Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reportedly called President-elect Donald Trump on Monday night, just hours after Trump threatened to enact tariffs against Canada for border security issues.
“Shortly after Trump’s post, Trudeau contacted Trump and the two leaders spoke by phone,” said Bloomberg News reporter Brian Platt.
h/t patthedog
The incoming Trump administration plans to send families to internment camps, deport 12 million undocumented people, and to end temporary protected status (TPS), a designation for migrants who cannot safely return home. Some of these people will have well-founded refugee claims and will look to Canada.
As refugee lawyers, we heard countless stories from clients during the first Trump administration who initially arrived in the U.S. but did not remain there. Trump’s anti-migrant rhetoric and policies propelled them to cross into Canada, many at Roxham Road.
Must be worried they’re going to lose business if Canada cooperates with Trumps sensible plans.
Donald Trump has levelled his most severe threat against Canada in years, warning that on his very first day on office he might impose punishing economic sanctions across North America.
The U.S. president-elect threatened Monday evening to slap a 25 per cent import tariff on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico on Jan. 20, 2025, his inauguration day.
He delivered the warning via his social media platform Truth Social, in a post that began with a complaint about migration and drugs spilling across both the northern and southern border into the U.S. Then he foreshadowed a damaging import fee that would drive up costs for Canadian and Mexican exporters, making their products less attractive while also potentially raising costs for American consumers.
Federal voting intentions from Mainstreet Research:
CPC 47%
LPC 17%
NDP 17%
⚜️BQ 7%
GPC 6%
PPC 4%[Mainstreet Research, November 21, 2024, n=1,097]#canpoli pic.twitter.com/hN0JNrhzxu
— Philippe J. Fournier (@338Canada) November 25, 2024
h/t Mauser
In October, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) sent a chartered flight carrying Indian nationals back home, marking a growing trend in deportations to India.
This was no ordinary flight – it was one of multiple large-scale “removal flights” carried out this year, each typically carrying more than 100 passengers. The flights were returning groups of Indian migrants who “did not establish a legal basis to remain in the US”.
According to US officials, the latest flight carrying adult men and women was routed to Punjab, close to many deportees’ places of origin. No precise breakdown of hometowns was provided.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reportedly called President-elect Donald Trump on Monday night, just hours after Trump threatened to enact tariffs against Canada for border security issues.
“Shortly after Trump’s post, Trudeau contacted Trump and the two leaders spoke by phone,” said Bloomberg News reporter Brian Platt.
h/t patthedog
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are unlikely to hold onto the Greater Vancouver riding of Cloverdale-Langley City in the Dec. 16 by-election. The government is deeply unpopular, and it lost much safer seats in Toronto and Montreal in by-elections earlier this year.
But more is going on than simply voter resentment of a government that’s long in the tooth. The Liberal Party confronts a political phenomenon that emerged more than a decade ago and that has returned with a vengeance, threatening not only the Prime Minister’s electoral fortunes, but the future of the party itself.
The so-called Laurentian Elite gave us Trudeau, mass immigration and an Islamist 5th Column. What could be worse? What’s to miss?
Lots of good sounding stuff
You act surprised. We are reaping what you sowed.
This is what happens when a Prime Minister spends 9 years pushing toxic woke identity politics, dividing and subdividing people by race, gender, vaccine status, religion, region, age, wealth, etc.
On top of driving people apart,… https://t.co/FkEAPCnY6g
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) November 23, 2024
But I doubt he could win an election if he openly campaigned on the 1st 3 of the following suggestions.
Let me go on record. @PierrePoilievre will certainly make for a much better PM than Trudeau. But then again, this is a low bar to exceed. The four most important things that Pierre can do: 1) Deport all people who are a danger to Canada; 2) Stop immigration from countries… https://t.co/mSURGf2ekz
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) November 23, 2024
At 5,525 miles, it is the longest border between any two countries. And that border — separating the United States and Canada — seems set to become a flashpoint between the close allies as President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to take power.
The Canadian authorities fear that Mr. Trump’s promised mass deportations will push migrants north, while allies of the incoming president headed for key roles in his administration have raised alarms over a recent spike in undocumented migrants crossing from Canada to the United States.
Canadian officials are drawing up plans to add patrols, buy new vehicles and set up emergency reception facilities at the border between New York State and the province of Quebec to prepare for what they expect to be a surge in migrants because of Mr. Trump’s hard line on deportations.
The Liberal government’s decision to offer a targeted break to Canadians on the GST, starting in December, along with a lump-sum payment next spring, may or may not bring a pause to a two-month-long filibuster by the Conservatives in the House of Commons.
But the truly amazing thing about that filibuster is that nobody seems to care about it. You could not find a more compelling reason to call an election right now, today, this hour, than the fact that Parliament has been doing nothing for two months and most people haven’t even noticed.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has announced his cabinet pick to fulfill his campaign promise to impose broad tariffs. Though the ramifications for Canada remain to be seen, here is what the appointment could indicate.
Trump announced on Nov. 19 that Howard Lutnick will become secretary of commerce in his administration acceding to the White House in early 2025.
Trump said Lutnick, CEO of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, will be leading the “Tariff and Trade agenda” and that he will also have direct responsibility over the Office of the United States Trade Representative. Lutnick is also serving as co-chair of Trump’s transition team.
The Cartels should be concerned.
Is it possible that Canada Post went on strike and almost no one noticed, let alone cared?
I certainly don’t. In fact, my life has significantly improved since postal workers went on strike late last week. On a normal afternoon, my front hall would be littered with junk mail that a letter carrier stuffed into the mail slot, but last Friday, the hallway was empty.
If your union is demanding free sex change operations then maybe it’s best your organization withers and dies.
President-elect Donald Trump plans to revive the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline on his first day back in the White House.
Sources close to Trump’s transition team told Politico that the president-elect wants to signal his commitment to pro-oil policies by declaring the 1200 mile Canada-to-Nebraska crude pipeline project active again.
h/t DS & Mauser
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals may be anxious about the rise of Pierre Poilievre, but their real problem isn’t the Conservative leader. It’s Donald Trump.
With the former president returning to the White House in January, Trudeau faces a rapid dismantling of his progressive agenda at the hands of Trump’s new administration. From immigration to the environment, trade to health care, Trump’s bro-heavy cabinet is poised to upend American policy — and, by extension, rip up Canada’s, before the Conservatives even get the chance.
The federal government issued a new passport to an admitted human smuggler after he was ordered to surrender the travel document as part of court-imposed release conditions, CBC News has learned.
The new passport was discovered in June 2023 by RCMP investigators executing a search warrant at the Montreal home of Thesingarasan Rasiah during a probe targeting an international human smuggling network that Rasiah allegedly headed, according to court records obtained by CBC News.
