OTTAWA—Near the two-year anniversary of the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, hundreds of people gathered on Parliament Hill on Feb. 17 to celebrate the original Freedom Convoy and a recent victory in Federal Court.
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
Tax dollars up in smoke to send public servants to Panama anti-nicotine summit
This week your tax dollars have been supporting 15 or so public servants who have travelled to Panama for a “Big Fear” health conference (not its real name) organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the risks of tobacco and nicotine.
Rob Oliphant apologizes after calling Liberal colleagues ‘arrogant’ on Israel genocide case
OTTAWA – The parliamentary secretary to Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly has apologized to two Liberal Muslim MPs after he was seen referring to his colleagues as “arrogant” for calling on Canada to back South Africa’s claim of genocide against Israel, the National Post has learned.
Trudeau’s welcome mat for immigrants wears thin amid Canada housing crunch
OTTAWA, Feb 17 (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has relied on immigration to drive economic growth and plug labor gaps, but now he is hitting the brakes after a seismic shift in public opinion that could undermine his chances to win the next election.
It was Trudeau’s father, Pierre, who championed immigration as prime minister in the early 1970s, promoting “multiculturalism” as government policy. Over time, Canadians have come to see the country’s diversity as part of its identity, like the maple leaf and hockey.
“It was Trudeau’s father, Pierre, who championed immigration as prime minister in the early 1970s, promoting “multiculturalism” as government policy. Over time, Canadians have come to see the country’s diversity as part of its identity, like the maple leaf and hockey.”
This propaganda was swallowed by a gullible Canadian public who like the proverbial frog was slowly boiling to death before realizing too late that Canada had been irrevocably harmed by mass immigration and the nation destroying lies of multiculturalism and diversity. It was promoted by the political and corporate classes who view mass immigration as a means to serve their selfish ends at your expense.
Cory Morgan: Guilbeault’s Concern Isn’t Roads and Emissions; It’s About Restricting Individual Mobility
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is desperately trying to recharacterize his own words since he let his mask slip with candid comments about road infrastructure and electric vehicles.
There is no getting around it. Guilbeault was pretty clear when he told attendees at a fundraising luncheon: “Our government has made the decision to stop investing in new road infrastructure. There will be no more envelopes from the federal government to enlarge the road network,” and “We can very well achieve our goals of economic, social, and human development without more enlargement of the road network.”
How else are we to interpret what the minister said?
Canadian Housing Supply Targets Don’t Make Sense, “Will Never Be Hit”: BMO
Canadian policymakers are sprinting across the country to rain cash to stimulate homebuilding. Unfortunately, it’s not working with new housing starts actually falling further from targets in January. BMO wrote to investors to explain this is predictable, since the targets were unrealistic and will never be hit. Partially due to the lack of resources available to build at that scale, but also the fact that homebuilders build for the market, not policymakers.
Canadians doubt Trudeau is best leader to handle second Trump term: Poll
Canadians are skeptical of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ability to negotiate with Donald Trump if the former U.S. president returns to power, a new poll found.
School closures may not have been necessary to prevent spread of COVID-19, researchers at McMaster find
An “extensive,” two-year review of COVID-19 in schools and daycares has revealed that these settings were not a significant source of transmission of the virus when infection prevention and control measures were used, researchers at McMaster University have found.
The review was published Thursday in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health and examined more than 34,000 references, including databases, websites, and studies, related to transmission in child-care settings and schools across the globe.
Pierre Poilievre: Justin Trudeau rewards NIMBY gatekeepers
Canadians are living through a housing hell. Since Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister, rent and mortgage costs have doubled. Rents have reached a record-high average of $2,196 a month. It now takes 25 years for the average Toronto family to save up for a down payment. Before Trudeau, you could pay off an entire mortgage in that time. Over the past year, the cost to rent an apartment with a roommate jumped by 18.5 per cent, making it more expensive than living alone when Trudeau was first elected.
Is it time for the Liberals and NDP to break up?
The deal between Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Jagmeet Singh’s New Democrats has already lasted longer than most minority governments in Canadian history.
Within a matter of days, that deal will either collapse or carry on — depending on whether the two sides can come to some kind of agreement to bring pharmacare to Canada.
Two questions hang over that fork in the road for the two parties. Can the deal last? Beyond that, though, should the deal continue?
Is it possible for the NDP to steal Liberal seats next election?
Would that possibility be aided by keeping this sorry alliance together thus earning goodwill from LPC voters looking for a new home?
Both Trudeau and Singh are preening virtue signalers with grating personalities. Canada has had enough of both.
It’s hard not to think that the Liberals have given up
There’s a heartbreaking scene near the end of the First World War movie “Gallipoli” in which Australian soldiers are preparing to get out of their trenches and charge the Turkish machine guns. They’re writing letters home and leaving their watches behind because they know they’re about to die. Most have a blank, resigned expression on their faces.
I wonder if the Trudeau Liberals reached their Gallipoli moment this week. Judging by Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan’s demeanour as he was sent out to meet a barrage of fire from reporters on the government’s latest tweaks to its climate policy, the answer may well be yes.
‘Gloves truly off now’: The fight among college presidents over international students is getting ugly
As soon as Canada announced it would cap the number of international students here, experts anticipated a dogfight among Ontario colleges for the limited new study permits for the province.
One prediction was that the colleges would throw Kitchener-based Conestoga College — the school with the most international students in the country — “under the bus.”
This week, disputes have boiled over in full public display, with two college presidents lashing out at one another.
Ottawa Handing 10-Year, $2 Billion Tax Break to Battery Makers, Records Show
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is handing a 10-year tax holiday worth $2.1 billion to electric auto battery manufacturers, government documents show.
Government amendments to Income Tax Act regulations grant the decade-long tax waiver to battery factories on top of the billions in subsidies they are already receiving.
“The cost of foregone federal tax revenue associated with the regulatory amendment is estimated to be about $2.1 billion over 10 years starting in 2024,” reads a Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement first obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
Trudeau downplays Liberal divisions on Israel-Hamas war, NDP calls for firmer stance
OTTAWA – Diverse views in the Liberal party are a source of strength, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted Thursday as questions persisted about caucus discord over the government’s policy on the Israel-Hamas war.
“We have a large number of Muslim MPs. We have a large number of Jewish MPs,” Trudeau said at a news conference in Winnipeg.
“The kinds of conversations that go on within our party are not always easy, but they reflect the diversity of conversations happening across the country.”
Junior has already picked a side. Ask Amira.
GOLDSTEIN: The clock is ticking down on Trudeau
Time is rapidly running out for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to decide whether he’s going to lead the Liberals into the next federal election.
Assuming the Liberal/NDP accord holds, it has to be held on or before Oct. 20, 2025 — 20 months away.
Junior is petty, vindictive and vain.
He will run out the clock even if he admits to himself that he has no chance of winning the next election. He simply enjoys making life as shitty as possible for Canadians.
His globalist sister is cut from the same cloth. People can’t afford homes but that troll gives a huge tax holiday to the LPC’s pals in the corporate welfare class.
DOCUMENTS: @CaFreeland quietly awards #EV battery makers $2B, ten-year tax holiday without notice or public hearings: “There are no other stakeholders to consult.” https://t.co/s5nQQkW852 #cdnpoli @YzGiroux @FinanceCanada pic.twitter.com/22qaHIal1T
— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) February 15, 2024