Many public figures became household names around the time of the Freedom Convoy in the winter of 2022, for actions they took or didn’t, or for what they said or perhaps wish they hadn’t.
The Federal Court ruled Jan. 23 that invoking the Emergencies Act was not justified and that it led to violations of charter rights. Here’s a look at the status of key figures involved in the events.
OTTAWA – Former justice minister David Lametti is resigning as a Montreal Liberal MP at the end of the month.
A professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, Lametti was first elected as MP for LaSalle-Emard-Verdun in 2015 and served as parliamentary secretary to the ministers of international trade and innovation, science and economic development.
“Supply, supply, supply” has been the mantra of both Liberals and Conservatives to address the housing crisis. However, both have now begun to talk more openly about the impact immigration is having on the demand side of the equation.
While the Liberals have remained publicly committed to their regular immigration targets, they’ve recently admitted that temporary forms of immigration, especially those pertaining to international students, are “out of control.”
Quality of life, per capita income and social cohesion are being sacrificed to a third world ‘population trap’
When wokeness, the making sacred of historically-disadvantaged minorities, takes control of a society like Canada, the effects go far beyond plans to stock tampons in men’s bathrooms. There, taboo-driven mass immigration is not only resulting in cultural tensions but in economic paralysis and soaring housing costs.
You know things have gone crazy when even economists at the National Bank of Canada are sounding the alarm. They say the country has entered a “population trap” in which savings are sucked into providing infrastructure and capital for new arrivals, impairing economic growth. More than that, the immense pressure of the 1.2 million new residents the country added in 2023 is driving the cost of housing through the roof. To put this number into scale, it’s larger than the population of most Canadian cities and 8 of the country’s 13 provinces and territories.
Trudeau is Canada’s worst PM in history.
Avalon MP Ken McDonald told CBC News he thinks it’s time for party members to “clear the air” and have a conversation about the direction of the party.
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But as he prepares to meet with his colleagues today, McDonald is climbing down from those comments.
In a statement, he says he did not mean to call for a leadership review and continues to support Trudeau because he has the best interests of Canadians at heart.
They killed Kenny!
Why are Lib MP’s loyal? Likely because they hope to be awarded a cushy sinecure after being booted from office next election.
No sane individual can expect a Trudeau win after the horrific damage he has done to Canadian society.
Damage he cannot fix no matter how hard he lies.
Of course that worm theory could be true.
A Hamilton councillor’s recent experience witnessing a baby born in an encampment in the city demonstrates the “unacceptable” housing crisis residents face and “eye opening” situations paramedics and police officers are currently responding to, he says.
Coun. Matt Francis (Ward 5) told CBC Hamilton he was doing a ride along with police on a cold morning in late November when they were called to a medical emergency at an encampment tucked away in an industrial area in the east end.
Canadians never imagined that a man so criminally stupid, so self righteously indifferent to the genuine suffering of citizens as Justin Trudeau could ever be elected PM.
It didn’t take long for Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland to troop out to say the federal government will appeal. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals know what Tuesday’s court decision is: A millstone around their necks.
Invoking the Emergencies Act to shut down convoy protests in February, 2022, had been a popular decision at the time, and one of the biggest calls Mr. Trudeau ever made. Now the Federal Court of Canada has ruled it was illegal. Justice Richard Mosley concluded there was no national emergency, as defined by the law.
In 2024, now that Mr. Trudeau is much less popular, it’s a stiff blow to his credibility, and a kick at a government’s that’s already down.
It is not surprising that judges often disagree after witnessing the same evidence. They are, after all, simply lawyers in robes.
Federal Court Justice Richard Moseley ruled on Tuesday that the Liberal government did not have reasonable grounds to use the Emergencies Act to clear Freedom Convoy protestors in 2022, and doing so was an unreasonable overreach that infringed Canadians’ Charter rights
Omg – Tucker just dared CBC News to come interview him after the show.
What will they do? https://t.co/HMxNfPTD0o
— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) January 24, 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly claim to know Canadians, but what they don’t do is trust the very people they serve.
In the last two days, neither Trudeau nor Joly when asked about a specific issue or a matter of vitally important policy would give an honest answer.
They both think that expressing faux sympathy with Canadians is a better alternative.
An ideologically charged Canadian federal government “green” program to try and get homeowners to switch their reliable heating oil furnaces for less reliable electric heat pumps via a large grant has been blasted by a taxpayer advocacy group as yet more government waste after it was revealed the program is set to cost nearly four times as much as originally thought.
h/t Mauser
Two years to the day of the beginning of the 2022 Freedom Convoy, the Federal Court has declared the Trudeau government’s response to that protest unreasonable and unconstitutional. On Tuesday, Justice Richard Mosley of the Federal Court issued a decision in a group of cases challenging the invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to the convoy. The cases were brought by public interest organizations, including the Canadian Constitution Foundation and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, as well as individual protesters who had been directly impacted by the emergency orders.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday that he has assigned two cabinet ministers to lead a new “Team Canada” engagement to ensure Canada and his government are prepared for all possible outcomes from this fall’s United States presidential election.
“Canada-U.S. relations are fundamental for the prosperity and well-being of Canadians,” Trudeau told reporters in Montreal, where he is wrapping up two days of meetings with his cabinet.
No one pays serious attention to Trudeau at home or abroad.
Justin Trudeau fends off dire warnings, says he won’t slash federal spending
MONTREAL — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he doesn’t believe in slashing federal spending to please business groups or opposition Conservatives, raising questions about how his Liberal government would meet its own goal to cap annual budget deficits in the coming years.
Speaking to reporters on the final day of the Liberal cabinet retreat ahead of the winter sitting of Parliament, Trudeau brushed aside a recent statement from a prominent corporate lobby group that concludes meeting the goal could require $12 billion in annual spending cuts or increased taxes — far more than the reduction of $15.4 billion the Liberals have pledged to make over the next five years.
It’s retreat week for two of Canada’s top three political parties. The Liberal cabinet is hunkered down in Montreal, talking housing, cost of living, and Donald Trump. The NDP caucus is assembled in Edmonton, strategizing on how to squeeze their priorities into the Liberals’ upcoming spring budget.
And the Conservatives? They’re just sitting pretty at the top of the polls, to the consternation of their rivals, who are staring down the barrel of a 2025 election with very few options for turning the tide.
