Now it can be told. At least by the New York Times.
The immigration surge of the past few years has been the largest in U.S. history, surpassing the great immigration boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s, according to a New York Times analysis of government data.
Canada is working on a broad plan, including drones and police dogs, to address concerns raised by President-elect Donald J. Trump about the shared border between the two nations, underscoring the urgency of avoiding threatened tariffs that would send its economy into meltdown.
Mr. Trump has made it clear that he expects America’s neighbors to keep undocumented migrants and drugs from entering the United States.
In a closely watched meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and the leaders of the country’s provinces on Wednesday, Mr. Trudeau and senior members of his government said that they would come up with measures to fortify the border.
Zero faith in the Trudeau government.
TORONTO — Canada long sold itself as a beacon for immigrants, who were widely viewed as key to economic growth in a vast nation with a small and rapidly aging workforce.
“Study, work and stay” was the slogan of a government campaign to lure international students, part of a broader push that included recruiting temporary workers and resettling refugees. After President Trump banned travel to the U.S. from several Muslim-majority countries in 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada’s doors were open.
“To those fleeing persecution, terror and war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith,” he wrote on the platform now known as X. “Diversity is our strength.”
But in recent months, Canada has changed course.
Don’t harsh my mellow man!
It’s official: Justin Trudeau has finally given up on being the prime minister of Canada.
There have been plenty of previous warning signs. During the NAFTA renegotiations, for instance, Trudeau pressed the United States and Mexico to include progressive concepts like gender rights and Indigenous rights, which have nothing to do with free trade.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Canada’s premiers on Wednesday to discuss Ottawa’s plan to address U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s concerns about the Canada-U.S. border.
This is the second time Trudeau has met with premiers since Trump threatened to hit Canada with steep tariffs last month — and the first meeting since the prime minister’s dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
While taking part in a geography student awards ceremony in 2016, Vladimir Putin corrected a schoolboy who said Russia’s border with the U.S. ended at the Bering Strait.
“Russia’s borders have no end,” Putin said, before clarifying. “This is a joke.”
It was the same kind of mirthless, menacing crack that permeates Donald Trump’s repeated reference to Canada as the 51st state of America .
The sheriff of San Diego county defied a new policy limiting county cooperation with federal immigration authorities, setting up a showdown over California’s efforts to shield residents from Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans.
On Tuesday, San Diego county supervisors voted to prohibit its sheriff’s department from working with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) on the federal agency’s enforcement of civil immigration laws, including those that allow for deportations.
California law already generally prohibits cooperation but makes exceptions for those convicted of certain violent crimes. The new policy brings San Diego in line with seven other counties in California, including Los Angeles, the nation’s largest, which recently adopted a policy that goes beyond state law.
If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants to get on U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s good side for the sake of a smooth bilateral relationship, he’ll likely have to be openly deferential, says former U.S. National Security Advisor, John Bolton.
“It’s always possible, if somebody kisses the ring. I mean, that’s what Trump likes,” Bolton told CTV Power Play host Vassy Kapelos in an interview airing Wednesday, when asked if he thinks it’s possible for Trudeau and Trump to forge a better relationship than during the former president’s first term.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments likening Kamala Harris’s election loss to an attack on women’s rights and progress earned him criticism from the country’s premiers on Wednesday.
Speaking on Tuesday night at an event hosted by the Equal Voice Foundation — an organization dedicated to improving gender representation in Canadian politics — Trudeau said there are regressive forces fighting against women’s progress.
This was likely a deliberate act of sabotage.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took an indirect dig at Donald Trump ahead of a first ministers’ meeting Wednesday on how to best handle the unpredictable incoming U.S. president-elect.
Despite urging Canadian lawmakers to back “Team Canada” and not argue against Canada’s national interest, it was Trudeau’s comments that were the first hint of public criticism of Trump — the Republican leader whose judicial and other appointments have sought to limit abortion rights in the U.S.
Seriously? Justin thinks his bizarro world Kamala comment was a winner?
Ontario Premier Doug Ford threatened to cut off energy supply to the U.S. in response to the tariffs President-elect Donald Trump plans to impose on all Canadian imports.
“We will go to the full extent depending how far this goes. We will go to the extent of cutting off their energy, going down to Michigan, going down to New York State and over to Wisconsin,” Ford told reporters following his meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other premiers on Wednesday.
And watch Ford howl when Line 5 is cut in retaliation.
A flurry of satirical articles and angry comebacks followed U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s recent crack about making Canada the 51st state.
Last week, Fox News reported, citing anonymous sources, that Trump joked to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that if a threatened 25 per cent tariff would kill Canada’s economy, then maybe Canada should become the 51st state.
Trudeau highlights Kamala Harris presidential defeat as an attack on women’s progress
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says women’s rights and women’s progress is under attack, pointing to the recent defeat of U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris as an example.
Speaking on Tuesday night at an event hosted by the Equal Voice Foundation — an organization dedicated to improving gender representation in Canadian politics — Trudeau said there are regressive forces fighting against women’s progress.
“It shouldn’t be that way. It wasn’t supposed to be that way. We were supposed to be on a steady, if difficult sometimes, march towards progress,” Trudeau said, adding he is a proud feminist and will always be an ally.
Trump should just refuse any further contact until we can dump this idiot.
OTTAWA — President-elect Donald Trump is calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the governor of the “Great State of Canada” on his social media account.
Trump said in a taunting post to Truth Social early Tuesday it was a “pleasure to have dinner” with Trudeau at his Mar-a-Lago estate and that he looks forward to seeing the “governor again soon” to talk tariffs and trade, the “results of which will be truly spectacular for all.”
I would certainly consider it, many days I am certain I would welcome it.
Early Tuesday morning, perhaps from a gold-plated toilet at Mar-a-Lago, American president-elect Donald Trump posted what might be the most epic troll on a Canadian prime minister to date, referring to Justin Trudeau as Governor of the “Great State of Canada.” And it was well-deserved. Trudeau is simply not equipped for a war of wits and he has poisoned the well with Trump beyond repair.
