Whenever Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his climate change policies “make the polluters pay” what he really means is that he’s making us pay.
While the PM strives to create the impression he’s only going after “big polluters” like oil and gas companies, he’s actually going after all of us, because we buy the goods and services — often out of necessity for such things as electricity and heat— that the “big polluters” provide.
Critics and members of the opposition have expressed concern over the federal government’s talk of potentially imposing additional taxes on major grocers. They argue that this move could worsen the affordability crisis faced by Canadians who are already grappling with rising food prices.
At the conclusion of the Liberal party’s three-day national caucus retreat in London, Ontario, on Sept. 14, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that his government is exploring various tools, including potential tax measures, to compel major grocery retailers to stabilize food prices.
At this point, “Gotta check with Katie,” is basically a Parliament Hill magical incantation.
She is the quiet voice that carries, the last person in the room, a first-name-only Ottawa main character.
Some prime ministers have employed their chiefs of staff as mercenaries for specific moments and replaced them when the situation demanded something different. Others have held their chiefs close for years as trusted consiglieres.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cares so much about how the cost of food is affecting Canadians, he is threatening to bring in policies that will either raise grocery bills even more, or bring about shortages — or both. Remember spring 2020, with the empty shelves and lineups to get into the Superstore? Trudeau apparently does, and with fondness.
Atlantic Liberal MPs say they want an additional rural carve-out on the carbon tax to ease cost-of-living pressures specific to Canadians living outside of major urban centres.
MP Ken McDonald, who represents the riding of Avalon in Newfoundland and Labrador, said many of his constituents feel abandoned by the federal government.
He brought their concerns to the attention of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the national Liberal caucus meetings this week in London, Ont.
Ng postpones ‘Team Canada’ trade mission to India amid strained relations
OTTAWA – Canada is postponing a trade mission to India that federal Trade Minister Mary Ng had promoted as key to the Indo-Pacific strategy.
Ng’s office has not explained why the trip, which was scheduled to start Oct. 9, has been postponed.
Eight and a half years ago, in January 2015, the Liberal Party’s 36-member caucus gathered in London, Ont. ahead of a new sitting of Parliament.
There was some reason at the time to believe their leader, Justin Trudeau, would be the next prime minister of Canada. But some of the original shine had come off Trudeau by then. And it would get worse for the Liberals before it got better.
“One of the issues we’ve got going for us, ironically, is all of these attacks and criticisms are putting him through tests that the public will watch him pass,” an adviser to Trudeau said at the time. “It’s an arc. It has a story to it.”
In theory the mass immigration & housing crisis’ alone should kill off Trudeau.
But all he needs is for his committed base to show up and a good showing by the NDP to squeak through with a minority government as happened last go round.
My theory and I do have one concerns home equity. Trudeau will bleed out support with each underwater mortgage.
If he keeps the mass immigration floodgates open we’ll never see enough homes to meet demand. Home prices will at worst stabilize at or near current levels and likely increase under this scenario. That will make a lot of home owners happy that their investment is protected.
Lots of homeowners reside in urban centers like Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. Cities filled with homeowners who also happen to be Liberal and NDP supporters. Civil servants, teachers and other such unionistas. Cities also filled with GST cut enriched developers and real estate investors. In short the Liberal left base and their corporate cronies.
Junior won’t care if he doesn’t pick up a vote west of Toronto so long as he holds on to power.
Nice try, prime minister. But likely too little, too late and too transparently desperate to serve as a realistic government-salvage strategy.
In a Hail Mary course correction designed to stop the Liberal death spiral, Justin Trudeau resurrected the ghost of rejected promises past, took notes from opposition ideas minutes before their release and delivered an empty ultimatum for excessively profitable grocery chains to stabilize prices.
It was a startling act of political self-preservation by the chronically inactive Trudeau, a realization that his iron grip on the caucus was slipping with potential electoral annihilation foreshadowed in the polls.
You read it here first: a thrilling announcement of epic proportions! An idea no Canadian newspaper has dared fathom until now. It’s entirely new; absolutely game changing. Prepare to be wowed.
Here it is: the National Post will continue to print columns on a daily basis. Our brand colour will continue to be yellow.
This is more or less the equivalent of what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Housing Minister Sean Fraser announced this Wednesday, just hours after Fraser teased unprecedented measures to tackle the housing crisis. That morning, he told media, “Today’s going to be the first time we’ve done something like this in Canada.”
Will Justin Trudeau’s plan to end GST on new rental buildings help tenants?
The federal government announced Thursday it will scrap GST on new rental buildings, a move the building industry calls a “game-changer.” But tenant advocates say it won’t make enough difference in a market where renters are often forced into expensive “shoebox condos.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would remove the federal sales tax on the construction of new rental apartments for the next seven years, a pledge he recycled from his 2015 campaign, as his Liberal caucus retreat in London, Ont., drew to a close.
It’s not going to help tenants. They’ll see no reduction in rental rates so long as Trudeau’s mass immigration scam is going full blast preventing supply from ever coming close to meeting demand.
All it amounts to is a sweetheart deal for developers. Expect donations to the Trudeau foundation to enjoy a bump.
The Trudeau Liberals now find themselves between a rock and a hard place on climate change they never anticipated.
The reason is that while most Canadians believe human-induced climate change is real, most don’t believe Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax is an effective way to address it.
… As Americans we have a duty and obligation to provide our lawmakers with information that may reveal emerging threats and any unlawful activities, both domestic and foreign, against the U.S. government.
Our overall concern is that it appears the Canadian government is enacting policies that are slowing chipping away at the freedoms, liberties, and individual rights of its citizens and therefore can have profound negative impact on our relations with that government.
It is no secret that the Chinese Communist party is making its mark both here in the United States and Canada. But, more-so in Canada because the people of that nation do not have the Constitutional protections, we in America have.
h/t RE
Canada has no chance of building the additional millions of homes Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. projects would be needed to restore housing affordability over the next seven years, according to the chief economist of Desjardins Group.
Speaking at a panel on the current housing market crisis hosted by the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto on Sept. 12, Desjardins’ Jimmy Jean said it took “not seven years, not 10 years, not 15 years, but 30 years” to build the last 5.8 million homes in Canada.
This issue alone should kill Trudeau but Canada is a pretty messed up Banana republic.
I doubt his base will abandon Junior and all he needs is a good showing by the NDP to remain in power.
The “Affordability issue” may be tamped down if home owner equity is protected by the ongoing shortage. This will be especially true of eastern urban centres, traditional LPC strongholds. People vote with their wallets.
Do not expect significantly lowered immigration targets, the emerging narrative is to caution against blaming “immigrants” when a made in Canada “housing crisis” is really to blame.
The narrative implies that criticism of an extraordinarily callous mass immigration policy that stresses all of Canada’s infrastructure to the breaking point is criticism of immigrants and of course that’s racist.
In short the same old same old – Canadian citizens are labeled racist whenever they attempt to stand up for their own best interests against the UNIPARTY and their corporate cronies.
This program aims to attract startups to Canada. Critics say it’s being used as ‘a backdoor way into the country’
They come from every corner of the world with big dreams and ideas, looking for a base and investment capital to plant the seeds of their startup enterprises — and potential permanent residence in Canada.
So much is at stake for their success — and for Canada’s Start-Up Visa (SUV) immigration program, which gives these entrepreneurs a pathway for permanent residence by harnessing their business innovations and brilliance.
It made for quite the study in contrasts.
Conservative MP Michael Chong was applauded by a bipartisan committee of U.S. lawmakers in Washington, D.C., this week for standing up for China’s persecuted Uyghurs and for shining a light on Beijing’s concerted strategy of harassment, intimidation, influence-peddling and political interference in Canada.
