When it comes to understanding his opposition, Justin Trudeau has revealed he holds a cartoon caricature view of the Conservative Party. That’s one of the main takeaways from Trudeau’s year-end conversation with his longtime friend and former radio host Terry DiMonte.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is ending the year with fewer internal headwinds after some Liberals see the party regaining their footing and believe caucus anxiety over the government’s fortunes has eased slightly.
In recent months, the minority Liberals have struggled in public opinion polls, lagged in fundraising and been criticized for being out of touch with voters. Heading into the fall, Mr. Trudeau also faced internal woes with disgruntled caucus members raising concerns about his leadership and skepticism about his future after spending the summer getting an earful on the doorsteps. Four months later, that’s shifted.
A viral petition calling for a non-confidence vote against Justin Trudeau’s government has closed, amassing 386,698 signatures in the month it was open for Canadians to sign.
Petition e-4701, initiated by Melissa Outwater from Peterborough, Ont. and sponsored by Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri, called for a vote of no confidence and a federal election within 45 days should the vote pass.
h/t GR
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians gave Justin Trudeau a lump of coal in his Christmas stocking and they definitely weren’t wishing him a happy birthday.
As the Prime Minister celebrated his 52nd birthday on Christmas Day, an electronic petition on Parliament’s website came to a close.
No ‘silver bullet’ to fix housing as population rapidly grows: Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he knows young people are frustrated with him, and chief among those frustrations is the high cost of housing, which has left many young people feeling home ownership is out of reach.
However, Trudeau denies critics who suggest the federal government only began taking the housing file seriously in the last few months.
What a shitheel.
Right now, roughly one-in-10 new cars driving off the lot are electric or plug-in hybrid. By 2035, the government has declared that number needs to be … all of them.
As far as goals go, you can’t fault the ambition, but is it even feasible?
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And, if there are enough cars to go around, will Canadians be able to charge this massive new convoy of electric vehicles?
It depends on who you ask, but skeptics abound in both the automotive and energy sectors.
The Department of Immigration is conducting research on whether people fleeing the effects of climate change will attempt to enter Canada, as the law does not currently recognize “climate considerations” as grounds to claim refugee status.
“Canada is investing in projects that aim to strengthen data and evidence related to climate mobility in order to deepen our understanding of who is on the move and people’s considerations in deciding whether to move,” Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada wrote to the Senate National Finance Committee, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
I guess word was sent to make more bogus reasons to keep the mass immigration scam going.
Even though the Trudeau government has made no secret of dialling up immigration to historic highs, the latest Statistics Canada figures on population growth are still jaw-dropping. In just three months (from July 1 to Oct. 1), Canada added an extra 430,635 people – only four per cent of which could be attributed to births. For just the first nine months of 2023, Statistics Canada noted that the country had seen a higher level of population growth than “any other full-year period since Confederation in 1867.”
Trudeau says people are frustrated, but now is time for ‘doubling down’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he knows people are frustrated with him, especially the same young voters who helped propel his party to a majority government in 2015.
“Those young people eight years later are having trouble paying the rent, worried about their future in ways that are just as tangible, if not more, because of the global context we’re in,” Trudeau told Global News Ottawa bureau chief Mercedes Stephenson in a year-end interview.
“I didn’t make a promise that I was going to make things better for them and then walk away after four years or even after eight years. I said I’d be there to fight for them every single day.”
Only fools and grifters vote for Trudeau.
… The government says we need all these immigrants to make up for a shortage of skilled workers. Permanent immigrants fall into four broad categories: economic (a.k.a., “skilled”), family reunification, refugees and protected persons, plus one more category listed as “humanitarian, compassionate and others.” Economic immigrants make up about 60 per cent of the total. But how many of these skilled immigrants are being added to the already massive number of government employees? The answer to that question is alarming.
A recent Fraser Institute study found that between February 2020 and June 2023 government-sector job growth dwarfed private-sector growth in all 10 provinces, with the number of government jobs increasing by 11.8 per cent, compared to just 3.3 per cent in the private sector. The number of government bureaucrats increased by a whopping 446,000 over that period.
A key indicator to measure living standards has dropped for the fifth consecutive quarter in Canada, with the latest reading being called “unprecedented outside a recession” by the National Bank.
The bank’s Monthly Economic Monitor for December and January says that GDP per capita recorded an annualized contraction of 4.4 percent in the third quarter.
The indicator measures the economic output per countries’ populations. Statistics Canada said in a mid-November analysis that per capita output and business productivity are “trending lower” and below pre-pandemic levels.
After considerable flack Anita Anand deleted her tone deaf post featuring the Minister smugly standing beside a food bank sign. I get it, when you're a Liberal the impoverishment of your constituents is considered an accomplishment. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/LfyAdANVnW
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) December 23, 2023
The Trudeau Liberals have begun to find words to describe how they broke Canada’s immigration system, which was once a model for the world. But they have yet to start fixing what they broke. Instead, the breaking continues. At breakneck speed.
Statistics Canada’s quarterly estimate of the country’s non-permanent population shows it rose to 2½ million this fall, from 1.7 million a year earlier. At this rate, the number of temporary residents could grow to around four million by the end of next year – roughly 10 per cent of the Canadian population.
This is unprecedented. In 2000, Canada had 227,000 temporary residents.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start at the beginning.
Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West is speaking out on the latest population growth numbers in B.C. and across the country.
“My message to the federal government is they’ve got to come back to reality,” said West.
B.C. has seen a record-setting net international migration of more than 150,000 people so far in 2023. It’s part of a larger national trend(opens in a new tab), with Canada surpassing the 40 million population mark.
“The number is overwhelming,” West told CTV News. “You cannot build enough to keep up with the number of people who are seeking housing.”
Ottawa’s $5,000 EV consumer incentive is fuelling the import of Chinese-made Teslas to Canada and lining the pockets of a firm with no manufacturing presence in the country at the expense of companies that invest domestically, says a proponent of Canada’s automotive industry.
“The federal government is about to launch an EV market scheme that grants companies making cars in China and Vietnam with millions of dollars in credits,” said Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association president Flavio Volpe in a social media post.
