OTTAWA — One week after tabling the latest federal budget, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remained on the defensive while responding to increasing opposition from business and industry groups against proposed changes to capital gains taxation.
Speaking to reporters during a budget promo tour stop in Saskatoon, Sask., Trudeau was repeatedly asked to respond to critiques of the key point of contention in last week’s budget: the increased capital gains tax inclusion rate.
h/t DS
Canada Post is refusing to collect firearms that were banned by the federal government in 2020, complicating Ottawa’s plans for a buyback program to remove 144,000 firearms from private hands, federal sources say.
The Crown corporation informed the government of its position in a recent letter. It said its decision was based on concerns about its employees’ security, according to federal sources who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
The corporate conglomerate building an electric battery plant in Windsor that is slated to receive billions of dollars in government has ramped its use of foreign workers at the site and has even taken work away from unionized tradespeople in recent weeks, according to explosive new allegations from a national trades union federation.
H/T SweetPea
This steaming pile of shit only knows how to lie. https://t.co/vL1BRcr2zF
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) April 23, 2024
A special program Canada brought in last year to make it easier for tourists, business travellers and those with relatives in this country to visit has led to some unexpected consequences.
Newly obtained documents show that a striking percentage of people who took advantage of the expedited visitor visas that the program offered have now applied to stay here — as asylum seekers.
It’s a situation, some say, that reflects among other things the pent-up demand for asylum created during the pandemic, when the border was closed.
Just another loophole created by the Trudeau government to flood the country.
As the parent of young children, I do appreciate it when they try to clean up their mess after a long day of play. But I’m not sure how pleased Canadians will be with the Liberal clean-up efforts outlined in this week’s budget after nine long years of government toying with Canada.
The Liberal government has infused its social policy goals into funding for academic research for years — but to many progressives, that’s all fine and good. The real problem, they’ll tell you, is the premier who noticed it: Danielle Smith.
To push back at the federal encroachment into all things provincial — universities, yes, but also municipalities, health, schools, pharmacare and daycare — Smith’s government has tabled Bill 18, the provincial priorities act. The law would make the provincial government the final authority on all agreements between “provincial entities” and the feds.
The 2024 federal budget failed to spark a much-needed rebound in the polls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s trailing Liberal party, according to new Ipsos polling released Tuesday.
Canadian reaction to the Liberal government’s latest spending plans shows an historic challenge ahead of the governing party as it tries to keep the reins of government out of the Conservative party’s hands in the next election, according to one pollster.
… But many are simply seeking to stay here while their claim works its way through a system that is already so overwhelmed some claimants are living in homeless shelters or on the street and it can take several years before the Immigration and Refugee Board reaches a final decision on an application.
The worst thing about all this? The Liberals’ immigration policies have accomplished the very opposite of what they intended: They have undermined support for immigration.
I prefer to think of it as Canadians waking up to the Big Lie of immigration policy in Canada.
Immigration policy was never designed to benefit Canadians.
It was designed to benefit the corporate class and the political class at our expense.
We will continue to pay dearly for sleepwalking through our nations destruction and must remain on guard against those who lie about mass immigration’s alleged benefits.
Sure, some of this is natural.
As people age, they tend to worry that the values they lived by are no longer being upheld. Civilization, as the saying goes, is thousands of years old but never more than one generation deep—and that becomes more of a concern as people enter the contemplative phase of their lives.
Trudeau has turned Toronto into a 3rd World shithole.
BREAKING: Chrystia Freeland declines to condemn "Long Live October 7th" as hate speech. pic.twitter.com/xzUKJw63ks
— Amazing Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) April 22, 2024
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday his party still hasn’t decided whether it will vote in favour of the federal budget introduced last week.
The New Democrats have an agreement in place to back the governing Liberal Party on confidence and budgetary votes in exchange for movement on key policy priorities.
The agreement is set to last until June of next year, but Singh has been coy on whether he supports the Liberals’ most recent budget.
At a conference hosted by Canadian tech giant Shopify in 2018 , Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a moment to marvel at the unlikely success of two men who started out as snowboarders.
Trudeau, the former snowboarding instructor, was sharing the stage with Shopify founder Tobias Lütke, whose multi-billion dollar company had its beginnings as an online snowboard shop.
As they chuckled at their humble beginnings, the two snowboarders agreed that Canada had all the raw materials for a vibrant, entrepreneurial economy if it could only just get out of its own way and, Trudeau said, show “ a little more swagger .”
It’s been among the most volatile and untouchable third rails in Canadian politics: The adoption, at any level, of a private health-care system.
In the last federal election, a Conservative statement about “public-private synergies” was all it took for Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland to brand it as a right-wing assault on the “public, universal health-care system.”
But a new Ipsos report shows that “two tier health care” is not the threat it once was.
Asylum claims by international students have risen more than 1,500 per cent in the past five years, figures obtained by The Globe and Mail show, as experts warn that the study-permit system is being exploited as a way to enter and remain in Canada.
The sharp increase is particularly acute at colleges, where claims at some schools have climbed in excess of 4,000 per cent since 2018. Students at major universities, however, tend to lodge fewer claims than at colleges, the figures show.
It’s an abuse of Canadians by the Liberal government.
