Any conversation about our standard of living must include a rational discussion about how high our immigration levels should be.
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
Lawyers sign “Free North Declaration” to defend civil liberties
Over the past two years, governments have launched “unprecedented attacks” on civil liberties, a new declaration from Canada’s legal community maintains. The Free North Declaration calls on lawyers to restore freedom and the rule of law or “risk losing it for good.” One of the signatories, D. Jared Brown, is a bencher with the Law Society of Ontario. He joined The Andrew Lawton Show to explain why Canadians must reject the “new normal.”
Ombud says veterans struggling needlessly as Ottawa ignores her recommendations
OTTAWA — The veterans’ ombud says many ill and injured ex-soldiers and their families are needlessly fighting for access to federal support and services because the government is refusing to act on a growing number of recommendations from her office.
In an interview with The Canadian Press, Nishika Jardine noted her office’s mandate is to identify systemic barriers and unfairness in how veterans are treated, and put forward solutions on how those problems can be fixed.
The veterans should self-identify as transgender refugees. That’ll get the Liberals attention.
GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau Liberals miss another climate change target
There are three things you can be sure of in life — death, taxes and that the federal Liberals will miss their next target on climate change.
After all, they’ve been doing it going back to 1993.
If Ottawa Wants Line 5 to Stay Open, Why Is it Dismissing Energy Ventures in the Rest of Canada?
Why is the Line 5 pipeline so important? Why are we invoking treaties and clauses in treaties, and pleading with Michigan to recognize treaties in order to keep this line open and the oil flowing?
Our very woke government’s inclination has been, since its inception a very few years ago, to walk in lockstep with all the proper opinion-makers of Europe, who walk in lockstep with the woke left of Berlin, Glasgow, Berkley, and Cambridge, and who demand we make oil production, and pipelines, completely obsolete within 20 years. Is it 20? It may be less, may be more, but obsolete nonetheless.
John Ivison: ‘We are bleeding capital’ and that spells big trouble, report warns
Canada’s competitiveness has been adversely impacted by fiscal and environmental policies that have reinforced the idea that projects cannot be built in this country
… Statistics Canada released its latest figures for the country’s capital stock in 2020 two weeks ago, which suggested investment increased by 1.3 percent last year, down from 1.8 percent in 2019.
But those numbers include government investment in things like infrastructure. Marion stripped out public sector spending to look purely at private sector investment. He found for the first time on record, there was an absolute contraction in our capital stock, as new investment did not cover depreciation – a calamity for a small trading economy like Canada.
Liberal weasels offer deal to allow select MPs to see documents on fired ChiCom Winnipeg germ lab scientists
OTTAWA — Parliamentarians could finally get a look at documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada’s highest security laboratory — which the Liberals went to court to keep secret — under a new deal offered by the government.
Whatever is in there must be awfully embarrassing.
Rupa Subramanya: Liberals pass the buck on inflation, leaving Canadians holding fewer of them
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, who used to be a business journalist and was accustomed to querying politicians about inflation, was recently asked about rising inflation in Canada. This is what she had to say : “The inflationary environment we are seeing in Canada today is very much being experienced around the world. Those are not made-in-Canada factors, and so it follows logically looking for a made-in-Canada answer when those are the drivers is to be looking for the wrong tools.”
GOLDSTEIN: Bank of Canada, Trudeau government, fuel inflation — report
Current policies of the Bank of Canada and the Trudeau government could increase and prolong Canada’s annual inflation rate — now at 4.7% and already at its highest level in 18 years — according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
“If central banks want to ensure that today’s higher inflation rate is transitory, they need to stop injecting unprecedented amounts of money into the economy and return to a more measured monetary policy,” said Steven Globerman, professor emeritus at Western Washington University and co-author of the report, The Outlook for Inflation and Its Links to Monetary Policy.
Unvaccinated migrants being welcomed into Canada at Roxham Road
The Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) has confirmed to True North that unvaccinated illegal border crossings are being allowed at Roxham Road, Quebec.
According to CBSA spokesperson Sandra Boudreau, the Canadian government is accepting asylum and refugee claims “regardless of their vaccination status.”
John Ivison: Trudeau Liberals attempt another end run around accountability
Erin O’Toole made light of Justin Trudeau’s description of the 2021 general election as a “pivotal, consequential moment for Canada” in his reply to last week’s Throne Speech.
“It was so pivotal that Justin Trudeau took his sweet time to bring the House of Commons back to be accountable to Canadians; so pivotal that three months later he has still not put in place the structure of government…
Joe Oliver: The Trudeau Liberals learn nothing and forget nothing
Talleyrand, diplomat and schemer extraordinaire, said of the Bourbons who ruled France both before and after the revolution that “They learned nothing and forgot nothing.” The same can be said of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his entitled coterie of acolytes and puppet-masters (yes, both). They have learned nothing from egregious ethical breaches and economic failures and they have forgotten nothing about divisive cultural wokeness and dysfunctional climate obsessions. (One thing that evidently has been forgotten is “deliverology,” which seems to have been a transitory enchantment. Look up deliverology in a thesaurus and you might find the PM’s picture under antonyms.)
More Government Workers, Fewer Self-Employed: What That Means for Canada’s Economy
The percentage of self-employed Canadians is the lowest it’s been in almost 35 years, while public sector employment is at its highest percentage in nearly 30—and neither trend bodes well for the economy.
Just 2.6 million Canadians identified as self-employed in October, according to Statistics Canada. This is a 10.8 percent drop from the peak level of around 2.92 million in September 2019. Self-employed workers’ current share of 13.6 percent of total employment (19.16 million) has not been this low since July 1987.
It’s bad news for all of us. The Liberal party have “hired” our ruling class. A predatory bureaucracy that sucks your wealth for their personal gain and votes LPC who ensure their place at the trough. What could go wrong?
A 20-year spike in inflation could put the bite on the Trudeau Liberals
Heath Krevesky is a self-confessed political junkie — and a bit of a nerd.
That’s his way of explaining why he’s been tracking his weekly grocery bill for years now. And why he’s worried that inflation is taking a bigger and bigger bite out of his food budget.
“In 2019, it cost me $9,826 to feed myself. In 2020, that cost of feeding myself went to $11,994, an increase of 22 per cent,” he said.
According to the totally unbiased CBC Justin is not to be blamed!