Like thousands of others who have sought asylum in Canada in recent years, Apollinaire Nduwimana entered the country at Roxham Road, an unofficial border crossing between New York and Quebec.
But in this year of the coronavirus, the Burundian man was barred from making a claim. Instead, Canadian border guards turned him back to the United States, where he was arrested and detained with a final order of removal.
Merry Christmas taxpayers: we get the gift of higher home heating bills and gas prices, courtesy of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The Trudeau government recently rolled out new plans to massively increase the carbon tax while layering on top a second carbon tax. This new costly present from our federal government comes shortly after Ottawa promised it wouldn’t be increasing taxes.
I would not lump Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with strongmen like Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, Viktor Orban of Hungary or Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. They exploited the urgent need for government assistance caused by the pandemic to entrench executive power at the expense of personal freedom.
Trudeau’s objectives aren’t that malign and Canadian democracy would not permit an unconstitutional power grab. However, he did his best to avoid parliamentary accountability to an extent almost unprecedented in Canadian history. That it was accompanied by earnest appeals to progressive ideals and the defence of necessity does not detract from how seriously he breached the norms of responsible government and the Westminster tradition, dating back to the first Canadian provinces in 1848.
Justin Trudeau has racked up the biggest deficit in Canadian history in a matter of two months. Our deficit is nearing $400 billion and our national debt is a whopping $1.4 trillion.
To make matters worse, there is no oversight and no accountability for this historical amount of spending. Even the Parliamentary Budget Officer has acknowledged that there is a lack of information available to the public.
In the absence of anything more original to write at year-end, the politics of this country are discouraging; I lamented as recently as last week the failure of any visible and audible political leader in the country to offer even a slightly uplifting version of what the late president George Bush Sr. used to call ”the vision thing.” Political discourse in this country appears to be confined entirely to climate change, gender issues, native concerns, and the apparently invincible, bone-crushing advance of the juggernaut of political correctness. The entire citizenry seems to have been mobilized to hunt down, root out, pulverize, and incinerate any trace of the ghastly and abominable, ubiquitous bugbear, “systemic racism.” It is an “existential” threat. The phrase means that the social and political system in this case of Canada is rotten throughout, because of its inherent racist prejudices. In practice, many people who bandy this conceptually and acoustically irritating phrase about have no idea what they mean and if asked to think about it, most would say that they believe there has been a good deal of official racism and racially discriminating attitudes and practices in Canadian history, and that to a substantial extent, it lingers yet. This is utter nonsense.
I have a New Year’s resolution for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
After more than five years in power, he should take responsibility for his decisions, as opposed to blaming others.
A new poll suggests that although the Liberal government may have gained a slight lead in popularity due to its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may not be enough for them to win a majority.
The survey, conducted by Ipsos between Dec. 11 and Dec. 14, asked 1,000 randomly-selected Canadians aged 18 and above via an online interview which political party they would most likely support if a federal election was held.
Canada’s Liberal government under Justin Trudeau wants to move towards not only meeting but exceeding its Paris climate accord targets. This month he’s announced an increase in the carbon tax and a new Clean Fuel Standard.
Environmental groups have lauded the policies. “This is a serious and well-thought out plan to achieve our 30 per cent reduction target, but we will need to do much more to fully decarbonize our economy, which is what climate science tells us is the way to protect our economy and ecosystems,” Keith Stewart of Greenpeace Canada said in a statement.
Others however have said it will also increase costs for everything, as everything is transported before it reaches the consumer, along with increased heating costs for a cold climate. It’s also likely manufacturing costs will increase and the costs will accumulate at each stage along the production and delivery chain until the product reaches the consumer.
“Providing food for Members in the lobbies is a longstanding practice which was first introduced in 1991 further to consensus amongst all parties, food is provided in the lobbies to help support Members,” mentioned Heather Bradley, spokesperson for the Office of the Speaker of Parliament.
CALGARY — The NDP criticized on Tuesday freshly-unveiled clean fuel standards, after a government impact analysis said higher fuel costs will hit lower- and middle-income households hardest.
The Clean Fuel Standard, a key part of Ottawa’s climate plan, was released in draft form last week and aims to reduce the carbon content of liquid fuels, such as those used in transportation and to heat homes. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals say it will cut annual emissions by more than 20 megatons by 2030.
The chief executive officers of 68 Canadian companies that paid out dividends while receiving the pandemic wage subsidy earned an estimated $30 million in dividends themselves during the quarters in which their firms accepted the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), according to an analysis of share ownership stakes by the Financial Post.
Earlier this month, a Post investigation revealed that at least 68 companies that received more than $1 billion in CEWS — a subsidy designed to help companies that have seen their revenue drop significantly cover payroll costs and keep employees in their jobs — paid out more than $5 billion in dividends over the past two quarters.
The federal environment ministry predicts Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s proposed second carbon tax, known as the Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR), will increase energy poverty in Canada.
It concludes the CFR will disproportionately impact low and middle-income households, seniors, single mothers, rural Canadians, oil, gas and freight transport workers, single family homeowners, tenants and possibly other groups for which there is insufficient data, such as the LGBTQ2+ community.
Tories called out Ottawa for failing to decide whether Huawei should be banned from participating in Canada’s 5G network, and developing a plan to combat Beijing’s growing foreign interference on Canadian soil.
Conservative Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Chong issued a statement Monday criticizing the Liberal government for not responding to a motion passed in Parliament on Nov. 18 that requires the government to “make a decision on Huawei’s involvement in Canada’s 5G network and to introduce a robust plan to counter China’s foreign interference operations here in Canada, both within 30 days.”
Canada’s China class has earned a lucrative living selling Canada out to the CCP. They won’t give that up easily.
The Canadian government has released a database of businesses which have received the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) with WE Charity being listed among the beneficiaries of the program.
The CEWS was implemented by the Canadian government in April to help struggling businesses which have faced declining revenues as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic downturn.
Dozens of Elections Canada employees have been working all summer to figure out how it would collect and count millions of the mail-in ballots it expects to have to process if — or when — Canada holds a general election during a time of pandemic.
At stake: the very integrity of a Canadian general election could depend on how well a mail-in-ballot system would work.
