Journalists shouldn’t make election predictions, but here’s one to take to the bank: Canada’s next federal election will be the ugliest one yet.
Anyone could place that safe bet solely on the basis of what happens any day in the House of Commons. But the prospect of future nastiness is further underlined in last June’s report of the task force looking into security and intelligence threats to elections.
A parliamentary committee has agreed to question key witnesses about how two scientists studying deadly viruses at a special lab in Winnipeg were able to work closely and covertly with China.
Conservative MP Michael Chong brought forward a motion to the Canada-China committee Tuesday morning to study the recent release of federal documents related to the dismissal of two scientists — Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng — from the National Microbiology Lab.
The ChiComs had the run of the joint.
They filled the pool with a firehose. Now they’re bailing with thimbles.
After years of the Trudeau government flooring the growth accelerator on temporary immigration, Immigration Minister Marc Miller last week announced a tap of the brakes. The overdue move is welcome – though so far it’s more pledge than plan, with many details about execution (not this government’s strong suit) still to come.
Combined federal, provincial and municipal government spending across Canada accounts for 40.5% of the entire Canadian economy, far above the ideal level of 26% to 30% needed to maximize economic growth, according to a study by the Fraser Institute released Tuesday.
That’s how you buy public service union votes.
Many new Canadians are concerned that, under the Liberal government, Canada is increasingly heading in the direction of the suppressive countries they escaped from, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says.
Mr. Poilievre responded to a question during a March 22 Toronto press conference about immigrants escaping socialist and communist countries like China, searching for freedom in Canada but facing censorship here. He said the situation “is not an accident.”
For the third time in 18 months, a foreign head of government has made a rare visit to Canada with the stated intention of buying billions of dollars in natural gas.
And for the third consecutive time, the official answer from the Trudeau government appears to be “no.”
Trudeau is fine with Canada’s impoverishment so long as it feeds his Captain Planet fantasy.
h/t Mauser
Marc Miller is doing what no other immigration minister has done in recent history.
He’s letting fewer temporary residents come to Canada in the short term. While planning for more immigrants in future.
Barely a year after taking over the immigration and refugee portfolio, Miller is steering a controversial course correction to avert an unplanned and unmanageable surge in temporary residents. By capping overseas student visas, and dialing down foreign work permits, he is reasserting control over uncontrolled trend lines.
Turd polish via the Star.
It’s been a few years now since Canada was the moderate, sensible, dependable, and globally respected nation that it grew into during the 20th century.
What we have become instead is a country with the world’s most radical collection of social policies, that is mocked mercilessly by international media for its foolish extremism, is taunted for its unwillingness to defend itself, and no longer has any influence to speak of on the international stage. While we once had a voice that was respected, we now have one that solicits, if anything at all, condescending grins of amusement.
A democratic non-profit advocacy group is appealing a court ruling that found Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not breach conflict of interest rules for his alleged role in the WE Charity scandal.
Democracy Watch is challenging the 2021 ruling by former Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion before the Federal Court of Appeal.
In a press release, Democracy Watch said it is arguing that Mr. Trudeau was guilty of violating federal ethics laws and that he directly participated in grant approval for the charity, according to a press release. The group said Mr. Trudeau was friends with the two Kielburger brothers who ran the charity and noted the family of the prime minister also had close ties with the group.
OTTAWA — Four years after the Trudeau Liberals announced sweeping changes to Canada’s gun laws, the government has so far spent $42 million on a federal firearms confiscation program that doesn’t yet exist.
In a response to an order paper question filed by Sen. Don Plett in September, Public Safety Canada revealed that $41,904,556 has been spent so far on the government’s “firearms buyback program,” and that 60 department employees are working on the project.
During the debate on the NDP’s proposal to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state last week, Global Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said the government could not change foreign policy based on an opposition motion.
At the 11th hour, the Liberals reached a deal with the NDP to water down the proposal on Palestinian statehood to avoid a divisive public schism in their own ranks. A number of Liberal MPs had spoken in favour of the NDP motion and indicated they would vote for it.
As part of a surprise outlay of cash announced at a summit in South Korea, the Prime Minister’s Office has approved $8.4 million to study how autocracy thrives in warming temperatures.
“Today I’m announcing that Canada is investing $8.4 million on research across the global south to better understand how climate change interacts with democratic decline,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a video address to the third annual Summit on Democracy, a gathering orchestrated by the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden.
The leader of the Canadian town of Hampstead has told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to be gone because he is no help in stemming the country’s rising tide of antisemitism.
A military veteran who spent 20 years in uniform, Lieutenant Colonel Huajie Xu now lives on a quiet street in Winnipeg.
But he did not serve in Canada’s armed forces.
Instead, he was a member of China’s People’s Liberation Army, according to records obtained by Global News.
Before arriving in Canada in 2021, Xu worked at the military academy of the Chinese cyber warfare department that hacks Canadians and steals their secrets.
Canada’s Parliament did not fall this week, which means the country was spared a spring election.
Now normally, one wouldn’t dwell too long on what didn’t happen in politics, or even what almost happened. But on two occasions this past week, two opposition parties seemed determined to use votes in the Commons to show Justin Trudeau’s Liberals how precariously they remain in power.
It’s even more remarkable when you consider this was the only week this month that the Commons would be sitting. Of all the things MPs were determined to cram into it, we ended up with not one but two brushes with Liberal defeat.
