Jagmeet Singh, leader of the federal New Democrats (and Waylon Smithers to Justin Trudeau’s Montgomery Burns), says he will not force a federal election over China’s attempts to subvert Canadian democracy until faith has been restored in our elections.
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Canada sticking with 2050 net zero targets says brain damaged minister
Canada sticking with 2050 net zero targets, but progress may come faster than expected, minister says
Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says the federal government is not ruling out finding ways to achieve net zero sooner than the existing 2050 goal, but would not say whether there would be a definitive commitment to move up the target.
The government’s current target is to hit net zero emissions — the point at which the amount of greenhouse gas emitted is equal to the amount that is removed from the atmosphere — by 2050, a goal shared by the other G7 countries. But in March, a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prompted United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to encourage developed countries move up their net-zero timelines to 2040.
Net Zero Lunacy from the Times – Time’s up for Drax’s tree-burning racket
… The most heinous example of this racket is the way the government has subsidised the wood-chip burning (“biomass”) of Drax to the extent of many billions of pounds. This Yorkshire-based power station company does not burn a single British tree among the 27 million it gets through a year. It imports all its wood chips — mostly shipped in colossal diesel-powered vessels across the Atlantic from forests in Canada and Louisiana.
As I wrote here in February: “The CO2 ‘chimney emissions’ in the process are not recorded in the UK’s carbon accounts . . . they are on the American and Canadian carbon balance sheet.” Crazier still, more than £6 billion of subsidies have been funnelled to Drax — it would not have a viable business model otherwise — on the basis that its contribution to the national grid is “carbon neutral” because these millions of trees are replaced by newly planted ones that will absorb carbon in the atmosphere as they grow.
Chinese Warship Nearly Hits U.S. Destroyer in Taiwan Strait
Footage has emerged showing a Chinese warship almost colliding with a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Taiwan Straits as tensions strain between Washington and Beijing.
The video, published by Canadian outlet Global News and widely shared on social media, shows the Chinese vessel approach the U.S. ship and passing within 150 yards of the destroyer.
📹 China sends 'aggressive' warship to cut across US Navy vessel
Video captured the close call between a Chinese warship and an American destroyer in the Taiwan Strait 👇https://t.co/NyiTIeTpfM pic.twitter.com/IzoFem8J9w
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 4, 2023
Senators Oh and Woo Play The Race Card Against Foreign Agent Registry in Canada Calling It Anti-Chinese
Senators Yuen Pau Woo and Victor Oh have ramped up efforts against enacting a foreign agent registration act as the Canadian government considers the legislation to combat foreign influence.
Both senators brought up the issue again at a conference that marked the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Immigration Act, held at the Splendid China Mall in Scarborough, Ont., on Saturday, May 27.
The act, introduced on July 1, 1923, is commonly known as the Chinese Exclusion Act, as it resulted from an effort to stop Chinese immigration, stated a May 30 federal government news release recognizing “the national historic significance” of this legislation.
Not trusting these two for some reason.
A former Conservative candidate has suspicions about why his Chinese-Canadian volunteers quit. So does the Liberal who beat him
Longtime B.C. politician Dave Hayer knew his campaign people. And his people included Chinese Canadians. They volunteered for him. They voted for him. And then in his 2021 campaign to become a federal Conservative MP, they vanished.
The former MLA was running to represent the riding of Fleetwood-Port Kells, drawing on the same base of volunteers from past elections in the populous and culturally diverse Metro Vancouver city of Surrey.
By the end of the campaign, most volunteers of Chinese descent had dropped out, fearing for themselves and their families, Hayer said.
Collin May: How the ‘Islamophobia’ Accusation Damaged Me
Collin May, attorney and former director of the Alberta Human Rights Commission (AHRC) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, spoke to a May 5th Middle East Forum Webinar (video) in an interview with Dexter Van Zile, managing editor of the Middle East Forum’s Focus on Western Islamism (FWI). May discussed his ouster from the AHRC in 2022 after being accused of “Islamophobia.” The following is a summary of May’s comments:
Because May wrote a positive review of a book they deemed “Islamophobic” thirteen years earlier, the provincial government in Alberta terminated his employment. May has filed a wrongful dismissal suit against the Alberta government and a notice of defamation on media outlets. May attended Harvard University, where he studied Islamic philosophy. His book review of Efraim Karsh’s Islamic Imperialism was published while he attended law school. In the book, Karsh, former editor of the Middle East Forum’s Middle East Quarterly, addressed the “political dynamics” of Muslim majority countries by covering the “imperial background” of different caliphates in Islam’s history.
‘Elite capture’ may be a bigger problem than the Chinese government’s intimidation tactics, experts warn
A plot by the Chinese government to intimidate Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family in Hong Kong continues to dominate Parliament Hill, but experts are warning that the Chinese Communist Party’s “elite capture” efforts may be a bigger problem.
While the Chinese government works globally to woo high-ranking people, Canada’s political and economic elites may have been the most enthusiastic and possibly the most willing recipients according to high-profile experts, including a former ambassador to China.
Canada to ‘significantly’ enhance military presence in Indo-Pacific region, Anand says
Defence Minister Anita Anand says Canada is committed to the support of a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific, and is reinforcing its military presence in the region.
Speaking in Singapore at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual intergovernmental security conference, Anand announced Saturday that Canada will significantly enhance its military presence in the Indo-Pacific through Operation Horizon.
Anand said the new operation will replace the Indo-Pacific portion of Canada’s existing Operation Projection.
It sounds like a meager effort to regain favour with allies.
Douglas Todd: The long silence of Canada’s two Michaels
China’s leaders kept Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig in solitary confinement, with lights glaring throughout the day, for much of their 34 months in prison.
… Yet, while many former hostages have made their agonizing stories public, the two Canadian nationals have remained silent.
Special Crony David Johnston’s office hired crisis communications firm Navigator to massage China Class talking points
Canada’s special rapporteur on foreign interference has hired crisis communications firm Navigator, his office confirmed on Friday.
In an email to CTV News, a spokesperson for special rapporteur David Johnston explained that Navigator was hired at the start of Johnston’s mandate “to provide communications advice and support.”
h/t Mauser
73% of Canadians Say David Johnston Unfit to Be Special Rapporteur: Survey
A large majority of Canadians say former governor general David Johnston is unfit to carry out his government-appointed role as special rapporteur on foreign election interference, according to a survey report released May 29.
Canada reshuffles the alphabet
The intersectional wars heat up, and it might be fun to watch. Canada is literally reshuffling the alphabet peoples’ acronym and my guess is that a lot of people included will not be happy.
Tin Pot Tyrant Trudeau has nerve to hector Poland about democratic backsliding
Trudeau raises Poland’s democratic backsliding as prime minister visits Toronto
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he raised concerns about reports that LGBTQ rights and democracy are under threat in Poland during a Friday visit with its prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, in Toronto.
The visit comes amid unprecedented economic and military collaboration between the two countries.
“I certainly raised concerns that we have around some of the reports coming out of Poland around LGBTQ rights, around democracy, and we had a frank conversation, as must be the case,” Trudeau told reporters Friday.
David Johnston’s Special Crony position is barely tenable. Can his investigation be salvaged?
David Johnston’s position is barely tenable. Can his investigation be salvaged?
As always, multiple things can be true at the same time.
David Johnston can be both a flawed choice to investigate the government’s response to intelligence on foreign interference — and the target of unfair treatment since taking on that task. The prime minister could have been better off asking someone else to be special rapporteur — and Johnston’s reception from his critics may have diminished the number of people willing and able to do the job.
Multiple things can be true simultaneously but this isn’t one of them.
Junior and Special Crony are closer than they are pretending to be, proven by their own statements.
Johnson is a sinophile of the first order with a vested interest in minimizing his own activity as a member of the China Class.
Nothing else explains his report’s exclusion of O’Toole’s evidence.
‘No one person’ responsible for Ottawa failing to warn Michael Chong he was being targeted, national-security adviser says
A July 2021 CSIS assessment warning Beijing was targeting a Conservative MP and his relatives in China was sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national-security adviser at the time, as well as three deputy ministers, but it’s unclear if anyone read the top-secret document, MPs heard Thursday.
National security adviser Jody Thomas, who was deputy minister of National Defence in 2021, was adamant that Mr. Trudeau was unaware of the threat to the MP, who turned out to be Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong, until The Globe and Mail revealed he was a target on May 1. The Globe report cited the Canadian Security Intelligence Service assessment and a national-security source.
“On vacation” is maybe one step above “the dog ate my homework.”
h/t Mauser