Trudeau has spent the last few years cultivating support from a subset of Canadians who do not place as much value in free expression as liberals have in the past
For Canadians who believe in free speech, it’s time we recognize the damage that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has done to the Liberal Party of Canada. He has abandoned voters at the centre and appeals to an increasingly left-wing base that breaks from the federal Liberal party’s past support for free speech.
Many of those who opposed lockdowns for the pandemic, predicted that the policy — if normalised — could one day be taken advantage of by opportunistic political forces to deal with almost any crisis. It was, as Lord Sumption once suggested, a potential pathway to authoritarianism. “If we confer despotic powers on government to deal with perils, which are an ordinary feature of human existence, we will end up doing it most or all of the time,” he wrote in November 2021.
Vladimir Putin has prepared the ground for a drastic cut in supplies of both oil and gas at any moment, giving him the means to strike a psychological hammer blow against the Western democracies before a global recession erodes his energy leverage.
The coming weeks may be his best chance to try to force the West to the table on Russian strategic terms, locking in territorial gains on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast and in the Donbass before the delivery of heavy weapons from NATO raises the military cost for Russia to excruciating levels.
Mr Putin spelled out his operating premise at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in late June, calling the EU’s sanctions policy a double-edged sword that would cause Europe to lose its footing in the global economy and lead to a “system-wide decline” for years to come. He left no doubt that generating inflation in the West is a primary goal.
Conservative leadership hopeful Pierre Poilievre drew commanding support in a public opinion survey of Conservative Party of Canada voters, approaching 50 per cent of respondents selecting him as their top choice.
Poilievre was selected as the best to be the next Conservative leader by 48 per cent of respondents, compared to 14 per cent for the second most popular choice, Jean Charest, according to the Postmedia-Léger survey.
HALIFAX, CANADA — Opposition parties in Canada are seizing on the highest inflation rate since 1983 to batter the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, less than a year after it was returned to office for a third term.
“I was shocked how many people came up and said to me that was their first meal of the day. That is unbelievable,” said Conservative Party member of Parliament Rick Perkins who hosted a free BBQ at his constituency office in Nova Scotia to mark the July 1 Canada Day holiday.
“The cost-of-living increases are very tough. Every day people are phoning our office crying that they can’t afford food, they can’t afford their medicine,” he told VOA.
Hundreds of girls sexually abused in Telford
More than a thousand children were sexually exploited over at least 30 years in Telford amid “shocking” police and council failings, an inquiry has found.
Unnecessary suffering and child deaths might have been avoided had West Mercia police “done its most basic job”, according to findings published yesterday.
The inquiry found that child sexual exploitation “thrived” for decades in the Shropshire town, in part because of fears that investigations into Asian men would “inflame racial tensions”.
The federal government says it won’t bill provinces and municipalities for the retroactive portion of Mountie salaries while it considers whether to help shoulder some of the burden of a steep pay-raise package.
The RCMP union negotiated its first contract with the Treasury Board last August and gained significant wage increases for its members, prompting some mayors and town councillors to say that because of the heightened costs, they could no longer afford their police.
Costs for the nearly 20,000 RCMP officers are shared between federal, provincial and municipal governments.
Trudeau defends two-year deal to repair Russian pipeline turbines despite sanctions on Moscow
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending the Canadian government’s recent agreement to import and repair Russian pipeline turbines for up to two years, calling it “a very difficult decision.”
He said Canada ultimately decided to circumvent its own sanctions against Russia because it did not want punitive rules aimed at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration to contribute to the energy crisis in Europe and end up hurting natural gas consumers in countries such as Germany.
I think Trudeau’s real motivation and cause for concern lies with events in Sri Lanka and the Netherlands. Trudeau and other of Ukraine’s so-called allies have used the Russian aggression to advance their ruinous green agendas.
Germany is critical to the anti-Russian alliance. Trudeau and Germany are committed to the same policies i.e. “organic” farming that helped ruin Sri Lanka’s economy and now threaten Dutch farmers. If the Germans start rioting because they’re freezing this winter all their green-scam plans will be scuppered along with the alliance and their pretend sanctions.
So the gas has gotta flow to keep Germany in on the green-scam lest the remaining nations fall like dominos.
And Ukraine be damned because Russia needs the gas revenue to finance the war.
This drag queen goes around England teaching children a “drag energy catwalk workshop” so kids can learn how to walk and act like a drag queen. pic.twitter.com/65yjegJuQE
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 12, 2022
” … This March, though, when four teens, aged 15 to 17—three of them girls—allegedly approached 73-year-old Linda Frickey as she sat in her car and forcibly carjacked her, dragging her, trapped in her seatbelt, for more than a block to her death by dismemberment, neighbors in the generally safe area greeted the murder resignedly. “It is disgusting,” said one—but apparently not shocking. A small-scale protest after the near-murder carjacking of another woman a month earlier garnered little official action. Top police officials say now that the city’s half-year murder count is “premature,” and they have further argued that it is “nearly impossible to police … the inability of individuals to settle their differences without resorting to violence.” As murderous carjackings have surged, affluent and middle-class residents, black and white, who once used questionable coping skills such as walking quickly—and fully armed—from their cars to their homes, no longer feel safe even doing that. People are terrified to get gas—even during daytime hours—or to stop at red lights.”
In a minivan driving from the EU border to Lviv, a U.S.-educated Ukrainian quizzed me about my family. My wife, I told him, was brought up in Siberia but born in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, then part of the Soviet Union.
“So, she’s Ukrainian,” he advised me.
The man was in his mid-20s, perhaps, and spoke rapid-fire English. I’d met him in an “International Legion” tent on the border that offered — with a sign translated into 12 languages — help to foreigners volunteering to fight the Russian advance, a sensitive role that made him an obvious target for Russian spooks.
“Zijn er ook boeren?” shouted Mick Jagger, in Dutch, into the microphone at a Rolling Stones concert in the Netherlands last week. “Are there any farmers in the house?”
Dutch farmers make for an unlikely cause célèbre. For starters, most are conservative, not liberal. And they are fighting against stricter environmental regulations, not for them.
We need this in Canada.
Last week marked the 246th birthday of the United States. This year also marks, according to Lieutenant General Thomas Spoehr of the Heritage Foundation, when we “question the sustainability of the all-volunteer force.” As reported in late June by NBC, all branches of the military are falling short of their 2022 recruiting goals.
The Army, for instance, has met only 40 percent of its enlisted recruitment target for the fiscal year, which for the military services ends on September 30. Those in the Pentagon tasked with attracting candidates have listed reasons they are struggling to meet their mission: lack of eligibility, Covid restrictions putting a damper on outreach, competition from a robust civilian employment market, and a lack of a desire to serve.
The same holds true in Canada. Trudeau’s Liberals have turned the armed forces into a sick joke.
Although considered among the most permissive euthanasia and assisted suicide legislation in the world, Canada is poised to introduce mental illnesses to the country’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) legislation.
“… Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) law is the most permissive euthanasia and assisted-suicide legislation in the world. The United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, the UN independent expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, and the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, have all warned our Canadian government that our MAiD law will lead to human rights violations.”
A sex worker in Nova Scotia is pursuing a claim for non-payment of services in small claims court, in a case she and her advocates will help shift the conversation about sex work in Canada.
The woman at the centre of the case said she spent an evening with a client in January 2022. Afterwards, she realized she wasn’t going to be paid when the PIN for the bank card he’d given her to withdraw money didn’t work.
