Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s support for Canada providing Europe with liquid natural gas (LNG) to help it cope with looming fuel shortages as Russian President Vladimir Putin restricts gas exports to the continent is a great idea.
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
Sabrina Maddeaux: The incredibly incompetent Mélanie Joly
Something is seriously wrong at Global Affairs Canada — and it’s getting harder not to conclude a change must occur at the very top.
Not all cabinet positions are created equal, and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s is one that literally deals with life and death on a daily basis. There’s little room for error, let alone the displays of gross incompetence, dysfunction and/or bad judgment we’ve seen as of late. The job is simply too important. The stakes are too high.
Jesse Kline: Does Freeland actually mean it when she says she wants LNG projects?
It’s hard to worry about keeping warm when it’s 37 C out, but that’s exactly what the Germans are being forced to do as Russia continues to cut gas supplies to Europe, creating the prospect of severe shortages this winter. In Berlin, the lights illuminating 200 monuments and government buildings, including the presidential palace, are being switched off to save electricity. People in Hanover will no longer be able to take hot showers at gyms and pools. Residents and businesses are facing huge increases in their energy bills.
I think Freedoughgolin is staking out her leadership strategy.
Did Canada abandon Ukrainians on hit list risk? Tempers flare as Joly pressed on report
Tensions flared at the House of Commons foreign affairs committee on Thursday as Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly was grilled over a report that Canada “abandoned” Ukrainian embassy staff as the Russian invasion loomed.
The report, which was published by the Globe and Mail on Tuesday, cited three sources who alleged that Global Affairs Canada received intelligence confirming Russia’s intention to wage war against Ukraine — and that Ukrainian staff at Western embassies were among those on likely Russian hit lists.
Canada’s troublesome travel app now under investigation over privacy concerns
The Canadian federal government’s much-maligned ArriveCAN app is being investigated by a federal privacy commissioner due to a protest.
According to an email from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the office has “received and is currently investigating a complaint that raises concerns with respect to the collection of personal information through ArriveCAN and subsequent use of that information.”
Jamil Jivani: The collateral damage of Trudeau’s war on climate change
Most people I know are worried about climate change for genuine reasons. But there is an influential subset of people and organizations that are so ideologically captured by a war on climate change, they’re unfazed by the suffering of whoever gets caught in the crossfire.
Recently, Canadian farmers and Indigenous community leaders have been voicing their concerns over how the war on climate change is impacting their businesses and economic prospects.
Quebec firms will have much lower carbon pricing costs than those in other provinces until well into the 2030’s
The unfairnesses in carbon pricing
According to its advocates, carbon pricing measures have many advantages. They are simple, equitably applied, economically efficient and ultimately fairer than intrusive regulation and subsidy measures. Somewhere between the theory and the design of Canada’s climate policy, however, the theory got lost. Quebec’s “cap-and-trade” system is a prime example.
Health Canada Didn’t Recommend Travel Vaccine Mandate, Official Behind the Policy Testifies in Court
The federal government bureaucrat who wrote the policy that prevented unvaccinated Canadians from flying or travelling by train said she has no recollection of health officials recommending a vaccine mandate for travel, according to court documents.
Jennifer Little, director general of COVID Recovery at Transport Canada, made the comments on June 9 and 10 while being cross-examined under oath in federal court as a government witness in support of the mandate.
Ukraine’s ambassador to tell MPs Canada must reverse Russian turbine decision
OTTAWA — Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada will today make clear her country’s disappointment over Canada’s decision to allow pipeline equipment that was in Montreal for repairs to be returned to a state-controlled energy giant in Russia despite war-related sanctions.
Canadian Forces will train Ukrainian soldiers in the U.K. on countering Russia
Defence Minister Anita Anand says Canadian Forces members will train Ukrainian soldiers in the United Kingdom in an effort to bolster their fight against the Russian invasion.
In a press conference on Thursday, Anand called the invasion a “direct” attack on the rules-based international order and one that is extracting a heavy cost on Ukrainians fighting for their freedom.
Are Liberals making ArriveCAN permanent?
It’s worrisome the way the federal Liberal government is now talking about the ArriveCAN app for travellers. They appear to be positioning things to make it a permanent feature of the travel experience.
Canadians Are Watching Their Savings Evaporate
Any society that wants to achieve durable, long-term success must incentivize saving.
Savings represent both the ability of a society to be productive and generate excess value, and confidence in a better future.
Smart societies thus seek to reward those who save, because those savings are the investment that drives a society forward.
By contrast, foolish and broken societies punish those who save.
They reward irresponsibility and incentivize debt – often by making it nearly impossible for many to hold onto their standard of living without it. They devalue the national currency, destroy confidence in the future, and push a kind of thinking that is increasingly short-term and destructive in the long-run. They bail-out those who fail at the expense of those who succeed, and concentrate economic power in the hands of the state and those affiliated with it.
What type of society do we have today?
Liberal ‘Plan’ To Balance The Budget Is Based On A Fantasy
In the 2015 federal election campaign, the Liberals said they would run “small” deficits for three years, before returning to a balanced budget.
That promise was broken almost immediately, with the deficits far exceeding what the Liberals had promised, and with no plan whatsoever to return to balance.
Then, the Liberals responded to the covid-19 pandemic by pushing for draconian lockdowns, while extending support programs long-beyond the initial crisis.
The result was the largest budget deficit in Canadian history, and long-term projections of red ink as far as the eye can see.
GUNTER: Here’s what Trudeau’s fertilizer reduction plan will mean
On one side, my mother was the daughter of the Ford dealer and, on the other, the granddaughter of the GM dealer in the same small Saskatchewan town (which made for some interesting family dynamics).
No farmer, she.
Still, she used to warn that when the majority of Canadians no longer had any connection to farming, the result would be very bad for food policy.