Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

So, how does the Prime Minister hear about intelligence again?

It’s not from reading. There are a lot of documents, Justin Trudeau told the Foreign Interference Commission on Wednesday, but if you want to get a national security message to a busy prime minister, you brief him in person.

But listen to Mr. Trudeau talk about how that magic happens and you might end up being a little unclear on the actual protocol for translating the essential national security intelligence crafted in secret documents into verbal information for the head of government.

There will be no repercussions, we will have to suffer the prick until the election in fall 2025.

The budgeting process in the past was a foreign country; they did things differently back then.

In my memory at least, Canada’s Department of Finance pushed back against Liberal and Conservative governments. And if budgets produced surprises, they were generally on the positive side: more revenue or lower expenses than had been laid down in what was considered a hallowed tablet of stone.

No longer. A presentation on the upcoming budget by the Business Council of Canada included a table that showed the various spending projections that appeared in Budget 2022, the fall economic statement of 2022 and the fall economic statement of 2023.

The Trudeau government loves to spend money. Lots of it. And all that spending is making life less affordable in Canada — housing in particular.

When the Liberals came to power in 2015, Ottawa was spending a total of $281 billion a year. This year, the federal Liberals are expected to spend $499 billion and next year $519 billion.

Mark Carney has joined the chorus of voices asking Justin Trudeau to call a first ministers’ meeting on climate change and the carbon levy.

Carney, often touted as a possible successor to Trudeau, threw down the request during an evening speech in Ottawa on Monday, framed as a manifesto of sorts on where the former bank governor stands on the big issues of the day.

The prime minister’s six-day trip, accompanied by his son, to “strengthen ties” in the Indo-Pacific region in September cost taxpayers nearly $2 million, with nearly $200,000 spent on in-flight catering.

Before Justin Trudeau entered ‘costume rehab,’ he used to get dressed up pretty often. From his brown- and blackface(opens in a new tab) episodes during his teaching and high school years, to the traditional apparel his whole family wore on a botched trip to India(opens in a new tab) in 2018, our prime minister had a hankering to wow us with his disguises.

He even had a second campaign plane(opens in a new tab) during the 2019 federal election to carry cargo, and then Conservative leader Andrew Scheer didn’t miss the chance to ridicule Trudeau for needing another plane to carry all his “props and costumes.”

OTTAWA – Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has ruled out raising taxes on the middle class in the upcoming federal budget — but won’t say if corporations or the wealthy are in for the same treatment.

Freeland pointedly did not answer Tuesday when asked during a news conference about the prospect of new taxes on corporate Canada or others not part of the middle class.

Money just grows on trees in Liberal Land.