Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada might help oil tankers cross Strait of Hormuz if there is a ceasefire, Carney says

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada might join efforts to ensure freedom of navigation in the Middle East if there is a ceasefire.

Reporters asked Carney on Thursday how Ottawa might get involved in efforts to reopen shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran has blockaded in response to the U.S. and Israel launching a war on Iran a month ago.

Carney says Canada is talking to allies about how it could help restore the movement of vessels in the strait, offering the clearest scenario yet of how it might get involved.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Carney says apology needed for Indigenous spying program

The prime minister said there should be a public apology for a spying operation targeting hundreds of Indigenous people that had the support of the federal government.

“Yes, there should be an apology,” Mark Carney said during a news conference in Halifax on Thursday. “It’s a reprehensible practice. Never should’ve happened.”

Carney was responding to reporting from CBC Indigenous, which revealed extensive RCMP surveillance activities dating back to the late 1960s against Indigenous leaders and organizations.

He panders as much as Junior.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

War is the worst time to find Canada — still — without a national oil reserve

Can Canada insulate itself from oil volatility caused by U.S. President Donald Trump’s illegal bombing of Iran? Experts say no. History says yes.

Iran’s retaliation against American attacks has disrupted oil supplies. Gasoline prices have spiked and left shocked Canadian motorists to wonder why their lives should be so affected by events in the Persian Gulf. Doesn’t Canada produce enough oil to supply all its provinces?

Yes — and it can supply them quickly, without waiting 10 years to approve and build a 4,600-kilometre pipeline from Alberta to New Brunswick.

Related …

h/t Clink

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With hindsight, incompetent former immigration minister says he would have capped international students sooner

Sean Fraser – almost certainly lying if his mouth is open.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser, who was in charge of immigration during some of the years Auditor General Karen Hogan found instances of fraud in Canada’s international student program, said with hindsight, he would have acted sooner to fundamentally change it.

The Opposition Conservatives have been calling for his resignation, along with that of current Immigration Minister Lena Diab and Fraser’s immediate successor Marc Miller, from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration Weaponized As Electoral Strategy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

John Ivison: Supply management set to spoil another huge trade opportunity

Just as turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, it would be unreasonable to expect Canada’s chicken farmers to elect for more open trade with the world’s major poultry exporter.

The chicken sector is, after all, one of this country’s supply-managed industries. It’s protected from most foreign competition, ostensibly in the name of domestic food security but also, whisper it, to ensure extremely healthy returns for producers.

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UNRWA About to Collapse?

With so much news—especially Middle East news—it was easy to miss this.

According to the outgoing CEO of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian People, Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA is on the verge of collapse.

Of course the Liberal Party lavishes our cash on them … Since fully restoring funding in 2016 (after a temporary cut), total pledges have exceeded $200 million CAD

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Perennial laggard Canada now the equal of Albania after clearing NATO’s 2% bar

Canada crossed the politically significant threshold of meeting NATO’s defence spending benchmark of two per cent of gross domestic product, according to the Western alliance’s annual secretary general’s report and compilation of statistics released on Thursday.

It is the first time since the late 1980s — toward the end of the Cold War — that the country has met the target, which has in recent years taken on enormous political and symbolic significance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NATO

GOLDSTEIN: Wishful thinking by the Liberals damaged our economy

When it comes to energy policy, Canada is under duress from two decades of Liberal governments that — to reverse the popular phrase from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Davos speech — treated the world “as they wished it to be, not as it is.”

The Liberals wished for the world to run on wind, solar power and biomass, while in the real world it runs on oil, natural gas and coal.

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Who is Hamdi Lataj, the Balkan ex-bank burglar living large among Canada’s A-listers?

Hamdi Lataj is a convicted bank burglar who police suspected once trafficked drugs with Mexican kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and who was targeted in an illegal gambling and money-laundering case involving alleged members of Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta mafia.

Today, he lists his address as being in one of Toronto’s most exclusive condo towers. He sits courtside at Raptors games, poses online with luxury cars and has appeared in a music video with one of Canada’s most famous musicians.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

‘We’re taking back control’: Carney defends his record on immigration after damning auditor report

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney defended his government’s record on immigration on Wednesday, following a report from the auditor general this week that showed the international student program lacked proper controls.

“We’re taking back control on immigration,” said Carney, on his way into a cabinet meeting.

He’s lying. Lying is all he ever does.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration Weaponized As Electoral Strategy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Amy Hamm: Oh great, Carney is giving the Anti-Hate Network a say over what speech to restrict

Not a day goes by that Prime Minister Mark Carney doesn’t further prove that he is cut from the same cloth as his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.

This was made evident last week when the federal government appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) to contest the decisions of two lower courts, which ruled that Trudeau’s 2022 invocation of the Emergencies Act was unlawful.

Bullshit.

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CHARLEBOIS: Taxing food Is immoral — Manitoba just proved it doesn’t have to be

Taxing food disproportionately punishes those with the least flexibility. It’s not just inefficient—it’s fundamentally wrong

Manitoba’s decision to remove the provincial sales tax (PST) from all groceries is a sound policy move — though perhaps not for the reasons many assume. What makes this announcement even more remarkable is who is making it: an NDP government choosing to reduce taxes at the grocery store. In today’s policy environment, that is both unexpected and noteworthy.

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LILLEY: Numbers show Canada’s immigration system failing on all fronts

Canada’s immigration system is a mess in more ways than one. Over the last decade, the Liberals have taken a system that was admired around the world, supported here at home and they trashed it.

Support for immigration is falling across the country, and other countries now look at us as a cautionary tale rather than an example to follow.

WTF?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration Weaponized As Electoral Strategy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Mark Carney invokes Christian values as top court told religious beliefs don’t belong in government

OTTAWA — Right before Quebec vigorously defended its law promoting state neutrality and secularism in public services, Prime Minister Mark Carney stood at a national prayer breakfast and declared religious values can and should frame how politicians act.

Carney’s display of his Catholic faith Tuesday stood in stark contrast with a heated debate about the value of state secularism that played out an hour later at the Supreme Court of Canada.

Where Carney quoted from the Gospel of Matthew and from Christ’s Sermon on the Mount to talk about the grace and generosity that politicians should channel, Quebec’s lawyers argued religious beliefs should not be on display by public officials, saying the state should be neutral, and public services delivered without signs of any religious belief.

Carney a Christian? Please.

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