funding a free-speech lawsuit filed by another Ontario-based doctor who had spoken out against COVID-19 health policies.
Canadians are currently experiencing one of the worst and longest declines in their standard of living in decades, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.
“Despite claims to the contrary, living standards are declining in Canada,” study co-author Grady Munro says in the report by the fiscally conservative think tank, “Changes in Per-Person GDP (Income): 1985 to 2023.”
Don’t believe your lying eyes!
Many Canadians are well aware of the myriad of apologies that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has delivered throughout his time in office. Some half-hearted apologies were issued for his own behaviour; others have been for the ills and errors of his predecessors, with no explanation of the context in which they lived.
Here is a tale of two recent childcare webinars. One was organized by entrepreneurs who see their daycare centres and the families they serve being bulldozed by the Trudeau government’s national takeover of their sector; the other was held by government-funded activists and aspiring central planners who see the governmentalization of childcare as an opportunity to inject it with their notions of social justice.
The April job numbers, released this week by Statistics Canada, contained a pleasant surprise: 90,000 jobs created, when only 20,000 new jobs were expected.
But the stats also contained an inconvenient truth. Canada’s economy has passed a dangerous tipping point – two in fact.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has delayed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s controversial move to amend the Broadcasting Act until late 2025.
Bill C-11: The Online Streaming Act, initially scheduled for implementation in 2024, would require media giants like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Spotify to promote Canadian content and contribute financially to its production.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government signalled a major shift in Canada’s Middle East policy last week by abstaining on a United Nations General Assembly resolution backing the recognition of Palestine as a full UN member.
Until last week, Canada had always sided with Israel and its allies in arguing that a recognition of Palestinian statehood could come only after negotiations on a two-state solution and Palestinian endorsement of Israel’s right to exist.
A Sikh Canadian separatist leader allegedly targeted for death by the Indian government says New Delhi arrested three of his secessionist colleagues Tuesday, part of what he called a crackdown on a cause that was championed by B.C.-based Hardeep Singh Nijjar before his fatal shooting last year.
Gurpatwant Pannun, the New York-based legal counsel for Sikhs for Justice, who also holds American citizenship, said he was in touch with the arrested men as recently as Monday. A criminal indictment unsealed in New York last November said a thwarted 2023 plot to kill Mr. Pannun was directed by an Indian government employee.
At least someone is doing their job.
Canada’s Department of National Defence has spent nearly $10 million on so-called diversity, equity and inclusion programs since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took office in 2015.
According to records released May 7 by Blacklock’s Reporter, the Department of National Defence has paid consultants and contractors $9,510,247 to promote “equity and inclusion” within the military.
