The profligate Trudeau government is proposing a tax reform to ensure fair tax contributions from all, but in reality it’s nothing more than a stealth tax hike designed to fill government coffers at the expense of Canadian charities. The tax grab is coming by way of proposed changes to the alternative minimum tax (AMT), and the country’s donors and charity fundraisers are upset.
The wheels are coming off the Trudeau government and the chorus calling for the Prime Minister to resign is mounting, including among senior Liberals. Senator Percy Downe, formerly Jean Chrétien’s Chief of Staff, said resignation would be “a prudent course of action.”
If Liberals need more time on pharmacare , NDP says it will demand ‘more results’
OTTAWA – The NDP says there’s still enough time for the Liberals to meet their deadline for introducing pharmacare legislation, but if the government needs more time, their legislative dance partners are expecting more results.
NDP spokesperson Alana Cahill says her party was “very clear” that the Liberals’ first draft of a pharmacare bill “missed the mark” and didn’t guarantee coverage for everyone.
So the Justmeet show drags on till 2025.
Riots are dangerous, undemocratic, and corrosive of trust and order. So when they become a significant form of political action, they warn that your system is falling apart. If you’re willing to listen.
Consider recent riots in Ireland. They seem surprising despite Ireland’s long troubled history because, outside Ulster, the Emerald Isle has over the last century been more dormant than explosive. But what isn’t surprising is the complacency of the political elite.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offended his country earlier this month when he asked Israel to exercise “maximum restraint” in military operations in Gaza.
“We were offended by the comments of Prime Minister Trudeau because I spoke myself with Prime Minister Trudeau just a week before [he] spoke to me about enabling the exit of Canadian civilians, who are in Gaza, and Israel has done its best and made it a priority,” Herzog told CBC’s The National on Sunday.
The Israeli president said Israel “truly” cares about civilians in Gaza and warns them of imminent attacks through leaflets, text messages and other methods to give them time to flee.
That putrid scent wafting across the country is the desperation sweating out of every pore of the Trudeau Liberal establishment in Ottawa.
We saw it all last week as the Liberals belatedly tried to score political points against Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives, who have been dominating them in the polls for almost six months.
Given all that has happened since — new and still-raging wars; diplomatic chills; everblooming fears for the future — it almost seems quaint to recall. But last November was still a dead-serious time on the world stage.
Mélanie Joly, the affable political survivor from Montreal who serves as Canada’s foreign affairs minister, was in Bucharest to meet her counterparts in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Just before travelling to the Romanian capital, Joly had released her Indo-Pacific strategy, a much-hyped blueprint that lays out how Canada will deal with rising powers like India and China in a massive stretch of the globe.
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OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the Conservatives of using a “frankly absurd excuse” to vote against the updated Canada-Ukraine free trade agreement, and said that “all Canadians should be concerned” about the Opposition turning its back to Ukraine.
Conservatives have dismissed any suggestions that they do not support Ukraine’s fight against Russia or that they do not support free trade, after they voted against C-57, a bill that would implement a revised trade deal between Canada and Ukraine, earlier this week.
What an ass.
OTTAWA — The Liberals’ cabinet retreat in August, focusing on the rising cost of living for Canadians, ran up a six-figure tab from just one government department, while any expenses from other departments have yet to be disclosed.
The Privy Council Office (PCO) confirmed it spent $160,467.17 on lodging and transportation at the P.E.I. summer retreat. The costs were disclosed in a response to an order paper question by Conservative MP Tracy Gray.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s fall economic statement acknowledges that the biggest worry keeping Canadians up at night – and, ahem, the biggest obstacle to Liberal re-election – is housing.
Introducing the mini budget, she said that Canada was always “a place where if you worked hard … there would be a home that you could afford. For generations, that promise was kept.”
But “for a generation that ranges from new high school graduates to couples in their thirties making six-figure salaries, it is a promise that is under threat.”
Justin Trudeau is in trouble. Canada’s Prime Minister, currently in his ninth year in power, can’t seem to do anything right lately. The Bank of Canada has blamed persistently high inflation on the Liberals’ fiscal policy, and the cost-of-living crisis across the country has Canadians turning to food banks at an all-time-record high.
As the need for food banks skyrockets across Canada, several in Ontario are reporting an increase in international students seeking help, with some appearing to be exploiting the services or unaware of how they work. Two Ontario food banks have even decided to close their doors to international students.
“Due to the increased visitation to the food bank in the last couple of years, we helped students in September but noticed that there was tremendous abuse and manipulation of our services. We have now stopped the practice of serving them so we can concentrate on our regular clients and refugees,” the head of a food bank in Oshawa told The Epoch Times.
A federal program allowing news publishers to claim a tax credit for portion of journalists’ salaries is set to increase, the Liberal government announced Tuesday.
The government’s fall economic statement announced an increase to the Canadian Journalism Tax Credit, a refundable tax credit allowing qualifying news outlets to claim up to 35 per cent of up to $85,000 in salary for a qualified employee.
