Wednesday’s federal cabinet shuffle by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was about as big as any by a government in the middle of its term.
Justice minister out. Not shunted to an equally powerful position or even demoted, but out completely. Public safety minister out. President of the Treasury Board, out. Transport, too.
Conservatives are ‘stoking anger’, Trudeau says, following massive cabinet makeover
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to paint a clear choice between himself and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in Newfoundland on Thursday one day after the Liberals overhauled their front bench and assigned 23 cabinet ministers new portfolios.
Mr. Trudeau’s cabinet shakeup is taking place at time when the Liberals have been losing ground to Conservatives in a number of public opinion polls and while Liberal insiders say a shakeup was clearly needed just two years shy of the last federal election. When he unveiled his cabinet, the Prime Minister did not say the changes were as a result of internal issues. Instead, the Liberals are promising a greater focus on the economy and housing.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the big shakeup of his federal cabinet on Wednesday was about bringing “fresh energy” to focus his government’s attention on the affordability problems Canadians are facing.
But the shuffle — the biggest since coming to power in 2015 — is being seen by some as an end of the Liberals’ sunny days of yore. Here are four problems that are facing Trudeau that potentially played a role in the cabinet renovation.
The cost to Canadian taxpayers of mandatory quarantine hotels used during the COVID-19 pandemic has already hit nearly $339 million and accounting isn’t finished, according to figures disclosed to date by the federal government.
A Health Canada briefing note, disclosed by Blacklock’s Reporter on July 25, indicates that expenses for each traveller housed in a hotel for 72 hours were at a cost of more than $17,000.
But it always get worse …
‘Pain for Canadian Taxpayers’: Trans Mountain Will Not Be Profitable, Say Analysts
The cost of the Trans Mountain expansion project has reached the point where it cannot make enough money to cover its growing debt. That’s according to several analysts who have been watching the project.
Earlier this year Trans Mountain announced that project costs had ballooned to $30.9 billion—a far cry from the $4.5 billion the federal government paid for the existing Trans Mountain pipeline, expansion project, and terminals in 2018.
To say first what can be said: Anita Anand and Jean-Yves Duclos will each bring a reputation for competence to portfolios – Treasury Board and Procurement – that could sorely use some.
Dominic LeBlanc is a safe pair of hands to throw Public Safety to. Marc Miller will bring passion and commitment as Minister of Immigration. The choice of rising star Sean Fraser for Housing indicates what a hot issue it has become.
Wednesday’s cabinet shuffle proves that the Trudeau Liberals realize they have mishandled key files, in particular housing affordability, said opposition leaders, but they don’t believe the new ministers will change much.
“Justin Trudeau fired a lot of ministers today and admitted that his government is broken, but he didn’t fire the minister of inflation Chrystia Freeland, who weeks after saying that government deficits drive inflation decided to introduce $60 billion more in government deficits,” said Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, speaking in Timmins, Ont.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has fueled economic growth and plugged gaps in the labor market by ramping up immigration, but now new arrivals are straining public services and contributing to an overheating economy, economists say.
Since taking power in 2015, Trudeau has brought in an estimated 2.5 million new permanent residents, driving the population above 40 million.
Trudeau is deliberately changing the nations demographic. He hates Canada.
The climate-change movement is a powerful cultural entity. It does not affirm or negate the reality of its core narrative, which is for science to decide. Culture does, however, explain the power and prevalence of the narrative, the political and societal responses to it and the apparent willingness of many people to incur immense cost to avert a supposed existential threat, without proof of either its existence or our ability to alter its impact. In a new book available from the Global Warming Policy Foundation, The Grip of Culture: the Social Psychology of Climate Change Catastrophism, Andy A. West, who works for the Philosophy Foundation in London, provides an academic analysis of the phenomenon. Its lessons have particular relevance to Canada’s climate obsession.
Canada is run by a collective High School mentality with roughly the depth of darling Greta and it most assuredly is not a High School for the gifted.
Earlier this week, several leading members of Justin Trudeau’s team were asked which of the summer blockbusters they wanted to see first: “Barbie” or “Oppenheimer.”
The prime minister wasn’t one of the respondents to the Politico survey, hunkered down as he was working his own summer blockbuster of sorts — the major cabinet shuffle unveiled on Wednesday.
Canada’s new housing and infrastructure minister says closing the door to newcomers is not the solution to the country’s housing woes, and has instead endorsed building more homes to accommodate higher immigration flows.
Sean Fraser, who previously served as immigration minister, was sworn in Wednesday morning as part of a Liberal government cabinet shuffle aimed at showcasing a fresh team ahead of the next federal election.
Strong population growth through immigration is adding pressure to housing demand at a time when the country is struggling with an affordability crisis.
Canada’s home building capacity is at it’s limit and no you aren’t going to find enough carpenters to import.
There is no way enough new homes can be built to ward off the coming catastrophe.
The crisis in housing affordabily will have severe and lasting consequences for many families and singles not to mention seniors on fixed incomes.
This assault on our economic security will only get worse and tragically none of it had to happen.
Was there no one in Ottawa able to point out to the idiots that mass immigration is a primary cause of the housing shortage?
That mass immigration is not a magic pill able to solve all problems?
I am convinced they want the homeless crisis.
This morning, to much fanfare, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet. But while the shuffle might create a temporary distraction from negative economic news, absent real policy reform no superficial moves will reverse Canada’s full-blown economic growth crisis.
Consider that Canada is one of the only high-income countries yet to rebound economically from the COVID recession. Adjusted for inflation, average income per person was $55,677 in the first three months of this year compared with $56,183 at the end of 2019. We’re poorer today than we were 40 months ago despite the avalanche of federal government spending and borrowing.
If Canada’s population boom continues at its current frantic pace, interest rates will face upward pressure and the massive influx of people will significantly worsen affordability for homebuyers and renters, a new report from TD Bank warns.
And the bank’s economists are calling on the federal government to restore “balance” to its immigration policies.
That rapid growth has helped employers fill job openings and propelled Canada to become the fastest growing economy in the G7, but it is also causing “dislocations in other segments of the economy,” including the housing market, health care, social services and infrastructure, that threaten to undo the benefits, the report’s authors warn.
It’s pretty bad when even the porkers of Canada’s corporate class are saying STOP.
People can’t afford rent never mind even dream of owning a home but Trudeau always has money for Corpoarate welfare cases if it “advances” his green-scam.
The new Trudeau government rules to end fossil fuel subsidies, introduced by federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault on Monday, are proof positive that Liberals government policy is being written by eco-extremists in caucus, the bureaucracy and the environmental movement.
The definition of what constitutes fossil-fuel subsidies is so severe, so radical that it would be laughable were it not so dangerous to the country’s economy and to national unity.
Once upon a time bell-bottoms, mullets, and “Gestalt” theory were trendy. Until someone realized two fashion blunders didn’t cancel out and people had always seen patterns. Like this one where the RCMP is desperately understaffed.
As the National Post reported, “The force provides police to provinces across the country, but it is missing [recruiting] targets in every region, with vacancy rates up to 17%.” You might say it’s not a pattern, even with the Armed Forces also officially short some 16,000 members, probably far more. It’s just as ugly as the purple jumpsuit Burt Reynolds wore on the “Tonight Show” in 1973 that the state cannot protect us from internal or external threats, its most basic duty.
