Apparently, the calls began early Monday morning, well before normal office hours.
The Sun’s exclusive on the massive expansion being contemplated by the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) for who gets into Canada as a refugee appeared online late last Sunday. Before the print edition had hit some doorsteps the next morning, senior staff at the IRB were already on a fishing expedition for the leaker.
Aside from COVID-19, the digital world will be a major focus of Parliament once it resumes this fall, with several significant pieces of legislation expected to be introduced — or reintroduced — by the government.
The Liberals have promised to table several major bills within the government’s first 100 days, with the clock beginning to tick following the new cabinet’s swearing-in, expected to be in October.
Among the bills is legislation to establish a regulatory system for social media platforms to combat harmful online content, and making digital giants pay news outlets for their work.
“Immigrants who arrived within the past five years commended Canada’s “fair treatment” of all groups by a wide margin, 78%.”
So says Blacklock’s Reporter-– no doubt an organization our Liberal government and media could live without. Talk about defying a publicly accepted social standard.
SAINT-SAUVEUR, QUEBEC — In the waning days of the campaign, Trudeau went all out to convince voters in the Greater Toronto Area that he was a “progressive,” a term that he hardly ever used to describe himself before.
It was a word intentionally chosen to hive off as many NDP votes as possible especially in Canada’s largest cities. It worked. Trudeau ran the table in the GTA.
Now, it’s put up or shut up time in several key files that help define progressive politics in Canada: women’s rights, climate, justice and minority rights.
The conservatives can hope that Trudeau veers so far left they can attract less crazy Liberals assuming such an animal exists.
During the election, Prime Minister Trudeau ran as a bold leader in the fight against climate change. Yet even if we agree that the voters have given Trudeau’s Liberals a mandate to enact policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, these policies should still make sense. Unfortunately, several features of Trudeau’s climate agenda do not accord with standard economics.
… A decision on Huawei’s participation is part of a broader national security review of next-generation wireless technology. The new technology is as much as 100 times faster than existing 4G technology.
But the decision had seemingly been stalled as Canada’s relationship with the People’s Republic of China spiralled during the saga of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou and Canada’s “two Michaels.”
One pollster said those events would make it hard for the Canadian government to now allow Huawei access to the 5G network.
Failing to block Huawei’s involvement would result in swift backlash from Canadians, in fact, predicted Mario Canseco, president of Vancouver-based polling firm Research Co.
There is no reason to delay Huawei’s exclusion. But Trudeau is the figure-head of Canada’s China class and he will protect their interests above all others.
It’s a common trope that foreign policy is never a ballot question. As riled up as Canadians got about Afghanistan in our recent election, research showed it had little impact on the choices they ultimately made. Bread and butter issues like childcare or concerns about climate change mattered more than how well the prime minister performed — or did not perform — on the world stage.
Oh yea, Justin will be right on this, as soon as the China class gives him the go-ahead.
A former Tory MP with significant military experience once told me that former Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance, who is the subject of sexual harassment and obstruction of justice allegations, was “a very good soldier, but a very bad boy.”
In an interview released this month, the last surviving architect of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms expressed outrage at the state of democracy in Canada.
Canada’s Liberal government has abrogated its defence obligations. Our military capability has been reduced through neglect and defunding, and Canada, with more coastline than any other country on earth, has a peanut-size navy and virtually no presence in the increasingly important Arctic. Canada’s allies, and its enemies, have taken notice, which will only serve to diminish our influence over international defence policy and participation in western alliances — areas Canada has historically played an outsized role in.
The Liberals say they will set up a facial recognition database within two years for 25 million Canadian passport holders, says Blacklock’s Reporter.
The program would see federal agencies compile a database of millions of Canadians’ faces.
“The department must have facial recognition system support capabilities in place no later than October 2023,” the Department of Citizenship wrote in a report.
h/t Marvin
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department has proposed “concrete action” to police news and information on the internet.
Despite Liberal attempts to censor the Internet, the vast majority of Canadians think online information is reliable and people can tell when its not, says the feds own internal polling.
Blacklock’s Reporter said Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department has proposed “concrete action” to police news and information on the Internet.
“A majority, 80%, believe the online content they consume is factual and truthful,” said a pollsters’ report.
The bizarre case of Kevin Vuong — the former Liberal candidate who won in Toronto’s Spadina-Fort York riding in a tight race against the NDP — is deeply troubling.
Though the recent election was mostly an expensive waste of time, it highlighted an emerging problem that all Canadians should be worrying about: China’s interference into Canada’s domestic politics.
For months, disinformation experts have been sounding the alarm about influence campaigns organized by the People’s Republic of China. In February, CSIS noted that China is aggressively targeting Canadians — a sentiment which was echoed by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, as well as civil society actors such as the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Canada was never a global superpower and, frankly, didn’t need to be. Where other nations had military might and economic weight to throw around, we had international goodwill, a reputation for doing the right thing, and an enviable relationship with the United States. Under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that relationship has now been squandered at the cost of our international credibility.
