With Ottawa’s political class still reeling from Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre’s use of the unparliamentary moniker “wacko” in reference to Justin Trudeau on Tuesday — a slight that led to Poilievre getting ejected from the House of Commons by Speaker Greg Fergus — it’s worth taking a closer look at the prime minister’s rather eccentric behaviour of late.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, fighting for his political life, has been on the podcast circuit lately. In a series of streaming interviews in Canada and the U.S., Trudeau’s message has been the same: Canadians are under the sway of dangerous populism. Voters are ignoring the experts, in whom he has put so much faith, which is putting Canada’s future in peril.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he does not regret calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “wacko,” and now his MPs are renewing calls for the House of Commons Speaker to resign, this time over ordering the Official Opposition leader to leave the chamber.
On Tuesday, Poilievre was kicked out of the House(opens in a new tab) by Speaker Greg Fergus, after repeatedly refusing to withdraw his remark, made in the context of Trudeau’s policy on hard drug decriminalization and amid a series of heated exchanges between the two leaders that saw Trudeau accuse his opponent of being “spineless.”
While Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives continue to endear themselves to voters, new polling suggests Tory supporters are among those most likely to change their minds come election day.
A new National Post-Leger poll shows the Conservative with a 21-point lead over the Liberals — with the Tories gaining two points over the last month for 42 per cent support nationally and Trudeau Liberals losing three points to 26 per cent. The poll was taken April 26 to 28.
One of the biggest government initiatives to encourage manufacturers to decarbonize is failing to attract the largest emitters, says Ottawa’s environmental watchdog.
The government’s $8 billion program, intended to help the largest-emitting manufacturing industries reduce their emissions, has failed to entice them, says a report released Tuesday morning by Jerry DeMarco, the federal commissioner of environment and sustainable development.
Of Canada’s top 55 emitters, only two have signed contribution agreements so far with the federal government under its Net Zero Accelerator initiative, the report says. About a dozen other large emitters applied for the initiative but the federal government has not yet signed agreements with them.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was told Monday by a top union leader that grave concerns remain about the hiring of foreign workers at a flagship EV battery plant in Windsor, Ont., when skilled Canadians are available to do the jobs.
In a keynote discussion with the Prime Minister at the annual conference of Canada’s Building Trades Unions in Gatineau, union leader Sean Strickland told Mr. Trudeau that the concerns that emerged last year about the hiring of hundreds of Korean and Japanese workers at the EV factory have yet to be resolved.
The Liberal government is proposing to make changes to Canada’s asylum claim system which could speed up the deportation process for rejected applicants from the country.
The proposed amendments were quietly announced two weeks ago in the 2024 federal budget and come as Canada deals with a record number of asylum seekers.
Most Of Those Sent Deportation Letters Still Living In Canada Years Later
Canada’s top spy says China’s concerted efforts to steal cutting-edge Canadian technology is mind-boggling, and is designed to build the People’s Liberation Army as a formidable force against Western interests.
David Vigneault, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told MPs on the Canada-China committee Monday that Chinese hacking and other espionage activities have become a serious threat since Xi Jinping became president in 2012.
It’s tax time, which is always depressing in Canada thanks to the country’s spendthrift federal government.
The Trudeau Liberals have overspent and overtaxed for years, creating an uncompetitive business environment that drives out jobs. Then, to make matters worse, the government “bribes” companies with subsidies and grants to create jobs. This perpetuates a vicious cycle: subsidies are paid out of high taxes, which in turn increase taxes, necessitating more subsidies in order to maintain levels of employment.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is now justifying tax increases by quoting from a U.S. Supreme Court decision almost a hundred years ago.
“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society,” wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes in a 1927 decision.
Federal U.S. tax in 1927 was in the low single digits, according to the Tax Foundation, an American organization that focuses on tax policy, as opposed to Canada today where the rate is anywhere from 15-33 per cent.
In his classic A Short History of the World, H.G. Wells asked why the Roman Empire grew, and why it so completely decayed.
He concluded that it grew because the idea of citizenship held it together, creating a sense of privilege and obligation and a willingness to make sacrifices in the name of Rome.
However, the failure to explain itself to its increasing multitude of citizens, or invite their co-operation, led to the demise of its collective mission.
Ottawa is planning to roll out a mandatory buyback program for military-style firearms during the 2025 election year, after the program was delayed by Canada Post’s refusal to participate, sources say.
With only months to go before its launch, details of the vast logistical operation remain in flux, federal officials have told Radio-Canada.
The government likely will need to adapt the program on a province-by-province basis, due to its struggle to find partners willing to collect and transport AR-15s and other weapons that were banned in 2020.
Justin Trudeau was hoping his housing budget would reverse the government’s slide in popularity. Instead, things have gotten worse.
For the good of the Liberal Party he leads, the Prime Minister needs to think about his future.
The government gambled everything on this budget. Younger voters are unhappy. Economic uncertainty and high interest rates have worsened housing shortages, making ownership impossible and rent exorbitant for many. Their support has shifted emphatically from the Liberals to the Conservatives.
Junior will never think of what’s best for anyone or anything but himself.
WOODSTOCK, N.B. — Police officers across New Brunswick are no longer investigating thefts of fuel from service stations unless there is a threat to public safety.
Earlier this month, the New Brunswick Association of Chiefs of Police sent a letter to petroleum retailers across the province, saying the change was needed because there are more effective ways of dealing with the steady increase in fuel thefts. The change took effect April 15.
