The Liberal establishment’s total paranoia about last winter’s truckers’ protest in downtown Ottawa – not some real national crisis – was behind Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act.
Canadians probably don’t need more examples of just how overwrought Ottawa’s ruling elite was about the “threat” from the Freedom Convoy. Nonetheless, yet another example surfaced this week.
I’m referring to the excitement, which some partisans found as inexplicable, that attended Pierre Poilievre’s campaign for leadership — the huge enthusiasm for his rallies and the great numbers that attended.
Ottawa is taking Canada on a headfirst dive into government censorship, with the Senate the only obstacle standing between Canadians and the vast ocean of government control.
Calling Bill C-11 a censorship bill is not hyperbole. According to Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa, the bill “would give the CRTC the power to set conditions demoting or applying warning labels to content it considers contrary to Broadcasting Act objectives, which are so broad as to cover a wide range of lawful content.” Geist warns that the bill would see government bureaucrats “force-feed” Canadian content to internet users.
Canadians who donated to the Ottawa convoy protest contributed more than $460,000 to Conservative leadership candidates — and many of them were donating to a federal political party for the first time — an analysis by CBC News shows.
A comparison of donations to Conservative leadership contenders up to Aug. 1 with the GiveSendGo crowdfunding campaign for the convoy protest found over 3,100 people who contributed to both campaigns, based on identical combinations of names and postal codes.
The lion’s share of convoy donors’ leadership campaign donations went to Pierre Poilievre’s campaign.
OMG! Convoy supporters donated! And many were 1st time donors! That must be against the law!
One of the more brazen instances of dodgy Khomeinist big shots coming and going from Canada as if they were just regular visitors and as if Iran were a normal country and not a tyrannical terror state involves the former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps brigadier Ali Reza Razm Hosseini.
.@barbaraslavin1, Look into the eyes of this young Iranian girl. Mahsa Amini is in a coma after being beaten by morality police for inappropriate hijab. Tens of women are in jail. Now listen to yourself again to understand why we are fed up with those normalizing our oppressors. https://t.co/P7iWGDtrny pic.twitter.com/COHcOmCvjH
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) September 15, 2022
In his first speech to caucus as new Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre denounced the “radical woke coalition” running Canada – a reference to the Liberal-NDP agreement to keep Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in power until at least 2025.
When asked by the CBC about the term “radical woke coalition,” Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault responded “frankly, I don’t know what it means to be woke.”
Eroding public trust in the RCMP certainly isn’t going to be helped by a recent revelation at Nova Scotia’s Mass Casualty Commission.
That is that there was a now-deleted recording of a controversial phone call between RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and senior RCMP officers in the province that raised questions about political interference by the Trudeau government into the investigation of the mass killing in which 22 people were murdered in April 2020.
I am a farmer from Saskatchewan. Our family has a mixed farm where we farm 5,500 acres of peas, faba beans, canola, flax, wheat, barley, hemp and we raise beef cattle. We also grow seed and have a grain broker business.
I don’t remember agreeing to this:
The federal government will match donations from Canadians to help the people of Pakistan, where a humanitarian emergency has been caused by massive flooding.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says donations made to one of the 12 aid agencies that make up the Humanitarian Coalition will be matched until Sept. 28, to a maximum of $3 million.
Emergency food, water, sanitation and health services are badly needed after monsoon rains over the last three months have left more than one-third of the country underwater.
More than 33 million people are affected by the floods and with much of the country’s agricultural land underwater, the Pakistani government is warning of an impending food shortage.
Canada will send another $25 million to Pakistan to respond to the flooding and support development projects.
International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan is in Pakistan now witnessing the devastation.
One of Canada’s top Mounties says there was a recording of a conference call with the RCMP commissioner that sparked concerns of political interference — but it has since been deleted.
Deputy Commissioner Brian Brennan testified Friday about the recording before the Mass Casualty Commission leading the public inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shootings.
Brennan said Dan Brien, director of media relations with the RCMP, recorded at least some of the phone call. Brennan was also on the April 28, 2020, call with Commissioner Brenda Lucki and high-ranking Nova Scotia RCMP officers and civilian staff.
Some Liberal MPs say the party needs to refocus as it prepares to go head-to-head against a new brand of Conservatives — including being “less woke,” according to Radio-Canada.
A handful of MPs spoke to the French-language arm of CBC — most on the condition that they not be named — as the party gathers for a caucus meeting in the coastal resort town of Saint Andrews, N.B.
The meeting is meant to underline the party’s priorities ahead of the fall sitting, which will see a new face leading His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition: Pierre Poilievre.
Monday, Sept. 19 will be a federal holiday for Queen’s funeral: Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Monday, Sept. 19 will be a federal holiday and a day of mourning as Queen Elizabeth II is buried in the U.K.
“We will be working with the provinces and the territories to try and see that we’re aligned on this,” Trudeau said at a news conference in New Brunswick Tuesday. “There are still a few details to be worked out, but declaring an opportunity for Canadians to mourn on Monday is going to be important.”
In Poilievre, Liberals face a leader who gets under his opponents’ skin
A few days before he stepped into a boxing ring with Senator Patrick Brazeau in 2012, Justin Trudeau rose in the House of Commons and asked the Conservative government about its support for young people.
James Moore, the heritage minister at the time, stood to respond.
“My colleague will have to wait for the budget tomorrow but I know that he is very anxious to please Canadians,” Moore teased.
That’s a great kick-off – Hey remember when Justin beat up the drug and booze addicted Indian?
Now more than ever, Statscan needs to re-examine how it measures inflation
… A new paper from MEI director of research Valentin Petkantchin and senior economist Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy argues that the year-over-year change in the consumer price index, or CPI – the figure we commonly call the inflation rate, which sat at 7.6 per cent in July – has routinely understated the pace of consumer inflation this year.
They calculated that based on a more timely “speedometer” for prices, the annualized inflation pace exceeded 10 per cent from March through June, topping out at a massive 12.5 per cent in May – nearly five percentage points higher than the official inflation rate reported by Statistics Canada that month.
Shame on me for suggesting a politicized public service would finagle the numbers to help Trudeau!
Heritage Canada will ensure multiple government officials review funding applications — and get better training on how to vet social media posts — following the revelations the Liberal government funded anti-racism training by a consultant with a history of antisemitic tweets.
