Since David Johnston resigned last week as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s special rapporteur, a lot of outlets have been wondering what comes next on the Chinese-meddling investigation.
But not me. I’ve been wondering what comes next for someone with the brilliant investigative skills of our former governor general.
CSIS director David Vigneault said the spy agency deliberately sent a May, 2021, note warning about China’s targeting of a Conservative MP and his relatives to then-public safety minister Bill Blair’s office and intended for this information to reach the minister because it was considered of high importance.
The testimony from the head of CSIS appeared to be an effort to defend the spy agency as a Commons committee probes why Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong wasn’t warned of the 2021 intelligence collected by CSIS for two years.
A Liberal Cabinet Minister lying! Unheard of.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s surprise visit to Kyiv was hosted in part by Andriy Melnyk, a controversial Ukrainian figure recently recalled from Germany after he defended Stepan Bandera, a Second World War Ukrainian nationalist whose forces participated in the Holocaust.
OTTAWA—Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are pulling further ahead of the governing Liberal party in national voting intentions amid a widespread desire for change across the country, a new poll suggests.
The online survey from Abacus Data found the federal Conservatives have climbed to a seven-percentage-point lead over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, up from three points one month ago. The poll comes near the end of a raucous session of Parliament this spring that saw weeks of outrage over alleged Chinese political interference and the government’s response to it, as well as concerns over how best to help people deal with rising costs and debt.
Now that David Johnston has stepped down, the serious work of putting in place a commission of inquiry can begin.
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc embarrassed himself by saying the Liberals were never opposed to a public inquiry. But at this stage, who cares?
The important thing is that Canadians will finally have a chance to know what really happened with Chinese government interference in our elections.
He’s a delusional wee tyrant, far too much the narcissist to ever consider stepping down.
So it looks like there’s going to be a public inquiry into Chinese communist meddling in our elections after all. At least Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc is hinting as much. Who saw that one coming?
Not David Johnston, evidently. He finally stepped down from his untenable position, which I greet with the same grace he exhibited in announcing it. Namely in resigning as depressingly ordinary rapporteur he blamed “the highly partisan atmosphere around my appointment and work,” not the real conflict of interest that made him unsuitable from the word go and the shabby initial report that made his position untenable.
The head of the RCMP says his organization has opened an investigation into allegations China attempted to target and intimidate Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family.
Commissioner Mike Duheme made the comments before the procedure and House affairs committee Tuesday morning. It has been studying an alleged 2021 Beijing plot to amass information on Chong’s family in retaliation for his efforts to recognize the persecution of Uyghurs as genocide.
Canadian far right activist Lauren Southern has revealed her husband ‘who worked for the feds’ has divorced her for being a ‘career deadweight’.
The 27-year-old posted a YouTube video from the woods describing her ‘batsh*t’ life since she was barred from Britain for handing out leaflets saying ‘Allah is gay’ in 2018.
It was the right decision for David Johnston to resign from whatever his job was, whoever’s decision it was.
Still, amongst the things for which there will have to be a reckoning when this is all over is why he was appointed in the first place. Mr. Johnston himself never seemed to understand what he had walked into or why he should not have walked into it – to the last, in his letter of resignation, he put the opposition down to the “highly partisan atmosphere” – but the Prime Minister and his people did. They appointed him not in spite of his unsuitability, but because of it.
There are no plans to invite Canada to a security pact between Australia, the UK, and the United States focused on defence technology cooperation, says U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby.
The trilateral security pact, AUKUS, was formed in 2021 and has been seen as a way to counter China’s growing military presence in the Indo-Pacific region.
I suspect Canada is excluded because we are riddled with ChiCom assests.
This protest and counter-protest over transgender studies drew blood.
The question is, was an Ontario MPP punched in the face or did he accidentally cut himself with a megaphone?
The old saw about crisis management is that the goal is to figure out where the crisis ends and get there as quickly as possible.
But when Liberal cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc met reporters on the Saturday morning after the resignation of David Johnston to talk about next steps, he was back where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was three months ago, on March 6.
As much as the parliamentary investigation into food inflation is more about political artifice, the Competition Bureau’s study on the food industry announced last fall is the more interesting exercise.
Since last year, the Bureau has been heavily criticized for not upholding a decent level of competition in the food industry and helping consumers cope with higher food prices. The food retail industry is essentially controlled by a handful of players: Loblaw, Empire/Sobeys, Metro, Walmart and Costco sell well over 85% of all the food we buy in Canada, and the Competition Bureau did nothing to prevent that from happening.
"Court documents reported back in 2021 unveiled emails between high-ranking industry executives, including some at Maple Leaf Foods, suggest an intention to synchronize meat prices, resembling the alleged coordination of bread prices. That’s right, meat. Because of the pandemic,… https://t.co/w0Y603yBfC
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) June 12, 2023
10 Dollar Butter is pure Cartel.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused Canadians to have an “increased distrust of government and science,” according to a report by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
The report, based on questionnaires with 2,088 Canadians and 16 focus groups nationwide, noted that less than one quarter (22 percent) of those surveyed said they were more likely to trust federal agencies since the pandemic.
It’s what happens when you’re governed by Liberal Party Grifters.
At the age of 70, James Kadri is still putting in the work at his local grocery store in Calgary. He’s worked there for 35 years, and relies on it and two other part-time jobs to make ends meet.
“If it wasn’t for the night job, I’d be broke or bankrupt, you know, and then where would I be,” Kadri told The Cost of Living.
“It’s been bad because, yes, inflation, there’s a lot of price hikes and everything, you know. So I’m careful how I spend my money.”
Plenty to go round. If the Liberal party didn’t steal it.
