Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

There’s no sign that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s sharper attacks against the Conservatives have shifted public sentiment in his favour a month into 2024, and things are getting worse for the Liberals on some metrics, according to new polling.

The Nanos Research data, released Monday and conducted for The Globe and Mail, shows Mr. Trudeau isn’t faring well among voters’ perceptions. He doesn’t enjoy the typical advantage of a sitting Prime Minister in managing U.S. relations. Closer to home, views on his performance as Liberal leader have slipped, and only a tiny fraction of Canadians believe the best thing for the party would be for him to stay on.

Remember that time the federal government tried to become an app developer?

On Monday, Auditor General Karen Hogan issued a scathing report on the federal government’s ArriveCAN app, which highlights the folly of a country that devalues entrepreneurship and relies instead on top-down government initiatives — and of a governing party whose only real skill is spending taxpayer dollars with reckless abandon.

The government agencies behind ArriveCAN “repeatedly failed” to follow best practices in the development of the now controversial application, Canada’s auditor general says.

Auditor General Karen Hogan released a long-awaited report Monday that blasted the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), and Public Services and Procurement Canada, the departments responsible for ArriveCAN.

Having grown up in the 1960s, the attraction of the Liberal Party of Canada was that it was a big tent party. They were the party that eliminated racism in our immigration policies, the party that championed equality, fairness in the rule of law, free speech, and tolerance (as well as their leader stating, “There is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation”—a very popular message in the decade of sexual liberation). They were the party that accepted everyone. That’s what attracted so many young people to the Liberals. In the 1960s and ’70s, if you were young, you were a Liberal.

The Trudeau government wants you to know it’s mad as hell and it’s not going to take it anymore.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s, to put the term politely, “PO’d” with Bell Media for its “garbage decision” to lay off journalists.

A former Liberal MP has launched a $50-million lawsuit against the RCMP and Ontario attorney general, nearly a year after a judge dismissed charges that stemmed from the claim that he used his political office for personal gain.

The lawsuit, launched by former Brampton East MP Raj Grewal, accuses the national police service along with province’s chief law officer of wrongfully alleging he misused his political office for financial benefit.

This column has often lamented the decline of Canada’s competitive status as an economic and geopolitical power, and particularly our descent down the ladder of the world’s nations in per capita income. Everything that could be done in this very fortunate country to make our nation less prosperous and less influential in the world is being done. Capital leaving Canada that was generated in this country has exceeded investment capital entering from outside by $285 billion in the last nine years. The world is clawing at our door to buy our oil and natural gas but the present government, while inciting every conceivable pretext for refusing or harassing the construction of pipelines to get our oil and gas to world markets, has clamped its lips around the gas-pipe of climate alarmism.