Of course Premier Danielle Smith’s proposal to separate Alberta from the Canada Pension Plan should be abandoned. Such a move would be bad for the CPP, bad for Alberta pensioners and bad for the country.
Of course Premier Scott Moe’s decision to stop collecting the carbon tax on home heating in Saskatchewan should be abandoned. The tax must and will be remitted to Ottawa one way or another.
The British public accepted the Royal Family’s six-week-long summer sojourns as long as they were taken at a gloomy, cold castle in the rainy Scottish Highlands.
Similarly, the Canadian public is amenable to their prime ministers taking vacation time, as long as they don’t look like they are having fun.
Liberal graft.
The next election is not scheduled until 2025, but so far 14 MPs have decided not to run again, including 10 Liberals, ahead of what some pundits say will be “the most difficult election” for the party since 2015.
The NDP, of course, is holding the Liberal government’s feet to the fire over a national, universal, government-paid drug plan. If the Liberals don’t produce one, the NDP might withdraw its support and bring down the government.
For all the annoying things that Justin Trudeau does, it’s his policies that are the most aggravating.
Forget his lavish vacations, his embarrassing foreign junkets or his habit of talking down to people, he simply has some ridiculous policies that hurt Canada.
From a polling perspective, 2023 was a horrible year for the federal Liberals. It doesn’t matter if the government was sometimes a victim of forces outside its control – it felt as if everything that could have gone wrong went wrong.
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) may draft a “code of conduct” for newsrooms as part of the Online News Act, cabinet said in a legal notice.
The Department of Canadian Heritage said newsrooms are subject to CRTC guidance on ethics under the Online News Act, which took effect Dec. 19. It will take several months to fully come into force.
“The CRTC may regulate the following areas: Creation of a code of conduct (and) a complaint process pertaining to how groups of eligible news businesses are to be structured and their conduct under the Act,“ the department wrote in a ”Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement,” which was first obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
Over the holidays, the prime minister stayed in a private compound at a luxury oceanfront resort in Jamaica that rents for over $9,300 per night that was provided to him and his family at no cost by longtime friends.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office is clarifying that he and his family are vacationing in Jamaica “at no cost at a location owned by family friends,” after initially saying the family was paying for their stay.
The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on Wednesday that the federal ethics commissioner was consulted “on these details prior to the travel to ensure that the rules were followed.”
The office offered the clarification the day before Trudeau’s holiday on the Caribbean island is set to conclude. He is there with Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and their three children.
Par for the course Junior is a compulsive liar.
h/t Mauser
The Ottawa-based Macdonald-Laurier Institute has named Steven Guilbeault, federal minister of environment and climate change, its 2023 policy-maker of the year. “Ruthless, reckless and damaging,” the cover of the latest issue of MLI’s Inside Policy magazine calls him, announcing its choice.
Standing out for reckless and damaging policy-making is a real achievement in a government now famous for policy disasters. Its economic policy has created crises of unaffordability and stagnation; its foreign policy was recently praised by terror group Hamas ; and its social policy has descended into a parody of wokeness, with international headlines mocking Ottawa for providing free feminine hygiene products in men’s washrooms on Parliament Hill and instructing all federally regulated workplaces to do the same — since providing them only to women would not be equitable.
Among the tectonic forces enfeebling Canada at the moment in ways we haven’t seen in generations, there are a couple of things we’d all do well to start talking about openly and honestly in 2024, while we still can. Or rather, if we still can. Unfortunately, Canada’s political class seems disinclined to engage in a grown-up conversation about either of them: immigration and housing.
Canada continues to provide millions in foreign aid to communist China despite a deteriorating bilateral relationship and calls from MPs to cut financial support to the regime.
So much for her claims about riding her bike and taking public transit.
Access to Information records show that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has been billing thousands of dollars for limousines and taxis in the GTA, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
Lying is what they do.
Nearly one in two Canadians would prefer the next federal election take place before 2025, according to a recent survey conducted by Nanos Research.
When it comes to their preference for the timing of the next national vote, 46 per cent of survey respondents indicated they either wanted the next election to happen as soon as possible, or in 2024.
Over the last several years, senior federal civil servants have repeatedly expressed their surprise at Canadians’ eroding faith in government.
Do they not get out much and speak with dissatisfied, ordinary citizens? I suppose in their vacuum-sealed social and professional worlds they encounter very few people angered by the daily intrusions of government in their personal lives.
