“My efforts fell short of my own high personal standard for transparency and accountability.” — International Trade Minister Mary Ng.
This is an interesting phrase. The standard was personal. And it was high.
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
The secret to success in Canadian business? Befriending a Liberal cabinet minister
This is a message for all the doe-eyed students studying at Western’s Ivey School of Business, or the interns fetching dinner for their bosses on Bay Street after hours: You’re going about things in the wrong way.
Yes, your tenacity is adorable, and many will admire your fidelity to archaic, largely disproven mantras such as “hard work is the key to success” and “opportunities are handed out on merit.” But if you really want to thrive in Canada’s relatively insular business community, there is one surefire path to success: Befriend a Liberal cabinet minister.
Senate says costs balloon by 70 per cent under Trudeau
‘This has got to stop,’ senator says as Red Chamber costs balloon by 70 per cent
The cost to run the Senate of Canada has soared by roughly 70 per cent in the seven years since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was first elected — an increase some say is unacceptable, given that the number of senators has remained static over the same period.
The Senate’s standing committee on internal economy, budgets and administration (CIBA), the body of senators that governs the upper house, adopted a budget Thursday that will cost Canadian taxpayers $126.7 million in the 2023-24 fiscal year.
In 2015-16, the last year before Trudeau’s reforms to the Red Chamber, Senate expenditures were $74.5 million.
Chinese interference: What government documents tell us about election meddling
Government documents released earlier this week confirm that the Privy Council Office, the nerve centre of the federal bureaucracy which supports Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, had signs of Beijing’s alleged attempts to interfere with the 2019 general election.
Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair acknowledged having seen the 2020 memo while he was public safety minister to reporters on Friday, adding that its determinations “certainly” played a role in shaping increased government focus on electoral interference.
Trudeau government tells the rest of us to buy EVs when they won’t
If you think the whole country should be moving to electric vehicles and you run the country, don’t you think you’d order the government to buy electric?
That’s probably what most people would do, but the Trudeau Liberals seem to like sizzle more than they like steak.
How Stupid Is The Trudeau Government? They Take Shit From A Communist Chinese 5th Columnist Member Of The Senate
Senator @YuenPauWoo claims anti-China witch hunt, demands feds counter “irresponsible speculation” by #cdnmedia over Communist interference in elections. https://t.co/nVTDcQ4uXS #cdnpoli @ScooperCooper pic.twitter.com/mH8D28FrwY
— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) December 16, 2022
h/t OntarioJohn
Trudeau Responds to Privy Council Document Citing ‘Active Foreign Interference Network’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded today to questions about a 2020 briefing document from the Privy Council Office (PCO) that mentioned an “active foreign interference network,” which was linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during Canada’s 2019 federal election.
Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa that the federal government has been aware of foreign interference attempts in Canadian society “for a long time.”
“Foreign interference is a real thing, against our institutions, against communities, against Canadians,” he said on Dec. 14.
He would know, his handlers placed them there.
‘Canada is not broken’ says clueless asshat who broke it
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went hard after his Conservative rival in a speech to Liberals on Wednesday night, taking aim directly at Pierre Poilievre’s declaration that Canada “is broken.”
“Canada is not broken,” Trudeau said to a crowd of more than 2,000 Liberal Party members at their first in-person national Christmas party since pre-pandemic times.
“Mr. Poilievre might choose to undermine our democracy by amplifying conspiracy theories. He might decide to run away from journalists when they ask him tough questions. That’s how he brands himself. That’s his choice. But, when he says that Canada is broken, that’s where we draw the line,” Trudeau said to applause.
Is this really what could torpedo Justin Trudeau’s minority government in 2023?
Two large figures in the New Democratic Party — the current leader and the former one — have raised the spectre of a looming health-care election in 2023.
It’s Christmas, not Halloween. Does either NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh or ex-leader Thomas Mulcair really want to scare Canadians as they head toward the holidays and a new year?
Here is a spoiler alert: No, Canada is not likely to plunge into an election over health care next year. It may well be that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s governing deal with the New
Democrats will become more fragile in 2023 — and maybe even fall apart — but health care is probably not the breaking point.
I see no reason for the Staritza to be so panicked. Jaggy knows he’s reached his Peak.
Communist Chinese Regime ‘Regularly’ Attempts to Interfere in Canada, Says Minister Leblanc
The issue of foreign interference in elections was examined in a Commons committee on Dec. 13, with Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic Leblanc addressing China’s role in Canadian society at large.
“The Chinese government regularly attempts to interfere in various aspects of Canadian society, elections would not be excluded from some of their efforts to interfere,” Leblanc told the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.
Terry Glavin: Trudeau and other environmental ‘colonialists’ set their sights on the Third World
It’s a harsh judgment, but it’s not without evidence that several human rights organizations have described the overarching objective championed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and several mainline environmental organizations leading the agenda at the COP15 summit in Montreal as racist and profoundly unscientific.
WARMINGTON: Musk tweets Trudeau’s new online bill could ‘muzzle’ Canadians’ free speech
The man who was up until recently considered the world’s richest man has fired another Twitter shot over the bow of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new online content bill.
“Sounds like an attempt to muzzle the voice of the people of Canada,” Twitter owner Elon Musk said in a tweet sent out early Wednesday morning to his 121 million followers.
More money woes: Your take-home income will decrease next month due to a tax hike
Next month, you’ll see a dip in your take-home income due to a tax hike — that is, unless your employer takes extra steps to prevent it.
“The upcoming 2023 increase in payroll taxes will mean every Canadian worker will see up to $305 less in take-home income on January 1, unless their employer is able to make up the difference,” the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) said in a press release.
h/t DM
RCMP visit Communist Chinese Outpost in Richmond in investigation into Chinese ‘police’ stations
A friendship society in Richmond, B.C., has become a focus in an RCMP investigation into allegations of secret Chinese “police” stations operating in Canada.
Officers visited the Canada Wenzhou Friendship Society on Saturday and conducted interviews with people who live nearby in the suburb south of Vancouver.
CBC spoke with neighbours who confirmed RCMP officers spoke with them, asking if they’d seen anything suspicious, and a marked cruiser was still parked outside the building on Tuesday.
Joly doesn’t have ‘any form of information’ on 11 Liberal MPs targeted in Chinese interference campaign
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly testified during a Monday afternoon committee meeting that she has no idea about the names of the 11 Liberal MPs allegedly targeted by an election interference attempt by the Chinese government during the 2019 election.