For a moment it was as if the prime minister had undergone a Damascene conversion. In answering a question in Parliament about health care, Justin Trudeau said, “We can’t throw money at it.”
But surely that’s been Liberal policy ever since they came to power. See a problem? Throw money at it!
New report adds to years of warnings about Beijing’s meddling in Canadian politics: activists, experts
… Dennis Molinaro, a former national security analyst and now a legal studies professor at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, said he is barred from divulging what he learned while working in intelligence on the China file.
But from those warnings issued in 2010 by Richard Fadden, then CSIS director, to more recent alerts, it is in some ways nothing new, he said.
“CSIS has raised it repeatedly,” said Molinaro. “We have this situation where … CSIS is warning that these activities are going on and we have no way of stopping them.”
Just under a decade ago, the Temporary Foreign Worker program was reeling from a string of controversies – over unpaid wages, the displacement of Canadian workers and the exploitation of migrants.
Justin Trudeau, then the leader of a Liberal Party in third place, penned an op-ed in the Toronto Star in 2014 that outlined a fix for the program. For one, he said it needed “to be scaled back dramatically over time, and refocused on its original purpose: to fill jobs on a limited basis when no Canadian workers can be found.”
But since Mr. Trudeau’s Liberals have come to power, the country has doubled down on its use of foreign labour. At the end of 2021, more than 775,000 people from abroad had temporary work permits, an increase of 92 per cent from 2015, and 600 per cent from 2000.
Fucking evil bastards.
Canadian intelligence officials recently confirmed that China is infiltrating and corrupting Canada’s democratic institutions. This needs to be fixed – and that begins with establishing a registry of foreign agents.
Global News reported Monday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, along with his senior cabinet members, were warned by intelligence officials that Beijing had funded a “clandestine network” of candidates during the 2019 federal election. Beijing allegedly transferred at least $250,000 to at least eleven candidates and planted several operatives who worked as campaign staffers. Beijing operatives were also allegedly planted into the offices of elected MPs in an attempt to control their policy choices.
The idea that releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere should cost money — known as carbon pricing — sits at the center of the federal Liberals’ plan to limit climate change, and now they’re working on policies to ensure that it remains in place in Canada for years to come.
Last month, Jonathan Wilkinson, minister of natural resources, told a crowd in downtown Toronto, that the federal Liberals plan to introduce a policy to ensure carbon pricing not only remains in place through at least 2030, but also ramps up during that time, from $50 per tonne to $170 per tonne.
Wilkinson made his comments during a question-and-answer session after a speech to the Canadian Club, saying that industry won’t invest billions of dollars to reduce their carbon emissions until they have “certainty” that carbon pricing won’t be abolished under a future leader.
h/t Shasta
Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland admitted her own privilege Monday as she acknowledged Canadian families’ struggles with the skyrocketing cost of living, after facing criticism over her family’s cost-cutting decision to cancel its Disney+ subscription.
“I am a very privileged person, for sure. Like other elected federal leaders, I am paid a really significant salary. I really recognize that it is not people like me, people who have my really good fortune, who are struggling the most in Canada,” said Freeland in Milton, Ont.
China and other nations are playing “aggressive games” with democracies, Justin Trudeau says amid reports Beijing is allegedly targeting Canada with a vast campaign of foreign interference.
The prime minister on Monday responded to a Global News investigation that detailed alleged efforts by China to fund a clandestine network of at least 11 federal candidates who ran in the 2019 election, among other allegations of election interference in that campaign.
Junior was China’s eager Butt-Boy for so long we have likely been thoroughly infiltrated. No wonder Canada’s allies no longer invite us to play.
Beijing says Toronto locations are ‘services stations’ to renew licenses – but China watchers say they monitor and pressure country’s diaspora
At a strip mall convenience store sandwiched between a hotpot restaurant and hair salon on the outskirts of Toronto, a clerk serves a steady flow of customers on a drizzly autumn morning.
In an office park a few miles away, a travel agent sorts through passports, arranging visas and booking tickets for her Chinese clientele.
And on a quiet street in a nearby suburb, a resident has grown frustrated that he and his family have been roped into an international row over a supposed network of clandestine Chinese police stations.
Canada’s plan for more immigrants aims to boost workforce, but experts say they’ll need support
A plan to welcome a record number of immigrants to Canada includes bringing in needed workers, but experts and employers say more could be done to help newcomers arrive and thrive in their new home.
… “If we don’t have immigration, our workforce will not grow,” said Anil Verma, professor emeritus of industrial relations and human resources management at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
According to the government’s fall economic statement, “Immigration is core to our identity as Canadians, while also being a key driver of Canada’s economic growth.”
Absolute bullshit. Propaganda designed to serve the corporate class who want as large a pool of wage slaves as possible. That’s what “growing our workforce” means.
Canada lags in productivity because a low dollar and depressed wages serve as subsidies to business. Automation is making its impact felt in many sectors. Justin remains intent on destroying the oil and gas sector despites Freeland’s “Friend shoring” Happy Talk. And the Bank of Canada has told corporate Canada to hold down wages – so they can fight inflation, on the backs of the poor. Are all these immigrants going to learn to code?
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— DouglasTodd (@DouglasTodd) November 5, 2022
There will be more pain at the pumps.
High gas prices are expected to continue into 2023, a research group says.
Consumers can expect fuel prices to remain high in 2023 because of disruptions to Russian oil supplies and because refineries are struggling to meet demand as the world recovers from the pandemic, research group Wood Mackenzie says.
Canadian support for climate change initiatives lags ahead of COP27: Ipsos
Ahead of the COP27 forum, Canada appears to rank near the bottom of 34 countries when it comes to public support for measures to help tackle climate change, a new poll suggests.
When asked about support for a range of initiatives governments could propose, such as subsidies for clean technology and providing incentives to invest in green financial products, Ipsos polling of citizens from 34 countries indicates support among Canadians ranks between the 27th and 31st spots.
Canadians should feel great about a reduced standard of living and lost freedom if it means Communist China can burn all the coal it wants!
Hot on the heels of imposing the most aggressive attack on the right to keep and bear arms in Canadian history, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is racing towards another set of ghastly goals.
Given the leftist bent of the Canadian House of Commons and Senate, a bill that claims for the central government the power to control information online – to the extent of censoring personal user content on social media — creeps closer to passage, as Trudeau openly and enthusiastically has anticipated.
The bill is called C-11, and, coming on the heels of Canada’s 2017 imposition of Bill C-16 — which punishes anyone in a “regulated business” (meaning, virtually, all) for not using the pronouns a visitor demands – C-11 will syphon virtually all publicly accessible information through the government filter, eliminating the choice and market control that ought to be the purview of viewers, readers, listeners, and those who post.
Winter is coming and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax is punishing Canadians for heating their homes.
The carbon tax hits the essential needs of our daily lives hard. It increases the cost of gasoline, diesel, natural gas, propane and furnace oil. Right now, the federal carbon tax is set at $50 per tonne, costing an extra 11 cents per litre of gasoline and 13 cents per litre of diesel. It costs families about $8 extra to fill up their minivans or about $13 extra to fill a pickup truck.
This woman is a hero!
Chrystia Freeland:
"let's cut that @DisneyPlus subscription"Feeling the sting of inflation, Canada's Minister of Finance announced Saturday that she cut her DisneyPlus subscription for a savings of $13.99 per month, and encourages all Canadians to do the same. pic.twitter.com/SBvm5CE7sB
— NOT inklessPW 💎 (@inklessPW) November 6, 2022
h/t Mauser
A good deal of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s economic statement last week was devoted to the Trudeau government’s plan to make Canada a global leader in clean energy.
What she didn’t say demonstrates why the Liberals’ approach to clean energy is smoke and mirrors.
Food prices have soared to their highest rates in almost half a century, leaving many Canadians feeling more financial pressure at the checkout line and eating less healthy food to save money — something that could lead to serious impacts on our health.
Canada is now in the grips of a growing food insecurity crisis, with many low-income and fixed-income households faced with the difficult decision to either pay their bills or put food on the table at a time when even the price of staple items has skyrocketed.
