WHO Pandemic Treaty Faces Little Opposition in Canada as US Politicians Concerned About ‘Sovereignty’ Push Back

The World Health Organization (WHO) concluded a meeting on March 3 to advance negotiations on the global governance of pandemic responses. While the event flew under the radar in Canada, Republican politicians in the United States have taken a position against the treaty, expressing concern about its implications on their country’s sovereignty in policy-making.

The WHO published the “Zero Draft” on Feb. 1 as the basis of the negotiations to create a future international instrument to manage pandemics.

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WARMINGTON: Trudeau Foundation returns $200K to China but only investigation is on leakers

There are far more loose ends than there are investigations.

In fact, on leaked information from Canadian Security Intelligence Service alleging Chinese money influenced two Canadian elections, the only official investigation is on the whistleblowers who exposed it.

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Why Justin Trudeau is facing calls for a public inquiry

In recent weeks, Canadian media have released a steady drip of reports, based on leaked intelligence, of detailed claims of Chinese meddling in the country’s last two federal elections in 2019 and 2021 – the latest Western nation to sound the alarm over concerns of foreign election interference.

Chinese officials have denied any interference, calling the allegations “purely baseless and defamatory” in a statement to the BBC.

The efforts are not believed to have altered the outcomes of either general election, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is under pressure to launch a national public inquiry looking into the allegations, which have strained already challenging diplomatic relations between the two countries.

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The longer Justin Trudeau stalls, the more he looks like he has something to hide

Justin Trudeau looked smug, arrogant and embattled on Friday, when his frustration from the past week bubbled up and landed on Brittany Hobson, the sixth reporter in line at his Winnipeg news conference.

Hobson had asked how Canadians could trust our elections hadn’t been influenced by foreign actors when the information supporting those claims was shrouded in secrecy, and wasn’t an uninformed public distrustful of the democratic process a threat to society?

“I’m pretty sure everything I’ve said over the past 20 minutes answered that question, but I will do it one more time, just for The Canadian Press,” the prime minister said with a smile.

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Process for informing Canadians of election interference designed to keep us in the dark

The chances Canadians are ever going to be informed of serious interference in our federal elections by bad actors such as China, Russia and Iran — or domestic supporters acting on their behalf — are somewhere between slim and none and slim just left town.

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Canadian citizenship is embarrassingly cheap and online oath makes it cheaper

Newly published figures by Statistics Canada revealed that fewer than half of permanent residents now take Canadian citizenship within 10 years, a 40 per cent decline over two decades.

Cue soul-searching among the usual Ottawa think tankers, wondering why the world’s denizens no longer wanted to be on “Team Canada.” Why did so many recent immigrants, arriving in record numbers, refuse the citizenship we hand to them practically for free and after as little as three years’ residence, or 1,095 days spent within the country out of the last five years?

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Feds Allowed Entry to Over 40% of Foreign Border-Crossers Deemed Risky: Audit

Over 40 percent of foreign border-crossers deemed by border agents to be security risks were still allowed into Canada by the Department of Immigration, according to a report.

“Due to multiple factors and considerations, the Department of Immigration authorized entry or permission to stay in Canada to a significant proportion of applicants who had received a non-favourable recommendation or an inconclusive screening,” wrote the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) in an internal audit obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.

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Trudeau resists calls for public inquiry into foreign election interference

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday again resisted calling a public inquiry into foreign election interference in the wake of multiple media reports on China’s meddling in Canadian politics, saying there are already enough examinations of the matter under way.

Opposition parties teamed up Thursday to pass a parliamentary committee motion calling for an independent probe into foreign interference. Liberal MPs on the procedure and House affairs committee opposed the motion but were outvoted by the Conservatives, New Democrats and the Bloc Québécois. The motion is non-binding.

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Trudeau says making a stupid virtue signaling appointment is an ‘excellent idea’ for the RCMP

Trudeau says appointing Indigenous RCMP commissioner is an ‘excellent idea’

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says having an Indigenous person serve as the next commissioner of the RCMP is “an excellent idea.”

He made the comment in response to questions from reporters in Winnipeg today about a call from some First Nations leadership for the government to ensure the next top Mountie is Indigenous.

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki is set to retire from her post this month, slightly before the end of her five-year term.

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John Ivison: Even Liberals sense the China scandal could spell the end of Trudeau

There were similarities to the departures of New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern and Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon — both stressed the toll of leadership, the time away from family and the human cost.

What they didn’t say was that they were both up against it politically. Polls suggested Ardern would lose the next election and the U.K.’s Supreme Court had ruled that Sturgeon’s Scottish Nationalist Party did not have the power to hold another independence vote unilaterally.

Could Justin Trudeau turn a coincidence into a trend?

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‘Misunderstanding’ Caused BC Company to Say Health Canada Licensed it to Sell Cocaine, Trudeau Says

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it was a “misunderstanding” that caused a British Columbia-based company to say Health Canada granted it permission to produce, sell, and distribute cocaine.

Trudeau told reporters in Winnipeg that he was “as surprised” as B.C. Premier David Eby when he heard that the company Adastra Holdings Ltd., which produces marijuana for adult use and medical sales out of its headquarters in Langley, B.C., announced on Feb. 22 that it was permitted by Health Canada to “legally possess, produce, sell and distribute” cocaine.

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Majority of Canadians think Communist China ‘definitely,’ ‘probably’ interfered in recent elections: poll

A new poll shows that about two-thirds of Canadians think China’s communist government “definitely” or “probably” interfered in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 federal elections.

The findings come from a new Angus Reid Institute (ARI) poll released on March 1, which shows that 32 percent of Canadian voters “definitely” believe there was Chinese interference, with 33 percent saying China “probably” interfered in Canada’s elections.

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Trudeau’s refusal to call public inquiry sets stage for showdown next week

Justin Trudeau wants Canadians to know they can have confidence in our democracy and institutions despite claims of election interference by China.

Trudeau turned down a call for public inquiry again Friday, the day after a Commons committee voted in favour of an inquiry.

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‘It Hasn’t Stopped’: The Northern Border Is Wide Open And People Are Funneling Across

CHAMPLAIN, New York — Migrants are crossing the northern border both into the U.S. and into Canada illegally, causing chaos on both the Canadian and American sides, with the latter side reeling from the costs.

Border Patrol encountered a nearly 900% surge of migrants into the U.S. in the Swanton sector—which spans parts of New York and Vermont—in January, when agents recorded 367 apprehensions. Migrants are also crossing illegally into Canada in droves along Roxham Road in Champlain, New York, where taxis with “frontera,” or “border” written in Spanish, on them, bring people back and forth for hours every day.

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