Liberal-funded pro sexual mutilation of children charity trying to ban Fox News

Jamie Sarkonak: Egale, the Liberal-funded charity trying to ban Fox News

The rights organization that asked the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to ban Fox News gets the majority of its money from government.

It’s an awfully lucrative funding stream for an organization that happens to call for the silencing of the federal government’s ideological opponents. While federal funding certainly isn’t a death sentence for credibility, it’s something to be mindful of — especially when that money is new, and especially when the recipient seems to align with government on many issues.

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To David Johnston: Canada needs a public inquiry

To David Johnston:

You have accepted the unenviable task of deciding upon the course of action to be followed by the government in the matter of Chinese intervention in Canada’s electoral process. You’ve been asked to review the findings of two closed-door panels that the federal government has set up to investigate Beijing’s interference activities in the 2019 and 2021 elections, and make recommendations that could include a formal inquiry, a judicial review, or some other process. That is the commitment that was made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when he appointed you as the independent special rapporteur on foreign interference in March.

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Pierre Poilievre may be on his way to becoming Prime Minister

Eight months after Pierre Poilievre won the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, the evidence suggests he is on his way to becoming prime minister.

In politics, nothing is inevitable, and by the time of the next federal election, circumstances could have changed. But if an election were held today, Mr. Poilievre would probably be on his way to whatever residence substitutes for 24 Sussex Dr.

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Canada Has Entered A Per Capita Recession, Quality of Life Expected To Erode

Canada’s expected to fall into recession later this year, but it may already be there by a traditional definition. Real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita data shows the country is in a per capita recession, one of the traditional definitions. These events are associated with an eroding standard of living, and it’s expected to get worse. Not just in the near term, but it’s turning into a long-term issue.

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Trudeau’s culture war on Canada’s symbols erases history

Remember when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explained his concept of Canada – not to Canadians, mind you, but to The New York Times – after winning power in 2015?

“Countries with a strong national identity – linguistic, religious or cultural – are finding it a challenge to effectively integrate people from different backgrounds. In France, there is still a typical citizen and an atypical citizen. Canada doesn’t have that dynamic,” he told the paper. “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.”

Can we bring back tarring and feathering?

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Amid the diplomatic row, China’s economic leverage over Canada is greatly exaggerated

More often than not, when China is involved in a confrontation – whether it be a military, economic or political row – it is assumed that Beijing has the upper hand, or that the country is in a more advantageous position than its foe.

Indeed, given the expectation that China will surpass the United States as the world’s largest economy in the not-too-distant future, the fact that it boasts the world’s largest military, and its history of rather successfully leveraging global dependencies on crucial goods to navigate disputes, it makes sense why China’s ability to out-escalate and prevail in adversarial situations is presented as a sort of fait accompli. However, this thinking is flawed and it certainly does not apply to Beijing’s continuing row with Canada.

Interesting as the impression to date is that Canada would be mauled by ChiCom retaliation and therefore we should meekly kowtow to Xi. Was that just the China Class crying wolf to protect their financial interests?

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Carson Jerema: Justin Trudeau’s cultural revolution

Since at least the time of the Pearson Government, one of the Liberal party’s central purposes has been to mould Canada into its own image, remaking national symbols to reflect the party while at the same time populating the civil service and public institutions with Liberal loyalists (hello Trudeau Foundation). Today, the Justin Trudeau Liberals are not merely content to put a party stamp on the country. They behave as if they want to, and as if they believe they can, remake society entirely by removing symbols and references to the past.

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Jamie Sarkonak: The CRTC is coming for the internet, just as Trudeau intended

Not even two weeks have passed since the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) was given expanded powers over the internet, and it’s already labelling valid points of criticism as “myths.”

It’s a bad sign. If the organization tasked with regulating online content is playing rhetorical games in response to critics in the early days, we can hardly trust it to be honest when it builds its regulatory framework.

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It’s Justin Trudeau’s government machinery that broke down in Chong case

The government’s story about who knew that Chinese diplomats were targeting a Canadian MP has gone back and forth. Each time, the upshot is the same: It fell through the cracks.

After The Globe and Mail reported last week that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had learned in 2021 that a Chinese diplomat was involved in efforts to target Conservative MP Michael Chong’s relatives in China because of his criticism of Beijing, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said CSIS had not reported that information to him, or to higher-ups outside the spy service.

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Poor planning and a ‘chaotic environment’: Internal report reveals Trudeau government’s blunders during the fall of Kabul

OTTAWA—Canada’s response to the 2021 collapse of the Afghan government was dogged by a failure to anticipate the rapid advance of the Taliban, poor policy and operational planning within the public service, and a lack of political direction and co-ordination from a Liberal government that was in election mode, says an internal government report released to the Star.

A redacted copy of the report, dated 2022 and released under access-to-information laws, found there are “many lessons” to be learned from the Afghan crisis response. The “after action” investigation was led by Privy Council Office (PCO) deputy clerk Nathalie Drouin and a small group of senior public servants with the help of an unnamed outside adviser.

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Why would anyone think the Liberals want to control the media? Oh, I can think of a few reasons…

Wait, so the allegations in The Globe story were true? Our sources were not partisan coup-plotters? The Globe’s reporters and editors are not credulous half-wits?

Or what else are we to conclude from the Trudeau government’s decision to expel a Chinese diplomat, Zhao Wei, shortly after The Globe reported he had been gathering information on family members of Conservative MP Michael Chong, a prominent critic of the Beijing regime, with the intent of making “an example” of him.

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Quebec government rejects Trudeau’s immigration plan, fears decline of French

MONTREAL – Canada’s plan to increase immigration is stoking fears among Quebec’s political class, who say the changes would reduce the province’s influence in the country and make it harder to protect French.

Provincial legislature members today adopted a motion declaring Canada’s plan incompatible with the protection of French in Quebec and that the province must have complete control over its immigration.

Premier François Legault said Tuesday that Quebec would not accept a big rise in immigration because of the need to properly integrate, house and educate newcomers.

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