To David Johnston: Canada needs a public inquiry

To David Johnston:

You have accepted the unenviable task of deciding upon the course of action to be followed by the government in the matter of Chinese intervention in Canada’s electoral process. You’ve been asked to review the findings of two closed-door panels that the federal government has set up to investigate Beijing’s interference activities in the 2019 and 2021 elections, and make recommendations that could include a formal inquiry, a judicial review, or some other process. That is the commitment that was made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when he appointed you as the independent special rapporteur on foreign interference in March.

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Quebec government rejects Trudeau’s immigration plan, fears decline of French

MONTREAL – Canada’s plan to increase immigration is stoking fears among Quebec’s political class, who say the changes would reduce the province’s influence in the country and make it harder to protect French.

Provincial legislature members today adopted a motion declaring Canada’s plan incompatible with the protection of French in Quebec and that the province must have complete control over its immigration.

Premier François Legault said Tuesday that Quebec would not accept a big rise in immigration because of the need to properly integrate, house and educate newcomers.

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Former Trudeau Foundation trough hog says engaging with Chinese officials was ‘naïve’

Morris Rosenberg, the former president and CEO of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, says in retrospect the embattled charity was naïve to think it would have “soft power” over China when it accepted money in 2016 with ties to the Chinese government.

The former veteran public servant told a parliamentary committee Tuesday night that at the time, there was a belief that engaging with Chinese officials would familiarize them with Canadian governance, rule of law and human rights.

“Was that naïve at the time? In hindsight, probably it was naive,” said Rosenberg.

“We felt we could do more good.”

What gall.

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Canadians can’t afford groceries but Trudeau buys PSAC vote bloc loyalty with 12.6 per cent raise compounded over four years and a $2500.00 pension payment

Tentative agreement reached for 120,000 public servants

… In a statement on its website, PSAC said the tentative agreement includes wage increases of 12.6 per cent compounded over four years, and a one-time, pensionable lump sum payment of $2,500.

It includes language on remote work that gives members “additional protection” from “arbitrary decisions,” and it requires managers to assess requests individually instead of by group, and give responses in writing to allow members and PSAC to “hold the employer accountable to equitable and fair decision-making,” PSAC said.

Trudeau and his civil servants are vile thieves. I will vote for the party that vows to slice and dice the public service unions.

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Why Does Xi’s Puppet Trudeau Fight The Implementation Of A Foreign Agent Registry? Maybe Because A Report By CSIS Says It Would Be An Obstacle To China’s Interference In Canada

China views Canada as a ‘high priority’ for interference: CSIS report

China sees Canada as a “high-priority target” and employs “incentives and punishment” as part of a vast influence network directed at legislators, business executives and diaspora communities in this country, according to a top-secret intelligence assessment from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

The report warned that Beijing is the “foremost perpetrator” of foreign interference in Canada. Its agents are unconcerned about repercussions, the report says, because of the lack of obstacles such as a foreign-influence registry of the kind established in the United States and Australia.


Justin has been harping about the potential dangers of a foreign agent registry because Canada is of course racist and we’ll probably use it to single out his ChiCom buddies and disrupt the China Grift. That sounds like the voice of Xi’s Puppet rather than a PM with the nation’s best interests in mind.

The continued exposure of China’s influence operations in Canada points to willful blindness bordering on collusion by the Trudeau government.

I maintain the ongoing exposure of China’s shenanigans may not be the work of a single leaker in CSIS and may in fact be a joint effort involving an ally or allies of Canada seeking to topple Xi’s Puppet because of the obvious security risk Trudeau and his party pose to the west.


PS. In the CBC article linked above detailing the potential harms of a foreign registry Trudeau references the internment of Italian Canadians during WW II. One small problem for Junior is that with a few unfortunate exceptions most detainess really were fascists.

The harm done by Justin Trudeau’s apology to Italian-Canadians might require an apology of its own

… Mr. Liberati compiled his own biographical database of the internees. He found police had detailed dossiers indicating involvement in fascist organizations for at least 100 of them. Even 500, however, represented a small fraction of the 3,500 Italian-Canadians known to have been members of local fascist groups.

“[M]any who later professed their loyalty to Canada had in fact been fervent Fascists and had maintained their positions even during their internment,” Mr. Liberati writes.


The spotlight is shining a little hotter on the Trudeau Family Business

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Douglas Todd: Many Canadian politicians belong to the landlord class. We should question their motivations

It’s relevant to ask about conflict of interest when so many cabinet ministers and MPs make serious money through their real estate investments.

Having so many Canadian politicians invested in real estate is a problem.

In the midst of an affordability crisis that has struck Canada harder than almost any other country, the public should be worried that an unusually high proportion of its politicians are landlords.

… In addition to the real estate holdings of Liberal cabinet ministers — notably including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia FreelandHousing Minister Ahmed Hussen and cabinet ministers David Lametti and Francois-Philippe Champagne — 38 per cent of the MPs in all parties are real estate financiers or landlords.

h/t Kiki

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The U.S. is cracking down on Chinese ‘police stations’ with a tool that Justin Trudeau doesn’t want because it’ll hurt the China grift

American authorities used a legal tool that doesn’t exist in Canada: a foreign agents registry

The United States has launched a crackdown on so-called Chinese police stations operating on its soil using a legal mechanism that doesn’t exist in Canada, at least not yet — a registry of foreign agents.

U.S. authorities this week announced they had shut down what they referred to as a Chinese police station in lower Manhattan.

The criminal charges they laid were against two American citizens who allegedly failed to register their work on behalf of the People’s Republic of China.


Trudeau plays identity politics with our security in order to protect the China grift.

Why is Justin Trudeau sowing confusion about a foreign influence registry?

Asked this week about the need for Ottawa to create a foreign influence registry, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the internment of Japanese-Canadians in the Second World War and warned against the dangers of creating “registries of foreigners in Canada.”

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Terry Newman: Striking federal workers are hardly ordinary working-class Canadians

A recent article in the National Observer suggested that “real” populists would support the public workers currently on strike in Ottawa, which includes 159,000 federal employees in various departments, from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to Veterans Affairs.

The article calls these public workers “working class” and attacks Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for not championing them. Poilievre sells himself as the politician who cares about the little guy, so why doesn’t he care about these guys? Is this not a populist movement?


Most of Blackie’s media have been pushing this insulting “public service union as working class” canard.

The public service is 74% unionized with wages and benefits the working class, (13% unionized,) can only dream of.

Did you get full pay to stay home during the pandemic? Did you get a bonus for just breathing during the pandemic?

Didn’t think so. 

 

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Trudeau says handing out billions to Volkswagen ‘not a waste of money’, calls out Poilievre for lack of support

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his government’s move to spend as much as $13 billion into a new battery plant for auto giant Volkswagen and set the willingness to subsidize green manufacturing as a major difference between his party and the Conservatives.

You know in your heart this will be the Mother of all Boondoggles.

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GTA rents hit record $3,000, creating a ‘very alarming’ situation … Trudeau’s mass immigration policy is paying off BIGLEY for his corporate cronies

Average rents in purpose-built apartments broke the $3,000 barrier for the first time in the first quarter of this year — the sixth straight quarter in which Toronto area rents have seen double-digit year-over-year increases, according to Urbanation.

The situation is “very alarming,” even though rent growth has moderated, said Shaun Hildebrand, president of the market research firm, on Thursday. Rents slowed to 13.8 per cent annual growth in the first quarter from 15 per cent in the final quarter of last year and 17 per cent in the second quarter of 2022. The figures apply to purpose-built apartments constructed since 1985.

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Canada offering more than C$13 bln over decade for Volkswagen battery plant, govt source says

OTTAWA, April 20 (Reuters) – Canada agreed to provide subsidies of up to C$13 billion ($9.7 billion) over a decade plus a C$700 million grant to lure Volkswagen AG into building its North American battery plant in the country, a government source said confirming an earlier report by Bloomberg News.

The total Canadian investment, which could include funds from the Ontario government also, will largely match what Volkswagen would have got from the United States through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the source said.

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Government funded media outlet lashes out after barbarian conservatives speak ill of another notoriously biased government funded media outlet CBC

Pierre Poilievre’s solution for a ‘broken’ Canada is to break more things — including the CBC

Pierre Poilievre appears to have divided this country into two nations. There’s the Canada that Justin Trudeau broke, and then there is the Canada that the Conservative leader himself wants to break.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation definitely falls into the want-to-break category. As Trudeau put it on Monday, Poilievre despises the CBC so much that he’s willing to join forces with Twitter’s mercurial new owner, Elon Musk.

“The fact that he has to run to American billionaires for support to attack Canadians says a lot about Mr. Poilievre and his values,” Trudeau said at a morning press conference.

Spoken by a tone deaf idiot whose circle line their pockets courtesy Communist China’s “Billionaires.”

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Damn those white people says Health Canada

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What is the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and what does it do?

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has been mired in a political controversy that pushed the organization’s president and board to resign last week.

At the centre of the controversy is a 2016 donation from two donors with links to the Chinese government. The donors pledged $200,000 to the foundation at the time.

While the donation spurred an initial controversy in 2016, interest in the story revived in the wake of recent media reports stating Beijing interfered in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections. The foundation said it would reimburse the funds but apparently ran into administrative roadblocks. (Radio-Canada has confirmed the donation has since been returned.)

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CBC Not Even Trying To Hide It Anymore … The strange death and rebirth of the Liberal Party under Trudeau

The strange death and rebirth of the Liberal Party under Trudeau

The 2011 federal election seemed to have fundamentally changed Canadian politics. And maybe it did. Just not quite in the way it was imagined.

In theory, that vote heralded the arrival of a new political era. The Liberal Party’s day was done — the broadly centrist institution that dominated Canadian politics in the 20th century was no longer fit for purpose. Canada would finally become more like its sister democracies, with a clear contest between a distinct party of the political right and a distinct party of the left. The future seemed to belong to the Conservatives and the NDP.

CBC lays it on thick to support their scandal plagued Boss.

h/t Mauser

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