The federal government pitched a sizeable increase to the alcohol excise tax earlier this year — only to walk back that commitment in response to backlash from some MPs, lobby groups and cost-conscious Canadian drinkers.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s budget kept the annual tax increase much lower than inflation — it’ll grow by just 2 per cent this year — after a well-organized letter-writing campaign convinced the government that the political repercussions of such a hike weren’t worth the relatively modest revenue bump.
There was similar blowback when the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) recently issued new drinking guidelines that claimed no amount of alcohol is safe.
Looking back, we should have known. No, strike that, we knew; everybody knew. However much China might have liberalized its economy, whatever material gains it might have made, it was always clear that the Communist Party of China was the same brutal gang of thugs it always was. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989 because Mikhail Gorbachev would not approve shooting the protesters. That same year, at Tiananmen Square, China went in another direction.
Looking back we should have known that the unholy alliance of the corporate and political class were all too willing to sell Canada to the ChiComs.
Opposition MPs are calling on Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair to appear at committee at the “earliest possible opportunity” over a new report alleging he took months to approve surveillance measures against an important Liberal Party-connected figure in Toronto.
“Canadians need to know why it took so long for the Minister to sign off on this, when it could have been done in a matter of days,” opposition MPs on the House of Commons Procedure and House Affairs Committee (PROC) wrote in a May 19 letter to committee chair Liberal MP Bardish Chagger.
Embarrassment for Justin Trudeau as Quebec charity suspected of hosting sites set up to intimidate citizens benefits from government money
A Quebec charity suspected of hosting two secret Chinese “overseas police stations” has received more than $4.45 million (£2.65 million) from the Canadian government over the last three years.
According to the Montreal Gazette, the Service à la Famille Chinoise du Grand Montréal (SFCGM), which purports to provide support to the Chinese community, is really used by Beijing to monitor and intimidate its citizens in Canada.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) believe this is one of two secret police stations in Quebec, which has nearly 92,000 people of Chinese origin.
More and more this has begun to look like Liberal Party cooperation with the ChiComs.
On the final day of the National Citizen’s Inquiry, an Alberta physician testified that three of his COVID-19 patients recovered shortly after he gave them ivermectin, a decision which led to his dismissal from his job and being essentially barred from practicing medicine in the province.
“Less than 18 hours after receiving ivermectin, these patients made a remarkable clinical turnaround. Now again, this is based on data that had been published throughout 2020 and 2021,” said Dr. Daniel Nagase.
The evidence continues to pour in with distressing consistency that Canada is falling behind its peers economically. We are broadly following a similar economic policy to Argentina and South Africa in overtaxing and over-regulating the private sector. And we are focusing more on the redistribution of existing wealth than expanding the wealth of the country as a whole, and then slightly adjusting the distribution of it as public social policy commends. The federal government persists in regarding climate change as the greatest challenge facing the country and the resulting heavy taxes and ecological restrictions kill jobs. As I’ve written here before, we have allowed climate zealots to hijack national policy on this issue, who are oblivious or even hostile to the job-creating and cost-reducing potential of key industries, especially oil and gas. We should continue to resist industrial pollution up to, but not beyond, the point of negatively affecting job creation and materially increasing consumer costs.
David Johnston was appointed special rapporteur by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in March to look into allegations of Chinese interference in Canada’s election process. The former governor general has apparently met with Trudeau, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, and Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-François Blanchet to discuss his role and mandate.
No such meeting will be taking place with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, however.
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc says the Conservatives’ personal attacks against former governor general David Johnston — who is set to reveal Tuesday whether he believes a public inquiry into foreign interference is necessary — are “unseemly.”
LeBlanc, who is also the minister responsible for overseeing democratic institutions, told CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos, in an interview airing Sunday, that Johnston is a “senior statesman in public affairs and public service and the law,” and Canadians should judge him for his report, rather than being “unduly agitated by (Conservative Leader Pierre) Poilievre’s negativity.”
Thirteen Montrealers say they’ve been targeted by a campaign of harassment launched by the Cuban government to keep them from protesting against one-party rule on the island.
A social media account which — according to a Cuban defector — is being run by Cuba’s state security has been spreading detailed allegations against the 13 men accusing them of trafficking cocaine from Colombia to Canada.
Carlos Andrades said he’s one of them. On March 21, he arrived in his native Havana for a visit with his 95-year-old mother. Travelling with him were his Canadian-born daughters and grandson.
Note – Surrogate birth is a contentious issue in Italy and to my knowledge remains illegal as the court has declared it demeaning to women. Pic is from Libero, Google translated
ROME – Italy’s “far-right” Premier Giorgia Meloni on Sunday rejected criticism from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G7 Summit about her government’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights.
A reporter asked Meloni about the criticism at a news conference early Sunday in Hiroshima, Japan, which is hosting the annual summit of leaders from seven of the world’s leading industrialized nations.
Last week, two former candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party announced new bids for power and influence.
Rick Peterson, who finished 12th in the Conservative leadership race of 2017, announced that the Centre Ice Canadians, an organization he launched last year, is looking to establish a new “centrist” political party. And Maxime Bernier, who finished second in 2017, announced he would be running in a byelection in the Manitoba riding of Portage-Lisgar under the banner of his own People’s Party.
The battle over the operation of the multi-national Enbridge Line 5 pipeline appears to have no end. American anti-energy activists—invigorated by their victory in shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada—have set their sights on Line 5 and won’t quit until the line is shut down one way or another. Cross-border pipelines could soon be a thing of the past, and Canada’s energy security is vulnerable due to this.
On Saturday, May 13, Nakba Day was held at Dundas Square, in downtown Toronto.
The demonstration, organized by a litany of local anti-Israel organizations, was marketed as commemorating 75 years since the “nakba,” or Arabic for catastrophe, referring to Israel’s rebirth in 1948 and an effort to “resist against the ongoing settler colonial and imperial forces of Zionism!”
The term nakba is a specific word used by those who seek to delegitimize Israel’s existence as a Jewish State.
Al Quds Day Queens Park 2013
The comments at the article are worth your time to scroll through.
The Al Quds pic is from 10 years ago, 2013. I recall it well, as with the Pallies the police had us behind a rope on the other side of the sidewalk.
There are a number of children in the pic, many, many more attended. Children were always prominent at Al Quds Day, a demographic show of force.
Almost all are young adults now. Growing up they were educated in “anti-zionism” and those now old enough are likely educating their own children in the same manner.
And so in Canada we have nurtured a multi-generational hatred made possible by a maliciously tolerant immigration policy.
To answer the article nothing is done by our government media because for the most part they are sympathetic to the Islamist cause but also very afraid of being called Islamophobic.
How bad is it? In 2011 I covered a Pro-Assad Rally at Queen’s Park attended by a couple of thousand people. Yes you read that right, a Pro Bashar Assad rally, the Butcher of Syria. Only City TV showed up. They shot a short clip and scooted off. You can see the City crew at work in the video I shot. That seeming media indifference is deliberate, that way they avoid having to answer for the icky stuff.
Make no mistake the Islamists have the numbers. Islam is ascendant and Judaism is in decline. And with that decline comes loss of influence.
Politicians notice such things.
The Islamists have become an important vote bloc cultivated by our Uniparty.
Canada’s hospitality is beyond abused. Urban centres like the GTA may come to resemble Europe’s cities and I don’t mean that in a good way.
Whether Jews, Hindus or Christians nowhere does Islam peaceably coexist.
Special rapporteur David Johnston is expected to release his decision next Tuesday on whether the federal Liberals should hold a public inquiry on foreign interference.
The recommendation is anticipated to be included in an initial report about how the government should proceed with allegations that Canada’s last two federal elections were subject to meddling by other countries.
The Canadian passport — once a symbol of freedom and prosperity, coveted by new Canadians and cherished by all Canadian citizens — has been stripped of every meaningful image and anecdote. Images of our heroes, our history and our national monuments have been replaced with drawings of a man raking leaves, children splashing in a pond and a squirrel eating a nut.
