The Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms will sue the federal government early next week over its controversial policy of detaining travellers when they return to the country, which they say is unconstitutional.
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
Liberals’ Are Trying to Price Independent Media Out of the Market
The Federal Liberal Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault has been pressing on Big Tech platforms like Google News in order to supposedly get compensation for news websites that they are hosting.
Senate spends $150,000 on desks for staff working at home
A senate committee has decided to allocate $150,000 of taxpayers dollars so that senate employees can buy desks for their homes.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the Senate committee on internal economy voted 9 to 6 to approve the funding. It remains unclear how many employees will receive funding or how much each desk will cost.
They’ll turn in the desks when the pandemic is over, right? Oh wait, it will never be over.
Trudeau government won’t file NAFTA challenge over Keystone XL
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is rejecting calls for a more combative response to U.S. protectionism, hoping a conciliatory approach will mend relations damaged during Donald Trump’s presidency.
Trade Minister Mary Ng said in an interview this week she is focusing her efforts with the new Biden administration on mutual U.S.-Canada interests despite early policy hiccups that risk further fracturing ties between the two nations, whose commercial relationship is worth US$725-billion a year.
Now the EU screws Canada: Country runs out of covid vaccine after Brussels seizes veto over exports
Canada has been dragged into the EU’s vaccine chaos with Pfizer and Moderna both cutting back deliveries from Europe while Brussels goes to war on jab exports to rescue its own stumbling vaccine roll-out.
With no home-grown vaccines in Canada and no jabs being shipped from the United States, the country is reliant on factories in Europe to supply the doses.
Moderna shorts Canada again and falls 1.3 million doses behind delivery target
Canada will receive 82,000 fewer doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in the next shipment, leaving the company to fill a 1.3-million dose shortfall in March in order to meet the federal government’s targets.
The reduction is the latest blow to the federal government’s vaccine deliveries which have also seen Pfizer significantly reducing the doses Canada has received in recent weeks.
KUREK, MP: Trudeau pushing Westerners toward independence
Alberta has become one of the best places in the world to live, work, and invest in, even though the current challenges we face can overshadow those accomplishments. I’m both a proud Canadian and Albertan. I take pride in the knowledge that my nation has benefited immensely as a result of my province’s success. However, it’s clear that Alberta has not always been treated as an equal and respected partner in our federation.
Chinese state police now vetting visa applications for travellers to Canada
Justin Trudeau has made the Chinese Communist Party the official hall monitors of China-Canada travel.
Anyone applying to get a Canadian visa must first go through the CCP. And not just any government official — the Chinese state police are running the Canadian visa centre in Beijing.
READ: Liberal MP’s urgent “isolation camps” email to feds… from October 2020
Terry Sheehan’s assistant Sandra Paul emailed Dove Parmer, an assistant to Minister Anita Anand on October 19, 2020, after a local reporter contacted the MP’s office for information about an “isolation camp” tender notice on the federal government’s procurement website.
Libs want public ‘distracted’
One interesting aspect about a minority government is the ability for the opposition parties to out vote the government in parliamentary committees.
In Ottawa, we are seeing many documents being released that relate to how the Trudeau Liberal government has been responding to the pandemic.
These documents were released because the opposition party members on the Parliamentary Health Committee were able to pass a motion that these documents would be made public, against the wishes of the Liberal members of the committee, who wanted to keep them secret.
John Robson: Smug Liberal government is too incompetent to get vaccination right
You may think we have a vaccination crisis in this country. And if you’re not a paid or volunteer Liberal flak you may think it’s about health not PR. But it’s really a crisis of government competence. The reason they can’t vaccinate is they can’t do much of anything.
For instance buy sidearms or ships for the armed forces. Get guns away from criminals or tell criminals from law-abiding citizens. Decide when to lock us down or explain why. Deliver a budget or explain why they haven’t. Balance the books. Fix health wait lists. Maintain infrastructure. Be transparent.
Trudeau pledges billions in permanent funding for public transit
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plans today for the federal government to spend an additional $14.9 billion over the next eight years on public transportation projects across the country.
The funding includes $5.9 billion in short-term funding that will be disbursed on a project-by-project basis, starting this year.
The rest is to go toward the creation of a permanent transit fund of $3 billion per year starting in 2026. Money from that fund will be earmarked following consultations with provinces, territories, municipalities and Indigenous communities.
More death, more deficit: The dire consequences of Canada’s botched vaccine procurement
It is now clear that Canada is dramatically behind the rest of the developed world in immunizing its citizens against COVID-19.
One quarter of Israel is now fully vaccinated, and the U.K. has administered 13 million doses. But in Canada, procurement issues and late deliveries have effectively stalled our vaccination program after only one million doses; roughly the amount of shots that the United States administers every 16 hours. It’s now estimated that Canada will not achieve widespread vaccine coverage until mid-2022, nearly six months after the same goal will have been met by the United States, the U.K. and the E.U.
State actors have done ‘significant harm’ to Canadian companies, says head of spy agency – Trudeau’s Liberal government not named leading many to question report’s integrity
The head of Canada’s spy agency said today Canadian companies in almost all sectors of the economy have been targeted by hostile foreign actors — and named Russia and China as two of his main sources of concern.
“The threat from hostile activity by state actors in all its forms represents a significant danger to Canada’s prosperity and sovereignty,” said David Vigneault, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, in his first public speech in three years.
“Our investigations reveal that this threat has unfortunately caused significant harm to Canadian companies.”
Russia and China are certainties but how could he forget to include Trudeau’s Liberals?
William Watson: Maoism’s disasters show why Canada should ignore even kindly economic planners
Martin Ravallion of Georgetown University, who used to be director of research at the World Bank, has an interesting new working paper out that tries to estimate how much Mao Zedong and Maoism cost China in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction.
How China would have done without Maoism depends on what would have replaced it. Ravallion suggests that could have been “political capitalism” à la Taiwan and South Korea, two societies not dissimilar to China’s, with their “Confucian philosophical roots,” strong work ethics, reverence for learning, central importance of family, and so on. In 1950, after decades of regional and world conflict, all three countries were very poor, China poorest. But then the other two took off and China didn’t.