As prime minister, Mark Carney makes Question Period a low priority

When he’s in the House of Commons during the daily 45-minute Question Period, Mark Carney seems to enjoy himself.

While it’s never shown on TV cameras — House of Commons personnel and not broadcasters control the visuals — those in the galleries will often see Carney smiling and joking with members of the opposition, including Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. Judging by his grins and applause, Carney seems to be happy when someone on his side scores a debating point against an opponent.

But enjoy it as he might, Carney is rarely in Question Period.

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MORGAN: Dirty secret behind Canada’s high food prices — a Soviet-style cartel your politicians are too scared to touch

From RCMP raids on Alberta egg farmers to a billion gallons of dumped milk, Canada’s supply management system is robbing consumers in plain sight.

Imagine living under a system of market control so stringent that federal police will swarm your home and arrest you if you try to sell eggs from your own farm. You don’t have to imagine it in Canada. Southern Alberta chicken farmer Henk Van Essen had multiple RCMP cruisers descend upon his property last year, and he was jailed for the crime of selling eggs without a government-issued quota.

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Conservatives put pressure on Carney to clarify his position on forced labour in China

The Conservatives have written to the Prime Minister to demand that he clarify his position on the forced labour of the mainly Muslim Uyghur minority in China after a Liberal MP was accused of attempting to cast doubt on the existence of the practice.

Michael Chong, the Conservative foreign affairs critic, wrote to Mark Carney Friday asking him if his assessment is “that Uyghur forced labour has and is being used” in China.

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GUNTER: Feds’ attack on notwithstanding clause an attack on Canadian federation

It’s too bad federal government lawyers were at the Supreme Court this week arguing against Quebec’s use of the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause in conjunction with that province’s controversial 2019 law, Bill 21. Also known as the secularism law, Bill 21 forbids the wearing of religious symbols at work by any public servant including teachers, nurses, police officers, even clerks.

It’s a Carney power grab.

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Cost of living hitting food banks so hard in Carney’s Canada that visits are limited to once a month

Food banks across the country are being forced to scale back services at a time when Canadians need them the most, due to limited supplies.

In southern Saskatchewan, the Moose Jaw & District Food Bank plans to limit households to just one visit a month instead of the usual two, beginning April 1. They will also reduce the amount of food handed out to each visitor.

“Our resources aren’t keeping up with the demand,” said executive director Jason Moore in an interview with CTV Newsthis week.

h/t Patti Jo

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Federal loan to Nova Scotia wind farm managed by firm owned by Liberal MPs family members being investigated

At hearings in Ottawa on Wednesday, the head of the Canada Infrastructure Bank refused to state the interest rate on the $206-million loan to a wind farm project that’s being managed by a company owned by the family members of three former Liberal MPs and a former Nova Scotia Liberal Party leader.

The examination of the deal by the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities was launched after The Chronicle Herald revealed that Roswall Development Inc., parent company to Renewall Energy, which will be selling the power from the Mersey River wind project, has deep Liberal connections.

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China denies forced labour allegations amid fallout from Michael Ma’s comments

Camp Uyghur

China is again denying claims of forced labour in the country as calls grow for Prime Minister Mark Carney to clarify Canada’s stance on the issue amid fallout from comments made by Liberal MP Michael Ma that appeared to cast doubt on reported human rights abuses.

The Chinese Embassy in Canada pushed back on the allegation that forced labour is used in the production of Chinese electric vehicle components in a social media post Friday night, calling it a “blatant lie” that some are using to undermine the Canada-China EV deal.

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Should Mark Carney be doubling Canada’s defense spending in response to today’s security threats?

Few policy choices shape a country more profoundly than decisions about sovereignty, security and military might.

Those questions are now at the centre of a debate triggered by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pledge to meet a NATO defence spending target of five per cent of GDP by 2035 and the government’s new defence strategy.


Oh Oh! – US president considers blocking members of military alliance from decision-making unless 5 per cent spending target hit

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Government Bug Bet Bombs: Ottawa’s investment in world’s largest cricket farm couldn’t survive ‘yuck factor’

The business of insect farming was supposed to grow big and fast.

In London, Ont., that promise took shape in Aspire Food Group Canada. Billed as the world’s largest cricket farm, it was a 150,000-square-foot, fully automated facility designed to house billions of insects and produce millions of kilograms of protein each year.

Crickets are touted as a low-carbon protein source, requiring less farmland than traditional livestock and offering the potential to address world food insecurity.


No matter I’m sure Liberal party pals made money.

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UN watchdog bashes Mark Carney’s ‘procedural theatre’ on Iran war

Few people can make tyrants look over their shoulder, but Hillel Neuer has built a career doing exactly that. The Montreal-born, Geneva-based lawyer and human rights crusader has become one of the most unrelenting watchdogs of the United Nations, exposing hypocrisy and defending the world’s dissidents in some of the globe’s most repressive regimes.

As executive director of UN Watch — the Geneva-based NGO known for holding dictatorships to account within the UN system — Neuer has been called “feared and dreaded by the world’s dictatorships” (Tribune de Genève) and “the most hated man at the UN” (Bild).

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Christians warned to expected increased hostility, persecution after bill passes in Canada

Canada’s top pro-life group, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), is warning that the passage of a Liberal bill criminalizing religious expression and belief when quoting parts of the Bible, including about homosexuality and gender, will lead to the “actual persecution” of Christians.

In comments to LifeSiteNews, CLC said the passage of Bill C-9 earlier this week is a warning to Canadians of faith to prepare for increasing hostility.”

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Federal memo links immigration policy to rising youth unemployment in Canada

A federal briefing memo is contradicting years of government messaging, acknowledging that immigration policies allowing foreign students expanded access to jobs — at the expense of Canadian youth employment.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the internal document from Employment and Social Development Canada cites an 18% unemployment rate among Canadian students and attributes worsening job prospects in part to a surge in non-permanent residents, including international students.

(Incognito)

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As International Condemnations Mount Over Liberal MP’s Forced Labour Attack, Carney Plans $1,775-a-Head Fundraiser Co-Hosted by Michael Ma

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney has gone to ground.

Two days after Liberal Member of Parliament Michael Ma used his time at the House of Commons industry committee to demand that a sanctioned China expert personally confirm she had witnessed forced labour before her evidence could be taken seriously — a performance celebrated by Chinese Communist Party state media as a propaganda victory and condemned by international Uyghur organizations as an affront to Canada’s own recognition of genocide — Carney has issued no public statement.

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A small group of Canadians are living it up. The rest of us are struggling. Welcome to the K-shaped economy

Job Fair

Abdallah Aban is taking a quiet weekday moment in the food court at his local mall, munching on a breakfast sandwich, sipping his Tim Hortons.

His wife and two of his eight children are at work in the nearby Amazon warehouse. But Aban, 60, lost his job there last year and has had no luck finding a new one.

The family is getting by, even though they’re no longer receiving the Canada Child Benefit now that the kids are older, and they’re finding food and rent expensive.


Abdallah Aban, his wife and eight children? “Economic migrant” I’m betting.

Only the Star could find a writer who features a primary cause of Canada’s economic downfall as the victim.

It’s a certainty the author is an open borders scammer having been a VP of the Business Council of Canada which advocates for replacement scale mass immigration. For the benefit of the economy of course.

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Liberals are tightening the noose around the necks of Christians in Canada

With the passage of Bill C-9 at Third Reading in Parliament on Wednesday, religious freedom in Canada feels incredibly fragile.

Since the Liberal Party took power under Justin Trudeau in 2015, progressive politicians and their LGBT allies have more or less free reign to implement their agenda, and they have taken full advantage of it. Conservatives tend to steward the status quo; revolutionaries run with the ball when they get it. Over the past decade, they have covered a lot of ground.

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