Nothing shows your commitment to climate change like jetting across the country and lecturing others.
Once again, that’s what Justin Trudeau is doing as he flies from Ottawa to Charlottetown and back, then on to Vancouver for a brief stop at an environmental conference before heading to two fundraisers.
If you enjoy howlingly awkward human theatre – and who among us is above such delights? – watching a late-stage government try to gnaw its way out of the bear trap of its own incumbency is spectacular entertainment.
This was on glorious display this week in Charlottetown, where the newly shuffled federal cabinet gathered for a retreat before the House of Commons resumes in mid-September.
A light bulb has finally come on in Justin Trudeau’s cabinet. Dim though that bulb may be, it has sufficient power to illuminate a glaring weakness in how Ontario funds post-secondary education.
Sean Fraser, the new federal housing minister, offered the opinion this week that the 807,260 international students in Canada are putting pressure on the Canadian housing market. That’s not terribly surprising, since the number of international students has more than doubled since the Liberals took power. It’s also a problem that Fraser failed to address when he was immigration minister.
While it’s gratifying to see the federal Liberals tentatively identifying a link between the number of people flowing into the country and the shortage of housing, it’s Ontario Premier Doug Ford who really has to wake up.
The foreign student scam is harming Canadian citizens.
Are our politicians so dim they didn’t see that coming or are they just malevolent destroyers?
We need to close a lot of these woke universities. They are toxic.
OTTAWA — Most Canadians — and many past Liberal supporters — think Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should resign instead of leading his party into the next federal election, a new poll suggests.
Fifty-six per cent of respondents to the latest national survey from Abacus Data said Trudeau “should step down” when asked if he should run for office again. That’s compared with 27 per cent who said Trudeau should stay, and 17 per cent who were not sure.
Junior is losing the Star? Maybe they realize what a cockup he has made with his war on Google and FB.
Canada’s mass immigration plan is heating up and it’s accelerating. The impact of this plan will be devastating to the country in a variety of ways including the economy, scarce housing, overloaded health care, collapsing education, and unaffordable social programs.
This is a tsunami of mass immigration.
A politician—or anyone in politics—will never admit a poll means much. You’ve heard it dozens of times already: “the only poll that matters is the one on Election Day.”
But cabinet ministers are worried. Part of the retreat they just attended in P.E.I. was about relaying back to the prime minister and his staff what their constituents told them over the summer. What they heard very much depended on the part of the country they represented—but in key electoral regions for the Liberals, and on the key issue of affordability, ministers heard their government was falling short.
It’s no wonder that Canadians are among the most skeptical people in the world when it comes to confidence in their government’s capacity to deal with climate change. That was the finding of a global Ipsos survey earlier this year, and there’s no reason to think that this summer’s record-breaking wildfires across Canada will change things much.
OTTAWA – If Canada reduces the number of international student visas, as Housing Minister Sean Fraser mused this week, it would be a serious blow to colleges and universities who increasingly need those students to balance their books.
Fraser, who was in the immigration portfolio just last month, said he is concerned about the more than 800,000 students Canada accepted last year, worried that many do not have access to good housing when they arrive and distort local rental markets.
‘Different factors’ fuel housing crisis, not international students: Trudeau
“We have to be very careful. Over the past years, we’ve seen a lot of different people and a lot of different groups blamed for the housing crisis. At one point it was foreign homebuyers. At another point it was developers being super aggressive. Another point, it was under-investments by various orders of government. Now it’s people saying, ‘Oh, it’s international students,’” Trudeau said.
“Yes, there’s a lot of different factors that go into this housing crisis. But it’s something that has been brewing and developing over the past number of decades.”
Trudeau can’t help but lie, it’s his nature and he will never accept blame for his monumental screw-up of Canada’s immigration policy.
Trudeau initiated a Mass Immigration scam on an unheard of scale without a thought to how it would overwhelm our infrastructure and price Canadians out of decent housing. The deep thinkers in the Liberal Party have determined that making everyone poorer is sound economic strategy.
Those “foreign home buyers” Justin mentions were laundering hundreds of millions from Trudeau’s admired dictatorship of Communist China. Small wonder the foreign influence inquiry seems dead in the water.
The mass immigration scam was bolstered by Trudeau’s abuse of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program which allows his Corporate Class Cronies to import wage slaves on a whim.
The international student ruse is just another way to sell Canadian citizenship and add to the pool of cheap labour Justin’s corporate cronies desire. Currently 800,000 “students” compete for housing with hard pressed Canadians.
Having some of our uber woke universities go bust is a good thing since so many solely focus on turning out racist grievance mongers and other degenerates.
Maybe business should pay a higher wage, I do not believe only “desperate small business owners” rely on foreign student labour, that sounds like a Chamber of Commerce talking point.
Returning home amid the war: Why some Ukrainians are choosing to leave Toronto
In the midst of the Russian invasion, Oleksandra Balytska landed a remote job in Kyiv with a Canadian artificial intelligence start-up, hoping to support her family.
But last fall, when the capital city was plunged into darkness amid attacks on Ukraine’s power systems, Balytska’s employer invited her to move to Toronto.
When Balytska landed in Toronto last December, she was immediately shocked by the cost of groceries.
“I was so terrified that I bought only like two ramens because of the prices,” she said.
Given that two of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s signature policies — reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing Canada’s immigration levels are in conflict with one another — the federal government needs to explain to Canadians how it intends to square that circle.
” …The rapid population growth went a little under the radar because it was not just an increase in permanent immigrants. The number of temporary residents has ballooned. In 2015, there were 352,325 international students. In 2021, the number was 617,250. The following year, 2022, it was 807,260. But there weren’t a lot more student residences and apartments for rent.”
There is no quick fix and they have no plan.
Let them smoke stogies!
For Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, it has been a week of Prince Edward Island mussels, lobster, summer strolls along the picturesque Charlottetown boardwalk and, of course, puffing on the finest cigars.
Much has been made of the federal government’s ban of single-use plastics like straws, takeout containers, grocery bags and cutlery. Though environmentalists claim it was a significant win for the environment, the evidence suggests it will be a net environmental negative in the long run. Not to mention that it will increase the hospitality sector’s costs as it switches to more expensive alternatives. In sum, the ban amounted to symbolic policy, driven more by uninformed perception than reality.
KAMOURASKA, QUE.—The summer is almost over, and with it, the massive retreat of urban visitors from the rural areas that are Canada’s summer playgrounds. I see them from June until now on the Trans-Canada Highway nearby, the Ontario licence plates speeding east to Atlantic Canada, or returning back. They may be tourists who decided to pass on Maine or Massachusetts this year, or they are folks from “down home” visiting family and friends before returning “upalong.”
This is self evident in light of the housing crisis Trudeau’s liberal party created and its “effort” to solve it.
The Liberals will not back down on their mass immigration scam which according to their top thinkers will make everyone richer by making everyone poorer.
They know mass immigration will continue to drive up the cost of rent and home ownership.
They also know that no magic wand exists to create new housing and it will be many years before supply meets demand.
The increase in costs is naturally higher in urban centres that attract the most immigrants.
Unfortunately demand is so great the increase in housing costs has spread far beyond urban borders and now small towns feel the same pressures city dwellers do.
However the large urban centres like The GTA and Montreal also happen to be Liberal Party strongholds.
Strongholds they’ll need in order to form yet another minority government with Sell-Out Singh.
Do you think the Liberals are going to trash the Home Equity their most consistent supporters have accrued?
Me neither.
Trudeau’s cronies know their cue: Toronto-area home building shifts into low gear as developers pause or cancel projects
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet in July, he explained it was because his government had a communications problem.
I thought that was spin. Turns out he was serious.
