Conrad Black: Justin Trudeau’s ‘great liberal death wish’

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Canada is apparently revelling in its status as the world’s most politically correct country. There are undoubtedly many Canadians who are embarrassed, as I am, by the amusement that the American and British media enjoy in referring to us as a people who are obsessively preoccupied with pre-emptively and aggressively making every conceivable concession to previously unheard of sensibilities, supposedly in the interests of being inoffensive. The Trudeau government over the last eight years has been almost entirely preoccupied with three issues, each of which is an inexhaustible reservoir of potential politically correct policy blunders. It has been tireless in exploiting that rich potential for misguided policy.

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Danielle Smith calls on ‘reasonable’ ministers to counter Guilbeault’s influence in cabinet

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the fact that Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault continues to spearhead the federal government’s climate agenda means the ministers around him will have to work harder to achieve a “balanced approach.”

“The fact that we have five cabinet ministers that we’re dealing with — four of them are reasonable, one of them is not,” Smith told host Catherine Cullen in an interview on CBC’s The House airing Saturday.

“I’m hoping that the four reasonable ones are able to carry the day because we can have a deal with the federal government that is good for industry, good for the environment, good for consumers, good for the planet, good for our trade partners.


Guilbeault is developing a Rasputin like prescence.

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Anita Anand ousted as Defence Minister because proposed policy update too costly, say sources

A reworking of the Liberal government’s defence policy update is underway after the document proposed by National Defence and Anita Anand was deemed to be unrealistic, according to multiple defence sources.

The Prime Minister’s Office is taking more of a hand in reworking the defence policy update, the sources noted. Defence Minister Anand tried at least twice to get the update approved but the document was rejected as unrealistic and too costly.

Anand had pushed the Canadian military’s position of a significant rearmament and reequipment plan at a time when the Liberal government is trying to get spending under control and finance major initiatives such as affordable housing and a national dental care program.

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Inquiry Into Foreign Interference ‘Complicated,’ Says New Public Safety Minister

Newly appointed federal Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says that calling a judicial inquiry into foreign interference in Canada’s elections by the Beijing regime is “complicated.”

Mr. LeBlanc, who was given the new portfolio while retaining intergovernmental affairs, made the comments shortly after being appointed to his new position in a cabinet shuffle on July 26.

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China Watchers Outraged About Reported HK Police Attendance at World Police Games in Canada

 

The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) is reportedly sending nearly 300 members to the upcoming World Police and Fire Games (WPFG), sparking concerns among China watchers.

As reported by Vancouver Is Awesome, an anonymous duty officer from the public relations wing of the HKPF revealed that 287 members are being dispatched to Winnipeg for the event slated to take place from July 28 to Aug. 6.

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Colby Cosh: Small retailers will pay the price for Liberal crime policies

Since I’ve been complaining about our national myopia on matters of economic growth and productivity, let me give you a timely example. Consider two fresh news items pegged to an announcement of quarterly financials by the supermarket giant Loblaw: one for Yahoo written by Financial Post alumna Alicja Siekerska, and one for the CBC by Sophia Harris.

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GUNTER: Liberal bail reforms directly tied to soaring violent crime rates

“I am really, really concerned about the escalation of violence in our city, particularly the violent incidents that we have experienced, whether close to the Belvedere LRT station, or the random shooting that took place in the west end.”

That’s how Mayor Amarjeet Sohi summed up his concern two weeks ago after occupants in a luxury car engaged in three separate shootings in our city on July 15 and after 52-year-old Rukinisha Nkundabatware was murdered in a random stabbing at the Belvedere LRT station the previous week on July 9.

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Polling shows Canadians don’t believe Liberals can fix economy, housing or cost of living

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals want their recent cabinet changes to improve their economic message, but new data show Canadians believe the Liberal government is the party the least equipped do deal with economic concerns.

An Abacus Data poll released just hours before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his overhauled front bench on Wednesday, showed the Liberals 10 points behind the opposition Conservatives. If those numbers held until the next election, they would virtually assure Conservatives of winning the most seats and possibly a majority government, but a deeper look shows the Liberals to be especially weak on pocketbook issues.

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It’s time for Canada to take its foot off the immigration gas pedal

The guy who cut my hair last week taught me something about the Temporary Foreign Worker program: It’s even looser than I thought.

Fixing that, and a number of other things that aren’t quite right about the immigration system, comes down to the Trudeau government. So, don’t hold your breath.

After Sean Fraser was shuffled from Immigration Minister to Housing Minister on Wednesday, he said Canada can’t “close the door on newcomers.” As if that’s what the government’s critics are calling for. Is it possible for Canadians to discuss a serious economic issue, seriously? Or is polarizing name-calling all that our politics has left?

The TFW is a worse scam now than under Harper.

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China’s Many Spies in Canada

For China watchers, the arrest of a retired RCMP officer for allegedly helping China with its interference efforts in Canada is not surprising, given Beijing’s extensive network of spies and agents in Canada and its ambitions for global domination.

Scott McGregor, a former Canadian Armed Forces intelligence operator and intelligence adviser to the RCMP, says Canada is particularly infested with a proportionally higher number of CCP agents compared to other countries.

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Ottawa can’t wash its hands of Toronto’s refugee crisis

Here’s a short list of things that Ottawa spends money on but has no constitutional responsibility for: health care, child care, new fridges for big grocery companies, and Gen Y tech consultants for small businesses.

Not on that list, however, is full-fledged support to pay for the rapidly mounting costs of immigration – borders and immigration being, when last we checked, within the ambit of the federal government.

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Conservatives are ‘stoking anger’, says lying Asshat whose policies were really responsible for tide of national resentment

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.

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The troubles for Trudeau that explain his huge cabinet shakeup

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.

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