Canada’s intelligence agency warned MPs and senators ahead of the 2021 election that their public conversations probably would be monitored by foreign states and that threat actors could target their staff, according to recently obtained documents.
“You are of immediate and constant interest to certain hostile state actors,” reads a copy of Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) talking points prepared for briefings with elected officials prior to the 2021 election.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada is “very serious” about reviving nuclear energy production to lower the country’s reliance on fossil fuels.
The prime minister made the comments in response to a question about Canada’s LNG exports to Germany during a discussion with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and university students in Ottawa on Monday. Trudeau last year said he wasn’t persuaded to advance liquid natural gas exports to Germany, which has been searching for alternative energy sources as it moves away from Russian imports after the Kremlin ordered the invasion of Ukraine.
That Fucking Liar is Fucking Lying again.
Thirteen billion dollars in government subsidies are going to Volkswagen to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Ontario. That’s what the Liberal government calls a “business case.” Thirteen billion dollars to build a $7-billion factory. Of course such a massive payout — bribe? — would only be provided for a “green” business case.
Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra drew the ire of the internet after sharing a video of male Canadian politicians walking in high heels to raise awareness of violence against women.
Violence against women is still prevalent in our society. Hope in Heels is an event that spreads awareness on violence against women while encouraging men and boys to be part of the solution. We wore their signature pink heels in support to this important cause. @HaltonWomensPl pic.twitter.com/5qngxQ6Myu
— Omar Alghabra (@OmarAlghabra) April 20, 2023
I ask myself the following question: how many foundations in the country have access to a room in the Prime Minister’s Building and also have access to five deputy ministers at the same time? There shouldn’t be many. Dimitri Soudas, political analyst and former close associate of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper
“I wish I had another example of a foundation that had such access. Seems like preferential treatment for a foundation that had the name of the father of the current prime minister,” he added.
What did Justin Trudeau know about this roundtable? Nothing, argues the Prime Minister’s Office. “Neither the Prime Minister nor the Prime Minister’s staff attended this meeting. The Prime Minister was not aware of this meeting,” said Alison Murphy, spokesperson for Mr. Trudeau.
Note – Google translate.
Canada’s apparent unwillingness (or inability) to meet NATO’s defence spending target has not dented the country’s reputation among its allies, one of the country’s former top diplomats told MPs recently.
But the longer the war between Russia and Ukraine lasts, the more impatient other nations are likely to become, said former Canadian ambassador to NATO Kerry Buck.
Buck made her remarks before the House of Commons defence committee on Friday — just days after a report in the Washington Post, citing leaked Pentagon intelligence documents, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told allies that Canada will not meet NATO’s defence spending benchmark of two per cent of national gross domestic product.
I suspect it was diplomatic courtesy.
The Chinese contribution to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation does not seem to me very worrisome in itself. A contribution of $200,000 from a wealthy Chinese businessman apparently closely affiliated with the governing Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China, is not an especially consequential event for a foundation that was launched the year after Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s death and was endowed with $125 million from the government of Canada.
American authorities used a legal tool that doesn’t exist in Canada: a foreign agents registry
The United States has launched a crackdown on so-called Chinese police stations operating on its soil using a legal mechanism that doesn’t exist in Canada, at least not yet — a registry of foreign agents.
U.S. authorities this week announced they had shut down what they referred to as a Chinese police station in lower Manhattan.
The criminal charges they laid were against two American citizens who allegedly failed to register their work on behalf of the People’s Republic of China.
Trudeau plays identity politics with our security in order to protect the China grift.
Why is Justin Trudeau sowing confusion about a foreign influence registry?
Asked this week about the need for Ottawa to create a foreign influence registry, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the internment of Japanese-Canadians in the Second World War and warned against the dangers of creating “registries of foreigners in Canada.”
It seems an unwritten custom that, each calendar year, Canadians must observe at least one Justin Trudeau vacation scandal. After a certain point, they start to blur together into an amorphous cloud of exorbitantly expensive stays, questionable judgement and MPs yelling at each other about it during Question Period.
The strike by the Public Service Alliance of Canada – with more than 150,000 members, it accounts for nearly half of all federal government employees – is being described as the largest in Canada since … the 1991 PSAC strike.
Of course, a lot has changed since then. In 1991, the federal government employed roughly 218,000 people (that’s the core public service, not counting agencies such as the RCMP or Crown corporations such as the CBC and Canada Post) for a population of just over 28 million: roughly one federal public servant for every 129 citizens. As of 2022, it employed about 336,000 for a population of just under 39 million: a ratio of one to 116.
Volkswagen AG caused a stir in March when it said it had chosen St. Thomas, Ont., as the location for its first battery plant outside Europe. Decades had passed since Canada had enticed a major new global automaker to build out manufacturing operations here.
But the revelations this week that the federal government had lured VW with subsidies that could reach $13 billion, possibly higher, cast the news in a different light. The subsidy package was carefully calibrated to match what Volkswagen would have received in the United States, but its sheer size has raised questions about the feasibility of building an electric vehicle supply chain in Canada.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his government’s move to spend as much as $13 billion into a new battery plant for auto giant Volkswagen and set the willingness to subsidize green manufacturing as a major difference between his party and the Conservatives.
You know in your heart this will be the Mother of all Boondoggles.
There’s nothing small about the $13 billion in subsidies that Canada has promised Volkswagen to secure the automaker’s first battery plant outside of Europe, but it remains to be seen whether the deal is enough to kick start the manufacturing sector’s future.
The rising sticker shock of establishing a manufacturing base for electric vehicles is, depending on who you ask, either a worthy investment to secure the next generation of auto assembly or a sign that Canada should consider giving up the subsidy race and not worry so much about the sector in general.
Average rents in purpose-built apartments broke the $3,000 barrier for the first time in the first quarter of this year — the sixth straight quarter in which Toronto area rents have seen double-digit year-over-year increases, according to Urbanation.
The situation is “very alarming,” even though rent growth has moderated, said Shaun Hildebrand, president of the market research firm, on Thursday. Rents slowed to 13.8 per cent annual growth in the first quarter from 15 per cent in the final quarter of last year and 17 per cent in the second quarter of 2022. The figures apply to purpose-built apartments constructed since 1985.
The Canadian prime minister has arrogantly thumbed his nose at the rest of the free world for years
Say what you want about former US President Donald Trump, but his insistence that all 31 Nato member states meet a 2 per cent target of GDP spending on defence was wise. This simple, straightforward request ensured each member was firmly committed to playing an equal role in this important military alliance. They would defend the safety and security of democratic countries from rogue states and totalitarian nations as a strong, united and cohesive unit.
One Nato member apparently isn’t willing to pull up its bootstraps when it comes to meeting the defence spending target. Embarrassingly, it’s my country – Canada.
