Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

After eight years of the Trudeau Liberal government managing the Canadian economy, Canadians are in the throes of a cost-of-living crisis. While this crisis is being felt by citizens in countries around the world, the Trudeau government’s policies are exacerbating the tight financial situation most Canadians find themselves in. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, and a host of senior ministers are championing fiscal and economic policies that are proving to be detrimental to the economic well-being of individual Canadians and of the country as a whole.

The word “democracy” often conjures up a basic understanding of a system in which the decisions and actions of a society are guided by the collective will of the people.

The practical implementation of that, however, often falls short. A few examples that come to mind are hot-button topics like universal background checks on gun sales, multilateral climate change initiatives and abortion rights. Despite overwhelming support from the public, more often than not, governments fail to enact legislation to support these policies for a wide variety of reasons.

Earlier this month we wrote that the bigger issue with Justin Trudeau’s controversial Christmas vacation in Jamaica was not the fact that the Prime Minister was able to lodge his family in a luxury resort for nine nights for free, but that the Conflict of Interest Act allows him and other public office holders to accept undisclosed gifts of unlimited value from friends and family members.

We stand by that. The Conflict of Interest Act and the Conflict of Interest Code for MPs need to be amended to require every Parliamentarian to disclose gifts from friends and immediate family worth more than a nominal value.

He is convinced he is above the law.

Colourful Quebec Conservative MP Jacques Gourde came up with a delicious pun to describe the varying explanations given by the Prime Minister’s Office about Justin Trudeau’s Christmas vacation at a friend’s luxury Jamaican villa.

During a Wednesday House of Commons ethics committee hearing looking into Mr. Trudeau’s 10-day stay at the exclusive Prospect Estate resort, located on the site of an 18th-century sugar plantation, Mr. Gourde used a French expression whose English translation roughly means “Trying to pull the wool over our eyes.” Literally, however, the expression “Nous prendre pour des valises” translates as “taking us for suitcases.”

Vacation, suitcases. You get it, right?

We can hope. But I suspect he is too vain to give up despite being one of the most hated PM’s in our history.

This is unprecedented: last weekend, the Minister of Immigration, Marc Miller, lamented the poor performance of his own government in matters of… immigration.

“Out of control”, “disconcerting”, the minister used adjectives giving the impression that he was a member of the opposition holding the government to account.

Around a hundred thousand temporary residents enter Canada EVERY MONTH (!). These temporary residents include students, temporary foreign workers and asylum seekers.

Regular immigrants represented some 1.2 million people in 2022.

However, we still do not know how to decently house all these new arrivals.

However, we are talking about more than two million people per year, all categories combined.

I am personally in favor of immigration, but everything must be planned and well managed, otherwise chaos sets in and that is precisely what we are experiencing.

Two years ago, senior public administration in Ottawa warned Trudeau of the enormous housing shortage that awaited us if nothing changed.

So what is happening was not only predictable, it was planned!

The scandal is that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has done absolutely nothing, despite warnings from its officials.

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