Canada’s Emergencies Act is culturally and historically significant to the nation.
Its previous iteration, the War Measures Act, was invoked only three times.
Two of those were during the First and Second World Wars.
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
Military recruiting issues may be ‘more serious’ than senior ranks letting on: Hillier
As the Canadian Armed Forces grapples with how to boost recruitment amid growing global dangers, a former chief of the defence staff is warning that the situation might be even worse than the top brass are letting on.
Current Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre has warned in recent weeks that, due to recruitment issues, Canada does not have the military “that we need” to tackle future threats — and that readiness within the CAF is “going down.”
Anand’s PR people must have dictated this article. It never mentions the CAF is now “Uber woke” and instead blames everything and anything including of course “right wing extremists” for the shortfall.
Never mentioned but reported elsewhere is that young white males, formerly the armed forces primary source of recruits, have ceased to sign up.
There’s nothing appealing about being sent to Club Ed for mispronouning a bitchy “superior” officer who’s complaining of PMS even though they have a penis said young white males everywhere.
McKinsey still can’t shake Dominic Barton’s reign of error … or Canada’s China Class at work
…. Mr. Barton, who served as Canada’s ambassador to China until late 2021, does not come off well in the book. Indeed, most of the scandals that have haunted McKinsey in recent years originated during his tenure – from its work advising Purdue Pharma on how to “turbocharge” OxyContin sales (for which it paid US$641-million last year to settle legal claims with several U.S. states) to the laying of criminal charges last month by South African authorities over McKinsey’s work for the country’s state-owned freight-rail operator.
Trudeau and Barton both enjoy the taste of Xi Jinping’s arse.
Canada Prime Minister Announces National Handgun Freeze…Or So He Thinks
Someone forgot to tell Justin Trudeau that he can’t stop the signal. On Friday, October 21, the feeble Canadian Prime Minister announced that handgun ownership has been frozen. No further purchases, transfers or imports of handguns are allowed. At least under officially recognized government databases.
It’s workin great!
Six people charged in four separate shootings in Peel Region https://t.co/6Z63qT9jf2
— CP24 (@CP24) October 22, 2022
h/t Mauser
TERRAZZANO: Trudeau deliberately lowering Canadians’ living standards
The rising cost of living isn’t an act of God or nature. Politicians are making it worse every day. You can find politicians who are making life more affordable for taxpayers. But those politicians don’t live in Ottawa.
Ottawa is raising gas taxes, payroll taxes and even alcohol taxes. Meanwhile, 51 other national governments are providing relief, according to a Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) report. That includes more than half of the G7 and G20 countries. Two-thirds of the countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development are also cutting taxes.
Ukraine war: Massive Russian strikes target energy grid – Zelensky
Russia has launched a “new massive strike” targeting Ukraine’s energy grid, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
He said the attacks were on a “very wide” scale, hitting Ukraine’s regions in the west, centre, south and east.
Nearly 1.5 million households were without electricity, Kyiv said.
But Mr Zelensky said most of the Russian missiles and drones were being shot down, and such strikes would not stop a Ukrainian military advance.
Freeland and Junior need to be told in no uncertain terms that support for Ukraine is contingent on dropping their economy destroying green-scam measures. The rising costs of fuel, heat and food will quickly erase whatever goodwill the public holds for Ukraine.
No one is buying the lie Freeland has been peddling that the Ukraine crisis has created an inexorable demand to abandon relatively cheap and plentiful fossil fuels for unsustainable faux-green solutions.
No one will long tolerate the needless suffering caused them by the Liberal Government’s childish environmental policy a scam now cynically imposed in the name of assisting Ukraine.
Freeland’s act of tearfully draping herself in the Ukraine flag is wearing thin.
I bet Freeland & Junior are wondering if they can convince the public to eat unrecyclable solar panels.
Canada’s border agency confirms it listed the wrong company as having received a $1.2-million ArriveCan contract
The Canada Border Services Agency has acknowledged it provided inaccurate information to Parliament and that it did not award $1.2-million in contract work to Canadian tech firm ThinkOn for the ArriveCan app.
The Globe and Mail reported Thursday that ThinkOn CEO Craig McLellan had written to the Canada Border Services Agency earlier in the week to express concern as to why his company was included in a list of 23 companies the agency said in a report to Parliament had worked on the ArriveCan app.
Chrystia Freeland is trying to limit Justin Trudeau’s spending. Will it only trigger an election?
MONTREAL—Fiscal restraint is not a feature one usually associates with Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.
The prime minister’s 2015 campaign promise to run deficits is a commitment he has more than fulfilled over his past seven years in office.
But as Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland prepares for her fall fiscal update, she has apparently decided the party is over.
Parliamentary Committee Votes Against Disclosing Unredacted Documents on Feds’ Actions Against Freedom Convoy
A special joint parliamentary committee has voted to block the release of uncensored documents that detail the federal government’s rationale for invoking the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy.
Sponsored by Bloc Québécois MP Rhéal Fortin, the motion that federal agencies “be required to provide the committee with unredacted versions of those documents” was defeated in a 6–5 vote, with Liberal MPs and Liberal-appointed senators voting against it on the night of Oct. 20.
‘Freedom Convoy’: Public safety minister stands by ̷c̷o̷m̷m̷e̷n̷t̷s̷ outright lies he spread about extremist elements after OPP critique
OTTAWA – Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino stands by his assertion that the “Freedom Convoy” had extremist elements.
A member of the Ontario Provincial Police appeared to question the claim in a document tabled at the Public Order Emergency Commission, the inquiry examining the circumstances surrounding the use of the Emergencies Act.
“I do not know where the political figures are acquiring info or intel on the extent of extremist involvement,” OPP Supt. Pat Morris wrote in an email.
With the ‘Freeland Doctrine,’ the Liberals say what has long been apparent to everyone but them
It is an axiom of Canadian politics that a thing is not known until the Liberals know it. Free trade was terra nullius before the Liberals discovered it, a creature of Tory myth that Brian Mulroney somehow convinced the public to support in 1988. As late as 1993 the Liberals were still campaigning against it.
But then they won power, after which it was suddenly transformed into conventional wisdom – one of those things everybody knows, and what is more has always known. By a similarly mysterious process the GST, balanced budgets and price stability, ideas once so barbaric no civilized person could repeat them, became familiar parts of the Liberal lexicon.
Tories Say Minister, RCMP Commissioner ‘Lied’ About Not Interfering Politically in NS Shooting Probe, Should Resign
Conservatives say cabinet minister Bill Blair and RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki “lied” about not having politically interfered in the RCMP’s investigation into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shootings, adding that they should resign.
On Oct. 20, the Mass Casualty Commission made public a recorded phone call from April 28, 2020, during which Lucki says she was “very frustrated” after her staff failed to include information about the guns used in the shootings in a news release and in press conference speaking notes.
Rupa Subramanya: Justin Trudeau’s case against the Freedom Convoy falls on its face
The Public Order Inquiry Commission began public hearings October 14, exactly eight months after the declaration of a state of emergency by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government. Let’s recall that the Trudeau government claimed that the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa were so dangerous that they imperilled public safety and this necessitated the use of draconian and emergency powers, that have only once been previously invoked in peacetime. The hearings give us an opportunity to test Trudeau’s claim, and so far the government’s rationale has all but fallen flat on its face. Of course, there could be remarkable revelations in the future which put a different cast on the events, but so far, a range of witnesses give reason to be highly skeptical of the government’s rationale and the narrative that fuelled it.
Why is a Trudeau government funded group attempting to demonize schoolboard candidates?
Every time the media tries to pretend that @antihateca is a reputable source, I'll be right here to remind people who the group's leader is https://t.co/Z9JvtwWcqF https://t.co/SuX6haAJ7a pic.twitter.com/K23tCwGtt7
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) October 21, 2022
When you’ve lost the Star … “nothing we’ve heard so far justifies bringing down the hammer of the Emergencies Act”
“… But so far it’s all about governments and police failing spectacularly right down the line. None of what we’ve heard supports the Trudeau government’s argument that the convoy protest, as disruptive and offensive as it was, presented the kind of threat to national security that would justify bringing down the hammer of the Emergencies Act.”