The Conservatives have a 26-point lead over the Liberals when it comes to people certain to vote in the next election, according to a poll conducted by Abacus Data.
The Conservatives would finish in first place with 47% of the popular vote if an election was held now — a four-point increase since August 19 — according to a Sunday poll. Abacus Data said the Liberals would come in second place (21%) — a one-point decrease since August 19.
Liberal House leader calls Poilievre a ‘fraudster’ and a ‘bully’ as Commons returns
Liberal House leader Karina Gould kicked off the fall sitting of Parliament Monday by calling Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a “fraudster” and a “bully” and accusing him of holding a secret agenda that Canadians won’t like.
“What I heard yesterday from Mr. Poilievre was so over the top, so irresponsible, so immature and something only a fraudster would do,” Gould said Monday in Ottawa.
Gee, Justin never told us he was going to flood the nation with 3rd world migrants and destroy our economic and social well being.
British Columbia will introduce involuntary care for people with concurrent addiction, mental illness and acquired brain injuries, as well as legislation that would compel youth to receive care if they are unable to seek it themselves, B.C. Premier David Eby announced Sunday.
Secure care will be offered through correctional facilities, hospitals and secure housing and care facilities, the premier said. The first correctional facility will be the Surrey Pretrial Services Centre, for people sentenced or being held on remand, while the first secure housing and care facility will be on the grounds of the Alouette Correctional Centre in Maple Ridge. Hospitals will also provide involuntary care under the changes, he said.
It is the right policy but I don’t trust that guy.
There were two sides to the speech Pierre Poilievre gave in front Conservative caucus on Sunday, one in each official language.
For the first 11 minutes, Mr. Poilievre spoke in French, and for almost all of that time he taunted the Bloc Québécois. Then he switched to English and spent 13 minutes needling the NDP. In each case, the subject was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Oh Oh! Someone’s place at the trough is threatened!
Liberal minister dismisses Elon Musk’s satellite offer to Canada as ‘nonsense’
Trudeau government says it won’t delay possible confidence votes as Poilievre’s Conservatives hanker for election
OTTAWA—The Liberal government says it will not use delay tactics to avoid a parliamentary vote that could trigger an election this fall as Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre goaded other opposition party leaders to help him immediately topple the Trudeau government.
House Leader Karina Gould said the government does not intend to play games to stave off until late fall any “non-confidence” motion the Opposition parties might bring forward nor does it intend to formally suspend, or prorogue, Parliament in order to buy time.
OTTAWA — A pair of byelections on Monday are poised to serve as a referendum on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — and his chief opposition leaders.
One will see the Liberals fighting to spare a Montreal fortress from the fate that befell Toronto—St. Paul’s: a surprise byelection loss in a longtime stronghold.
In LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, Trudeau’s embattled party is fending off strong campaigns from the New Democrats and the Bloc Québécois in a race that will test whether voters will turn to the NDP’s Jagmeet Singh following his achievements under his now-lapsed alliance with the minority Liberals.
An Ontario school board will be audited by the province after spending nearly $40,000 on a three-day retreat.
Ontario Minister of Education Jill Dunlop announced the audit on Sept. 13, which will look into the Thames Valley District School Board’s (TVDSB) financial operations, the executive members’ compensation, and the administration of the board.
Dunlop noted that the board is operating in a deficit, and said provincial funding to school boards should go to help students and teachers. She added that the boards should show “parents, teachers and community members that they are responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars.”
Politicians, bureaucrats no longer have a sense of shame. It’s just play money to them.
A degree of skepticism and mistrust of governments is a good thing. No elected officials or bureaucrats should get a pass or be gifted with blind trust. Government actions often don’t have the wellbeing of citizens at heart and the state should always be viewed with a skeptical eye.
All that said, a degree of trust in governments is essential for a democracy to function. People must have a little faith and be willing to cooperate with the government at times. When the balance has been thrown off and healthy skepticism of the government has morphed into cynicism, things can go bad quickly.
The Second World War brought Canada and the United States together to defend something that mattered. That started with divisive decisions not unlike those that the West faces today
“Good neighbour on one side; partners within the Empire on the other,” declared Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in July, 1938, positioning Canada between the United States and Britain. “Obligations to both in return for their assistance. Readiness to meet all joint emergencies.”
King’s desire to insert Canada between Britain and the U.S. was during a fraught period of global crisis, with militaristic Japan at war with China, with fascist Italy having crushed Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and, worst of all, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler aggressively building up his military, threatening neighbours and brazenly seeking war. What would Canada do in the coming months, as war loomed on the horizon? The awful decisions facing Canada more than 85 years ago are not dissimilar to those facing the Western democracies today.
Pierre Poilievre is keeping the pressure on other opposition parties to bring down the Liberal government as Conservatives met Sunday to map out the party’s strategy ahead of the fall sitting of the House of Commons.
MPs are returning to Ottawa on Monday, and the Conservative leader has said he would trigger a non-confidence vote at the earliest opportunity.
“Canadians cannot wait. They need to vote now for common sense Conservatives,” Poilievre said in an address to his caucus on Sunday.
Demanding that corrupt bureaucrats not dump 20,000 immigrants from the third world into your backyard is not un-Christian.
The current goings-on in Springfield, Ohio, and the surrounding area have captured national media attention. Stories of tens of thousands of immigrants, unceremoniously dumped by the Biden-Harris administration into a sleepy heartland town of barely 60,000, causing traffic accidents, clogging up welfare and social services, devouring the housing market, and leaving native-born American citizens homeless and financially overburdened — to say nothing of the rumors of household pets being feasted upon — have reignited the inexplicably-contentious debate over immigration and border control.
I guess it shouldn’t surprise anyone that “progressives” express dismay whenever polls show a general public distrust of government. After all, government works largely in favour of progressives’ liberal-left values, so of course they think big government is benevolent.
In the isolation of an encrypted chat group, the alleged plan of a Toronto man might have passed for the dark fantasy of a deranged mind.
It called for military tactical gear, a few hundred rounds of ammunition, black Islamic headbands bought from an online store and “some good hunting (knives) so we can slit their throats,” according to an indictment filed in a U.S. court against 20-year-old Muhammad Shahzeb Khan.
And there was a sickening boast to boot.
MPs return Monday to a House of Commons that promises to be even more volatile than it was when they left it in June.
The end of the Liberal-NDP governance agreement makes an early election more likely but not inevitable.
A party can only continue governing as long as it has the “confidence” of the House — the support of a majority of MPs.
